
Matt Kissinger
0:39 - 1:28
"Representative Fields asked about these clawback mechanisms at that meeting, and what I said was, I said there, I said, and just to address this clearly, This is my words. And just to address this clearly, because I've heard many questions that dance around this, the clawback would be a paid clawback. And there's real important reason for that."
“Representative Fields asked about these clawback mechanisms at that meeting, and what I said was, I said there, I said, and just to address this clearly, This is my words. And just to address this clearly, because I've heard many questions that dance around this, the clawback would be a paid clawback. And there's real important reason for that.”
You had Representative Fields, Representative Foster, Representative Josephson, Representative Kopp, Representative Tilton, Speaker Edgeman, Senator Giesel, Senator Wilkowski, Senator Kawasaki, Senator Gray Jackson, and I believe that they also had President Stevens, Senator Myers, and Representative Hannan and Elam, Representatives Hannan and Elam in the audience. Representative Fields asked about these clawback mechanisms at that meeting, and what I said was, I said there, I said, and just to address this clearly, This is my words. And just to address this clearly, because I've heard many questions that dance around this, the clawback would be a paid clawback. And there's real important reason for that.
The Alaska Senate added a corporate income tax on oil and gas pass-through entities like Hilcorp to the AK LNG gas-pipeline bill (HB 381), effective 2028 regardless of the project.

State economist Dan Stickel told a legislative conference committee Friday that the Senate version of HB 381 reduces the Alaska LNG export break-even price from $9.05 to $8.62 per thousand cubic feet — still above current futures market prices near $8 — prompting Rep. Justin Ruffridge to say the project simply "doesn't work."
