Mike Dunleavy
20:15 - 20:36
“You're not going to get the president of the United States behind a project like this. This is one of the signature major, huge projects for the country and for Alaska. You're not going to get a Persian Gulf happening every day.”
- Speaker
- Mike Dunleavy
- Timestamp
- 20:15 – 20:36
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
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From the transcript
You're not going to get the president of the United States behind a project like this. This is one of the signature major, huge projects for the country and for Alaska. You're not going to get a Persian Gulf happening every day. You're not going to get any diminishing oil base or gas basin here. And lest we forget, we set records in March in Anchorage for cold.
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