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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Gary Stevens
“38 Yeas, 22 nays. And so by a vote of 38 yeas and 22 nays, the joint legislative session has failed to override Senate Bill 41.”Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260619-1230
Gary Stevens
“by a vote of 43 yeas and 17 nays, the joint legislative session has overridden the governor's veto of CSRA House Bill 195 Finance.”Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260619-1230
Elvi Gray-Jackson
“our children are watching. They are watching. They are hoping that we hear their voices and understand their pleas for help. They're looking to us for leadership, compassion, and action.”Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260619-1230
Elvi Gray-Jackson
“It didn't strip authority from local school boards. It didn't replace community values with one-size-fits-all mandate. In fact, it sought to provide communities with better tools to address a crisis that is impacting students in every corner of our state.”Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260619-1230
Elvi Gray-Jackson
“That is simply, simply not what SB 41 would do. The bill wouldn't create a state takeover of local classrooms.”Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260619-1230
Gary Stevens
“36 Yeas, 24 nays. Thank you. The joint legislative session has failed to override the governor's veto of House Bill 52.”Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260619-1230
Elvi Gray-Jackson
“online blogs and commentators mischaracterized this bill, spreading claims that were not only false, but harmful. Those misunderstandings ultimately found their way into the governor's veto message as well. The governor claimed this bill would place the state in the role of imposing upon school districts and mandating development of mental health education.”Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260619-1230
Elvi Gray-Jackson
“Governor Dunleavy has made this personal. And he made it personal because it's affecting our kids who, who are hurting, Mr. Speaker and Mr. President. So I rise today with disappointment. I'm shocked, and yet somehow I'm inspired, um, following the beat of Senate Bill 41, a bill that will save lives in this state both now and for generations to come.”Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260619-1230
Gary Stevens
“House Bill 52, relating to minors in psychiatric hospitals. Senate Bill 41, relating to mental health education.”Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260619-1230
Elvi Gray-Jackson
“Alaska has the highest suicide rate in the nation. In many rural communities, suicide rates are nearly 4 times that average, the national average. Teaching our students how to recognize mental health challenges, seek help, and support one another is one of the most basic and meaningful steps we can take to address this crisis.”Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260619-1230
Calvin Schrage
“I really appreciate the work that members have put into this bill. We've had many, many hearings, and it takes a lot of work. Obviously, there's been many disagreements along the way, but I'm proud of the work product that we're moving forward out of committee”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
Alyse Galvin
“it's tricky for us as legislators wanting to make sure that our fiduciary duty is being done when we can't get in there into every confidential conversation and deal up until a certain point... it was also enlightening for me to learn from AGDC, the work that they have pulled together to help us better understand how they are at the table as one of Alaska's arms”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
Neal Foster
“on a vote of 11 yeas and 0 nays, House Bill 381, which is version 34-GH2038/T, moves out of committee as amended with individual recommendations and attached fiscal note”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
Ken Alper
“the portion that would be attributed to the gas treatment plant would say 90% of that would be going specifically to the North Slope Borough where that's located, and 10%, a portion, would be retained by the state”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
Ken Alper
“changes the numbers slightly from a 12, 6, and 12, and that means 12 cents on the gas treatment plant, 6 on the pipeline, 12 on the LNG facility, into a 13, 6, 13. So it's a small increment above that. And again, this is a weighted average... roughly it would work out to a 10.5 to 11 cents, per my own math, the effective volumetric tax on the average molecule going through the system”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
Calvin Schrage
“it bifurcates the $80 million to a structure in which $40 million is readily available upfront and deposited in into the state's accounts to be able to administer these community impact payments. The additional $40 million that would add up to that $80 million is then available upon submission of basically proof of expense or proof of expected expense”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
Ken Alper
“from talking to him, and now I have secondhand knowledge, I don't think they're particularly thrilled, to be completely honest. They really wanted the autonomy to be able to negotiate their own way”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
Will Stapp
“it takes the structure of volumetric tax, 12, 6, and 12, under the current pipeline and the gas treatment plant and the export facility, and it puts it in line with what's been discussed”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
Ken Alper
“underlying Amendment 10 is, is new to the bill, so it's not amending any existing sections... we're working within the governing statutes of the AGDC themselves that were established back in 2013 with, with House Bill 4, which gave them a lot of autonomy ability to have confidentiality in their contracting”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
Calvin Schrage
“I'm doing what I can to try and enable this project and give it a fighting chance while still protecting the state's interest. I think this amendment moves a significant way in that direction”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
Ken Alper
“This would be, you know, once you do the weighted averages, probably the equivalent of a 2 or 3-cent AVT on the gas treatment plant. So it's less, if it's just about dollars. They would prefer more, obviously”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
Neal Foster
“I think it's a good effort to try to come to some kind of resolution with the North Slope, but I am persuaded by their argument that, you know, the resource comes from the region and they'd like to have more say over what they do within their region”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
Andy Josephson
“I also think that— I understand that the Kenai Borough Mayor may be in the interest of having the project may be speaking in support, but I think there's an undercurrent of concern by him. Certainly there is with the North Slope Borough”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
Will Stapp
“it removes municipalities' ability to negotiate their own separate tax structure from the volumetric structure of the bill”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
Andy Josephson
“What this amendment does— just a little more background— there was a municipal group called the Municipal Advisory Group in the mid-teens. They negotiated with producers and I'm told had a— came to the conclusion that as much as $800 million was needed in community impact aid. The current version of the Senate resources bill cut that down to $200 million. In the House resources The amount was raised from $30 to $40 million”Alaska Legislature: House Finance, 6/10/26, 11am · Jun 10, 2026
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 · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“it's my understanding it's anywhere between $9 and $12. But I'm not an expert on that. That's being worked on by folks that this is their business. But in state we would hope to get gas for half that or less than half that.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
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 · May 8, 2026
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 · May 8, 2026
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 · May 8, 2026
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 · May 8, 2026
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 · May 8, 2026
Mike Dunleavy
“we got about three weeks left in the session.”Governor Dunleavy: Press Conference: LNG Gas line Update · May 8, 2026
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 · May 8, 2026
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 · May 8, 2026
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 · May 8, 2026
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 · May 8, 2026
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 · May 8, 2026
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 · May 8, 2026
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 · May 8, 2026
Speaker A
“We were recently involved with reviewing the Vogel nuclear power plant down in Georgia. Units 3 and 4 that were completed a few years ago. That project, I believe, ended up at roughly $36 billion and took, I believe it was seven years longer than planned to complete.”Senate Finance, 6/2/26, 9am · Jun 2, 2026
Speaker A
“a Black Swan event is just something that is unplanned for as low probability, but high impact when it does occur. COVID 19 was a great example of a Black Swan event.”Senate Finance, 6/2/26, 9am · Jun 2, 2026
Speaker A
“Bent Flyberg is recognized as one of, if not the preeminent researcher of megaprojects. Through his research of Thousands of projects. He's found 92% of megaprojects are over budget, over schedule or both, which he has dubbed the Iron Law megaprojects.”Senate Finance, 6/2/26, 9am · Jun 2, 2026
Speaker A
“the most recent information I've heard is that it's imminent. I understand it's pushed from what was previously forecasted, but I believe it's still expected the first half of this year.”Senate Finance, 6/2/26, 9am · Jun 2, 2026
Bert Stedman
“As I recall that from those classes that we had years ago on a mega project, if, if you were only 20% or less overrun, that was a successful project.”Senate Finance, 6/2/26, 9am · Jun 2, 2026
Speaker A
“the pre FID status including gas sales precedent agreements, downstream letters of intent, pipe supply, preliminary agreements and engagement with EPCM and EPC contractors”Senate Finance, 6/2/26, 9am · Jun 2, 2026
