Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Clips from State of AlaskaClear
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“with today's action, we're officially reopening nearly half a million square miles. Wow. Of water around northwestern Hawaiian Islands, northern Mariana Islands, and America. American Samoa.”
President Trump Signs a Proclamation, Jun. 11, 2026 ·
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Grier Hopkins“The biggest impact we would see in terms of road usage would be our emergency medical services, our EMS services along the road. And that is something that we hear provide locally through our 5 fire service area contractors. We have a tax mill rate that covers almost the majority, almost the complete area of our Fairbanks North Star Borough plus the city of Fairbanks for those EMS services. And that's going to cover accidents along the highways and along the roads that is bound to happen when you're adding upwards of 1,000 trucks.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Grier Hopkins“We're currently paying between $24 and $26 per MCF here in Fairbanks, which comes out to mid-$3.50 or so equivalent for diesel, if I remember correctly, for our BTU basis.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Grier Hopkins“About 12 years ago, when the current route was selected, uh, the KPC and permitted, it was routed about 30 miles outside of, uh, what we'll call our city gate, our interior gas utility infrastructure. So we don't have any access to one molecule of gas off of this mainline without that spur line. And with only approximately 3,500 ratepayers to pay for that gas and to monetize, to pay the tariff for that spur line, it is essential that we would be seeing that a postage stamp rate across the whole gas line itself to pay for access for everybody along the rail belt who would be be able to get access to that natural gas.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Chris Noel“We really support the mitigation fund. And I do have concerns about the way SB 2001 is written.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Grier Hopkins“we here in the Fairbanks North Star Borough don't have road towers, but we have 103 different road service areas. So depending on where the developer and the contractors and the railroad agree to have an off— a pipe offload yard, it's going to be a big impact”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Suzanne LaFrance“The Anchorage Community Development Authority, ACDA, commissioned a report from economist Jonathan King who analyzed the fiscal impacts on the municipality. The analysis shows that providing services to workers and to their families will cost more than locally generated revenues can support.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Grier Hopkins“the— anywhere between the $180 million that was estimated 12 years ago and the $245 million that was put into the fiscal note instead of finance would be unaffordable for the community here.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Grier Hopkins“ensuring that we're able to get those impacts monetarily supported to be able to support our roads, our fire service areas, and the ancillary impacts is what's important. And so the— I don't— we were not able to exactly calculate what those impacts would be to our community. Because we're not able to say this is what, how many accidents we would have or what an estimate would be. But we are able to look at the, how we can handle our trash and solid waste disposals, which would increase substantially. We have an enterprise system here where we are, we pay for what you bring across our landfill waste stations.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Chris Noel“We know the impacts are going to be immediate. And I think as written, the— excuse me— the bill, you know, it looks as though revenue wouldn't flow until the, the ABT is flowing to the state, which could be up to 5,000 or 5 million units of throughput or 5 years, and those impacts are going to be immediate. And so I would encourage you in your deliberations working with Glenfarm, see this as this mitigation and impacts as an investment in the overall project, an investment in the state, an investment in municipalities so that we're better suited to meet the needs of the project when they occur, the impacts as they occur, fire and EMS service, road impacts, the demand for housing and healthcare, things like that.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Edna DeVries“The Borough Assembly has adopted a resolution that supports a volume tax, protects education funding— that's very important to us— by exempting the increased property values from new project infrastructure, ensures effective municipalities receive the associated tax revenue”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Chris Noel“We support the Fairbanks spur line for many of the reasons the mayor mentioned, the primary one being this would That spur line would provide our utility, Golden Valley Electric Association, better access to gas to offset their diesel— what is likely their highest cost of power, which would be their diesel generation. So we strongly support this, the Fairbanks spur line.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Jesse Kiehl“if we're talking about building the whole thing to have a viable project, why wouldn't the cost of a Fairbanks spur be spread across all purchasers of gas, including foreign LNG buyers?”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Grier Hopkins“That postage stamp rate language in the legislation also requires it to be approved by the RCA, making it— with acute conditions, making it a decision that is not, you know, your cost payer, cost— or cost cause or cost payer, because we're not directly causing the impact of this furlough. It was out of our control that it was created there.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Suzanne LaFrance“That's why we support the approach in this bill to provide a community impact fund as well as ADT revenue sharing on a per capita basis. Impact funds would help us prepare for increased service and housing demand. Revenue sharing would close the gap between our local tax revenues and the delivery of services.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Grier Hopkins“my understanding, which is exceedingly limited, is FERC deals with interstate gas transmission. This being an intrastate line, they would not be dealing with it, but I'm no expert in that route. During our conversations in developing this language, we only had to stop the necessary— only thought it necessary to deal with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Grier Hopkins“There was an estimate in House Finance, I believe, during the regular session that Ua Wai'a Consultant estimated that spurline tariff addition on top of the entire line would be a 2-cent increase. So we're looking at fractions of the the overall tariff.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Grier Hopkins“I would support that. I was looking at it from where I am, as my main concern is making sure we can get that, um, the most affordable gas to Alaskans.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Edna DeVries“However, we have concerns with proposal to redistribute tax revenues away from the jurisdictions directed impacted by the project infrastructure.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Suzanne LaFrance“Over the 9-year project period, New service costs would exceed revenues by tens of millions of dollars. Since we rely on property taxes, we don't get new tax revenues from an influx of people until new homes and commercial properties are built and added to our tax rolls, and that takes years. But there will be immediate pressure on public safety, emergency response, transportation systems, parks, and other municipal services.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Chris Noel“many of these are indirectly supported. We're a limited local government, so many of our critical services that our residents and visitors depend on are provided by local nonprofits with support, supplemental support from the borough. And so those include mission-critical fire and EMS services up and down the Parks Highway. Solid waste service is one of our responsibilities.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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Grier Hopkins“That language is currently in Senate Bill 2001 and has been agreed to between the Fairbanks North Star Borough and Glenfarm, the developer. We worked closely with them to come up with language that would not prohibit the project from moving forward, not create roadblocks, but at the same time be able to ensure that a spur line was going to get built.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 9:00am ·
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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 ·
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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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Mike Dunleavy“that enormous amount of gas would enable us to get incredibly low prices, relatively speaking here in state in Alaska, which would reduce, as opposed to what's happening in other parts of the country, reduce the cost of energy for Alaskans for the long term.”
Governor Dunleavy: Delivering for Alaskans: What's Next for AKLNG ·
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Mike Dunleavy“this project went last year from discussion. It's gone from concept to discussion to now execution. This is how far this project has gone in such a short period of time.”
Governor Dunleavy: Delivering for Alaskans: What's Next for AKLNG ·
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Mike Dunleavy“our first oil play was actually just out the window here in Cook inlet in the 1950s and 60s. And there was so much gas that that was one of the reasons why there was an LNG export concept that was developed, because you got to remember the rest of the United States was not exporting LNG at that time. We were trying to import and get as much lng, excuse me, gas as possible. In any event, in the late 60s, the port was developed and we were shipping LNG to Tokyo to Japan for 50 straight years uninterrupted.”
Governor Dunleavy: Delivering for Alaskans: What's Next for AKLNG ·
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Mike Dunleavy“we had one of the largest fertilizer plants also next to the LNG export plant, to just Monetize that enormous amount of gas that was there. Well, that gas is, that gas is diminishing rapidly.”
Governor Dunleavy: Delivering for Alaskans: What's Next for AKLNG ·
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Mike Dunleavy“one of the biggest projects amongst the many that are being represented here at this conference, of course, is our Alaska LNG project. This has been something that's been talked about for decades and decades and decades.”
Governor Dunleavy: Delivering for Alaskans: What's Next for AKLNG ·
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Mike Dunleavy“we're running out of gas in the very inlet in which we pioneered LNG export. Right out the window here, we're running out of gas.”
Governor Dunleavy: Delivering for Alaskans: What's Next for AKLNG ·
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“Julia is exactly the kind of leader Alaska needs now. She's the leader I want to stand by my side. I'm incredibly proud to have her willing to take this stand, not just with me, but for you. Without further ado, please join me in welcoming the next Lieutenant Governor of the State of Alaska, Julia Nelson.”
Facebook video: Begich-Hnilicka announcement ·
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“She cares deeply about rural Alaska, about Alaska Native communities. She cares whether young people can afford to stay here. And whether they can build a future.”
Facebook video: Begich-Hnilicka announcement ·