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

Lisa Rochester “One of the main concerns is the lack of long-term— of a long-term solution for high-level nuclear waste.”

Senate Environment and Public Works: Hearings to examine updating America's nuclear waste management policy. · Sep 23, 2026

Kathryn Huff

“However, turning these conversations into operating facilities will require authorization and appropriated funding from Congress. Sustaining public support will also require transparency regarding ownership, costs, hazards, and long-term responsibilities, as well as accountability in case a contractor withdraws or fails.”

Senate Environment and Public Works: Hearings to examine updating America's nuclear waste management policy. · Sep 23, 2026

Lake Barrett

“The American Nuclear Society supports DOE's Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation— Innovation Campus initiative.”

Senate Environment and Public Works: Hearings to examine updating America's nuclear waste management policy. · Sep 23, 2026

Shelley Capito “Importantly, any new approach, including the NLC initiative, requires Congress to update the law. Today we will explore key principles that must be considered in future legislation.”

Senate Environment and Public Works: Hearings to examine updating America's nuclear waste management policy. · Sep 23, 2026

Shelley Capito “To date, the Department of Energy has signed memorandums of understanding with 6 states, including my state of West Virginia, to further talks on the NLCs. This initial step is a good conversation starter, and I appreciate the leadership of the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy for this effort.”

Senate Environment and Public Works: Hearings to examine updating America's nuclear waste management policy. · Sep 23, 2026

Lisa Rochester “States like mine then have to weigh whether to invest in nuclear energy against doing it without a long-term solution. It's a real risk for our communities. This is an issue of public safety and public trust.”

Senate Environment and Public Works: Hearings to examine updating America's nuclear waste management policy. · Sep 23, 2026

Karl Emmons

“it's going to be nothing but a heartache. And I've seen how this happens when people do that, the, um, and then it becomes a mess, you know, and it's flowing out on the tundra and all that. It seems like utilities always winds up involved in the cleanup.”

Nome Joint Utility System Board Meeting- Sept. 22, 2025 · Sep 22, 2026

Derek McLarty

“But really about all we can do is give them some line. We don't have people that—. We don't have to give water and that'll stop that. Yeah, they're magic boxes.”

Nome Joint Utility System Board Meeting- Sept. 22, 2025 · Sep 22, 2026

Karl Emmons

“somebody should at least point out to the people that are putting this together that it's going to be real high maintenance.”

Nome Joint Utility System Board Meeting- Sept. 22, 2025 · Sep 22, 2026

“whoever approves it had better be ready to take over the maintenance of it.”

Nome Joint Utility System Board Meeting- Sept. 22, 2025 · Sep 22, 2026

Derek McLarty

“Utilities writes a letter to the owner of the property saying that they're responsible for until they get it properly hooked into city water and sewer. There is no question on that. It is their responsibility, and that is a known— so if they call us and need help, then we'll build them for it, right? We absolutely— and we have an agreement in place for that.”

Nome Joint Utility System Board Meeting- Sept. 22, 2025 · Sep 22, 2026

Karl Emmons

“At our cost, you know, sending our crew to empty honey buckets, get piled out the back door and all that stuff. You know, I think that, uh, that people just don't understand how these things work. And to put them into a housing project where people there don't necessarily understand how a flush toilet works, it's going to be pretty tough to, uh, to, to maintain.”

Nome Joint Utility System Board Meeting- Sept. 22, 2025 · Sep 22, 2026

Karl Emmons

“My understanding is that somehow they got approved for those life water above-ground septic tanks. I don't think anybody knows how those function. You know, they're, they're a septic tank, but they've got agitators and grinders and pumps inside of them that all have to work, and they digest the, uh, oopie in there, and then it goes out through an outflow, and they, they kill all the bacteria that might not have gotten digested with, uh, ultraviolet light. But then they just dump them out in the yard.”

Nome Joint Utility System Board Meeting- Sept. 22, 2025 · Sep 22, 2026

Derek McLarty

“So it's an interim measure until they build they expand that development, expectation is with later phases they will put a proper lift station in and then collect all that drainage, you know, further to the south— I'm sorry, further to the north towards Bourbon Creek, and then pump it up to our, our force main.”

Nome Joint Utility System Board Meeting- Sept. 22, 2025 · Sep 22, 2026

Karl Emmons

“I think it's worth people going into that with their eyes open, you know. Yeah, I've been involved in several of those and I would never put one in or recommend anybody to put one in. Unless it was the last option you had and you were gonna— it was your baby and you were gonna take care of it.”

Nome Joint Utility System Board Meeting- Sept. 22, 2025 · Sep 22, 2026

Karl Emmons

“they're real management intensive. You know, if you were— was in your house and you lived there and you took care of it, because there's a limited amount of water, or maximum water you put through every day, and you can't exceed that. And so somebody needs to really care that they're not going to work, you know, if they don't follow it real strict. And I mean, I would never recommend that anybody put anything like that in.”

Nome Joint Utility System Board Meeting- Sept. 22, 2025 · Sep 22, 2026

Michelle Kincaid

“the variance request fails on all 6 requirements. It's a typical corner lot surrounded by 3 streets and 1 privately owned adjoining property.”

Palmer: Sep. 17, 2026, Planning and Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026

Michelle Kincaid

“Code 1776 does not allow change of use to increase its nonconformity. The variance request would give the applicant special privileges, rights no one else has.”

Palmer: Sep. 17, 2026, Planning and Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026

Marty Kincaid

“one individual, because he made a bad business decision. When I make a bad commercial investment, I don't put it on anybody else to absorb my mistake.”

Palmer: Sep. 17, 2026, Planning and Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026

Troy Vincent

“Again, going off the 10 that's already allowed, it's not going to cause any more.”

Palmer: Sep. 17, 2026, Planning and Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026

Marty Kincaid

“there is the Dairy Queen right next door that is for sale. My solution is sell this building that does not meet the parking. It'd be great to have a barbecue place. Nobody's saying no against barbecue.”

Palmer: Sep. 17, 2026, Planning and Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026

Marty Kincaid

“the taxpayers are paying for the maintenance of the parking, not a private individual. You're competing against private enterprises where the city is doing all the snowplowing, the maintenance, the insurance, etc., where that should be borne by the business, not the city, not the taxpayers.”

Palmer: Sep. 17, 2026, Planning and Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026

Michelle Kincaid

“you can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't get a variance and then say, oh, we're going to go with this code that isn't really real parking.”

Palmer: Sep. 17, 2026, Planning and Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026

Troy Vincent

“I was given that because it was parking of 10 for the retail. If I conformed it over, I would have to follow the new rules, but the new rules would only be if I exceeded what was already granted to the facility”

Palmer: Sep. 17, 2026, Planning and Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026

Sherman Leifer

“I'm against this variance, against the variance for the primary purposes. It's going to be harmful to other businesses.”

Palmer: Sep. 17, 2026, Planning and Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026

Michelle Kincaid

“It's also interest to the city-owned depot by allowing a private property owner exclusive rights.”

Palmer: Sep. 17, 2026, Planning and Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026

Lori Koppenberg

“staff findings should be objective, not subjective, and in this case they are very subjective. Staff has misapplied code in this instance. This commission should request legal opinion on the correct process for this request.”

Palmer: Sep. 17, 2026, Planning and Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026

Marty Kincaid

“if we want to invite, um, businesses to Palmer, it has to be the level, same playing field, because there's other properties that would want variances.”

Palmer: Sep. 17, 2026, Planning and Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026

Jim Cooper “you're missing 3 of your commission members, and maybe, uh, an opportunity to postpone this that you can get all people here that you can, you know, have a much more lively discussion.”

Palmer: Sep. 17, 2026, Planning and Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026

Lori Koppenberg

“Parking has been an issue in our town forever. You allow it this one time for this one place, you will be required to allow it for every single business property that meets these exceptions.”

Palmer: Sep. 17, 2026, Planning and Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026

Annemarie Hoang

“So thinking forward, what amount of whale depredation would result in a large enough change to the stock assessment that would warrant the inclusion of whale depredation?”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Colin Jones

“I will just note that I do, I do anticipate a pretty large update for June of next year regarding both potentially 2025 histology samples, maybe even 2026 as well. And then also a lot of preliminary data on fecundity estimation, which is kind of the next big go-around as we start gearing up for the next major assessment update, which will be in 2028.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Colin Jones

“we overlapped the Pacific Decadal Oscillation Index values. With the Coastwide A50 maturity. And as you can see, this does trend pretty well with the increase, as well as the decrease in the Coastwide A50 values.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Colin Jones

“our previous indication was that we thought females did not mature any earlier than age 8 based on visual, but histologically we've actually found females to mature at age 7. So we have not seen any females, so we dropped it to 0 below 7 because we have never seen a mature female below that age.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Olaf Jensen “And it's also anecdotally, it's this brand new problem that's just come up in in the last couple decades, but I mean, Claude, you found records that go back to the 1950s documenting oil depredation. So it's a hard one.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Colin Jones

“our A50 estimate dropped by 0.6 years from our previous estimate. So we have seen a slight shift in the left of the curve to younger maturing females.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Anna Kuparinen

“Senescence could be something interesting to look at, like especially if there's information about the relative fecundity of the really old big ones. Like does it bend down at some point or level out or—.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Annemarie Hoang

“we know that in 2023 SRB recommended not including whale depredation because the change to TCEY would be really small. And so I think what I'm hearing from the commissioners is that they're seeing continuing increases in whale depredation.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Colin Jones

“from 2002 to 2016, there was a, decrease over— or an increase over time to older maturing females and an increase in the age 50 and then a sharp decrease down to 2021.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Colin Jones

“there has been two distinct shifts during this time series. From 2002 to about 2016, there was a shift to older maturing females, and then at about 2016 to 2020, 2021, there was actually a large decrease in showing a lot younger maturing females over that time series.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Olaf Jensen “Well, I mean, it sounds like one of those issues that it doesn't affect most people, but it does affect you. It can difference between profitable and unprofitable.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Olaf Jensen “one of the things that wasn't immediately apparent to me is that these decisions about the lower left of the curve, they do matter because there's the biomass.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Colin Jones

“in 2025, we were actually able to collect samples across all 4 biological regions on the Settling Survey, which was great.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Alicia Hughes-Skandijs “It would be a policy decision if we decide, because the e-motos are— is where we want to put our focus, if we table the other one. It is kind of getting out of the e-bike game entirely.”

Juneau: September 21, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Sep 21, 2026

Nano Brooks “is Mendenhall Mall Road private or public?”

Juneau: September 21, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Sep 21, 2026

Nano Brooks “in the earlier meeting, $500 was mentioned. So if our maximum is $500, it should be up to $500”

Juneau: September 21, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Sep 21, 2026

Nano Brooks “when mentioning the, uh, permissible use areas of Montana Creek and Area 35, the amendment would be to add, and all other aerial areas where similar use is permitted.”

Juneau: September 21, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Sep 21, 2026

Neil Steininger “kind of the end result here is e-motos would be treated the same as dirt bikes. Currently are treated. Is that accurate to say”

Juneau: September 21, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Sep 21, 2026

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