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

Chris Rose

“unless there's some major gas discovery that none of us know about, can get online fast enough, I unfortunately don't think that we're going to see that kind of replacement.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Chris Rose

“the rail belt right now is still about 80% reliant on natural gas for making electricity, almost 100% for heat. And that's really a problem now that natural gas is in short supply. It's getting a lot more expensive. There's a world market for it.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Chris Rose

“one of the issues that the rail belt really faces is that it is not operating as an integrated grid.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Gwen Holdmann “It's actually really timely because last, last night we just inducted Diane into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame, and that was like a really, really, really cool event and a cool opportunity to share some, some stories about her.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Peter Asmus

“the community, only 70 people, a utility that serves only 70 people, everybody does basically everything, but they use their indigenous wisdom because that river is the salmon”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Peter Asmus

“we mentioned Kodiak Island. That's 99% renewable, and the reason they can get there, as Darren Scott describes, they have 3 layers of storage. First of all, they use hydro. A traditional hydro dam, then they have lithium-ion batteries, and then they have a flywheel”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Peter Asmus

“one person I was getting to is Diane Carpenter, who I believe, passed away, and so that's one person in the book where she was a last-minute addition. I think Gwen suggested it”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Chris Rose

“The problem we've had historically in the rail belt is we've had many utilities and many visions that don't always align.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Peter Asmus

“we discovered— and there are some definitional issues— that Alaska had more microgrids than any other state. In fact, basically everybody in Alaska gets their power from a microgrid.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Chris Rose

“We've got a Regulatory Commission of Alaska that also does not have a vision to execute. So we've got pieces, but they're kind of at misalignment.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Chris Rose

“we don't have a Department of Energy. We call ourselves an energy state, but Alaska doesn't have an energy division. We've got an Alaska Energy Authority that doesn't really have a lot of policymaking horsepower.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Donovan Russoniello

“really encourage folks to go and grab a copy of that book, whether physical or digital. It's, it's an amazing resource and there's a lot of really inspiring stories in there.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Gwen Holdmann “she came to Alaska, I think, in 1955 with her husband, who was a dentist. They moved out to the Bethel area and then to a little village called Stony River.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Gwen Holdmann “We've got 3 competing proposals for importing natural gas that utilities are spending lots and lots of time and dollars on, you know, looking at. And we need to kind of come together around like some consensus around these things instead of all going off on our own in our own direction.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Gwen Holdmann “I don't see any way that we can avoid that. I mean, I think long term we want to move away from our reliance on natural gas, but it would behoove us also to just have that as an option, but certainly for heating.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Gwen Holdmann “I find out she'd just written a book at like age 90. She just published a book. I ran to the local bookstore, got the only copy they had of it, read it all night.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Peter Asmus

“it's University of Alaska Press, which is actually University of Colorado Press. I guess it's a subset. So if you Google Alaska Microgrid Innovators, University of Alaska Press, that will also bring you up”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Peter Asmus

“I got a chance to go down and visit her in Alamos, spent a bunch of time with her and being able to hear directly from her some of those stories. And so that was pretty special to me”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Peter Asmus

“Well, you can go to Amazon, but it just officially came out last Thursday, actually. There's also an online version which actually has color photographs.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Peter Asmus

“this opportunity came up and actually it started— I met Gwen at a conference of some sort. And at the time, I was an analyst, had a global database on microgrids, and I think Gwen said something to the effect like, "You don't have enough Alaska microgrids in your data,"”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Chris Rose

“I think it's very unlikely that the utilities that have relied on natural gas in the Southern Rail Belt are going to have any other opportunity to replace that natural gas but for importing it.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Gwen Holdmann “she was actually working on organizing all of her papers related to the rural electrification story. And one of the reasons why she had left that out of the book is because she always intended to tell that story separately.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Chris Rose

“A lot of these smaller utilities that were administered by people like Brad Reeve up at Kotzebue or Darren Scott at Kodiak Electric had boards of directors that shared a vision of where they wanted to take that utility”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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Weaver

“We had about a 17 to 23% voter turnout last election for city council and for other voter-delict officials in the, in the borough.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee Quarterly Meeting of Oct. 22, 2026 · Oct 23, 2026

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Weaver

“Mandate is you don't have to do anything at all. 80% Of people just didn't care enough to vote. I've often said Ketchikan will get the healthcare that it fights for. That's true. But tonight, with respect to the lease, Ketchikan will get the healthcare that it's voted for, or in our case, not voted for.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee Quarterly Meeting of Oct. 22, 2026 · Oct 23, 2026

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Weaver

“$44 million was actually transferred up from PeaceHealth to cover something, but they also have $40 million in shared services coverage on roughly $100 million to $110 million in total revenues. Seems like a lot. They have some positive patient operating margins, and yet total margins are negative. More red ink on Saving Rural Hospitals website than any other hospital, basically any other hospital in Alaska.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee Quarterly Meeting of Oct. 22, 2026 · Oct 23, 2026

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Weaver

“Accountability starts with each one of us. With you all. Of course, you accepted the challenge, but it relies also on the accountability of the citizens.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee Quarterly Meeting of Oct. 22, 2026 · Oct 23, 2026

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Weaver

“So tonight, I want the HAC board to remember Ketchikan citizens will be watching. We're hoping that you recall the feelings you had when you were kicked out of the Residents Meeting Elder Care.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee Quarterly Meeting of Oct. 22, 2026 · Oct 23, 2026

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Weaver

“There's a lot of red ink, millions of dollars in transfers. Kendall Sal was here. Thank you for attending, Kendall. But healthcare financing is complex.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee Quarterly Meeting of Oct. 22, 2026 · Oct 23, 2026

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Weaver

“I hope you recall the intent that you had when you formed this on behalf of the citizens of Ketchikan. But you can also remember 80% of them didn't vote.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee Quarterly Meeting of Oct. 22, 2026 · Oct 23, 2026

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James Danly

“This historic funding demonstrates the department's total commitment to tribal energy projects across the country, and even more directly, the total commitment that the department has to Alaska.”

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James Danly

“The $125 million grant funding that I just mentioned is really only the first in a series of steps that the Department of Energy plans to take to shore up as much of Alaska's energy system as possible.”

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James Danly

“What I ask for everybody is that as the Department of Energy makes available these funding opportunities, that you really do avail yourself of the Office of Indian Energy and the Office of Arctic Energy, both of whom will help you and guide you to the best possible opportunities that we have at the Department of Energy.”

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James Danly

“this historic investment is going to increase the reliability by paying for, for enhanced transmission distribution. It's going to produce more generation so that there's greater amounts of electrons on the grid. And it is also— and this is a critical thing that has never been done before to this scale— it's going to invest in energy workforce here in Alaska so that the 28,000 energy workers you already have are going to be plussed up so that Alaska can meet the energy challenges going into the future.”

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James Danly

“we really do want to partner with you. The easiest way to do that is to go to the website for the Office of Indian Energy. The contact information is there. If you have an idea, and even if it doesn't fit within whatever funding is announced at the time, we are absolutely clear-eyed on the fact that as a department, we will get you where you need to go within the department.”

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James Danly

“this is not the Department of Energy telling anybody what they're going to do. Instead, this is the Tribal authorities coming to us and asking us to fund their projects because you know your needs and wants far better than we can. The process by which these selections were made was on a solicitation basis, and it was so enthusiastically embraced that we actually had 10 times more requests for the funding than we had money to give out, which meant we were able to be very, very discriminating in determining just how we could get the most value per dollar spent, the most number of megawatts, the greatest reliability benefit.”

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James Danly

“This is the largest funding in the 20-year history of the Department of Indian Energy and the Department of Energy. It is— or the Office of Indian Energy. It is absolutely historic amount of investment that our department is making in tribal energy projects. This represents 63 different projects across the country. In 16 states, including Alaska.”

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Lisa Murkowski “We're going to hear some encouraging news from the Department of Energy with regards to grants.”

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James Danly

“we are here to help, and what we want to do is ensure affordable, reliable, secure energy for everyone, and we are absolutely dead set on ensuring that Alaska has the brightest possible future in affordable energy going forward.”

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James Danly

“the reason I'm here in part in Anchorage to announce this, is that Alaska is receiving about half of the total award money to strengthen the energy system of Alaska.”

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James Danly

“this, this would not be possible, this funding and all of the projects that we're building across the state, were it not for the efforts of Senator Murkowski, Senator Sullivan, Congressman Begich, and Governor Dunleavy. But most of all, we owe our thanks to Senator Murkowski, who from the time of the passage of EPAct 2005, that's the Energy Policy Act of 2005, that completely shifted the way The federal government does energy programs. She was instrumental in that and has been instrumental throughout the last two decades in keeping the lights on and driving thoughtful, deliberate energy policy.”

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James Danly

“Today I am announcing that we are issuing fundings for $125 million for tribal energy projects. $125 Million.”

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Dan Sullivan “In December, they finally relented and we got an extension for 5 more years and my bill signed into law.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Michael Heyman

“Here's one where we had an individual distributing narcotics in the Skagway area that resulted in death of two individuals. These, what we call death resulting cases, are particularly egregious”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Dan Sullivan “since day one, one of my first bills that I got passed into law was a brand new program for small disadvantaged communities in Alaska for water and sewer. And just a couple of months ago in the Water Resources Development Act, my bill got marked up as part of that bill. It's going to pass by the end of the year unanimously.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Michael Heyman

“within the last year and a half especially, it's been reinvigorated. There's been a number of tribal leaders, victim services, community leaders that have come together every couple of months, and what they've done is just within the last 2 weeks, they've put together over a 50-page report that talks about violence in our rural communities and how to use the Violence Against Women Act and special tribal criminal jurisdiction to address that issue.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Michael Heyman

“we have one that's been pending for a couple of years right now. That involves 69, 69 defendants, 69 individuals who have been charged for trafficking fentanyl to rural community, to our rural communities. Several of them have already pled guilty.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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Michael Heyman

“the reason for that is that the profit margin is so incredible for the drug traffickers to push this poison into our rural communities that they have a financial incentive to keep doing it no matter what the cost. And so we are on the front line. And like I mentioned, that one case that's ongoing with 69 defendants from a prison gang member in California that started this drug trafficking organization. And we will continue to do everything conceivable to stop that flow of fentanyl into our communities.”

Facebook video by Native Federation · Oct 23, 2026

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