0:16
Mary Evans
16:24 - 16:41
“We end up in a situation where all of our surplus power is spoken for and we don't have the ability to build a new processing plant, a shipbuilding facility, a mine, a new community center, a college campus, a hospital, things that bring actual jobs, actual economic benefit, new families.”
- Speaker
- Mary Evans
- Timestamp
- 16:24 – 16:41
- Transcript
- Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 9, 2026
From the transcript
We end up in a situation where all of our surplus power is spoken for and we don't have the ability to build a new processing plant, a shipbuilding facility, a mine, a new community center, a college campus, a hospital, things that bring actual jobs, actual economic benefit, new families. What happens to us then? Where does it end?
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