0:23
Grier Hopkins
28:16 - 28:40
“this has been a major concern for us for 12 years. How are we going to get access to the gas once it was routed away from us? And this language that we see in there today is the best thing that we have seen for our community going forward.”
- Speaker
- Grier Hopkins
- Timestamp
- 28:16 – 28:40
- Transcript
- House Finance, 5/28/26, 1:30pm
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- May 28, 2026
From the transcript
Happy to answer any about how Fairbanks operates, conversations that we've had, the spur line itself, future casting, anything like that. But I want to go ahead and thank again the Interior delegation. You know, this has been a major concern for us for 12 years. How are we going to get access to the gas once it was routed away from us? And this language that we see in there today is the best thing that we have seen for our community going forward.
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