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Anna MacArthur
16:00 - 16:16
“There's absolutely no royalty sharing with affected communities or adjacent states. The United States, so Alaska is not going to see any royalty sharing from this.”
- Speaker
- Anna MacArthur
- Timestamp
- 16:00 – 16:16
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 26, 2026
From the transcript
It would include only a desktop environmental assessment. Meanwhile, the federal agencies that are being tasked with this had significant lay— workforce reductions over the past year, so they're being asked fewer staff to take on bigger and riskier projects for management. There's absolutely no royalty sharing with affected communities or adjacent states. The United States, so Alaska is not going to see any royalty sharing from this. It destroys benthic habitat with unknown ecosystem-wide impacts.
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