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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Renee Culp
“I chose to bring this story forward at this time in memory of my late Uncle Robert Loescher. He shares the name, holds the name, Katoosh Too, ancestor of ours that you will hear about. Later in the presentation, the purpose of this blanket.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“Different than a house that is owned by a family, clan-owned property has a spirit. It's alive. And it's a member of our family.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“What actually ended up happening during these— this time while beading and visiting was deep reflection.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“What is our duty to leave trail markers for them to locate in their responsibilities?”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“Our artifacts are the things that we are creating. These pieces are often referred to as artwork or simply art, and they are, but they are so much more.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“At'uu in our Tlingit culture is a clan-owned piece of property.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“I reflected deeply on future generations and what they will learn from the messages from our ancestors and the messages that we share now for them.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“I reflected on responsibility, my responsibility, our responsibility as human beings, our responsibility as clan members, and as citizens of the Tlingit Tribe.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Renee Culp
“he strapped daggers, knives, to his wrists and went in the water to fight the octopus. Both lost their lives. He was successful in taking out the danger to our people, but in the process, he lost his life. It is said that our people found him and the octopus washed ashore with him wrapped up in the octopus tentacles covered in black ink.”Sealaska Heritage Institute: Summer Lecture Series: KAHTUSHTU' ROBE | Sealaska Heritage · Jun 30, 2026
Bev Krupa
“Together they called on tribal nations across the country to stand with Alaska in supporting tribal stewardship, strengthening co-management efforts, protecting subsistence rights, and ensuring healthy salmon populations for future generations. The message was clear: when one tribe's way of life is threatened, it is a concern for all Indigenous peoples, and protecting salmon will require a collective voice and collective action.”Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 53 · Jun 22, 2026
Bev Krupa
“She will oversee the day-to-day operations of health services and continue leading efforts to enhance patient care and service delivery. Both Jacqueline and Marilyn bring years of experience, dedication, and leadership to their new positions.”Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 53 · Jun 22, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“Senator Steadman, I don't think there's any question on the labor side that this is a binding agreement. I think there was confusion or there was a concern that others out there thought that it wasn't, but I certainly believe that they agree that it's binding, want it to be binding. We feel the same way. It just seems that unfortunately some have interpreted it based on those headlines as non-binding, and that might be why some legislators thought it would be helpful to insert this amendment.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“having a bright line 15% requirement creates a lot— creates unworkable challenges for the project. First of all, there's no consideration in the amendment if there weren't available enough personnel to perform 15% of the hours as apprentices. It's just a flat requirement, 15% of the hours must be done by apprentices. And so the question would immediately come up, Well, if there weren't enough apprentices available to perform that much work, would we lose our tax eligibility?”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“we'd be fully supportive of taking an additional step to have the bill, the legislation, require that the project establish an apprenticeship program that is consistent with industry standards and would be negotiated between the project and the appropriate labor unions”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“the scope of the amendment that was offered on the floor is very broad and doesn't reflect the careful discussion that the two parties worked on over the course of a 6-month negotiation and doesn't reflect the level of detail and complication that goes into labor planning for a mega project like this. And so I talked at the outset a little bit about the scope, how there are some exclusions. Most of the— a significant part of the project is allocated to be worked on by labor unions. The amendment that was proposed removes all of that and simply says all phases, all scopes, all contractors, all subcontractors must sign a PLA.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“Amendment 3 provided force majeure allowance, basically that if there is a date, a deadline for the project, it can be reasonably extended by the Department of Revenue Commissioner in the event of a force majeure. That is a helpful addition. It is good for the project.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Bryce Edgmon
“why wasn't this analysis done with other states? 99 Days later. You know, why on behalf of Alaska's interests did we not do the benefits? Because when I see these numbers, Alaska's PT, Proposed Rate, of 9.4% essentially tower over what other states that have non-elective taxes.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“On June 11th, uh, Glenn Fahren signed, executed, and announced a binding memorandum of understanding with the building trades councils from Fairbanks and Anchorage. And so, uh, what did that do? It set up a framework for future project labor agreements.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“Amendment 14, uh, um, Summarizing, relates to the state's clawback option, which we discussed at some length in the hearing yesterday. It basically takes the carefully negotiated arrangement between Glenfarm and AGDC and removes all of the, I guess, the careful considerations around it and institutes an automatic reversion to the state with no compensation to, to the developer in the event that a milestone is lapsed. It's— we'd view that as extremely punitive to the project. Our legal counsel advises us that that could potentially qualify as an unconstitutional taking and potentially a violation of the Contracts Clause of the U.S. Constitution and would severely hinder the developer's ability and willingness to continue to operate in the state of Alaska.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“It could be a little bit broader because force majeure is really kind of acts of God outside of the control of the project. There can be other delays to a project like this that wouldn't necessarily be picked up within a force majeure definition, such as archaeological finds or shipping delays. And so we'd advocate that it would be beneficial to the project to look at broadening that definition a little bit.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Bryce Edgmon
“I guess I'll circle back for a third time to either Mr. Prestidge or Mr. Mahoney. Is this about opposition to the tax itself or is this about the need to fix it?”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Dan Stickel
“the reason that we present that as indeterminate in terms of state impact is that we don't know for certain whether the project goes forward. So to say with certainty that we— that if you enact this provision, we will get X dollars of revenue for a provision that we don't know with certainty whether the project will go forward, we've built on assumptions which are uncertain, and then there's the uncertain impact of implementation implementing this policy on the project. And we have heard concern from industry that it would affect their investment decisions.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“Putting this pass-through entity tax in the place where it would assign the pass-through entity tax of 9% at the LNG LLC level would be a unique burden on any project finance vehicle. Typically a project finance vehicle is set up as a pass-through entity and the upstairs shareholders pay tax on that because— so that they can all invest under their different arrangements.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Bert Stedman
“on this amendment, the rate would be the highest in the country for states that don't have income tax. I think the other one is maybe 7% range or something like that, and this is a little over 9%.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Dan Stickel
“We estimated under our baseline modeling first payments of the pass-through entity tax of $29 million in 2036, increasing to $65 million in 2041 and up to $358 million by 2051”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“Representative Rutherford, through the chair, that's exactly correct. It's another reason why we would make the argument that this isn't necessary, because the bill already had a very clear requirement requiring a project labor agreement for the project.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“the language of the amendment says 15 hours— 15% of all hours across the project must be performed by apprentices. I want to be totally clear, we are fully supportive of having an apprenticeship program on the Alaska LNG Project. We think it's fantastic. We want to be part of building a workforce for Alaska.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“I can't speak to that. I've got the only— the same language as you, and that's certainly one of the types of details that I'd prefer to work out in a detailed discussion with the unions rather than having it settled in legislation.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“if we take the example of some of the offsite fabrication that could be done internationally, paying Alaska prevailing wages at a fabrication yard in Korea, for just one example, doesn't make any sense and wouldn't be economically viable for the project.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“our suggestion is that instead of having a broad amendment that dictates a few high-level principles about project labor agreements, we could instead legislate into law a requirement that the PLAs entered into will be substantially consistent with the binding MOU that was already executed between the project developer, between Glenfarm and the building trades councils.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“This labor MOU was negotiated on a very careful, very intensive basis. A lot of time, a lot of meetings, a lot of people involved in a 6-month negotiation process to reach an agreement that worked for both sides.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“my understanding is that this was not requested by the labor representatives themselves. That's what I've been told. But that it was instead offered by legislators who were intending to be helpful and make sure that labor's requirements were being met. We think that labor requirements are being met”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“as it stands, Amendment 16 would really chill off-takers and investors in the project.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“Amendment 12 introduced Inflation language relating to the gas sales contracts from the pipeline to customers. Just to reiterate a bit of what we described earlier, this makes sense, but we'd suggest that it takes into account the inflation agreed between the project and the customer. That contract, of course, gets reviewed and approved by the RCA, and the project would not object to having a cap on that inflation of 3%. We just suggest that being US CPI, not Alaska CPI.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“Amendment 16 requires notification of any relationship with a foreign entity. That goes significantly beyond, beyond just ownership. It's really any contract, any joint venture, any type of agreement. That type of disclosure requirement would be unique and burdensome and would be a deterrent to counterparties potentially from wanting to be associated with the project, recognizing that they wouldn't have any commercial confidential protections.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“the 2028 deadline, it puts a bit of a risk on the developer and it puts an incentive on the developer, but it does that at a time before billions of construction dollars have been put at risk on the project. And so essentially putting that 2032 deadline puts additional risk on all the investment dollars that doesn't serve the benefit of actually accelerating anything. And the issue that then comes up is if there were a delay in construction, if there were litigation, if there was COVID, you know, an epidemic, that's just, those are all hypothetical risks that could occur, that have occurred on other projects, that lenders and investors are going to be nervous about.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am · Jun 27, 2026
Bryce Edgmon
“I feel like I think if FID isn't, for Phase 1, arrived at by 2028, there's justification for this issue to come back before the legislature to have a longer runway to engage in this discussion. I would submit to you or anyone else that we should not have gotten this bill on March 20th. We should have gotten this a lot earlier so we could, to pour over this in a way that complies with all the sort of what-if scenarios that are out there and also to be maybe a better partner to you as a developer overall to get our work done in a longer frame of time. So I guess at this point I'm not convinced that removing that 2028 FID deadline— and remember, it's just for Phase 1, it's not for Phase 2. You know, I don't know that it serves our best interests”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“The 2032 completion of construction is more about managing theoretical risk that lenders and investors will look at when they make an investment decision on the project. And so regardless of how we all want to move fast, Regardless of the timing around the energy availability out of the Cook Inlet, lenders and investors will just see this numerically and assign it a hypothetical risk that will make the project more expensive. And so we don't see it adding any additional incentive that isn't there already. It just adds risk to the project that will be priced into the financing.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am · Jun 27, 2026
Lyman Hoffman
“On the first bullet point where the Senate version removes the calculation complexities, does the department have an opinion on that? Especially since it has the same effective rate as the House version simplification, does that reduce the amount of work to the department.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am · Jun 27, 2026
Adam Prestidge
“That penalty is— would be losing the tax— the tax treatment of the project. The result of that would be at the front end, investors would look at this as additional risk, And they would have to price in that risk into how they invest in the project. And so the ultimate outcome of this would be making the project more expensive and require more investment capital.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am · Jun 27, 2026
Dan Stickel
“fixing the percentages does increase some of the certainty and makes it easier to calculate and plan. Removes one item of potential contention going forward.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am · Jun 27, 2026
Dan Stickel
“the capital expenditure weighting and the project component weighting, that applied both for calculating the initial tax rates, but then also applied for calculating the sharing out to municipalities. And that sharing out to municipalities has also been fixed in statute. In the Senate version of the bill. So removing some of that complexity. The other addition that the Senate made is the two step-ups.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am · Jun 27, 2026
Dan Stickel
“under the House version of the bill, the alternative volumetric tax was calculated and levied on a per-component basis as a— using a weighted average of capital expenditures. And so once the full project was complete, we would look at the, the total capital expenditures that were spent on each component of the project, being the treatment plant, the pipeline, and the LNG export facility.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am · Jun 27, 2026
Dan Stickel
“in fiscal year 2061, which would be the first full fiscal year after the the second step up of the alternative volumetric tax. At that point in time, after adjusting for the inflation, there would be $212 million shared directly with the communities that the project resides in, an additional $285 million shared across the state based on population for community revenue sharing, and then the state at that point in time would get a little over $500 million.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am · Jun 27, 2026
Dan Stickel
“for a pipeline-only portion of the project, you'd have a 6-cent per MCF tax rate, and then once the full project was in operations, we would estimate that the tax rate on a weighted average basis would be about 10.6 cents per 1,000 cubic feet.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am · Jun 27, 2026
Dan Stickel
“they moved away from this weighted average approach and instead just put in the flat rates for each component of the project. So they took that about 6 cents per MCF rate on the pipeline component and made that a 6.2 cents per 1,000 cubic feet tax rate for phase 1 of the project. And then they took that 10.6 cents per thousand cubic feet weighted average with the capital expenditures weighting and just made that the tax rate once LNG exports began.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am · Jun 27, 2026
Dan Stickel
“the state starts out receiving about 9% of the AVT revenue. That will drop to 5% with the first doubling of the tax rate.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am · Jun 27, 2026