From the transcript

And, um, November 17th and 18th, Koyuk invited the Department of Interior. We have officials flying in from DC along with the Marine Minerals Administration to meet with tribal representatives. On seabed mining and oil and gas leasing. We recommended that they also meet with the city, and I'm told that's occurring— that meeting is occurring that week as well with the city along with other groups in the region. And next slide is— so lastly, that's why Koyuk is asking the city for support on this issue to pass a resolution calling for a moratorium as well so that Alaskans can get more information and be more involved with this process and have a say before the seabed is strip-mined and with unknown impacts on our fisheries and all our other resources.

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