399:13 - 399:29
“Kenai will be forever changed if we get a gas pipeline, when we get a gas pipeline. And we want to make that— most of that change, as much of that change as we can, a positive thing.”
- Speaker
- Unidentified speaker
- Timestamp
- 399:13 – 399:29
- Transcript
- 5/02/26 Budget Work Session
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kenai
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From the transcript
But this all takes a lot of time and coordination and, you know, Kenai will be forever changed if we get a gas pipeline, when we get a gas pipeline. And we want to make that— most of that change, as much of that change as we can, a positive thing.
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