Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Clips from Alaska State LegislatureClear
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Neal Foster“5 Yea, 6 nay. So on a vote of 5 yea to 6 nay, Amendment Number 20 has not been adopted.”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 9, 2026 11:00am ·
0:54
Sara Hannan“without establishing RCA oversight, um, we don't have protection for our ratepayers in Alaska. And right now that federal oversight of FERC has a slightly different goal, and they As we heard from Mr. Stickel that— and I, and I believe Mr. Kissinger, the interstate actions are not regulated by the RCA. And I want to make sure that we have the opportunity for Alaskan ratepayers to participate in dockets and hearings and understand the costs that may roll into their utility costs.”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 9, 2026 11:00am ·
0:32
Calvin Schrage“This brings us back to where we were prior to that amendment, reenacts the status quo, and again provides additional protection for ratepayers from unnecessary costs being passed on to them, and I think it's a step in the right direction.”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 9, 2026 11:00am ·
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Calvin Schrage“Amendment 21 repeals the existing statute that prohibits the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, also known as the RCA, from regulating an LNG import facility which falls under federal jurisdiction. This amendment specifically places liquefied natural gas facilities under RCA jurisdiction.”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 9, 2026 11:00am ·
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Calvin Schrage“the RCA is there to protect ratepayers and make sure that the costs that are being passed on to ratepayers are justified and valid and necessary. And there is concern that an LNG import facility could have excessive costs that could ultimately be passed on to the ratepayer. And so that's where I've heard a desire to ensure that an import facility itself is covered under RCA jurisdiction to make sure that those costs associated with that facility are able to be evaluated and scrutinized by the RCA.”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 9, 2026 11:00am ·
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Calvin Schrage“My understanding is that there is a desire to continue to have RCA oversight over LNG sales through an import facility. You know, I think it's still envisioned that there could be imports at some point, and if that is the case, I've heard loudly from many stakeholders that they'd like to see those sales under RCA jurisdiction.”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 9, 2026 11:00am ·
0:45
Frank Tomaszewski“I believe now, right now, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulates the import facilities, and I think you may unknowingly or unwittingly add, by adding the RCA to regulate the import facility, I think What may end up happening is any cost involved with that import facility, any building of it, any maintenance of it, will be passed on to the customers through the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 9, 2026 11:00am ·
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“the River Beach Department shall take the recommendations for the board into consideration when setting rates for covered services. If the rate set by the department for a covered service drift significantly from the rate recommendation by the Board, the Commissioner shall notify the Board and the chair of each legislative committee having jurisdiction of health and social services in writing.”
Alaska Legislature: House Floor Session, 4/27/26, 10:30am ·
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“It costs more when our elders live in a nursing home as opposed to being able to stay in their own home. It is also more humane when they can stay in their own home. What this bill is all about is having a functioning home care workforce which is actually in the state's best financial interest.”
Alaska Legislature: House Floor Session, 4/27/26, 10:30am ·
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“35 Yeas, 5 nays. For the vote of 35 yeas to 5 nays, House Bill 96 has passed the body.”
Alaska Legislature: House Floor Session, 4/27/26, 10:30am ·
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“40 Yeas, 0 nays. With a vote of 40 yeas to 0 nays, House Bill 249 has passed the”
Alaska Legislature: House Floor Session, 4/27/26, 10:30am ·
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“The core provision of the bill ensures efficient use of public money, um, by minimizing administrative overhead. That's a good thing to do across state functions. It's certainly a good thing to do for long-term home care.”
Alaska Legislature: House Floor Session, 4/27/26, 10:30am ·
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Will Stapp“this amendment basically mirrors what we know to be the contract that Instar already has with the developer based on Instar's testimony. My reservation for this amendment is I just, I don't want to put, uh, this level of detail in state law. I mean, it makes me feel like I'm reaching in and trying to control contract terms”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 8, 2026 11:00am ·
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Sara Hannan“we are going to have two tranches or two streams of the mitigation or in this case it is the AVT once it's being executed and that being distributed out via the community assistance formula versus impact aid.”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 8, 2026 11:00am ·
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Neal Foster“I remove my objection. Seeing no further objection, Amendment Number 9 has been adopted.”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 8, 2026 11:00am ·
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Calvin Schrage“without that contract being signed, this is the only way that today any of us can go back to voters and a guarantee to them that they will not be paying a higher price of gas as a result of this project. Ideally, we'd have a signed contract. We would know definitively that Alaskans would not be paying more than $16 per MMBtu”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 8, 2026 11:00am ·
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Calvin Schrage“what it does do is it protects ratepayers from higher natural gas prices while not interfering with the viability of this project. And that is the goal, is to make sure that we are continuing to move towards a place where this project is economically viable and can has a real realistic chance of moving forward while ensuring that ratepayers are protected”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 8, 2026 11:00am ·
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Neal Foster“6 Yay, 5 nay. So on a vote of 6 yay to 5 nay, Amendment Number 14, as amended by Conceptual Amendments Number 1 and 2, has been adopted”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 8, 2026 11:00am ·
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Alyse Galvin“When we heard more information from Glenfarn and particularly John Sims from NSTAR, it kind of helped us better articulate to our constituents what they have been wanting to hear, and that is due to cost overruns or other things unknowns, we weren't able to put into on paper that sense of security”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance - June 8, 2026 11:00am ·
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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 ·
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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 ·
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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 ·
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Mike Dunleavy“we got about three weeks left in the session.”
Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update ·
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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 ·
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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 ·
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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 ·
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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 ·
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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 ·
0:21
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 ·
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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 ·
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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 ·
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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 ·
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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 ·
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John Sims“NStar's Hill Corp. Contract expires in 2033. We have needs for gas that start in 2031. So we need gas from someplace during that time. The electric utilities, their needs are before nstars.”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/1/26, 1:30pm ·
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Trish Baker“we have to make a decision third quarter this year of which way to go if there's going to be a gas pipeline, we don't need to import, but we need to know that because we're running out of Runway to have enough time time for an import facility to be built in time to meet our gas requirement.”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/1/26, 1:30pm ·
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John Sims“This contract expires in 2033 and we have to find a replacement for 162 million a day. And there's no one in the cooking that can provide that today.”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/1/26, 1:30pm ·
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John Sims“When you look at our arrears or the folks that haven't been able to pay their bills, compared to prior years, we have a $7 million balance compared to what used to be a $1 million balance. So they're already struggling, and that's without the price of gas going up.”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/1/26, 1:30pm ·
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Trish Baker“Our contract with Hilcorp expires first quarter of 2028. We source 40% of our gas from that contract. We're a little bit different because we source 60% of our gas requirement from our two thirds interest ownership in the Beluga river unit gas field. Because of our aggressive development of that field and a couple of banking agreements which I'm happy to explain, we have been able to extend extend our existing gas requirements into 2029.”
Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/1/26, 1:30pm ·