Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Clips from Alaska Gasline Development CorporationClear
0:42
Adam Prestidge“one of our core principles has to do things right by the state, and so to prioritize low-cost domestic gas as low as possible, to do the project as quickly as possible, and more above all, to make sure our contracts and our arrangements with the state are fair to all parties involved. One of those things that we think is fair is the state's clawback option. That's something that AGDC proposed to us in our negotiations.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:24
Dan Stickel“We note the significant policy difference between the two versions of the bill is that pass-through entity tax that is in the version that came out of the Senate floor. That does create— that does add a level of uncertainty uncertainty and is a significant policy decision for the committee to consider.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:33
Justin Ruffridge“I think, Mr. Stickel, you're being generous when you say marginal. If the futures market is $8— and we're assuming a $1.50 upstream gas price and we're probably looking at the plus 20% line or the plus 40% line at— in real terms, none of the items I'm looking at on that screen seem to be even in the definition of marginal. It seems like they don't work.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:54
Justin Ruffridge“If this assumption, let's say on slide 21, from 20— looks like '46 and moving onward, is that there is the assumed, I would say, increase in potential revenue from a corporate income tax, that is only if the entity in question here does not take some of those dollars and let's say they reinvest those things in an export facility expansion, maybe an additional gas line, other sort of areas, all of those potential revenue dollars would have— could disappear. Is that an accurate assumption?”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:33
Dan Stickel“Under the AKLNG project, this would also apply to incremental revenue from the project. So we assume that about two-thirds of the upstream oil and gas production associated with AKLNG would be subject to corporate income tax. Um, this pass-through entity tax would apply to that remaining one-third of production. We assume that the midstream operator is not subject to corporate income tax. And so this pass-through entity tax would also apply to the midstream operator under our modeling.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:49
Bert Stedman“when you look at the, at least from what I can gather on the economics of the gas line, with their interest cost and their depreciation, there's gonna be no net income, taxable net income for 2 decades. Literally, 2 decades. So I don't know how that, I guess, will wind up into a tax conversation later on the next couple of days, but you don't pay taxes unless you have a net income.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:19
Calvin Schrage“One question that I would have, which has not been addressed as of yet, is who is able to claim value for any tax abatement that's provided by the legislature. I think I've not heard that issue addressed yet and would appreciate hearing from you on that.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
1:05
Dan Stickel“The pass-through entity tax that came out of the Senate floor applies beginning in 2028 tax year and applies only to oil and gas companies. So a company that's not directly involved in the oil and gas exploration, production, or pipeline transportation would continue to be exempt from state corporate income taxes. There would be a zero tax rate on taxable income up to $1 million per year. Then the top, there would be a series of marginal bracketed tax rates with the top bracket being 9.4% of taxable income over $5 million per year. We note that this would apply to all companies, all pass-through entity companies doing business in the state regardless of whether the AK LNG project moves forward or not and would have material state revenue impacts as well as material investment economic impacts for the impacted taxpayers regardless of what happens with the AK LNG project.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:49
Dan Stickel“a lot of these assumptions were developed before Glenfarn came onto the scene. We have not received a lot of detailed information and details details on project plan from them, given confidentiality. And so we have carried forward many of these assumptions. There was a significant amount of work that was done in 2018 and 2019.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:36
Dan Stickel“slide 33 is the version that came off of the Senate floor, which is the same— for modeling purposes, it's the same as the Senate Finance version, except that it adds that pass-through entity tax, and so that's where you see that orange orange bar, which is the corporate income tax, which was a fairly modest contribution on slide 32, becomes very significant on slide 33 as we expand that corporate income tax to apply to pass-through entities.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:43
Dan Stickel“The act of agreeing on a new set of baseline assumptions, ideally that would be a months-long process where we would collaborate, we would review all of the latest information in detail, spend some time with it. We would collaborate with stakeholders, partners and agencies, developer, AGDC, industry, and kind of synthesize all of that information. And come up with a new set of baseline assumptions.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:53
Dan Stickel“the upstream and midstream would pay additional corporate income tax with the pass-through entity analysis. A portion of that would be an offset on federal tax because state taxes become a deduction against the federal tax. And then that would shift over life of project a little over— around $6 billion of cumulative revenue would shift from the companies and federal government to the state government.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:42
Dan Stickel“Representative Ruffridge, through the chair, so that would be a great question to ask the developer, but based on the baseline assumptions that we have and the— what is in the futures market, it does look like a challenging project even with the tax relief.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:46
Dan Stickel“the depreciation offsets— when we're doing an analysis of potential midstream corporate income tax, the depreciation offsets a lot of that income for the first several years, which is why I think 2036 was the first year that we would project a positive corporate income tax from the developer under the project. They also earn— to the extent that they have losses during construction, they could earn a net operating loss that could be carried forward. That net operating loss can offset up to 80% of a tax liability. And so once we get to the 2036 timeframe, we assume that the developer would still have those net operating losses until sometime in the 2040s.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:57
Justin Ruffridge“if you have an entity who is consistently investing large-scale infrastructure dollars those large investments are always able to, or are usually able to offset any sort of revenue gain from the investment itself. Potentially if they continue to invest infrastructure dollars, you could perpetuate this sort of depre— or I guess lower value of tax paid in perpetuity.— is that an accurate assumption again? Representative Ruffridge, through the chair, yes. So a company that continues to make investments would— the capital investments would have a depreciation schedule and those would reduce the taxes owed.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:39
Matthew Kissinger“This is the difference between us getting to a point where we can't achieve FID and Glenfarn leaving the project, and the state having an option to push Glenfarn out if they don't meet certain milestones. This was an option, the latter, where we can push them out. This is an option that AGDC wanted. This is a state option that we requested and negotiated for our benefit And if I may, on April 23rd of last year, so 2025, this question was brought up in front of Legislative Budget and Audit.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:27
Adam Prestidge“First, in response, Senator Hoffman, you asked about Glenfarm's willingness to continue to pursue the project, and we're absolutely willing to continue to pursue the project, and we will. It doesn't— it creates a little bit of a hesitation around how— around business principles and how, you know, how we will be able to trust certain confidential— confidentiality protections.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
1:14
Frank Richards“The document that we are discussing today is a draft document that AGDC staff created specifically to provide information to AGDC's board while we were working on the definitive agreement. It contains a summary description of the, the documents that we were negotiating with Glenfarm at the time, specifically naming them, but it also includes information around the selection of Glenfarm as the lead developer as compared to other parties. And so there is commercially sensitive information in there about other parties that we would find, again, would breach our confidentiality agreements with those other parties.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:26
Bert Stedman“I'm sure we'll be looking as we go forward in this process to ensure that there's, um, that it's clearly delineated that there could be no monetary value put on that, um, concession, whatever concessions we make here with property tax. So it won't be left up to an arbitrator in, in arguments.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:36
Bert Stedman“As far as it being a hypothetical potential of not going forward with the project, I don't believe it's that hypothetical because we've had numerous gas line projects that have not succeeded. This is just the latest one over the last 30 years. And there's a lot of FERC permits issued that never come to fruition.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:32
Adam Prestidge“this is a mechanism that is only exercisable at the state's option. In terms of Glenfarn's ability to seek recourse or any kind of compensation, we don't have that mechanism. We can't ask the state to exercise this option. If Glenfarn decides to abandon the project, we do so with no recourse.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:43
Matthew Kissinger“Representative Fields asked about these clawback mechanisms at that meeting, and what I said was, I said there— I said, and just to address this clearly, this is my words, and just to address this clearly because I've heard many questions that dance around this, the clawback would be a paid clawback. And there's real important reason for that. If you're moving towards milestones and you're gonna penalize your developer and they miss a milestone and you can just take everything away from them and they can lose everything, They will put nothing into it.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:57
Matthew Kissinger“I think everyone knows what I'm talking about with respect to a stolen AGDC document, confidential document. I thought it would be worthwhile just to take a few minutes just to address it openly to let you ask any questions that you have on it, but also to clarify that we've been clear actually about these mechanisms on the record.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:45
Calvin Schrage“For the House, 0 yeas, 3 nays. With 3 yeas, 0 nays in the Senate and 3 nays in the House, House Bill 381, Senate amended, fails to be adopted. Having not adopted either the House or Senate versions of HB 381, and after consultation with the presiding officers, the committee will proceed with its work under the expectation that limited powers of free conference will formally be granted later in the process when the bodies reconvene and before the adoption of the final committee reports by both bodies. Under limited powers of free conference, the conference committee can adopt any language, dates, or effective dates subject to conference.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:25
Matthew Kissinger“Senator Steadman, through the Chair, if you would be willing to provide us with a copy of that document, then we can consider redacting it and reviewing it. But as of now, we've only been able to to look at that document. We don't have our own copy of that document.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:25
Calvin Schrage“Our next meeting of the HPPC HB 381 conference committee will take place tomorrow, Saturday, June 27th at 10:00 a.m. During that meeting, we will conclude this presentation as well as go over the amendments passed on the Senate floor to HB 381.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:11
Adam Prestidge“We would not ask for any numerical value to be assigned based on the implementation of a tax arrangement.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:16
Calvin Schrage“From there, we will move on to amendments adopted on the Senate floor, which I expect will form the basis of most of our decision-making. While our initial focus will be on the Senate components, the committee retains the ability to consider the House version and its individual provisions as we work toward a final product.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:08
Calvin Schrage“With that, I'd like to call the roll. Senator Cronk. No. Senator Steadman. No.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:18
Bryce Edgmon“I move, Mr. Chairman, that we adopt the committee substitute for House Bill 381 Finance amended. For reference, it is 34-GH2038\W.A.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:34
Mike Cronk“we are here today to talk about the gas line. And we're pleased to be collaborating with Glenfarn the House, the executive branch, and the majority caucus to push this project forward. This project benefits nearly every Alaskan, whether it's directly through cheaper energy costs, indirectly through PCE, or by employment or economic opportunities.”
Alaska Legislature: SMIN-20260617-1630 ·
0:22
Robert Myers“nothing in life is guaranteed here. And I think everybody agrees that passing this bill does not guarantee us a gas line, but not passing this bill guarantees we don't get a gas line. This is the last thing that we as a state can do to help this process along.”
Alaska Legislature: SMIN-20260617-1630 ·
0:28
Robert Yundt“we are nowhere near ready to even consider that right now. So it needs to stand on its own merit in a year or 2 years or 4 years or possibly never. But we got to finish the financial modeling. We cannot— I don't think we should be considering jeopardizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity over something that we haven't even finished the committee process on.”
Alaska Legislature: SMIN-20260617-1630 ·
0:16
Robert Myers“We can't let a 2-year decision slow down a 50-year decision. That's really what this boils down to.”
Alaska Legislature: SMIN-20260617-1630 ·