Grier Hopkins
19:14 - 20:08
“we here in the Fairbanks North Star Borough don't have road towers, but we have 103 different road service areas. So depending on where the developer and the contractors and the railroad agree to have an off— a pipe offload yard, it's going to be a big impact”
- Speaker
- Grier Hopkins
- Timestamp
- 19:14 – 20:08
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Juneau
- Captured at
From the transcript
And the language in that bill gets that there. It's agreed to between the developer and us, as I've stated, and that's essential. The— in terms of impacts to our community for construction, for operations, that was another difficult conversation to try to understand what the one-size-fits-all is. You know, we here in the Fairbanks North Star Borough don't have road towers, but we have 103 different road service areas. So depending on where the developer and the contractors and the railroad agree to have an off— a pipe offload yard, it's going to be a big impact, um, depending on what route they use, whether that's, um, on the western end of our community that would offload from the railroad or towards the North Pole area that would give better access to highways, but go through town more.
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