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Shelley Hughes
20:36 - 21:16
“one of the ways I've been thinking about this project and what this would make Alaska, it would make Alaska the Panama Canal of the 21st century.”
- Speaker
- Shelley Hughes
- Timestamp
- 20:36 – 21:16
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- August 6, 2026
From the transcript
Mayor Kenny Hughes virtually on the screen from Nome, but I just want to say one of the ways I've been thinking about this project and what this would make Alaska, it would make Alaska the Panama Canal of the 21st century. Right now the ships have to go down through the narrow Panama Canal to not super convenient. We have a wide open ocean when you think of off the west coast of Alaska. We don't have Strait of Hormuz, right? And so it's really a very, very direct route.
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