Lake Barrett
42:30 - 43:24
“This will be a challenge for everyone to be able to put this together, but I believe it can be done with hard work and good faith to build the required trusted relationships to sustain this very complex arrangement in multi-states dozens of billion-dollar facilities that have to work together as a team.”
- Speaker
- Lake Barrett
- Timestamp
- 42:30 – 43:24
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- September 23, 2026
From the transcript
This will be a challenge for everyone to be able to put this together, but I believe it can be done with hard work and good faith to build the required trusted relationships to sustain this very complex arrangement in multi-states dozens of billion-dollar facilities that have to work together as a team. Our nation, under our— with our commercial abilities and our creativity and our free market fundamentals, we can pull this together. We've done this before with great projects, and we can do this now, but it's going to be— have to work through a lot of delicate issues of technology development, continued safe performance, under a rigorous safety and environmental protection regime, which we have and we will continue to have. Um, and we can do this if we work together. Um, so it's gonna take teamwork.
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