Grier Hopkins
29:42 - 30:48
“my understanding, which is exceedingly limited, is FERC deals with interstate gas transmission. This being an intrastate line, they would not be dealing with it, but I'm no expert in that route. During our conversations in developing this language, we only had to stop the necessary— only thought it necessary to deal with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.”
- Speaker
- Grier Hopkins
- Timestamp
- 29:42 – 30:48
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Juneau
- Captured at
From the transcript
Senator Kiel, through the Chair, my understanding, which is exceedingly limited, is FERC deals with interstate gas transmission. This being an intrastate line, they would not be dealing with it, but I'm no expert in that route. During our conversations in developing this language, we only had to stop the necessary— only thought it necessary to deal with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska. And if the language in I have potential concerns that if a utility here in Alaska goes to the regulatory commission and looks for a tariff, that without the language that we have in this legislation currently, the RCA would be able to look at the spur line separately from the main line and look at it as a cost-causer-cost-payer situation, which would make gas even more unaffordable than it would be today. And having that language in there to ensure we do not hit that road bump down the line with the RCA is essential.
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