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

Matt Kissinger

“if and when that happens, there is no payment obligation of the state back to Glenfarm. There is no payment obligation under that circumstance.”

Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 16, 2026 9:00am · Jun 16, 2026

0:37

Adam Prestidge

“if that ever did happen, Glenfarn would have no recourse, no ability or expectation or request to be reimbursed. We're doing this at our own risk. To underscore that, the proof of that, when Glenfarn was negotiating to come in to take on this project, there was a concept on the table that was an ADA backstop. And it was being considered a bit by the legislature. There was a bit of press about it where the concept was that ADA would provide a reimbursable or reimbursement guarantee of up to $50 million to cover the cost of engineering studies on the pipeline.”

Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 16, 2026 9:00am · Jun 16, 2026

0:39

Matt Kissinger

“The sunset provisions are contained through a web of sections, 21, 23, 26, 32, and 34. And these are, a lot of them are quite technical, but they really point to the department, the Commissioner of Revenue making the determination that Glenfarm have first met the requirements and so are subject to the AVT, and then later these sunset. Through these provisions. And they sunset on January 1, 2060. I would like to invite Mr. Prestidge to explain the requirement for that date”

Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 16, 2026 9:00am · Jun 16, 2026

0:33

Bert Stedman

“I'd like to have that data set or that data point analyzed by your guys' internal data and your own model because you guys have the inside information. You got better information than Revenue has and better information than the Frankly, the governor has.”

Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 16, 2026 9:00am · Jun 16, 2026

0:43

Bert Stedman

“what is the economic impact of this— concession being asked for on the pipeline itself, not the conditioning plant, not the liquefaction plant, but the pipeline, and how does it move the economic model and cash flows.”

Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 16, 2026 9:00am · Jun 16, 2026

0:16

Adam Prestidge

“Senator Simpson, we'd be happy to work on something and put something together. To answer that question. We work with Department of Revenue and also just independently as well.”

Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 16, 2026 9:00am · Jun 16, 2026

0:14

Adam Prestidge

“The 2060 is a timeline that sets out a few years for construction period followed by 30 years of operations and 30 years of debt service payments.”

Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 16, 2026 9:00am · Jun 16, 2026

0:40

Adam Prestidge

“Glenfarn is developing the Alaska LNG Project at our own risk and at our own expense. There's no request for the state to continue to put in additional development cash, and there is certainly no right or expectation for Glenfarn to be reimbursed for any of our development expenses by the state.”

Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 16, 2026 9:00am · Jun 16, 2026

0:40

Adam Prestidge

“if you had a shorter-term abatement in, you know, Texas or Louisiana, you'd factor in the cost burden on the project during that 10 years, which would be zero. And then for the remainder of the term, you'd calculate whatever the— whatever the region— whatever the jurisdictional tax is at that time. And the differentiation is those are not— those are not 20 mils in those jurisdictions, and so those are not so negative towards the project.”

Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 16, 2026 9:00am · Jun 16, 2026

0:25

Speaker A

“what doesn't make any sense was the claw, it started from the front and ripped back. It came out and jumped over top of my artery and vein, reinserted, and finished cutting around the back. Had it gone right through, I would have been dead probably in 15 seconds. And then I was on the ground. So I sat up right into the mouth of the bear and my entire head in its mouth.”

Shelley Hughes campaign: Lieutenant Governor Candidate Blake Gettys' Testimony and Story · Jun 15, 2026

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Speaker A

“I hear the, uh, a brown bear wolfed at me. And I turned, and the bear was on the other side of this stuff. I could see the toe profile, and it looked like a great big male. So I got squared up with it, got my arms up, and I just yelled, yelled at it so it knew I was human. And it paused And then it faced me, and then it came up off the ground on its hind legs, put its head back and gave a big roar.”

Shelley Hughes campaign: Lieutenant Governor Candidate Blake Gettys' Testimony and Story · Jun 15, 2026

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Speaker A

“The result of that being my left quadricep was severed down to the femur, my right fibula was fractured, significant wounds in my face, my nose was almost removed and hanging by the right nostril, and then other scars just throughout my body. I had to walk out of that with the help of my friend and was— made it to an ambulance and then was life-flighted from Central Peninsula Hospital up to Anchorage.”

Shelley Hughes campaign: Lieutenant Governor Candidate Blake Gettys' Testimony and Story · Jun 15, 2026

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Speaker A

“When I got home, so I came in the door, I said something to her and there was no response. And I carried groceries upstairs and I saw her, she was not conscious. She had passed out before and had other issues and I had revived her a few times in the previous couple years. And I worked on her for a while and and called 911.”

Shelley Hughes campaign: Lieutenant Governor Candidate Blake Gettys' Testimony and Story · Jun 15, 2026

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Speaker A

“My name is Blake Gettys. I've been in Alaska since '94. I separated from the active duty Air Force after 10 and a half years, and I knew if I ever got to Alaska, this is a place I would probably stay. And here I am 25 years later.”

Shelley Hughes campaign: Lieutenant Governor Candidate Blake Gettys' Testimony and Story · Jun 15, 2026

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Speaker A

“the fire actually kind of renewed my faith. That's essentially a rebirth in that I want to be a better man than I was in the past. I'm remarried and have a wonderful relationship. And not to dwell on things in the past that I can't change, but the wake-up of, look at everything that you still do have in front of you and do appreciate that. That was the catalyst for renewing my faith.”

Shelley Hughes campaign: Lieutenant Governor Candidate Blake Gettys' Testimony and Story · Jun 15, 2026

1:07

Speaker A

“he finally said, "Believe she's gone." One week later, then I had— my mom was in town and my friends were kind of surrounding me to keep an eye on me after Kathleen had passed and came down to the cabin to just get some quiet time. While we were down here, the Funny River Fire was getting closer and closer”

Shelley Hughes campaign: Lieutenant Governor Candidate Blake Gettys' Testimony and Story · Jun 15, 2026

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Speaker A

“At this point I'm thinking, it's gone and it's tough, but it was just one more loss.”

Shelley Hughes campaign: Lieutenant Governor Candidate Blake Gettys' Testimony and Story · Jun 15, 2026

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Speaker A

“I'm just thinking about Kathleen. I dated her from my sophomore year in high school all through my college years at the Air Force Academy, got married soon after. She was president of the Alaska Nurses Association. She had some work injuries that caused her health to deteriorate pretty rapidly, to the point that she didn't get out of the house much. Her blood pressure would drop all the time”

Shelley Hughes campaign: Lieutenant Governor Candidate Blake Gettys' Testimony and Story · Jun 15, 2026