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Gary Stevens “by a vote of 43 yeas and 17 nays, the joint legislative session has overridden the governor's veto of CSRA House Bill 195 Finance.”

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Elvi Gray-Jackson “Alaska has the highest suicide rate in the nation. In many rural communities, suicide rates are nearly 4 times that average, the national average. Teaching our students how to recognize mental health challenges, seek help, and support one another is one of the most basic and meaningful steps we can take to address this crisis.”

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Gary Stevens “House Bill 52, relating to minors in psychiatric hospitals. Senate Bill 41, relating to mental health education.”

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Elvi Gray-Jackson “That is simply, simply not what SB 41 would do. The bill wouldn't create a state takeover of local classrooms.”

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Gary Stevens “38 Yeas, 22 nays. And so by a vote of 38 yeas and 22 nays, the joint legislative session has failed to override Senate Bill 41.”

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Gary Stevens “36 Yeas, 24 nays. Thank you. The joint legislative session has failed to override the governor's veto of House Bill 52.”

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Elvi Gray-Jackson “online blogs and commentators mischaracterized this bill, spreading claims that were not only false, but harmful. Those misunderstandings ultimately found their way into the governor's veto message as well. The governor claimed this bill would place the state in the role of imposing upon school districts and mandating development of mental health education.”

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Elvi Gray-Jackson “It didn't strip authority from local school boards. It didn't replace community values with one-size-fits-all mandate. In fact, it sought to provide communities with better tools to address a crisis that is impacting students in every corner of our state.”

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Elvi Gray-Jackson “our children are watching. They are watching. They are hoping that we hear their voices and understand their pleas for help. They're looking to us for leadership, compassion, and action.”

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Ken Alper “This would be, you know, once you do the weighted averages, probably the equivalent of a 2 or 3-cent AVT on the gas treatment plant. So it's less, if it's just about dollars. They would prefer more, obviously”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Ken Alper “underlying Amendment 10 is, is new to the bill, so it's not amending any existing sections... we're working within the governing statutes of the AGDC themselves that were established back in 2013 with, with House Bill 4, which gave them a lot of autonomy ability to have confidentiality in their contracting”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Calvin Schrage “it bifurcates the $80 million to a structure in which $40 million is readily available upfront and deposited in into the state's accounts to be able to administer these community impact payments. The additional $40 million that would add up to that $80 million is then available upon submission of basically proof of expense or proof of expected expense”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Ken Alper “changes the numbers slightly from a 12, 6, and 12, and that means 12 cents on the gas treatment plant, 6 on the pipeline, 12 on the LNG facility, into a 13, 6, 13. So it's a small increment above that. And again, this is a weighted average... roughly it would work out to a 10.5 to 11 cents, per my own math, the effective volumetric tax on the average molecule going through the system”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Neal Foster “I think it's a good effort to try to come to some kind of resolution with the North Slope, but I am persuaded by their argument that, you know, the resource comes from the region and they'd like to have more say over what they do within their region”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Andy Josephson “What this amendment does— just a little more background— there was a municipal group called the Municipal Advisory Group in the mid-teens. They negotiated with producers and I'm told had a— came to the conclusion that as much as $800 million was needed in community impact aid. The current version of the Senate resources bill cut that down to $200 million. In the House resources The amount was raised from $30 to $40 million”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Will Stapp “it takes the structure of volumetric tax, 12, 6, and 12, under the current pipeline and the gas treatment plant and the export facility, and it puts it in line with what's been discussed”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Ken Alper “the portion that would be attributed to the gas treatment plant would say 90% of that would be going specifically to the North Slope Borough where that's located, and 10%, a portion, would be retained by the state”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Ken Alper “from talking to him, and now I have secondhand knowledge, I don't think they're particularly thrilled, to be completely honest. They really wanted the autonomy to be able to negotiate their own way”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Calvin Schrage “I really appreciate the work that members have put into this bill. We've had many, many hearings, and it takes a lot of work. Obviously, there's been many disagreements along the way, but I'm proud of the work product that we're moving forward out of committee”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Calvin Schrage “I'm doing what I can to try and enable this project and give it a fighting chance while still protecting the state's interest. I think this amendment moves a significant way in that direction”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Neal Foster “on a vote of 11 yeas and 0 nays, House Bill 381, which is version 34-GH2038/T, moves out of committee as amended with individual recommendations and attached fiscal note”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Andy Josephson “I also think that— I understand that the Kenai Borough Mayor may be in the interest of having the project may be speaking in support, but I think there's an undercurrent of concern by him. Certainly there is with the North Slope Borough”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Will Stapp “it removes municipalities' ability to negotiate their own separate tax structure from the volumetric structure of the bill”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Alyse Galvin “it's tricky for us as legislators wanting to make sure that our fiduciary duty is being done when we can't get in there into every confidential conversation and deal up until a certain point... it was also enlightening for me to learn from AGDC, the work that they have pulled together to help us better understand how they are at the table as one of Alaska's arms”

Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026

Matthew Kissinger “pursuing the loan guarantees with the federal government, getting lower gas prices and addressing the property tax imbalance”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Matthew Kissinger “this is a marginal project, and we don't need more studies to tell us that. We know this is a marginal project simply by the fact that Despite our need for it, despite this enormous amount of gas, we so far haven't been able to get it done.”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Cathy Giessel “The Senate Resources Committee, since March 20th, had 36 hearings in less than 2 months on this”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Brett Watson “over the last 10 years, Pacific LNG prices, which is the market that we would be purchasing gas from, have ranged between about $5 to $15 per thousand cubic feet in what I would call sort of normal time periods.”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Peter Micciche “This is a condensed facility that will receive every borough service at a very large proportion to the neighboring neighbor, to the neighbor next door who's going to be paying $9,000. Okay, first bill is $2,000, quarter of what the neighbor's paying”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

John Sims “Because of the cold temperatures, NStar was short on gas. And so we reached out to Hilcorp and luckily they were able to deliver an additional half BCF of gas during the month of March. That came at a cost of $16 per MCF.”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Matthew Kissinger “even with relief, we'll still be sort of 5 times higher than LNG Canada in our property taxes”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Peter Micciche “please wrap up Phase 2 ASAP with Phase 1. That divorce has made us very nervous”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Brett Watson “In 2033, when all of NStar's contracts have expired,, we're probably facing around $15 per MCF gas.”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Matthew Kissinger “Cook Inlet gas resources are declining. We are getting to a point, as I believe Mr. Sims can agree, to where it's becoming quite critical, and we have to move the project forward”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Cathy Giessel “What if it stops with only Phase 1? We want a limit on how long the tax abatement the forgiveness, the elimination of those property taxes go”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

John Sims “Well, they didn't do 185 wells, they did 192 wells, and they've spent over $1.5 billion over that time frame, again, to make sure that Cook Inlet customers, both on the natural gas side, on the electric side, had energy.”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Cathy Giessel “right now Glenfarn is a limited liability corporation. That means they're a pass-through entity, which means they pay no corporate tax to the state of Alaska on their profits”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

John Sims “The biggest difference between no project and Phase 1 is really the volatility that you'll see on the LNG import market. So, you know, you can look at JKM futures and get sort of an indication as to what the market thinks they may be. But the reality is, when you look at those futures versus what they actually were, there's an enormous amount of volatility that happens on the LNG market”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Cathy Giessel “We were given the legislation for this project on March 20th. That's 2 and a half months ago”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

John Sims “Looking over a much shorter time frame from 2010 to 2026, you can see that that's dropped from about 350 million cubic feet a day down to right around 200 million a day. Again, how this relates to NSTAR in the wintertime when we need it the most, NSTAR's annual— or excuse me, daily peak is right around 320 for gas that we have to make sure that we have available to our customers.”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

John Sims “All of the green that represents the Hillcorp contract. So in 2033, that green is going away and we need to have another solution in place so that we can meet our customers' needs.”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Cathy Giessel “we looked at capping the price of gas to consumers. We looked at not allowing any cost overruns to be put on taxpayers, onto consumers, Alaska consumers”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Brett Watson “that yellow line is the trajectory for Phase 1 prices. Those start at $16 per MCF and would escalate by 2% or inflation per year, whatever's lower, um, uh, until Phase 2 is achieved, and that's that blue line where prices would drop to $5 and then escalate by 2% or inflation, whichever is lower.”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

John Sims “The predominant activity is from Hilcorp, which is one of the reasons why NStar is so concerned about them kind of slowing down production and moving their investments other— other places is because there's no one else in Cook Inlet that has the balance sheet to be drilling 192 wells over a 10-year period.”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

John Sims “What PRA said is that in order to meet demand starting in 2010 through 2020, up to 185 wells would need to be drilled over that timeframe. That requires an estimated $1.8 to $2.8 billion and would need about an average of 13.6 wells completed per year.”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Matthew Kissinger “we were sort of 10 times order of magnitude higher than any of these other jurisdictions”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

John Sims “The Hillcorp contract is down there at $8.36. There is an annual inflator, so it's not going to stay at that rate for the entirety of the contract. We expected about a 1.5% increase over the duration of that contract.”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

Brett Watson “estimates from NSTAR suggest that in addition to the purchasing the commodity on the spot market, we'd need to pay an additional dollar or so per MCF to ship that gas an additional $3 to $5 on top of that to build the infrastructure to receive that gas and regasify it from its LNG form. So kind of all-in costs from this no-project case represent gas prices somewhere in the neighborhood of $9 to $21.”

Taxes and the Alaska Gas Line: The Fiscal Questions Behind AK's Energy Future · Jun 9, 2026

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