Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
John Sims
“So as has been publicly noticed, we are in the middle of an arbitration with HEX to try and get the gas that we expected from them.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“Information that we have since received from them is that they do not plan on starting their exploration or their production.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“Chugach Electric offered up the opportunity for us to do a similar exchange with them, uh, for about 1 BCF of gas.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“We have restarted conversations with Chugach again, and we are waiting back to hear their proposal on what they can do in this different timeframe.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“we had a certain expectation of gas deliveries from the Cook Inlet at the beginning of the year. One of those— I guess one of those groupings of volumes was from Bluecrest.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“We have not received any discretionary gas sales from HEX since July 26th. We are receiving 8 million a day from them, 8.1 million a day, which is their firm volumes. We were expecting more than that per what we viewed as our contract rights.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“we are working on an exchange agreement with Matanuska Electric.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“What we are trying to do contractually is they will give us 1.2 BCF in exchange for us sending that same volume back to them by March of 2028. So we're not receiving gas that we get to keep and just, you know, use for our customers.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“back in April when we spoke to a number of you down in Juneau, we were expecting gas to start flowing in our system by September 1st from Blue Crest, and we were expecting about 1 to 1.5 BCF of gas. We now know that's not possible for that September 1st delivery to start.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“the commission denied our initial petition for reconsideration— excuse me, our petition for, uh, determination of prudency.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“Is it full? Is CINGSA for right now? Representative Fields, through the chair, it is not. It is about maybe half. I don't know the exact number.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“If both Chugach Electric and MEA those exchange agreements actually come to fruition and we do that, we are still about a BCF short.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026