Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Treg Taylor
“the reality of that is it's going to increase people's electric costs for probably 25% and people's gas costs up to, up to, 80%.”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026
Dave Bronson
“Well, we've been in this predicament before, back in 2011, 2012, and what did we do? We invited Hilcorp to come up and solve our problems for us. And they, with the legislature, created CINGSA, Cook Inlet Natural Gas Storage Area.”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
“DNR plays a key role in reviewing and approving those plans of development. Development for each of those producers, and DNR has been a major reason why Hex and Blue Crest are moving forward, and recent DNR action has really been a kick in the rear end for Blue Crest, and I think that's an appropriate role for state agency to play.”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
“Number one, making sure that we're getting the most out of the Cook Inlet Basin makes a tremendous amount of sense. Supporting producers like Hex with Kitchen Lights and Bluecrest with Cosmopolitan, and Hilcorp has an aggressive drilling program in Cook Inlet.”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“You don't have people lining up to want to do business. You can't say, well, we got to go to Hillcorp, we've got to go to Hex, and then turn around out the other side of your mouth and say, well, you're not doing your fair share.”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
“conserving natural gas for its highest and best use, which is heating, we don't really have an alternative, and aggressively diversifying in terms of how we generate electricity in order to conserve that very precious and finite natural gas resource, I think makes a lot of sense.”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026
Lori Townsend
“According to NStar, South Central heating customers may be 3 billion cubic feet short of gas heading into winter, equivalent to 18 days in the middle of winter. What actions would you prioritize now to address South Central's energy supply in the next 1 to 5 years?”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026
Treg Taylor
“Yeah, I think we need to immediately incentivize more expansion exploration and capital projects in the Cook Inlet. The gas is there, right? The problem for the producers is— and I know this because I kept getting letters from the legislature saying, enforce your contract with the producers out in the Cook Inlet, they're not drilling”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026
Treg Taylor
“So this isn't a— that's not a cheap fix. What we need to do is incentivize the Cook Inlet, think about doing some modular gas, LNG gas projects on the North Slope, shipping it down.”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“So we most certainly need to incentivize production in Cook Inlet. Yes. Whatever we can do to incentivize Hex, whatever we can do to incentivize Hillcorp.”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“We're talking about a shortage of natural gas and a high cost of energy. Yet as I look across the room tonight, I see several people that wanted to come after Hilcorp to increase their taxes. You don't exactly have a whole lot of people lining up to want to do business with you, Alaska. We've been a terrible business partner.”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“We don't have a reliable permitting process. Yeah, we need a gas line. How many people do you have lining up to build a gas line with you? Not a whole lot. Your legislature that some of you continue to vote for, not all of them, by the way, but some of them you continue to vote for, yet they continue to run a roadblock.”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“So we have to pay very close attention that when we complain and quite frankly bitch and moan about the gas shortage, who has brought this on? We've brought it upon ourselves and we have to change the outlook.”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026
Dave Bronson
“We're going to Hill Corp, we want to change their tax structure. They're an S corp and we want to trade them as a C corp. That's gonna cost them $80 or $100 million. I was in Houston, in the headquarters, talking to their leadership, and they says, "If you want to tax us more, that's fine. That's $80 or $100 million we're not gonna invest in operation on the North Slope or development in Cook Inlet.”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026
Dave Bronson
“We don't give them that, because every passing majority in the Legislature wants to change the rules and change the tax structure. We've gotta stop this kind of stuff.”REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum · Sep 23, 2026