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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.

Antony Scott

“Like putting Humpty Dumpty back together again is not easy. So having it kind of spontaneously happen, I think my view is it's— we— I will die first before that happens for sure.”

REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) · Oct 7, 2026

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Antony Scott

“is the juice worth the squeeze? Even assuming the system is exactly the same, the answer is yes. I mean, if Golden Valley and Chugach are able to split almost $7 million a year and going forward that number will increase as gas costs increase.”

REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) · Oct 7, 2026

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Julie Estey “I do think policy helps create that imperative and sets a timeline because that's another thing we have, you know, we are all very lean organizations.”

REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) · Oct 7, 2026

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Julie Estey “I have to have a certain amount of people vote, a percentage, like over 50% of my members vote, and then a majority or a supermajority of those, excuse me, need to vote yes if I want to get rid of more than 15% of my assets.”

REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) · Oct 7, 2026

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Julie Estey “So I do think it's a worthwhile place to start. Now, there are still some disagreements between the two parties of how things, say, should be— how things should be settled out.”

REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) · Oct 7, 2026

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Antony Scott

“In terms of the Northern Intertie, there is— I mean, this is a live dispute that the RCA will resolve about whether the Intertie agreement must be unwound or not. So right now there are wheeling charges associated with the Northern Intertie.”

REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) · Oct 7, 2026

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Antony Scott

“one of the things that we really want to solve is making sure that Golden Valley Electric has access to gas imports on the same commercial terms that any of the parties south of the range do. Because that will maximize the benefits of a future unified economic dispatch arrangement, because no party which did have access to gas could use their market power to extract rent associated with a gas cost uplift.”

REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) · Oct 7, 2026

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Antony Scott

“the answer is, like, this just strikes me as a no-brainer in terms of getting to a more efficient system. The investment is worth it.”

REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) · Oct 7, 2026

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Antony Scott

“one of the reasons why I see that as a very significant problem is it undermines the commercial and political rationale for getting people pushed together.”

REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) · Oct 7, 2026

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Gray Jackson “we will then go into executive session to consider the award of a contract for the Department of Corrections cost driver study, the final release of 2 sunset audits, the preliminary release of 3 audits, and to receive an update on the Department of Natural Resources land conveyances”

Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit - October 7, 2026 10:00am · Oct 7, 2026

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Gray Jackson “The operating budget, House Bill 263, including— included the following intent language. It is the intent of the legislature that the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee issue a request for proposals, RFP, to procure an independent third-party study to identify, evaluate, and analyze the primary cost drivers within the Department of Corrections. This action seeks to fulfill the intent of HB 263.”

Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit - October 7, 2026 10:00am · Oct 7, 2026

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Gray Jackson “then the award of the contract for the Department of Corrections cost driver study is approved.”

Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit - October 7, 2026 10:00am · Oct 7, 2026

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Gray Jackson “I appreciate your comments, and I agree. The contracts that we had expired before we had an opportunity to even talk about renewing them, but that's something that we can definitely look at.”

Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit - October 7, 2026 10:00am · Oct 7, 2026

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Gray Jackson “We will— and we say we will certainly have another gas pipeline project on our table, so it'd be very prudent to secure a consultant. No, I just agree with both of you 100%, and as a matter of fact, we're planning on holding our next meeting in December, followed by final meeting on Monday, January 18th. But before that, we'll So we'll figure out how to, you know, get another contract on board.”

Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit - October 7, 2026 10:00am · Oct 7, 2026

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Stephanie Ryan

“we're just now starting that because we're, what, a month or so out from the SAP S/4HANA. We had to give them a little time to work through those bumps, and we're now in that stage. So I'm really, really hopeful that for 2025, this workaround is just for 2025, and by the time we're ready for 2026, we'll have something in motion.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession of the Audit Committee Re 2024 ACFR Report · Oct 7, 2026

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Stephanie Ryan

“We're in 2026, almost in 2027 at this point, and we need to do less manual work because there's so much work to do. So, and that just leaves room for error and mistakes.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession of the Audit Committee Re 2024 ACFR Report · Oct 7, 2026

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Stephanie Ryan

“In an ideal world, you never touch Equity.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession of the Audit Committee Re 2024 ACFR Report · Oct 7, 2026

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Lance Wilber “this change doesn't only affect what we do in operations in the controller. It can affect other departments, and so we want to make sure that we do this collaboratively so that we're not making a change that might be great for us and maybe not so great for others.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession of the Audit Committee Re 2024 ACFR Report · Oct 7, 2026

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Stephanie Ryan

“I'm glad that I've been here 2 years and we figured this workaround that's not quite as messy. So, kind of going back to the mitigating some of these issues is that we're Fixing it before we give it to BDO, even if it's in an Excel workbook. Not my favorite, but we're working through some things.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession of the Audit Committee Re 2024 ACFR Report · Oct 7, 2026

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Ryan Anderson “that's, that's separate from the STIP that we're doing right now. There will be a public comment period devoted to the West Sacinna Access Environmental Assessment when we put that out for public review. And so there's a standard 30-day public review period and a public meeting that will go along with that.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

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Katherine Keith “your projects about West Sissetna, we can certainly include that in the project record.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

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Steve Perrins

“I don't know what the future cost for maintaining this is going to be, but there are a lot of people that are against this, and my theory is all the comments— there's going to be a lot of comments against it, And it's just going to remain in there regardless of what people say.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

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Ryan Anderson “West Basin Access, right, access millions of acres of state lands in Alaska. We have very limited road connections to our state lands, and of course, you know, state lands for recreational purposes, all those uses are very valuable to Alaskans. And so that's really the primary purpose and need of this project.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

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Stephanie Tompkins

“one of our big concerns, which means a lot of the tribe's concern, is that this is a connected action. This road really— this project part stops at the Big Sioux— well, 22 miles. And what Ada and their last enclosure just showed, that it's a connected action to a gold mine, which brings it to that what we're looking at will have a huge impact, a bigger impact on the whole part, which needs to be considered.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

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Ryan Anderson “this is on the West Desitna Access Project that we're going through, and we are going through the environmental, you know, the environmental process, which will culminate, you know, in the environmental document and a public review on the project. And so, you know, this is the process we're going through. It's not going to be any different than, you know, the project processes that we use for other projects. It's very much structured and founded in federal law and regulation”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

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Angelica Stabs

“West Usitna alone appears to carry roughly $189 million in planned advanced construction with those conversions pushed beyond FY 2030.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

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Angelica Stabs

“to clarify, there will be a second comment period on West 2 with all environmental analysis documents available for comment?”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

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Steve Perrins

“I want to just comment about the West Sioux Bridge and Roads that's in there. You know, we're looking at about $250 million almost for these projects. Um, I want to say that I am, uh, very strongly against this.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

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Steve Perrins

“the boat launch that would be there would actually take longer to get to by driving that road than it would be to, uh, access the current Deschka boat launch to access those same rivers. It's, uh, deep water, steep banks, fast-flowing rivers, and just not a very practical place for a boat launch. Uh, furthermore, flying over that area, the, um, the other side of that river is just all marshland. So we're building, uh, a road and what I believe would be the largest bridge in Alaska, um, if you can confirm or correct me on that, um, to just end across that river in swampland when 90% of the community and 20+ wilderness tourism lodges are all against this project.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

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Stephanie Tompkins

“We're concerned on the impact, not only with the human impact it's going to have on our villages and tribes, over the region, the fish, the rivers, the habitat that are there, and that needs to be included before and if this goes forward. So you are there to answer our questions on Friday, and also that the APE needs to be enlarged. Because of this.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026