Treg Taylor
48:09 - 48:41
"Yeah, I think we need to immediately incentivize more expansion exploration and capital projects in the Cook Inlet. The gas is there, right? The problem for the producers is— and I know this because I kept getting letters from the legislature saying, enforce your contract with the producers out in the Cook Inlet, they're not drilling"
“Yeah, I think we need to immediately incentivize more expansion exploration and capital projects in the Cook Inlet. The gas is there, right? The problem for the producers is— and I know this because I kept getting letters from the legislature saying, enforce your contract with the producers out in the Cook Inlet, they're not drilling”
- Speaker
- Treg Taylor
- Timestamp
- 48:09 – 48:41
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- September 23, 2026
From the transcript
Yeah, I think we need to immediately incentivize more expansion exploration and capital projects in the Cook Inlet. The gas is there, right? The problem for the producers is— and I know this because I kept getting letters from the legislature saying, enforce your contract with the producers out in the Cook Inlet, they're not drilling and they're not, uh, have enough capital projects to produce more gas. And the problem is, is the contract's not going to force a producer to do something that's non-economic. We have a small customer base in Alaska, you know, I mean, 700,000 total residents in the entire state.
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