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Bill Wielechowski

105:04 - 105:32

“it just seems like it It's a huge loophole that is being created here. It seems like we've got a constitutional obligation to manage our resources, including our lands.”
Community
Alaska News
Location
Alaska
Captured at
October 26, 2026

From the transcript

Follow-up, Senator Wielechowski? It just seems, and following up on Senator Giessel, Senator Dunbar's comments and questions, it just seems like it It's a huge loophole that is being created here. It seems like we've got a constitutional obligation to manage our resources, including our lands. And if you're giving the lands away for nothing with no reversionary interest, very little protection for the public, to a board that's not confirmed by the legislature, has no— basically zero public oversight.

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