Treg Taylor
49:40 - 49:49
“the reality of that is it's going to increase people's electric costs for probably 25% and people's gas costs up to, up to, 80%.”
- Speaker
- Treg Taylor
- Timestamp
- 49:40 – 49:49
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
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From the transcript
I know 2 years ago we had a scare with Singsa when there was sloughing in the wellhead, and, uh, and that almost— that was dead of winter when we needed the most demand, and that almost had, uh, historically bad repercussions for the, for the rail belt. And, you know, heaven forbid, we also got to prepare because of where we've put ourselves for importing LNG. And that's, that's, uh, that's a horrible place to be when you're an energy-rich state and that's going to take a little bit of time to get those facilities. 2027 Is the earliest, 2020, '28. But the reality of that is it's going to increase people's electric costs for probably 25% and people's gas costs up to, up to, 80%.
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