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Adam Prestidge
31:12 - 31:40
“if we take the example of some of the offsite fabrication that could be done internationally, paying Alaska prevailing wages at a fabrication yard in Korea, for just one example, doesn't make any sense and wouldn't be economically viable for the project.”
- Speaker
- Adam Prestidge
- Timestamp
- 31:12 – 31:40
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
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From the transcript
The amendment is far broader than that. It doesn't capture kind of the detail and the complications of it. It just says that all work anywhere must be performed, must be paid prevailing wages. Again, if we take the example of some of the offsite fabrication that could be done internationally, paying Alaska prevailing wages at a fabrication yard in Korea, for just one example, doesn't make any sense and wouldn't be economically viable for the project.
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