Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
John Sims
“But from my perspective, and I think most producers would tell you this, it is no longer a viable basin. How do we know it's no longer viable? Because they have to designate it as critical infrastructure. They have to have, uh, dry well insurance. They have to have subsidies.”Alaska Legislature: Alaska Gasline Caucus, 8/6/26, 9am · Aug 6, 2026
John Sims
“Now, if deliveries come as expected from the Cook Inlet for the remainder of the year, we will be 1 BCF short, which means I'll need 6 days of gas in the middle of winter for folks. That is under normal weather conditions.”Alaska Legislature: Alaska Gasline Caucus, 8/6/26, 9am · Aug 6, 2026
John Sims
“It is urgent. We cannot delay it. And trust me, a pipeline or an LNG import, we cannot do it in time to get it here for this winter. We can't do it in time to get next winter and probably not even in 2029.”Alaska Legislature: Alaska Gasline Caucus, 8/6/26, 9am · Aug 6, 2026
John Sims
“So we're now telling the military, You need to plan on dual fuel.”Alaska Legislature: Alaska Gasline Caucus, 8/6/26, 9am · Aug 6, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“So where we are today is we do have a real gas crisis in Alaska. Unlike other states, we cannot wield in power.”Alaska Legislature: Alaska Gasline Caucus, 8/6/26, 9am · Aug 6, 2026
Tony Izzo
“We're seeing gas in the inlet, $16, $17 for what I would refer to as interruptible gas.”Alaska Legislature: Alaska Gasline Caucus, 8/6/26, 9am · Aug 6, 2026
John Sims
“There's planned $6.9 billion worth of investment in JBEHR here. Fantastic news. New buildings. New infrastructure, new people moving up, $6.9 billion worth to expand JBER.”Alaska Legislature: Alaska Gasline Caucus, 8/6/26, 9am · Aug 6, 2026
Tony Izzo
“It is not viable. I agree with Mr. Sims. It's not viable because there's no one's investing to develop it.”Alaska Legislature: Alaska Gasline Caucus, 8/6/26, 9am · Aug 6, 2026
Luke Sargey
“But make no mistake, and I'm sure that Mr. Sims will reference this, we are getting dangerously close to not having enough gas to go around. And I think the utilities will affirm that they are expecting shortages here in the near term.”Alaska Legislature: Alaska Gasline Caucus, 8/6/26, 9am · Aug 6, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“I would just encourage everyone to understand where we are with gas. It's real. The shortage is real.”Alaska Legislature: Alaska Gasline Caucus, 8/6/26, 9am · Aug 6, 2026
Suzanne Fleetgreen
“It's gentler language, whereas the House language really is what we had worked on that says you will— we are given giving both Department of War as well as Department of the Interior to access that 49 acres and transfer it to the Municipality of Anchorage. So it's much more direct in terms of what we want them to do.”Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026
Nolan Cloutier
“in the NDAA, both the Senate and the House version, the National Defense Authorization Act, that we have language in both bills that would convey land at the landfill, at the Anchorage landfill that's adjacent to landfill that we've actually been leasing from, um, Jaybear for a long time, that would be conveyed to the Municipality of Anchorage for the purposes of ultimately hosting a waste-to-energy plant.”Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026
Suzanne Fleetgreen
“As we're tracking these regulations, that we will fully engage with our congressional delegation.”Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026
Anna Brawley
“is there any known kind of litigation challenging any of this?”Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026
Anna Brawley
“what risk does Anchorage have in particular because of our challenging building? You know, are we going to get punished for trying but not seeing the volume that we would see in Columbus, Ohio, or in a city in Texas, or things like that?”Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026
Anna Brawley
“if you're, you have a challenging building environment, then it's, it could seem like punishing a municipality that isn't, you know, isn't doing enough”Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026
Nolan Cloutier
“if it does go with the Senate one, is that—. Are we anticipating, I guess, delays because there would be potentially studies or something, I guess?”Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026
Suzanne Fleetgreen
“But it's been great that Jay Baer is really helpful and supportive.”Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026
Suzanne Fleetgreen
“connecting with American Planning Association, National League of Cities, and these other organizations that are tracking. I know they have a lot of good resources too”Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026
Suzanne Fleetgreen
“The House passed its NDAA. The Senate has not. It's stuck right now. They have until the end of the year to pass it. So once the Senate passes its bill and they appoint conferees, we definitely will be engaging again with our delegation about the best approach to talk to the bill conferees to hopefully get the House version of that report language for the land transfer.”Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026
Suzanne Fleetgreen
“So it's about a 50-acre piece of land. There are some specifics to be worked out about the exact conditions of the transfer, but that's something we've been working on with Brownstein and our lobbyists, as well as with the offices of congressional delegation, and should have more updates on that soon.”Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026
Suzanne Fleetgreen
“The Senate language, and this is in the report, not the bill itself, but the Senate language instructs the Department of War to more sort of study, evaluate.”Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026
Suzanne Fleetgreen
“They are supportive of the transfer, so I don't think we will see delay there. It just— it helps to move it if Congress directs them to do something. So I can't— I don't anticipate that there would be a lot of delay. And given the project timeline as it is now, I think it will all work out fine. But we are still hoping for the House language.”Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting · Aug 6, 2026
Miles Smith
“All those in favor of adopting Ordinance 1240 As amended, please signify by saying aye.”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Miles Smith
“Can we call the people here? What is the timeline for the fence? It's out for RFP again. We didn't get an engineer.”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Miles Smith
“Talked about a few things. We are gonna— we have the new dumpster truck is finally here, or will finally be here Friday. And then we'll use residential.”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Miles Smith
“having to incorporate a fuel surcharge this year for the first time in the middle of the season and adding another percentage to a tax to a place that's already.”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Miles Smith
“Council Member Collins and I have talked a lot about food waste composting. If we could take food waste out of the waste stream, but it takes a lot of equipment. It takes rejiggering the whole waste collection system to do that”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Miles Smith
“Our sales tax, including surtaxes, is looking at about $250,000 less than where we were this time last year.”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Miles Smith
“The exclusion of watercraft— 14% on motor vehicle rentals excluding watercraft, and I'm thinking about Skiff rentals.”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Miles Smith
“The hook trucks, you know, I don't know how much trash you have, but you can take things to the baler for transfer, um, and then they get taken out in the hook truck. Nobody gets out in the truck. So we're trying to work through some of those things.”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Miles Smith
“could potentially have a detrimental impact on my business. I do understand that this tax is focused mainly on folks that are not locals in Cordova. Um, it is focused on excess, um, SIN items for this, the rest of the tax, and I will support this because I feel like at this point Cordova is desperately in need of a revenue increase. But I will say that, um, we cannot tax our way out of issues, and we need to stop taxing things and figure out a different way because businesses will not be able to function if people don't come because we price them out.”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Miles Smith
“I will say that I I don't think it's going to make a difference because I think that the rentals are not necessarily businesses renting skiffs to people. I think it's with a business license renting a skiff. I don't think that's what you're seeing.”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Miles Smith
“Yeah, we don't have the resources. We don't have officers that could hang out at the landfill, you know, or even take those trips out there.”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Miles Smith
“I, I will support this. I, I think it is definitely going to impact me personally, but I think for the good of Cordova, um, we do need to look for revenue, and this is This is a way that's not going to hurt the locals as much as a raise in the mill rate or a change in the base sales tax.”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Miles Smith
“But to actually get a permit from the state, just start shooting any— I don't know you're going to get that. Yeah, I wouldn't say very likely. Um, I mean, I can ask Charlotte to get an affirmative yes or no on that. Um, and I will say the bear that was dead out there was killed by another bear.”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Miles Smith
“Zero. So we put it out to contractors, we're notifying, um, places in Anchorage. We've talked to Kodiak to get better because they did a bear biz recently.”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Miles Smith
“So what are we going to do about it? Because it's a problem that the city has made. Now the city has to fix it.”Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026
Anna Brawley
“Seeing and hearing none, then this item is indefinitely postponed.”Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026
Daniel Volland
“we do not believe a small number of people should be able to leverage a large number of people by withholding entering into cooperative agreements.”Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026
Anna Brawley
“that can be— or that must be done by someone who is in the prevailing side. Because it was a no and Mr. Perez-Fría was a no, then that would be in order.”Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026
Anna Brawley
“Second. Okay, there's a motion to immediately reconsider by Mr. Perez-Fría, second by Mr. Volland. Do you want to speak to that, Mr. Perez-Fría? Uh, nope, I encourage a no vote.”Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026
Anna Brawley
“On a vote of 5 to 6, um, that, uh, AR 2026-182 S2 as amended has failed the body, or has failed to pass the body.”Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026
Daniel Volland
“Think about the politicized process that we are setting precedent for. I as a member can just make any accusation I want, and if I have a majority as my team and we're going after a minority member minority used in the sense of political minority.”Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026
Anna Brawley
“our neighborhood supports CASA, but I think in order to succeed and continue, it needs to be balanced and fair.”Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026
Daniel Volland
“you might want to consider including as a voting member of the advisory board a board member of one of the road service areas that provide access to the park, given their familiarity with road conditions.”Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026
Daniel Volland
“the underlying conflict that this is going to surface will not go away until we resolve it. And so whether this thing exists or not, that is what we're going to have to deal with.”Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 · Aug 5, 2026