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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
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0:57
Justin Ruffridge“if you have an entity who is consistently investing large-scale infrastructure dollars those large investments are always able to, or are usually able to offset any sort of revenue gain from the investment itself. Potentially if they continue to invest infrastructure dollars, you could perpetuate this sort of depre— or I guess lower value of tax paid in perpetuity.— is that an accurate assumption again? Representative Ruffridge, through the chair, yes. So a company that continues to make investments would— the capital investments would have a depreciation schedule and those would reduce the taxes owed.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:39
Matthew Kissinger“This is the difference between us getting to a point where we can't achieve FID and Glenfarn leaving the project, and the state having an option to push Glenfarn out if they don't meet certain milestones. This was an option, the latter, where we can push them out. This is an option that AGDC wanted. This is a state option that we requested and negotiated for our benefit And if I may, on April 23rd of last year, so 2025, this question was brought up in front of Legislative Budget and Audit.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:27
Adam Prestidge“First, in response, Senator Hoffman, you asked about Glenfarm's willingness to continue to pursue the project, and we're absolutely willing to continue to pursue the project, and we will. It doesn't— it creates a little bit of a hesitation around how— around business principles and how, you know, how we will be able to trust certain confidential— confidentiality protections.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
1:14
Frank Richards“The document that we are discussing today is a draft document that AGDC staff created specifically to provide information to AGDC's board while we were working on the definitive agreement. It contains a summary description of the, the documents that we were negotiating with Glenfarm at the time, specifically naming them, but it also includes information around the selection of Glenfarm as the lead developer as compared to other parties. And so there is commercially sensitive information in there about other parties that we would find, again, would breach our confidentiality agreements with those other parties.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:26
Bert Stedman“I'm sure we'll be looking as we go forward in this process to ensure that there's, um, that it's clearly delineated that there could be no monetary value put on that, um, concession, whatever concessions we make here with property tax. So it won't be left up to an arbitrator in, in arguments.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:36
Bert Stedman“As far as it being a hypothetical potential of not going forward with the project, I don't believe it's that hypothetical because we've had numerous gas line projects that have not succeeded. This is just the latest one over the last 30 years. And there's a lot of FERC permits issued that never come to fruition.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:32
Adam Prestidge“this is a mechanism that is only exercisable at the state's option. In terms of Glenfarn's ability to seek recourse or any kind of compensation, we don't have that mechanism. We can't ask the state to exercise this option. If Glenfarn decides to abandon the project, we do so with no recourse.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
0:43
Matthew Kissinger“Representative Fields asked about these clawback mechanisms at that meeting, and what I said was, I said there— I said, and just to address this clearly, this is my words, and just to address this clearly because I've heard many questions that dance around this, the clawback would be a paid clawback. And there's real important reason for that. If you're moving towards milestones and you're gonna penalize your developer and they miss a milestone and you can just take everything away from them and they can lose everything, They will put nothing into it.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:57
Matthew Kissinger“I think everyone knows what I'm talking about with respect to a stolen AGDC document, confidential document. I thought it would be worthwhile just to take a few minutes just to address it openly to let you ask any questions that you have on it, but also to clarify that we've been clear actually about these mechanisms on the record.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:45
Calvin Schrage“For the House, 0 yeas, 3 nays. With 3 yeas, 0 nays in the Senate and 3 nays in the House, House Bill 381, Senate amended, fails to be adopted. Having not adopted either the House or Senate versions of HB 381, and after consultation with the presiding officers, the committee will proceed with its work under the expectation that limited powers of free conference will formally be granted later in the process when the bodies reconvene and before the adoption of the final committee reports by both bodies. Under limited powers of free conference, the conference committee can adopt any language, dates, or effective dates subject to conference.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:25
Matthew Kissinger“Senator Steadman, through the Chair, if you would be willing to provide us with a copy of that document, then we can consider redacting it and reviewing it. But as of now, we've only been able to to look at that document. We don't have our own copy of that document.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:25
Calvin Schrage“Our next meeting of the HPPC HB 381 conference committee will take place tomorrow, Saturday, June 27th at 10:00 a.m. During that meeting, we will conclude this presentation as well as go over the amendments passed on the Senate floor to HB 381.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:11
Adam Prestidge“We would not ask for any numerical value to be assigned based on the implementation of a tax arrangement.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:16
Calvin Schrage“From there, we will move on to amendments adopted on the Senate floor, which I expect will form the basis of most of our decision-making. While our initial focus will be on the Senate components, the committee retains the ability to consider the House version and its individual provisions as we work toward a final product.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:08
Calvin Schrage“With that, I'd like to call the roll. Senator Cronk. No. Senator Steadman. No.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:18
Bryce Edgmon“I move, Mr. Chairman, that we adopt the committee substitute for House Bill 381 Finance amended. For reference, it is 34-GH2038\W.A.”
Alaska Legislature: JHB381-260626-1400 ·
0:21
Joyce Anderson“then it went over to the Senate and Senator Keele had a couple questions. There were a couple amendments made which were areas that were not quite picked up by anybody, which I have to give his office credit for. So we made those technical changes to make it look good.”
Alaska Legislature: JETH-260626-1300 ·
0:07
Joyce Anderson“I see, Kevin, that you said in one instance there was a flat refusal to submit an agenda. That is correct. Who was that legislator?”
Alaska Legislature: JETH-260626-1300 ·
0:11
Joyce Anderson“That's the reason that this requirement exists. So that we know it was for a legislative purpose. We know that it was for a legislative purpose. If they can't provide that it was— I agree with you. If they can't provide it was a legislative purpose, then they need to reimburse the money.”
Alaska Legislature: JETH-260626-1300 ·
0:38
Joyce Anderson“I would think that that is an incomplete disclosure and that it should be treated as such. I know that the Rules of Procedure Committee is going to get back in place because of, you know, HB 298 being passed, and we can certainly put some, some guidelines in there regarding agendas, you know, like you said, addressing what is, what is actually an agenda with some ideas and some suggestions and stuff.”
Alaska Legislature: JETH-260626-1300 ·
0:13
Joyce Anderson“the use of the legislature's title was also in here, so we can just mention that statute as well.”
Alaska Legislature: JETH-260626-1300 ·
0:47
Alyse Galvin“President Stevens, we were at the very end of session by the time we were getting this all the way through. And were it not for the President's support to make sure that this got calendared, that's really a lot of the game is making sure we get the timing just right.”
Alaska Legislature: JETH-260626-1300 ·
1:03
Alyse Galvin“I concur this is not in the purview of what this committee's work is and it does make sense to me to have some sort of a vote that sort of an advisory vote saying we are not wanting to do this, and then maybe a letter accompanies our declaration or whatever it might be that says we understand that this is important to the state of Alaska. It doesn't meet our purview. We have voted on this.”
Alaska Legislature: JETH-260626-1300 ·
0:40
Joyce Anderson“I personally, based on my experience, don't feel that it is within the ethics purview to conduct these two types of training classes or for work professional workplace and then sexual harassment and so forth, because I agree with Kevin, that is not something that we do. That is not part of our statute.”
Alaska Legislature: JETH-260626-1300 ·
0:38
Joyce Anderson“I make a motion that the Ethics Committee send a letter to the Human Resources Manager and let them know that the Ethics Committee has discussed and determined that the training for the— Sexual harassment training— Professional workplace and sexual harassment workplace policy is not within the purview of the Ethics Committee and that it does put a limit on the information that can be provided to legislators and legislative staff about ethics, which is very important.”
Alaska Legislature: JETH-260626-1300 ·
0:10
Kevin McCabe“Representative Galvin did the heavy lifting and Monica as well. I was just the arm candy, but I do appreciate the opportunity to help.”
Alaska Legislature: JETH-260626-1300 ·
0:41
Joyce Anderson“when I came on board as administrator in 2001, we were not charged with this particular training, and it came about during Jerry Anderson's time. I have always felt that adding this to the ethics training has reduced the ethics training which has limited then the information that is given to both legislators and staff.”
Alaska Legislature: JETH-260626-1300 ·
0:33
Kevin McCabe“I think it would be helpful instead of being adversarial— you know, if we put something out that says it's helpful in determining whether or not this meets our ethics statute, if you could provide the legislative purpose more than just your travel itinerary.”
Alaska Legislature: JETH-260626-1300 ·
0:24
Joyce Anderson“the bill, it went to the governor's desk. Governor's office and the governor did not sign it. So it became effective on the day, the last day that he didn't, that he would have had to sign it, which was on Wednesday, June 24th. Section 28 of the bill says this act takes effect immediately. And so it became effective on June 24th, which is also exciting.”
Alaska Legislature: JETH-260626-1300 ·
0:24
Elvi Gray-Jackson“Governor Dunleavy has made this personal. And he made it personal because it's affecting our kids who, who are hurting, Mr. Speaker and Mr. President. So I rise today with disappointment. I'm shocked, and yet somehow I'm inspired, um, following the beat of Senate Bill 41, a bill that will save lives in this state both now and for generations to come.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260619-1230