Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Joe Balash
“this is before Willow's even come online, and Willow's a massive project. It's going to have really big rates. And, and so when, when that throughput starts coming online, you can see here at the end of the decade, we really start to move, move up the curve.”RDC_2026_10_01_1 · Oct 5, 2026
Joe Balash
“We've, we've come back up over 500 and look to be headed towards 600 in the very near future. And that's, that's a fantastic outcome.”RDC_2026_10_01_1 · Oct 5, 2026
Joe Balash
“What we've looked at is our 80,000 barrels a day from PICA is going to reduce the TAPS tariff by more than $1 per barrel. In the first 10 years.”RDC_2026_10_01_1 · Oct 5, 2026
Joe Balash
“Pica, of course, we started up continuous production earlier this year. I have not seen today's numbers, but yesterday we had gotten up over 70,000 barrels.”RDC_2026_10_01_1 · Oct 5, 2026
Jim Jansen
“We are now seeing forecasts in the range of 700,000 barrels per day by 2032. It could not have happened with ACES.”RDC_2026_10_01_1 · Oct 5, 2026
Joe Balash
“from the Treasury standpoint, it's about $35 million for every $1 difference in the, in the price realized.”RDC_2026_10_01_1 · Oct 5, 2026
Jim Jansen
“We have had 14 years of tax stability, which has reversed the production decline and brought us major production increases. You probably remember, as I do, when during ACES the concern was that when production fell to about 300,000 barrels per day, the pipeline would shut down.”RDC_2026_10_01_1 · Oct 5, 2026
Joe Balash
“Milne Point, thanks to Hilcorp, has gone from 18,000 up to 50,000 barrels per day. That's a remarkable comeback for a very mature field.”RDC_2026_10_01_1 · Oct 5, 2026
Joe Balash
“we saw ExxonMobil enter the bidding, which is a remarkable accomplishment or event, as it were. But it's reflective of the fact that, A, the rocks are attractive and, B, the investment climate is set at a way that is going to attract investment and attract capital.”RDC_2026_10_01_1 · Oct 5, 2026
Aaron Schutt
“We produce right now 500,000 barrels a day. In the United States, it's 12 million barrels a day. So we're not even 5% of US production.”RDC_2026_10_01_1 · Oct 5, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“It's one thing that Alaska needs to do is go in and build roads so that we can get access. 2,700 Mining claims along Ambler Road.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Treg Taylor
“Absolutely no. No, you can't tax your way to prosperity. Alaska families are already struggling. Alaska businesses are already struggling, and we can't further exacerbate that.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“You leaving oil in the ground because you want to keep jacking up taxes, as JKT supports raising oil taxes, that's not working for the maximum benefit of Alaskans.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Dave Bronson
“we're in a statewide hiring freeze, and we've been into this freeze for 14 or 15 months now, and the permitting office is grossly understaffed, and they can't keep up with the work.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Dave Bronson
“We gotta grow our way out through resource. And resource development. That's the only way out.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“I can tell you under this administration, if I have to go fight with the legislature to stop a Hill Corp tax, I'm gonna go fight with the legislature.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
“I think there is a little bit of a risk that the state has finite resources and we try to expend ourselves in every direction with every megaproject, and at the end of the day, we have nothing to show for it.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Connor Idukovich
“this event is being jointly co-hosted by 11 other organizations other than RDC. We decided to really collaborate on this event.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
“And the way the state of Alaska thinks about oil and gas taxes, corporate income tax is a key part of it, and I do think that parity needs to apply to all corporations.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“If I have to go fight with that legislature to stop an income tax, you sure as heck can bet I'm gonna go stop an income tax. A statewide sales tax? Yep, I'll go have that fight too. If you're not willing to go down there and fight for the values and principles, then quite frankly, need to go sit down in the back of the room. But I'll also point out that unlike our Democrat opponent up here, while we do support oil and gas, he signed a letter to Pelosi saying he didn't.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Treg Taylor
“Let's talk about the Ambler Road, for example. This is a perfect discussion point for this, what is maximum use, maximum benefit of the people.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Dave Bronson
“We'll certainly support the roads, roads to mines. That's a concept or a philosophy that we need to adhere to. So up to Whiskey Bravo, we certainly need West Susitna Access Road built.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
“I do not think the state of Alaska should be building grain silos in Valdez, for instance, which I think is kind of the example of the direction the state should not go.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Connor Idukovich
“today we're joined by the top 4 Alaska gubernatorial candidates. We have Treg Taylor, Jonathan Crease Tompkins, Dave Bronson, and Bernadette Wilson.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“But at least you didn't twist that as much as you did that 100% renewable letter that you signed to Pelosi.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
“there are tens of, if not hundreds of millions of dollars of federal money that have been forfeited because of the state's inability to run a STIP and work with the federal government and get that 9-to-1 match.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Treg Taylor
“the gravel used for that road along that roadway, the Ambler Road, should be given by the state without charge, right?”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Connor Idukovich
“Bernadette mentioned taxes, so the question is, would you support a targeted tax that applies to one single industry during your administration? Dave? I would not. Bernadette?”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“under our administration, we are going to implement a shot clock when it comes to permitting. This will affect, of course, across multiple industries. But from the time that you apply for that permit with the state of Alaska, that clock is going to start ticking and you are going to know unequivocally what your timeline is for when that permit is issued.”Vimeo video 1229047123 · Sep 21, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“having an opportunity for salmon, which are much stronger swimmers, to get out of the net before the net's brought on board. So those are required.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“this is what tries to keep salmon bycatch low throughout the season, no matter what the conditions are, no matter what salmon conditions are, salmon run conditions, no matter what pollock trends are.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Rick Whitbeck
“33% Of the people who said it should be banned had come around to a different side when we were done with explaining the things that Nicole talked about, salmon excluders and bycatch rates, the things that Luke talked about, CDQ investment”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“we have hard caps in this fishery. There's a hard cap that's annual. There's also a lower cap that the fisheries manage to, so it's a double cap system.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“pretty consistently about half of the Chinook bycatch is coming from coastal western Alaska... for chum salmon, it's pretty different. It averages about 15% of the chum are from western Alaska. The vast majority are hatchery fish from Russia and Asia. And that makes for a more difficult management problem because you're trying to reduce your impacts on western Alaska chum, but you don't care as much about Russian and Asian hatchery fish.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“So there's a genetic sampling program that's done annually. So you know where those fish came from or where they were destined to go. Was it Alaska or was it somewhere else?”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“this last point on the mobile lab, like, that was developed by industry, developed by Bristol Bay folks. It's a huge improvement in terms of being able to move people around when it makes sense. That was all an initiative from the Pollock industry.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“those fishing areas, when they do see those hotspots, are closed on a rolling basis throughout the whole season. So they're closed from 4 to 7 days depending on what the hotspot looks like, how big it is, what the numbers of salmon are.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“There's also a new genetic lab in Dutch Harbor. This is paid for primarily by the Bristol Bay CDQ Group, but now by other industry groups. They provide weekly genetic data on chum bycatch to identify whether the chum are from Alaska or whether they're from Russia, Asian hatcheries. And that really is helping people on the water know when to move.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“this is pretty important in understanding how the fishery works and why we can say things about habitat impact or bycatch impact or what's caught in the pollock fishery, and that's because there's 100% monitoring required by law. So we have transitioned, or the fisheries transitioned, in both the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska to electronic monitoring. So there's multiple cameras on every trip, every pollock trip.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“this movement toward electronic monitoring. That was a huge improvement that's fairly recent that allows you to do a better census of all fish, not just salmon. The industry I know is working on a chum excluder. The Chinook excluders are already required.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“Every single salmon is counted. It's a census of salmon. And then they do genetic sampling on those salmon. The salmon caught in the bycatch, as you might know, are Chinook and chum, not other species of salmon.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“You're gonna keep fishing. If it's Alaska chum, a bigger proponent of Alaska chum, then you close that area and move. So this is on the water in near real time, and it's probably the most important piece of the management system.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“salmon excluders are required. That's an excluder that you put on your gear, you put on your net... They're required in the Bering Sea. So that's supposed to let the pollock come into the net and be efficiently catching pollock.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026