Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Speaker G
“you haven't provided any rationale for why all your policy, the policy you're proposing in which all lands become part of the timber base, you know, you've said, you've expressed that, but you really haven't provided a rationale for why you would want to do this.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
Speaker A
“we determined that with our one of our primary goals in the revision to be adding language to allow carbon offset projects within the state forest, we might need to make additional changes that we hadn't originally presented to the public as part of this amendment. And so in July of this year, this past summer, we published a public notice announcement that specified that we would be revising policy to allow timber harvest in areas where it had previously been prohibited.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
Speaker A
“the sample size for those percentages that you just described is 12 individuals. And so in, in reviewing the survey responses, we arrived at the conclusion that 12 individuals is not representative of the community at large”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
Speaker A
“we're expanding the opportunity to harvest timber, but we are not expanding the acreage of land that's classified forest. The classifications as they currently are, will not be changed in this plan amendment.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
Speaker G
“the old growth forests are now have pretty well been determined to be the most important forest to protect through carbon offsets because they, you know, they have sequesters and hold the most carbon and sort of cutting those down would, you know, release more carbon than any other part of the forest.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
Speaker A
“it's written in Alaska statute that the primary purpose for the establishment of the Haines State Forest Resource Management Area, or purposes plural, are the utilization, perpetuation, conservation and production of the land and water, including but not limited to the use of renewable and non renewable resources through multiple use management”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
Speaker A
“the question is more of how to accommodate multiple uses on these sites with the different primary classification use that's, that's identified through that classification name. So the goal in updating the policy is to, to find a way that we can accommodate both wildlife habitat and timber harvest, or both public recreation and timber harvest.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
Speaker A
“The feedback that we receive on a side of opposition to the, to this strategy that's kind of proposed right now, we have an equal and opposite force of feedback asking for something more. And so our role is to find a balance where the most possible use is made available to the Alaskan public by DoF's management of the forest.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
Speaker A
“one of the Division of Forestry's primary goals and amending the management plan at this time is to create space and allow for carbon offset projects as a potential use within Haines State Forest Resource Management Area and for that to be a realistic possibility, it needs to be identified in the management plan. And the Division has determined that to make a carbon off the project like a realistic use of the resources in the Haines State Forest Resource Management Area to like expand the timber base is a part of that of that process.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Haines State Forest Resource Management Area- Project Update Meeting: August 27, 2025 · Jun 3, 2026
Speaker A
“We know that finding and maintaining meaningful employment can make all the difference in reducing the chances of returning to prison or not and as a part of our community, we want you to be successful for yourself and your family.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“There are currently 13 job centers in Alaska, one in Anchorage, Midtown, Mat Su, Dillingham, Fairbanks, Homer, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Nome, Kenai, Sitka, Valdez and Bethel.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“The bond covers against loss of money or property due to employee dishonesty through theft, forgery, larceny, or embezzlement. The bond helps build trust between the individual and their potential employer by showing that there is a mechanism in place to cover losses.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“There's also certifications to add to your resume such as typing 10 key data entry and the National Career Readiness Certificate. Utilizing study and testing in the workkeys curriculum.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“The Work Opportunity Tax Credit is a federal tax credit for employers. It is an incentive for businesses to hire and retain employees from certain populations such as qualified ex felons”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“Our Job Center Resource Room provides a space to access the most up to date employment and training resources. You can utilize computers for completing online applications. We provide tools such as printers, copiers, scanners and staff to assist you one on one with various employment services.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“Our current labor market provides vast opportunities for you to find meaningful work because there are two jobs for every one job seeker in Alaska and many people are finding work who have never worked before who experience significant barriers to employment.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“My name is Savannah and I work at the Mat Su Job center and today I'm going to be talking with you about Employment after incarceration.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“If you apply to five jobs a day, you you should start to get interviews within two weeks, most likely sooner. And if you're not getting interviews, please work with the job center staff to identify what needs to change in your process.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“If you have a phone or video interview, we can help you practice and learn facetime, zoom or teams at your local job center.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“Clothing of vouchers for interview clothing may be available at your local job center.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“Employment offers significant social and emotional benefits for justice involved individuals such as improved self esteem, financial independence and a reduced likelihood of engaging in criminal behavior. The WOTC helps open doors to these benefits by incentivizing employers to give people with criminal backgrounds an opportunity to work.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“You can visit a job center for help and write clearly on applications.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“Fidelity Bonding is an insurance policy for the employer providing no cost, no deductible bond for hiring at risk job seekers to overcome barriers to employment and helps alleviate employer concerns about hiring at risk job applicants.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“Career Support and Training Services do you need funding to get a job, keep a job or make more money? State and federal grants are available. Workforce Innovation Opportunity act is our federal funding and the State Training and Employment Program is our state funding.”Alaska Labor & Workforce: Employment After Incarceration · May 15, 2026
Speaker A
“The overall physical fitness average of this class rose from 76% after a lesser physical fitness test on the first day they arrived here to a respectable 93.6% at their final physical fitness test.”Alaska State Troopers: ALET 24-01 Graduation Ceremony · May 20, 2026
Speaker A
“Seventeen weeks ago, these students arrived at the Department of Public Safety Training Academy as stranger to each other, with only a vague idea of what lay ahead. The training here is not known for being easy and making it through.”Alaska State Troopers: ALET 24-01 Graduation Ceremony · May 20, 2026
Speaker A
“The overall grade point average for Alec 2401 was an impressive 90.93%.”Alaska State Troopers: ALET 24-01 Graduation Ceremony · May 20, 2026
Speaker A
“My name is Grant Miller and I have the honor of serving us as attendants at the lasso long since the training academy here in ticket.”Alaska State Troopers: ALET 24-01 Graduation Ceremony · May 20, 2026
Speaker A
“While may they have spent over 1000 hours either in the classroom or engaged in practical scenarios learning more than 70 subjects. They completed numerous exams nearly every Saturday they were here and have had very few days off during that 17 years. Together they endured control tactics, cold water spray, then spray with pepper spray and exposed to the Taser.”Alaska State Troopers: ALET 24-01 Graduation Ceremony · May 20, 2026
Speaker A
“I believe the skills of have learned here will directly translate to your individual abilities to problem solve, take direction and perform under pressure. These are some of the key ingredients needed for the recipe to create a successful law enforcement Officer.”Alaska State Troopers: ALET 24-01 Graduation Ceremony · May 20, 2026
Speaker A
“Each of these students should be proud of their accomplishment of completing this program which is one of the toughest and without a doubt one of the finest law enforcement training avenues in this nation.”Alaska State Troopers: ALET 24-01 Graduation Ceremony · May 20, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“You might go from $10 a unit gas in the lower 48 or Canada quickly to 12, 14, 15, 16, $18 gas. And what does that mean? You're looking at 35 to 45 cents a kilowatt hour five to 10 years from now on the rail belt, especially in places like Fairbanks, Alaska.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“This bill has got to be. We got to be able to construct a bill that doesn't tax investors just on property that sits there, which the current property tax would do, as opposed to when gas is flowing.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“without a gas line and importing gas, the legislature is going to have to work on an urban power cost equalization program in the tune of 2 to 5 billion dollars to build renewables and batteries and wind and solar and to import gas.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“You're not going to get the president of the United States behind a project like this. This is one of the signature major, huge projects for the country and for Alaska. You're not going to get a Persian Gulf happening every day.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“we got about three weeks left in the session.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“modifying this property tax, converting it into a pilt, which is a plan in lieu of taxes, in which the local communities, the local boroughs, the state and the private concern, Glenn Farn, could come together around an agreement that would allow this to become financeable.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“the window is not going to stay open for Alaska forever. The Asian allies and others are looking for gas worldwide.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“the big item on the agenda, I think, for Alaskans is energy and energy with regard to this gas line.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“This would be the largest project in Alaska history, probably the largest in the Arctic, in the Pacific. The impacts on Alaska would be almost immeasurable going out decades and decades and decades. And we have, we are this close to securing this with this pilt.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“This property tax simply just too high. It doesn't work. It's higher than Texas, it's higher than so many other states. It's one of the highest there is, if not the highest in the country.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“I would say that you go above $0.10, ideally you're within the $0.06 range. If you go above, much above that, you're probably not going to get a project that's financeable. Somebody comes in with a 20 cent throughput tax, it's not going to be financeable.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“The goal is to get long term gas. The goal is to do exactly what the Asian allies and others are doing right now in the world. How do we get gas at the lowest price possible over the long term? That's the goal first.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“I interpret that letter as they're following this project and they encourage us to do whatever we can to make it financeable. So we get a gas line.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“it's my understanding it's anywhere between $9 and $12. But I'm not an expert on that. That's being worked on by folks that this is their business. But in state we would hope to get gas for half that or less than half that.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“This is really an Alaska advantage at this point. And to Our Asian allies, it is because our proximity to Asia, eight days of Tokyo, eight or nine days of Tokyo and Seoul, South Korea. But uncontested waters is really the big thing.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“that enormous amount of gas would enable us to get incredibly low prices, relatively speaking here in state in Alaska, which would reduce, as opposed to what's happening in other parts of the country, reduce the cost of energy for Alaskans for the long term.”Governor Dunleavy: Delivering for Alaskans: What's Next for AKLNG · May 21, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“one of the biggest projects amongst the many that are being represented here at this conference, of course, is our Alaska LNG project. This has been something that's been talked about for decades and decades and decades.”Governor Dunleavy: Delivering for Alaskans: What's Next for AKLNG · May 21, 2026