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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Kelvin Goode
“we're not planning to, to put a data center up here because what— when we put our submission in, it was all projects under the sun.”Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026
Kelvin Goode
“we didn't— we put all projects under the sun. We don't have a single project in hand, no proposal, no nothing for that land, no plans for that land.”Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026
Kelvin Goode
“the reason why I'm here is because of the proposed just under 20,000-acre parcel, or it's something that Ada put a request in.”Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026
Carter Cole
“They have a hard time answering your question, but I will tell you, they're great at giving you answers, but they could not— I had the same question. They were unable to answer my question.”Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026
Rachel Longacre
“We can hear you. Okay, great. So that is the process that we're in currently. The land has not transferred. We have a preliminary decision that is out for public notice, and that is where the public is able to weigh in.”Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026
Carter Cole
“it's not good the way it is for the public. I think they could do a much better way of how it comes out, but it's really the way I understood it, it's really up to the entity to ask DNR”Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026
Rachel Longacre
“DNR was approached by ADA to help find land that was suitable to fulfill their mission of creating development and economics. That is not DNR's mission, that is ADA's mission. We are the landholders, so they came to us and asked us for certain things that, you know, it was land within close proximity.”Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026
Kelvin Goode
“20,000 Acres is not small.”Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026
Kelvin Goode
“The public access trails that exist, there's no intention to touch them. And so we don't— that's one thing we don't want to do is tread on people's rights, tread on people's subsistence activities.”Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026
Kelvin Goode
“to answer your question about why we didn't, the land's technically not ADAs, right? And so we first have to come up with a development plan and with an application, and that's what triggers that process.”Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026
Kelvin Goode
“in the future, I think there were some lessons learned here for me personally. And in the future, I think that engagement ahead of time, soliciting feedback from council members, from the mayor, you know, that, that's something, something that we'll definitely do, right?”Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026
Kelvin Goode
“I know that there's the prospect of oil— of gravel, excuse me, gravel, a material for for that. And one of the other thoughts was that from ADA's perspective, with all of the development, you know, access to gravel, that's something that would be important for infrastructure.”Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026
Kelvin Goode
“When they're talking data center, we're looking at something the size of a Connex. We're not looking at anything larger than that. It's more micro scale.”Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 · Sep 10, 2026