Antony Scott
9:46 - 10:19
"it is for sure difficult because there are a lot of existing bonds that are out there that pledge certain assets. I mean, without reviewing all the bond covenants, I think would be very difficult to say for sure that, oh yeah, you could just form a single G&T. And then there are also issues around the disposition of co-op utility assets in state law that are very difficult to kind of overcome in terms of voting threshold."
“it is for sure difficult because there are a lot of existing bonds that are out there that pledge certain assets. I mean, without reviewing all the bond covenants, I think would be very difficult to say for sure that, oh yeah, you could just form a single G&T. And then there are also issues around the disposition of co-op utility assets in state law that are very difficult to kind of overcome in terms of voting threshold.”
- Speaker
- Antony Scott
- Timestamp
- 9:46 – 10:19
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 7, 2026
From the transcript
Um, and the answer to that, I think, is yes, but commercially and financially, getting there from here is exceptionally difficult. Um, so it doesn't mean that it could not be done if everybody was working really hard to do it, but, but maybe it could not be done. Like, I, I don't know, but it is for sure difficult because there are a lot of existing bonds that are out there that pledge certain assets. I mean, without reviewing all the bond covenants, I think would be very difficult to say for sure that, oh yeah, you could just form a single G&T. And then there are also issues around the disposition of co-op utility assets in state law that are very difficult to kind of overcome in terms of voting threshold.
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