Mike Dunleavy
12:06 - 12:52
“without a gas line and importing gas, the legislature is going to have to work on an urban power cost equalization program in the tune of 2 to 5 billion dollars to build renewables and batteries and wind and solar and to import gas.”
- Speaker
- Mike Dunleavy
- Timestamp
- 12:06 – 12:52
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
From the transcript
As a matter of fact, by some calculations, without a gas line and importing gas, the legislature is going to have to work on an urban power cost equalization program in the tune of 2 to 5 billion dollars to build renewables and batteries and wind and solar and to import gas. That's not a recipe for a growing state. That's not a recipe for a growing economy. That's a disaster. So we have this one moment in time that if we can get the legislature to come together for the people of Alaska, for the state of Alaska, you could have a gas line that creates thousands of jobs, that creates royalty and severance tax for the treasury.
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