Grier Hopkins
13:47 - 14:55
"That postage stamp rate language in the legislation also requires it to be approved by the RCA, making it— with acute conditions, making it a decision that is not, you know, your cost payer, cost— or cost cause or cost payer, because we're not directly causing the impact of this furlough. It was out of our control that it was created there."
“That postage stamp rate language in the legislation also requires it to be approved by the RCA, making it— with acute conditions, making it a decision that is not, you know, your cost payer, cost— or cost cause or cost payer, because we're not directly causing the impact of this furlough. It was out of our control that it was created there.”
- Speaker
- Grier Hopkins
- Timestamp
- 13:47 – 14:55
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Juneau
- Captured at
- June 10, 2026
From the transcript
So it would not be improving our air quality, which we're still struggling with here, but making very strong leaps and bounds over the last couple years. And as the State Department of Environmental Conservation is looking at splitting the borough into two areas, two non-attainment areas for wood smoke issues, that would put the Fairbanks area in attainment and the North Pole area out of attainment. So making sure that we can get affordable gas would be our best tool to be able to hook more of the people in that North Pole area up to affordable gas, support the changeovers, and get ourselves into attainment to finalize that effort we've been working on for 2 decades. That postage stamp rate language in the legislation also requires it to be approved by the RCA, making it— with acute conditions, making it a decision that is not, you know, your cost payer, cost— or cost cause or cost payer, because we're not directly causing the impact of this furlough. It was out of our control that it was created there.
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