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

0:08

Bert Stedman

“if they need a concession, on a $45 billion project, what are they going to ask for when it's $70 billion?”

SFIN-260527-0900 · May 27, 2026

0:47

Lyman Hoffman

“we need to get the projected cost of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the actual cost, which has been, was substantially higher than doubled. From my recollection.”

SFIN-260527-0900 · May 27, 2026

0:37

Nicholas Fulford

“it is clear that one or more companies with a very significant balance sheet would have to enter the project with equity in order for it to get across the finish line.”

SFIN-260527-0900 · May 27, 2026

0:17

Nicholas Fulford

“once FID has taken on those 3 subunits, the state's 25% of the holding company may or may not have significant value.”

SFIN-260527-0900 · May 27, 2026

1:11

Nicholas Fulford

“unlike the Gulf Coast projects, which involve smaller capital investment but higher operating costs, for example, gas purchase and shipping, Alaska's quite the opposite. And although it's a gas project, it's almost easier to look at it as if it were a toll road or an airport or some kind of infrastructure project because most of the value for AKLNG is going to be in that midstream”

SFIN-260527-0900 · May 27, 2026

0:48

Nicholas Fulford

“with the current arrangement, it's not surprising, frankly, that there is some degree of concern over confidentiality, capital costs, and so forth.”

SFIN-260527-0900 · May 27, 2026

0:47

Bert Stedman

“ConocoPhillips, as I recall, was concerned that that could be a company-ending event if it was to go south. The project was so big.”

SFIN-260527-0900 · May 27, 2026

1:25

Speaker A

“Memorial Day is a solemn occasion dedicated to honoring the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces who made the ultimate sacrifice to service to our nation.”

2026 Memorial Day at Veterans Wall in Wasilla · May 27, 2026

0:10

Speaker B

“God bless our fallen heroes and their families. God bless our many veterans here today in the great state of Alaska.”

2026 Memorial Day at Veterans Wall in Wasilla · May 27, 2026

0:24

Speaker A

“I move that we introduce this ordinance set it for public hearing at the next regular assembly meeting and send it to the Finance Committee meeting, the June 3rd Finance Committee meeting for discussion. So this would still be on our June 8th regular meeting for public hearing, but we'd get an opportunity to chat about it next week.”

May 27, 2026 Special Assembly Meeting · May 27, 2026

0:21

Beth Weldon

“We may have inadvertently caused a double taxation that we just have to work with our our finance director and sales tax person to make sure that it's not what— I doubt that's what the intention of the assembly was, is to double tax something.”

May 27, 2026 Special Assembly Meeting · May 27, 2026

0:48

Zac Johnson

“I had a conversation with my kids and I told them, you know, the sad reality is the education you're getting this year is probably the best you'll get while you're while you're in school. It's only going to get worse. For me, the kind of final straw, or whatever you want to call it, was going down to Juneau last, last winter and here being told that until the state's congressional budget reserve is fully depleted, there's no appetite to really do anything to fix things.”

Kodiak Island Borough Assembly Regular Meeting of May 21, 2026 · May 21, 2026

0:33

Jared Griffin

“COVID money helped bridge those gaps for a few years, and as have federal grants for numerous years. COVID money is gone. Um, we voted in an executive branch in, in D.C. that eliminated those education— federal education grants that provided for a lot of the services our kids rely on.”

Kodiak Island Borough Assembly Regular Meeting of May 21, 2026 · May 21, 2026

0:21

Bo Whiteside

“move to amend Resolution Number FY 2027-01 for the amount to be made available to the Kodiak Island Borough School District from local sources for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 2027, is set at $13,779,556 for both in-kind services and direct appropriation.”

Kodiak Island Borough Assembly Regular Meeting of May 21, 2026 · May 21, 2026

0:24

Scott Smiley

“There seems to be a conception that we have some kind of authority over the budget of the school district. We don't. They have the authority over the school district's budget. That's their business to do. They have cut more than $2.7 million this year and $2.5 to $2.7 million for the year before that and the year before that.”

Kodiak Island Borough Assembly Regular Meeting of May 21, 2026 · May 21, 2026

1:05

Nicholas Fulford

“one of the advantages of the volumetric tax is that if you double the— or if you increase the capacity of the LNG project, you're also multiplying the AVT. Whereas you wouldn't be multiplying the property tax.”

House Finance, 5/26/26, 1:30pm · May 26, 2026

0:59

Nicholas Fulford

“from a fiscal stability point of view and, and being able to predict what's going to happen, you know, 5, 10, 20 years down the road, that's the other problem with property tax is that you don't really know what that tax is going to be. And as lenders and other people look at the project and they look at that degree of unpredictability, effectively they'll assign a risk to it and the cost of capital or the cost of debt will be higher and the project will be less competitive.”

House Finance, 5/26/26, 1:30pm · May 26, 2026

0:50

Nicholas Fulford

“if you took 12.5% as the going rate for LNG, With the 6-cent tax, AVT, Alaska would be profitable somewhere around the sort of $65, $70 a barrel. So really any price greater than $65 or $70 a barrel, Alaska would be in the money. Equally with the property tax, you can see that that shifts slightly to the left— sorry, to the right. And, and you're really in more of a sort of 70-75.”

House Finance, 5/26/26, 1:30pm · May 26, 2026

0:28

Sara Hannan

“one of the more common things I see through it, that chart, both from property tax and sales tax, is a 10-year abatement of taxes, not permanent or in perpetuity. So when—. Talk to me about how come in Alaska we're looking at longer abatement than that, or is 10 years work? And it —seems to work in Louisiana, Texas, and maybe Maryland.”

House Finance, 5/26/26, 1:30pm · May 26, 2026

1:08

Nicholas Fulford

“the one thing that you could probably do which would help that dialogue go forward is really what we're here discussing today, which is to put in place a more appropriate framework around property tax or whatever replaces it. Because undoubtedly what goes on in the legislature, you know, obviously it has a lot of interest from within the state, but, you know, some of these buyers who are looking at the project are also looking at what the legislature is doing.”

House Finance, 5/26/26, 1:30pm · May 26, 2026

0:38

Nicholas Fulford

“the difference between those two scenarios is very material indeed. So, so it, it brings the question away from, you know, a kind of substantial improvement in project economics versus where you're at in terms of this penny, two pennies, whatever it is to get the project economic.”

House Finance, 5/26/26, 1:30pm · May 26, 2026

1:10

Nicholas Fulford

“Really relatively quickly, we ramp up to about a $600 million tax requirement. And as you look at these slides, the way I like to look at it always is in the effect that this has on delivered gas, because ultimately that's the kind of competitive framework you're looking at.”

House Finance, 5/26/26, 1:30pm · May 26, 2026

0:26

Nicholas Fulford

“if the main LNG project doesn't work, then a 42-inch line all the way down from the slope is a very, very expensive way of getting gas to South Central.”

House Finance, 5/26/26, 1:30pm · May 26, 2026

0:13

Nicholas Fulford

“alleviating the tax burden on the project for that first 10, 10 years or so is of far more importance than what you do after 10 years.”

House Finance, 5/26/26, 1:30pm · May 26, 2026

0:07

Speaker B

“First place goes to Christina Weber. Congratulations. And again, they're all three winners.”

Native Food Contest, Celebration 2024 | Sealaska Heritage · May 26, 2026

0:23

Speaker A

“We got together as a team, and I'll let my team introduce themselves here in a couple minutes. And we've already judged the seal oil and dry fish, and today we're in front of you to judge the seaweed.”

Native Food Contest, Celebration 2024 | Sealaska Heritage · May 26, 2026

0:09

Speaker A

“Sally Joseph, congratulations, you have gotten second place for our seaweed competition.”

Native Food Contest, Celebration 2024 | Sealaska Heritage · May 26, 2026

0:42

Speaker A

“each of us judges got a score sheet and we were able to score in 4 categories. We gave each category a 1 through 10. And so like for the seal oil, we judged it on freshness, on color, on taste, uh, And you know, with the dry fish, we looked at texture.”

Native Food Contest, Celebration 2024 | Sealaska Heritage · May 26, 2026

0:36

Speaker A

“let's get some extra nutrients in today and try some of our seaweed, which is high in fiber and wonderful magnesium and other great nutrients for our bodies.”

Native Food Contest, Celebration 2024 | Sealaska Heritage · May 26, 2026

0:34

Speaker B

“our traditional foods, even my father used to say that food should be respected like medicine. They're good for us. They're good for our soul. But they also bring us together as a people.”

Native Food Contest, Celebration 2024 | Sealaska Heritage · May 26, 2026

0:53

Speaker A

“For decades, these lands were protected under federal public land orders that helped safeguard important subsistence and wildlife areas. TCC warns that future management decisions could directly impact Alaska Native communities throughout the interior.”

TCC Weekly Episode 47 · May 18, 2026

0:04

Speaker B

“There will be 3— there'll be 3 readings of that, correct?”

Assembly Meeting · May 5, 2026

0:33

Debra Adams

“I agree that, um, one of the ways that we could, um, address the issue at this juncture is to cut it in half, but I would like to leave the door open to, to revisit that. And to explore our permanent fund. And, and how much money is in that fund and can we tap into some of it?”

5-6-2026 City Council Regular Meeting · May 7, 2026

0:25

Debra Adams

“looking at our numbers, um, the 6th grade class moving into 7th grade, there are 36 students, and, um, none of the classrooms at the high school can fit 36 students”

5-6-2026 City Council Regular Meeting · May 7, 2026