Grier Hopkins
21:19 - 22:09
“if Fairbanks had to pay for the spur line, then, you know, we should make sure that Anchorage pays for the Anchorage spur line, which would be everything south of Fairbanks. The joke might fall on deaf ears here, but the reality is if we have to pay for a $200 million line across 3,500 ratepayers in the Fairbanks-North Starborough area that gas would not come in economic for people to use. So that tariff being rolled in statewide, system-wide, in the language that is in there currently, is essential”
- Speaker
- Grier Hopkins
- Timestamp
- 21:19 – 22:09
- Transcript
- House Finance, 5/28/26, 1:30pm
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- May 28, 2026
From the transcript
And that's something the regulatory commission would look at. And one of the biggest aspects of the language is how the tariff is calculated for us. Ensuring that for— despite me sitting in Anchorage in front of a number of Anchorage and Southcentral representatives, if Fairbanks had to pay for the spur line, then, you know, we should make sure that Anchorage pays for the Anchorage spur line, which would be everything south of Fairbanks. The joke might fall on deaf ears here, but the reality is if we have to pay for a $200 million line across 3,500 ratepayers in the Fairbanks-North Starborough area that gas would not come in economic for people to use. So that tariff being rolled in statewide, system-wide, in the language that is in there currently, is essential to make sure that it works out for every Alaskan along the line to get access to it.
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