Ken Alper
30:12 - 30:57
"from talking to him, and now I have secondhand knowledge, I don't think they're particularly thrilled, to be completely honest. They really wanted the autonomy to be able to negotiate their own way"
“from talking to him, and now I have secondhand knowledge, I don't think they're particularly thrilled, to be completely honest. They really wanted the autonomy to be able to negotiate their own way”
- Speaker
- Ken Alper
- Timestamp
- 30:12 – 30:57
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- June 10, 2026
From the transcript
I've spoken to him the last couple of days. I, from talking to him, and now I have secondhand knowledge, I don't think they're particularly thrilled, to be completely honest. They really wanted the autonomy to be able to negotiate their own way. And in the absence of that, my guess is they're going to say the money is too small, but I don't want to get out ahead of myself there. In contrast to this, for example, the bill that is in the, that the Senate Resources Committee, the other body's Resource Committee, passed that's before their finance committee now, had 3 separate AVTs, and there would be— the North Slope borough would be getting a large portion of a 10-cent specific AVT on the gas treatment plant.
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