Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
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Brock Hunter
“Alaska Seafood is struggling to compete against non market economies like China and Russia. The Russians are massively subsidizing new fishing fleets. They even require their fishing companies to buy these new vessels if they want quota. As a result, the Russian pollock harvest has increased from 1.75 million tons to 2.46 million tons since2021 while the US harvest level remains steady and sustainable.”House: Oversight Hearing titled “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness.” · Jun 4, 2025
0:25
Dustin Delano
“The weak links in our ropes can snap under tension, sometimes in our faces, creating serious safety risks.”House: Oversight Hearing titled “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness.” · Jun 4, 2025
0:37
Rick Bellavance
“Cancelled or scaled back stock assessments threaten economically important fisheries like groundfish, monkfish, and scallops in New England. Proposed cuts could further erode NOAA's ability to provide critical science for management decisions.”House: Oversight Hearing titled “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness.” · Jun 4, 2025
0:38
Rick Bellavance
“NOAA budget cuts and staffing reductions have hindered fish surveys, stock assessments, and have resulted in prolonged delays in the publications of regulations that allow fishermen to fish.”House: Oversight Hearing titled “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness.” · Jun 4, 2025
0:44
Speaker B
“Fishing communities in my state and many fishing communities around the country have been thrown into chaos due to these DOGE cuts. You're not going to make our seafood industry more competitive by firing staff at noaa, canceling research, banning NOAA staff from traveling to meetings with or by instigating trade wars with erratic and unstrategic tariff policies. Over one third of the NOAA fisheries positions are now vacant. Fishery science centers across the country are bleeding talent and key NOAA fisheries staff have been fired.”House: Oversight Hearing titled “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness.” · Jun 4, 2025
0:25
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
0:19
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
0:28
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
0:29
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
0:35
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
0:25
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
0:37
Brandy 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
0:50
Brandy 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
0:21
Dan Stickel
“at $9.07 delivered this is a marginal project.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 1, 2026 10:00am · Jun 1, 2026
0:56
Dan Stickel
“This bill would reduce total state revenues over life of project from 29.7 down to $22.8 billion, would reduce municipal revenues from 17.3 down to $6.2 billion, would reduce the in state cost of supply from the four. $4.86 Down to $4.47 per thousand cubic feet, and then would reduce The Global delivered LNG price in 2033 from $9.07 down to $8.55 per thousand cubic feet.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 1, 2026 10:00am · Jun 1, 2026
0:27
Bert Stedman
“the conversations I've had with some of the industry folks, both big and small, there's been significant cost escalations since January, dealing with equipment, fuel, manpower, what have you. And some of the rough impacts I've been given is 10%, and that's just since January.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 1, 2026 10:00am · Jun 1, 2026
1:00
Matt Kissinger
“it starts with a temporary tax abatement that would expire once the project achieves either 500 million standard cubic feet per day of throughput or five years from commencing commercial operations, whichever is first. It also sets out an alternative volumetric tax, which is $0.06 per thousand standard cubic feet flowing through the pipeline and $0.12 for gas flowing through the GTP and $0.12 for Gas flowing through the LNG facility. However, that is then weighted by the total proportion of capital that each of those segments it constitutes of the total project capital.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 1, 2026 10:00am · Jun 1, 2026
0:56
Dan Stickel
“under current tax law, with our existing property tax and our baseline assumptions, state revenue from the project, including Both upstream and midstream components would be just shy of 30, 30 billion dollars over life of project and a little over 17 billion dollars to municipalities.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 1, 2026 10:00am · Jun 1, 2026
0:22
Bert Stedman
“I've heard the issue of a Graham several times as an anchor tenant. But my understanding for agrium that style of business they need low cost gas, not high cost gas. So I would be a little cautious with that one because this doesn't look like low cost gas.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 1, 2026 10:00am · Jun 1, 2026
0:33
Dan Stickel
“our 2033 break even cost of supply given all of our baseline assumptions and current tax law would be $4.86 into the in state market and $9.07 per thousand cubic feet into the global market.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 1, 2026 10:00am · Jun 1, 2026
0:56
Bert Stedman
“we're being told here at the table it may cost 45 billion or it may cost 90 billion. It's not an acceptable answer, just not an acceptable answer.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 1, 2026 10:00am · Jun 1, 2026
0:44
Bert Stedman
“You may conclude from AGDC's point that it is a, you know, marginal project to go forward. My concern is Department of Revenue may conclude like has been referenced here at the previous meeting. It could go negative, net negative revenue against the state. So that is a significant concern at the table.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 1, 2026 10:00am · Jun 1, 2026
1:02
Dan Stickel
“that bill would have reduced total state revenues over life of project from 29.7 down to $22.5 billion and would have reduced municipal revenues over life of project from 17.3 billion down to just under $4 billion.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 1, 2026 10:00am · Jun 1, 2026
0:35
Matt Kissinger
“Section 19 creates a mitigation fund of up to $90 million per year. And then it sets up how that that gets allocated between the different impacted municipalities and the state”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 1, 2026 10:00am · Jun 1, 2026
0:48
Dan Stickel
“you can see that the replacing the property tax with the alternative volumetric tax decreases that cost of supply by about $0.50 per thousand cubic feet. If capital costs were to come in 10% below our assumption, it would have a similar impact. And we can see here that if capital costs were to come in significantly higher than what we're assuming, that would have really the largest impact of any of these variables on the economics of the project”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 1, 2026 10:00am · Jun 1, 2026
0:53
Bo Whiteside
“I would imagine no less than 30 lots, including accounting for roadways, you know, utility needs or offsets. And then if maintaining some green space, you could even do that if you're creative with the development.”Kodiak Borough: Borough Lands Committee Regular Meeting of June 1, 2026 · Jun 1, 2026
0:16
Grahn
“It's my recollection that there was going to be some utility challenges with this site through the public works. So I would ask that staff verify that, give us that information.”Kodiak Borough: Borough Lands Committee Regular Meeting of June 1, 2026 · Jun 1, 2026
0:26
Grahn
“I believe there is also wetlands as well. So I think identifying how much of the parcel is wetlands versus because I think it is 16 acres, but I think there's several acres that were wetlands.”Kodiak Borough: Borough Lands Committee Regular Meeting of June 1, 2026 · Jun 1, 2026
0:26
Grahn
“this parcel was purchased for a hospital site Many, many, many, many years ago. And this site has been utilized for recreation needs going back to the 2000s. So just from a point clarity, it's been used for about the last 25 years plus for recreational needs.”Kodiak Borough: Borough Lands Committee Regular Meeting of June 1, 2026 · Jun 1, 2026
0:36
Bo Whiteside
“we're going to have to consider is do we prioritize housing needs or current use? And so we're not going to find a single parcel. I would be shocked if we did that didn't have some sort of community benefit or use associated with it.”Kodiak Borough: Borough Lands Committee Regular Meeting of June 1, 2026 · Jun 1, 2026
0:37
Bo Whiteside
“it has a great central location, good access to local businesses directly here in town. It's flat. There's access to utilities, and as I understand it from Director French, there are no limitations that he is aware of as far as connecting to water, sewer, electricity for this parcel.”Kodiak Borough: Borough Lands Committee Regular Meeting of June 1, 2026 · Jun 1, 2026
0:42
Bo Whiteside
“I understand it is being used for baseball practice, But I remember Dr. LeDoux stating that this was a temporary offer made some 15 years ago and was never rescinded.”Kodiak Borough: Borough Lands Committee Regular Meeting of June 1, 2026 · Jun 1, 2026
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Jon Townsend
“It sounds like we're interested, but we just didn't. We obviously want a lot more information, specifically the history, wetlands, bedrock, how it might affect some current relationships or agreements that we have there.”Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026
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Bo Whiteside
“we're going to have to consider is do we prioritize housing needs or current use? And so we're not going to find a single parcel. I would be shocked if we did that didn't have some sort of community benefit or use associated with it. It's just not going to exist.”Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026
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Grohn
“It's my recollection that there was going to be some utility challenges with this site through the public works. So I would ask that staff verify that, give us that information. I also understand that this site is a lot of. It is bedrock, so developmental costs will be increased.”Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026
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Bo Whiteside
“I would imagine no less than 30 lots, including accounting for roadways, you know, utility needs or offsets. And then if maintaining some green space, you could even do that if you're creative with the development.”Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026
0:47
Bo Whiteside
“I view this committee as kind of refreshing our perspective on available parcels. Do they fit the current need for housing development now, or could they? I should say, because we don't have all the information, but if we get the information back and these parcels, any of these parcels we're discussing are relatively straightforward to develop, we can Access and connect to utilities. Does that meet the goal of the committee of identifying parcels that are suitable for increasing, increasing land for workforce housing?”Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026
0:29
Bo Whiteside
“I understand it is being used for baseball practice, But I remember Dr. LeDoux stating that this was a temporary offer made some 15 years ago and was never rescinded. So. So acknowledging that folks do use that. I'm prioritizing the needs of the community over a practice field when there's numerous ball fields teams can practice on.”Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026
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Grohn
“It is also my understanding that this parcel was purchased for a hospital site Many, many, many, many years ago. And this site has been utilized for recreation needs going back to the 2000s. So just from a point of clarity, it's been used for about the last 25 years plus us for recreational needs.”Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026
0:22
Grohn
“Just as a reminder too, the borough is under a joint use agreement with the city and if they are to deem, I think this is a step that has been missed in the past. If they deem this property surplusable, I think they owe it, per the agreement to notify the city who is the manager of said parcel, who operates the programs.”Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026
0:57
Amy Hughes
“The evening included remarks, cultural performances, guided tours and the unveiling of the cancer center, a space dedicated to healing, compassion and culturally grounded care for future generations.”Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 49 · Jun 1, 2026
0:30
Amy Hughes
“Last week, TCC held a dedication ceremony in Fairbanks to announce the naming of the Andy and Barbara Jimmy Cancer Care and Infusion Center. The gathering brought together community members, tribal leaders, healthcare partners, family and friends to celebrate the lasting impact Andy and Barbara have had on Alaskan Native health and wellness.”Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 49 · Jun 1, 2026
0:16
Anna Brawley
“I will state the intent of the sponsors is to bring a substitute version. And so folks who did testify tonight would be welcome to do so again on those changes.”Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026
0:42
Anna Brawley
“if you're here to testify on item 14D, AO202662 to create a Public Safety Commission, the sponsors of which I am one, the other is Mr. Perez Fridilla, intend to open the public hearing and continue the hearing to the next regular meeting of June 9.”Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026
0:16
Anna Brawley
“Mr. Boland, move to continue the public hearing to the meeting of June 9th. Second, moved by Mr. Volin to continue the hearing to. To the Regular meeting of June 9th.”Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026
0:47
Anna Brawley
“I want to thank you all for your support and also share a little bit about the work that we have been doing throughout the state with the Be Smart for Kids program, which encourages secure firearm storage.”Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026
0:08
Anna Brawley
“On a vote of 9 to 3 AR2026 144 passes the body.”Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026
0:29
Anna Brawley
“What is devastating, infuriating is that Marcy, Marcel and I were not formed until July 2024, despite having put in a police report. And I'm just urging both the Anchorage Police Department, this assembly, to fully acknowledge the. The damage that has been done not only to my family, but to every victim's family affected.”Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026