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Treg Taylor

14:35 - 14:50

"We showed that, hey, where Alaska has economic development, we have success. People come out of poverty. Look at the Red Dog Mine region, 75% to 21% poverty rate."

“We showed that, hey, where Alaska has economic development, we have success. People come out of poverty. Look at the Red Dog Mine region, 75% to 21% poverty rate.”
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September 18, 2026

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And what we did to push back on there, partly, well, we filed some lawsuits, we filed some opinions, to rule changes the federal government was proposing. But we came up with Alaska's ESG. We showed that, hey, where Alaska has economic development, we have success. People come out of poverty. Look at the Red Dog Mine region, 75% to 21% poverty rate.

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