Grier Hopkins
20:05 - 20:48
“The spur line also has a defined timeline in this language, which is very important. So we're not waiting a decade further, but we wanted to make sure that we, uh, or rather, we agreed with Glenn Farn that we don't want to necessarily constrain construction— define that we— the spur line must be built in order to get the tax by the time the main line— the tax break by the time the main line is turned on. So with that, we're working on permitting language.”
- Speaker
- Grier Hopkins
- Timestamp
- 20:05 – 20:48
- Transcript
- House Finance, 5/28/26, 1:30pm
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- May 28, 2026
From the transcript
If that does happen, they are responsible for generating their own power within that language, and so they'll need access to that gas. So what that looks like, how we forecast that, we'll know in the coming weeks, which will also allow us to, to know what this diameter of the spur line is going to be. The spur line also has a defined timeline in this language, which is very important. So we're not waiting a decade further, but we wanted to make sure that we, uh, or rather, we agreed with Glenn Farn that we don't want to necessarily constrain construction— define that we— the spur line must be built in order to get the tax by the time the main line— the tax break by the time the main line is turned on. So with that, we're working on permitting language.
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