Bernadette Wilson
50:37 - 51:12
"We're talking about a shortage of natural gas and a high cost of energy. Yet as I look across the room tonight, I see several people that wanted to come after Hilcorp to increase their taxes. You don't exactly have a whole lot of people lining up to want to do business with you, Alaska. We've been a terrible business partner."
“We're talking about a shortage of natural gas and a high cost of energy. Yet as I look across the room tonight, I see several people that wanted to come after Hilcorp to increase their taxes. You don't exactly have a whole lot of people lining up to want to do business with you, Alaska. We've been a terrible business partner.”
- Speaker
- Bernadette Wilson
- Timestamp
- 50:37 – 51:12
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- September 23, 2026
From the transcript
We're talking about a shortage of natural gas and a high cost of energy. Yet as I look across the room tonight, I see several people that wanted to come after Hilcorp to increase their taxes. You don't exactly have a whole lot of people lining up to want to do business with you, Alaska. We've been a terrible business partner. That's why we're in this situation to begin with, because we have been a terrible business partner, because they come into Alaska under a certain set of terms and then we jerk them around and we want to mess with their taxes.
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