Bernadette Wilson
16:38 - 16:52
"You leaving oil in the ground because you want to keep jacking up taxes, as JKT supports raising oil taxes, that's not working for the maximum benefit of Alaskans."
“You leaving oil in the ground because you want to keep jacking up taxes, as JKT supports raising oil taxes, that's not working for the maximum benefit of Alaskans.”
- Speaker
- Bernadette Wilson
- Timestamp
- 16:38 – 16:52
- Source
- Vimeo video 1229047123
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- September 21, 2026
From the transcript
We need to quit apologizing for the industry in which we work. We do it better, safer, and cleaner than anywhere in the world. We are indeed a resource development state. Not getting a gas line for 40 years because we have legislators who are worried about if we're going to, quote, get our fair share is indeed precisely produced for Alaskans, $0. You leaving oil in the ground because you want to keep jacking up taxes, as JKT supports raising oil taxes, that's not working for the maximum benefit of Alaskans.
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