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“It costs more when our elders live in a nursing home as opposed to being able to stay in their own home. It is also more humane when they can stay in their own home. What this bill is all about is having a functioning home care workforce which is actually in the state's best financial interest.”

Alaska Legislature: House Floor Session, 4/27/26, 10:30am · Apr 27, 2026

“35 Yeas, 5 nays. For the vote of 35 yeas to 5 nays, House Bill 96 has passed the body.”

Alaska Legislature: House Floor Session, 4/27/26, 10:30am · Apr 27, 2026

“40 Yeas, 0 nays. With a vote of 40 yeas to 0 nays, House Bill 249 has passed the”

Alaska Legislature: House Floor Session, 4/27/26, 10:30am · Apr 27, 2026

“The core provision of the bill ensures efficient use of public money, um, by minimizing administrative overhead. That's a good thing to do across state functions. It's certainly a good thing to do for long-term home care.”

Alaska Legislature: House Floor Session, 4/27/26, 10:30am · Apr 27, 2026

Will Stapp “this amendment basically mirrors what we know to be the contract that Instar already has with the developer based on Instar's testimony. My reservation for this amendment is I just, I don't want to put, uh, this level of detail in state law. I mean, it makes me feel like I'm reaching in and trying to control contract terms”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 8, 2026 11:00am · Jun 8, 2026

Sara Hannan “we are going to have two tranches or two streams of the mitigation or in this case it is the AVT once it's being executed and that being distributed out via the community assistance formula versus impact aid.”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 8, 2026 11:00am · Jun 8, 2026

Neal Foster “I remove my objection. Seeing no further objection, Amendment Number 9 has been adopted.”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 8, 2026 11:00am · Jun 8, 2026

Calvin Schrage “without that contract being signed, this is the only way that today any of us can go back to voters and a guarantee to them that they will not be paying a higher price of gas as a result of this project. Ideally, we'd have a signed contract. We would know definitively that Alaskans would not be paying more than $16 per MMBtu”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 8, 2026 11:00am · Jun 8, 2026

Calvin Schrage “what it does do is it protects ratepayers from higher natural gas prices while not interfering with the viability of this project. And that is the goal, is to make sure that we are continuing to move towards a place where this project is economically viable and can has a real realistic chance of moving forward while ensuring that ratepayers are protected”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 8, 2026 11:00am · Jun 8, 2026

Neal Foster “6 Yay, 5 nay. So on a vote of 6 yay to 5 nay, Amendment Number 14, as amended by Conceptual Amendments Number 1 and 2, has been adopted”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 8, 2026 11:00am · Jun 8, 2026

Alyse Galvin “When we heard more information from Glenfarn and particularly John Sims from NSTAR, it kind of helped us better articulate to our constituents what they have been wanting to hear, and that is due to cost overruns or other things unknowns, we weren't able to put into on paper that sense of security”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 8, 2026 11:00am · Jun 8, 2026

John Sims “NStar's Hill Corp. Contract expires in 2033. We have needs for gas that start in 2031. So we need gas from someplace during that time. The electric utilities, their needs are before nstars.”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/1/26, 1:30pm · Jun 1, 2026

John Sims “Because of the cold temperatures that we had over this past winter, we were not able to get gas from any other location that we needed for our customers. Hilcorp provided that gas. They provided half a BCF and the price was $16.”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/1/26, 1:30pm · Jun 1, 2026

Trish Baker “we have to make a decision third quarter this year of which way to go if there's going to be a gas pipeline, we don't need to import, but we need to know that because we're running out of Runway to have enough time time for an import facility to be built in time to meet our gas requirement.”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/1/26, 1:30pm · Jun 1, 2026

John Sims “The cost for that LNG terminal infrastructure is between 3 to 5 dollars per mcf depending on participating volumes during that time. So right off the get go you have nearly $20 gas, potentially even more for that LNG solution.”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/1/26, 1:30pm · Jun 1, 2026

John Sims “This contract expires in 2033 and we have to find a replacement for 162 million a day. And there's no one in the cooking that can provide that today.”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/1/26, 1:30pm · Jun 1, 2026

John Sims “When you look at our arrears or the folks that haven't been able to pay their bills, compared to prior years, we have a $7 million balance compared to what used to be a $1 million balance. So they're already struggling, and that's without the price of gas going up.”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/1/26, 1:30pm · Jun 1, 2026

Trish Baker “Our contract with Hilcorp expires first quarter of 2028. We source 40% of our gas from that contract. We're a little bit different because we source 60% of our gas requirement from our two thirds interest ownership in the Beluga river unit gas field. Because of our aggressive development of that field and a couple of banking agreements which I'm happy to explain, we have been able to extend extend our existing gas requirements into 2029.”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/1/26, 1:30pm · Jun 1, 2026

Alyse Galvin “in other words, if it's $18 Japan market and then at $1 shipping plus $3 to $5 for LNG facilities, then are we talking 22 to $24?”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/1/26, 1:30pm · Jun 1, 2026