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

John Crowther “The state has an under-that-MOU ability to suggest, recommend how projects get on the dashboard. So if you're looking at a big project, a lot of timelines, a lot of federal opposition, take a close look at it. And, and I, I really mean on the back end, the state has the ability under the MOU to directly ask the specifics of the project, not when is this going to get done, 9 months, okay, we hope so.”

11-3-25 RDC Breakfast Forum - A Conversation with Alaska's Regulatory Agency Commissioners

Randy Bates “With President Trump, Administrator Zeldin, Regional Administrator Emma Pocan, Governor Dunleavy, this cabinet, and myself, this is the most opportune time that I've ever seen in Alaska. I've never seen the federal-state alignment the way it is.”

11-3-25 RDC Breakfast Forum - A Conversation with Alaska's Regulatory Agency Commissioners

Randy Bates “FAST-41 is a wonderful opportunity to align, expedite, and coordinate our permits.”

11-3-25 RDC Breakfast Forum - A Conversation with Alaska's Regulatory Agency Commissioners

John Crowther “That's really to open the door to the state participating, encouraging projects to get on the dashboard, and then participating with the federal agencies for those projects that are on the dashboard to ensure that the state voice is heard and that the timelines work for the state, for the project, and to get the work done.”

11-3-25 RDC Breakfast Forum - A Conversation with Alaska's Regulatory Agency Commissioners

Randy Bates “At DEC, we looked at this as a real opportunity for our agency to do a deep dive, a deep scrub, a scour of our regulations and see if we can't find a way to identify ways to improve the timeliness, the predictability, whether there's duplication, whether there's holes in our regulations.”

11-3-25 RDC Breakfast Forum - A Conversation with Alaska's Regulatory Agency Commissioners

John Crowther “We have some of our cycle times literally down to less than a week. We have some of them down to, you know, 32 days, and 30 of that is a public notice period.”

11-3-25 RDC Breakfast Forum - A Conversation with Alaska's Regulatory Agency Commissioners

John Crowther “It's an opportunity to revisit things wholesale and look at the whole record, you know, what's on there that's just kind of been on there for a long time and how do we reimagine it.”

11-3-25 RDC Breakfast Forum - A Conversation with Alaska's Regulatory Agency Commissioners

Randy Bates “I can guarantee you, between Deputy Commissioner Kieneman and myself, we will be looking at the comments that you submitted, seeing if there's ways we can improve our processes regulatorily through the administrative order.”

11-3-25 RDC Breakfast Forum - A Conversation with Alaska's Regulatory Agency Commissioners

John Crowther “The governor is intensely focused on permitting efficiency, on adopting new technology, being more adaptive, and keeping pace with the federal opportunity we have.”

11-3-25 RDC Breakfast Forum - A Conversation with Alaska's Regulatory Agency Commissioners

Denise Runge

“UAA has an apprenticeship program in early childhood education, and the way that that works is throughout Alaska primarily in rural and small areas, anyone who is employed in any capacity within the school can apply for the apprenticeship, and then they start taking online classes through UAA. Their on-the-job training happens inside the school that they're already employed in, and eventually they become a licensed teacher.”

RDC: 3-26-2026 Breakfast Forum: UAA on Building Alaska's Talent Pipeline

Denise Runge

“In many ways, the Native corporations and the tribes are the partners in this because they're helping to identify the students.”

RDC: 3-26-2026 Breakfast Forum: UAA on Building Alaska's Talent Pipeline

Gary Stevens “We are being asked to commit Alaska to a deal we cannot fully see. That's a problem. We need more project details from AGDC and Glenfarm to produce the best versions for the state.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Gary Stevens “We have not seen the bill. We don't know what's in it. We're anxious to see it. Of course, the problem is that this session, special session, ends on the 25th. So getting that bill on the 20th and getting through it by the 25th is very, very difficult, mainly because, as I've said, we don't know what's in it.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “we thought we did find a compromise with the last version that we passed and that he threatened to veto, even though Glen Farn originally said they supported it.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Gary Stevens “That's, to me, the biggest problem right now is the time to get it done. I honestly don't believe in 5 days we can do it.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Gary Stevens “The Senate majority is ready to evaluate the project further once we learn more from the producer, Glen Farn, and from the administration. They need to bring us the numbers this year.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “for DNR to sit there and the governor to, to dis— to do nothing while Blue Crest, which is, we believe, very productive field, large quantities of gas, is, uh, has really placed us in this unfortunate situation.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “Saying that we don't need anything, we don't need any property tax breaks, to we need a billion dollars in property tax breaks. Saying that yes, we're willing to pay our share of corporate income taxes, to which would be $466 million, to we don't want to pay a penny of corporate income taxes even if we're making $5 billion in profits.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “It's unprecedented. I mean, we've all been through a number of special sessions over the years. I can't ever remember a special session where we didn't have a bill on the first day.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “the fact that BlueCrest has what we believe to be several, probably a couple hundred billion cubic feet of gas, and that's very recoverable. And we need to hear from the Department of Natural Resources as to why they have let BlueCrest sit on those leases for a decade and not enforce the leases.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Gary Stevens “So we don't really know what's in that bill. We're anxious to see it. The governor has been very clear to me that he will present to us on the 20th.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Jeff Landfield “Why do— why does the state keep stringing along Hex, John Hendricks, and BlueCrest when they haven't produced— BlueCrest, no gas.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Gary Stevens “the governor has told me that he will be presenting us a bill on the 20th of August.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “HEX, it was unbelievably unfortunate that the state got leveraged, the state got put in a position where because HEX had overriding royalty interests of 12.5%, it made the projects undevelopable, Kitchen Lights undevelopable. And so the state agreed to massively cut our royalty share with really no protections for providing that to Alaskan consumers or anything else. So I would say really colossal mismanagement by the administration.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “The price has gone from initially $44, $45 billion to $55 billion to now the governor over the weekend said It could be as high as $65 to $70 billion.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “if DNR and the governor's office are allowing BlueCrest to sit on what we believe to be 300 billion cubic feet of gas, that is only hurting our situation this winter. If they're allowing— if they're blocking storage issues for this winter or not moving forward and helping storage issues, that is only going to make this situation worse.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “you're looking at at least 3, probably 4 days on a— if we wanted to rubber stamp a bill.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Jeff Landfield “Hex Hendrix has been getting 75% royalty reductions. I mean, these people have been around for a long time, and they're getting loans from ADA, and they're asking for loans, and they're asking the state for $100 million. Neither one have a rig. Hillcorp has demonstrated they've spent $1.5 billion in the inlet. They've spent billions on the North Slope.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Jeff Landfield “Why is Hilcorp not being asked to help us with this problem when they're the ones who have demonstrated they can solve this problem, they can address the problem in Cook Inlet?”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Gary Stevens “the Senate has passed two versions of legislation. Both of them give Glenfarm roughly $1 billion a year in tax breaks they asked for, and both have added protections for the state we thought needed to be there, including timeline insurances, liability safeguards, and project labor and apprenticeship guarantees. Governor, as you know, has declined to support either of those bills”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “The problem is the governor said he will deliver us the bill on the 20th and this special session is over on the 25th.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “the Dunleavy approach in Cook Inlet, a laissez-faire approach of just let industry do whatever they want with no oversight— I mean, BlueCrest is— and you raise a good example, Jeff. BlueCrest, that lease should have been taken away, in my opinion.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “if the plan is to get us a bill and then just expect us to rubber stamp it, that's not going to happen in the Senate.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “the last bill we passed We were all told by at least one member of the conference committee that Glenfarm had agreed to it. And that they were going to put out a press release saying they supported it. And then at the last minute, they changed their position on it.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “The $65, $70 billion number, quite frankly, is probably even low.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Gary Stevens “5 days is virtually impossible for us to get through all of the steps”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “We're not going to rubber stamp a bill that we've never seen, that we've never evaluated and have no idea what's in it at this point.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Bill Wielechowski “They control 90% of the leases. And I agree, Hilcorp, very capable. They're very able to do this. But the state, the DNR, has mismanaged the leases in Cook Inlet.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

Jamie Lopez

“4 years, 10,000 hours of field outreach experience, 3 years past, I've been doing it since exiting homelessness, spent all of my savings. And more or less what I've been watching play out is nobody will pay to do this sort of job. They're afraid of liability.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

Jamie Lopez

“basically yesterday, um, there was a report that was pushed through the assembly, by the mayor with little fanfare. And it was a report on AO 2025-74-S2, the anti-camping ban ordinance. And so more or less, um, it was done pretty quickly. It was done based on this dashboard, which is 123 arrests, 962 voluntarily complied, and 72 accepted services.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

Jamie Lopez

“When you attach outreach services to law enforcement, there are a number of people that are not going to accept it for the simple reason it's a barrier. They've been traumatized and they just won't take it. And then some do take it and then literally they're right back out on the street in short order.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

Jamie Lopez

“what they did not say on APD was that the 72 is a subset of 962.. And so if you do the math and you include the arrests and the subjects that voluntarily complied, total is 1,085. 72 Divided by 1,085, 6.6% acceptance rate of services. If you do the 72 divided by 962 exclusively, it's 7.5%. But it's effectively a failure.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

Thea Agnew-Bemben “when we're doing enforcement That is not like, that is not the first, that's not the first step in the process. The first step in the process is outreach and outreach is multidisciplinary outreach team. There's only one officer on that. Everybody else is a community partner from all different agencies, including the coalition and the health department.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

Thea Agnew-Bemben “the way that we do find people, is we have online reports which the community is giving us all the time, um, because I get emails every time somebody else reports. And so we're sharing that information every morning at 9:00 AM with that big outreach team.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

Thea Agnew-Bemben “At the Housing and Homelessness Committee meeting on the 19th, we'll be doing a kind of cross-department presentation around unsheltered homelessness and the work that municipality has been doing to address camping. So you'll see that was on the— there was an assembly information memo on this last meeting, but we'll actually be presenting that on the 19th.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

Jamie Lopez

“there's updated data in the presentation that was part of the assembly informational memorandum that was on the agenda, and that's what's going to be presented on the 19th... so yeah, it's this slide deck that was uploaded on Friday to OnBase, and, uh, 72 accepted services out of 890. Basically subtract the 72 from 962, and then I get 7.5 acceptance rate.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

Alison Muñoz

“Election Day is getting closer.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 59 · Aug 10, 2026

Melissa Skarbek “Those are some really pretty tough initiatives. So I'm glad to hear that we're so active. That's pretty wonderful, actually.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 · Aug 10, 2026

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