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"The shareholder complaint says, if you do not do this, this, this, and this— 4 things— in the name of ESG and climate change, we will forgive you if you pull your business completely out of Alaska."

“The shareholder complaint says, if you do not do this, this, this, and this— 4 things— in the name of ESG and climate change, we will forgive you if you pull your business completely out of Alaska.”
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September 18, 2026

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And I'll also tell you that in this ESG fight, I had a major corporation show me the shareholder complaint. The shareholder complaint says, if you do not do this, this, this, and this— 4 things— in the name of ESG and climate change, we will forgive you if you pull your business completely out of Alaska. And we were seeing that over and over and over again in the insurance industry, in banking industry, and with investment advisors who were, who were downgrading investments in Alaskan companies or companies that simply did business in Alaska. A lot of pressure on companies throughout the United States in the name of ASG just to divest of Alaska. And of course, we saw that same thing under the Biden administration.

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