0:38
Matt Kissinger
65:16 - 65:54
"this is a marginal project, and we don't need more studies to tell us that. We know this is a marginal project simply by the fact that Despite our need for it, despite this enormous amount of gas, we so far haven't been able to get it done."
“this is a marginal project, and we don't need more studies to tell us that. We know this is a marginal project simply by the fact that Despite our need for it, despite this enormous amount of gas, we so far haven't been able to get it done.”
- Speaker
- Matt Kissinger
- Timestamp
- 65:16 – 65:54
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- June 9, 2026
From the transcript
We've talked about the potential for cost overrun risk. And at the same time, this, this belief that the developer will be extracting these large sums of money— if this project was giving off those sort of numbers, that sort of money, this would have been built long ago. This is a marginal project, and we don't need more studies to tell us that. We know this is a marginal project simply by the fact that Despite our need for it, despite this enormous amount of gas, we so far haven't been able to get it done. And so everything needs to be optimized on this project to move it forward.
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