Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Alexi Painter
“the total AVT collection projected by DOR in that year is $124 million. The state would receive $15 million of that on behalf of the unorganized borough. The municipalities would receive $109 million of that. Most of that is going to the Kenai Peninsula Borough, $55 million, and the North Slope Borough, $40 million”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Peter Micciche
“We always knew that property tax discussions had to occur. Wish they'd started earlier. They didn't. That's water under the bridge. But the original governor's bill left us woefully short on the Kenai.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Peter Micciche
“Next door neighbors and all Nokiski taxpayers pay approximately 9 mills for their homes and businesses as partners and contributors to KPB services. The LNG liquefaction facility and marine terminal is expected to cost between $23.6 and $28.4 billion. At 9 mills, AKLNG would be paying between $212 and $215 million annually.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Alexi Painter
“AB 4359-030 provides the municipalities will directly collect the tax for the portion of the project property that's located in that municipality, weighted again by the capital costs.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Peter Micciche
“As partners in the industry willing to support gas and much-needed commerce for Alaskans, we can make that work. I can look my constituents in the eye and explain with a high level of confidence that it will cover our costs in spite of the inevitable surprises we will find going forward.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Peter Micciche
“As noted by Northern Economic Study, we're by far the most proportionally affected community on the project and the only community that will be living with this giant active facility in a small town and on our coast for the next half century.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Alexi Painter
“Alaska statutes currently provide the municipalities must contribute the lesser of 2.65 mills of real and personal property or 45% of prior year basic need to schools.. And this section exempts all the property that's getting the AVT or the moratorium— tax moratorium before the AVT kicks in from that required local contribution.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Alexi Painter
“it creates Chapter 59 in Title 43. And so the next few slides will use references within Section 18 because that's a very substantive section. So the new Chapter 4359.010 provides a tax abatement, so no taxes at all until the earlier of 500 MCF of daily average throughput for a 30-day period or 5 years after the commencement of commercial operations.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Alexi Painter
“The rate for the AVT is a blend of multiple rates, weighted by the capital expenditure weight of each category. So there's a 6 cents per MCF rate for the pipeline component. That's Phase 1. And then there is a 12-cent per MCF rate for the gas treatment plant and carbon capture facility component, which is part of Phase 2, and then a 12-cent per MCF tax component for the LNG plant.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Alexi Painter
“The tax rate grows theoretically with CPI each year, but it can't grow less than 1% or more than 2%. So very narrowly bounded within that after that first initial year. And the payments are made monthly like the oil and gas production tax, not annually like the existing property tax.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Peter Micciche
“At the 12 cents plus the community impact fund in the House version, the project will be paying in the low to mid-30% range of all other Nikiski taxpayers. Approximately a 70% reduction. That's okay. 90% Was too much. 70 Is in the ballpark.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Peter Micciche
“I currently have the statutory right under Title 29 to negotiate a deal. If you take that right away, please make sure you protect our community from harm.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Alexi Painter
“For Phase 2, your annual AVT revenue would be 8 cents times 500,000 times 365 plus 10 cents times 2.5 million times 365, and that's $107.3 million. And so that's roughly with that higher end cost estimate, that's a mill rate of about 1.97 mills.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Alexi Painter
“revenue begins in FY '31 with just the in-state portion, and then going as the export begins, this higher number.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Peter Micciche
“42.7% Of the value of this project will be located in the Kenai Peninsula Borough. 900 Acres, 3 liquefaction trains, 2 240,000 cubic meter storage tanks, terminal facilities, 2 berths in Cook Inlet, moving up to 2.5 BCF a day, which means a ship or 2 will always be present. This project will nearly double the population in Akiski for 4 years during construction.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Peter Micciche
“You have the choice in your hands between Alaskans like the folks on the Kenai holding the bag for 2 generations or enough in local taxes to provide for a healthy 30-plus-year partnership absent of local taxpayer subsidies.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Peter Micciche
“We have the lowest mill rate of any other 4356 community at approximately 9 mills.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Peter Micciche
“Through all that history and a mix of onshore large facility Title 29 and offshore and pipeline infrastructure 4356 property taxes, no one's ever discussed— began the discussion with a 90% reduction. That's okay. Things change, and every commercial situation has very different tax economic challenges.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Peter Micciche
“I'm here to fight for enough. Not for a lot, but for enough. I placed my hand on the Bible for 62,000 souls that call the Kenai home and to ensure that we receive enough so that senior citizens and families from Nikiski are not covering the cost or subsidizing a giant global project.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Peter Micciche
“We've collected the data on approximate cost for solid waste, general government, education, roads, fire, EMS, hospitals, recreation, regulatory, municipal tasks that are requirement of AKLNG's 49 CFR Part 192 and 193 permitting, um, U.S. Coast Guard Marine Terminal Response Plans. We know there will be capital cost training like fire and EMS equipment upgrades.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Peter Micciche
“It is nearly 9 times the footprint and 13 times the production capacity of similar projects the small community has experienced in the past. It's a large project. It will require the relocation of our highway since two-thirds of the facility footprint is located on the east side of the highway, one-third on the west side of the highway, the inlet side.”Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 10, 2026 1:30pm · Jun 10, 2026
Speaker B
“My $150 is we're willing to negotiate to a point where we cover our costs and it will be significantly shorter than the $8.5 mil structure.”House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026
Speaker G
“it's our responsibility as elected officials and you guys specifically as representatives that we look out for the best interests of all of our communities and that the resources that we have to deliver, whether they're to market or to our residents, are equally shared by us all.”House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026
Speaker G
“what the, the 2945 on the GTP would do, it would enable, um, uh, the buck stopping at the, uh, the producer, the state, and the North Slope Borough, um, at an administrative level. And I think that, that information sharing and understanding is important”House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026
Speaker B
“I suggested the AVT. I am probably one of the few people in the state that has sat at every side of these tables, um, the industry side, the muni side, and the legislative side. And I like the fact that we share in the benefits when things are going well and share in some of the risk when they're not.”House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026
Speaker G
“what I'm proposing is, versus fixing all the different variables at the tax structure level without the information from the inputs on how that tax structure looks, what I'm saying is I think it'd be more effective to allow that negotiation to happen between the borough and the producer”House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026
Speaker A
“it's possible that we could be bringing the Finance Committee, I think, back to Juneau for amendments.”House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026
Speaker B
“Under the current terms, we're getting a lot closer to being kept whole, depending on the things we know and the things we don't know about the impacts of this project.”House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026