Cathy Giessel
50:56 - 51:30
"we looked at capping the price of gas to consumers. We looked at not allowing any cost overruns to be put on taxpayers, onto consumers, Alaska consumers"
“we looked at capping the price of gas to consumers. We looked at not allowing any cost overruns to be put on taxpayers, onto consumers, Alaska consumers”
- Speaker
- Cathy Giessel
- Timestamp
- 50:56 – 51:30
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- June 9, 2026
From the transcript
They absolutely can be violated with overruns, overtime, and under-benefits, over-optimistic assumptions. So we looked at capping the price of gas to consumers. We looked at not allowing any cost overruns to be put on taxpayers, onto consumers, Alaska consumers. And we wrestled with who would regulate those tax— or those, uh, those prices of the gas. Who would regulate the tariff?
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