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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.

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Mike Dunleavy

“if not, then, uh, you throw in the towel, and then we go to Plan B, right, for energy. What's Plan B? What's Plan B? Plan B is— Plan B is imports.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:22

Mike Dunleavy

“I and others are getting calls from folks not just in the state and not just in the country, but around the world. Future potential partners, our Asian partners, are wondering, do you guys really want this? Do you want this project?”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:16

Mike Dunleavy

“this would be the largest non-recourse funded project ever, ever in Alaska. We've proven we can do big projects.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:26

Mike Dunleavy

“Leadership gets together, they put together an ad hoc committee, they work through a couple of the issues, and then they agree to put it on the floor for a vote. I think you get a bill before noon if that were to happen.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:27

Mike Dunleavy

“35 In the House. A number in the Senate, so the vast majority of legislators want to get stuff done, wanna get something done for the people of Alaska, not just something, but something good. We can do it tomorrow. If people are seriously interested in getting something done, it could be done tomorrow.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:27

Mike Dunleavy

“Wasn't a perfect bill that came out, but it was a bill that was gonna work. This bill right now is not going to work.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:29

Mike Dunleavy

“I've heard throughout the last couple months, we're rushing this thing, it's too big, let's slow it down, from many of the same people that just in the Senate were introducing amendment after amendment after amendment that nobody ever saw. So that kind of doesn't make much sense.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:35

Mike Dunleavy

“the Glenn Farm was working with labor to negotiate an MOA. And the bill ends up going into law negotiating labor in, in the bill. And so, uh, I don't think that's something that is going to work. Um, and then there's a number of restrictions and triggers, uh, added to the bill.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:20

Mike Dunleavy

“we have a flurry of amendments on the floor that people wanna act on and vote on and try and understand in just a couple minutes. And that just simply doesn't work.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:22

Mike Dunleavy

“I wanna thank the House, and not only do I wanna thank the House, I wanna thank both parties in the House. That bill, I believe only 4 folks voted against it. It was beyond the supermajority”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:14

Mike Dunleavy

“this project could help with that and we wouldn't have to import gas. We could be self-sufficient for 60, 70 years.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:40

Mike Dunleavy

“I want to thank the House of Representatives, a body of 40 people that voted on what industry considers, observers consider, others consider to be a pretty good bill. What you would refer to as a clean bill. There wasn't Christmas tree'd with S corp or wasn't Christmas tree'd with this issue or that issue. Not a perfect bill, but no perfect— no, there's no perfect bill here I've seen, and I've been a senator and a governor, but this was a bill that would have really worked that the House did.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:17

Mike Dunleavy

“We're running out of gas. I mean, we've been warned for years, a couple decades, we're running out of gas. We had a cold winter in Fairbanks, record cold, number of days below zero, coldest January on record in Anchorage.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:25

Mike Dunleavy

“We didn't have the Russian War. We didn't have the Persian Gulf issue going on. We have that all here.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:29

Mike Dunleavy

“I don't see where the plan B is imports, which is absolutely, I think most people would say, is crazy, to be honest with you.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:10

Mike Dunleavy

“We don't know what the world's going to be like 5 years from now. I mean, it's a chaotic world. So we import gas. We import gas to our bases. I mean, think about what Russia thinks, China thinks.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:16

Mike Dunleavy

“You've got $200 trillion cubic feet of gas. The largest resource state in the country by far. And you're going to import gas because— finish the sentence.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:33

Mike Dunleavy

“You get a gas line with cheap gas at $4 or $5 a unit, It's for the people to turn their lights on, for the people to heat their homes, for the people to have businesses, for the people to enjoy and be able to stay here in Alaska. Maximum benefit for the people, not maximum revenue at any cost for the government.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:38

Mike Dunleavy

“The Constitution doesn't say maximize revenue for government. It says manage your resources for the maximum benefit of the people.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:13

Mike Dunleavy

“We just had a record cold winter. We're running out of gas. Our bases are running out of gas. The world is in chaos.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:18

Mike Dunleavy

“They just went through a flurry of amendments that no one ever saw before. They weren't there. Nobody ever saw them. And so I don't think it's a bill that works, to be honest with you.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:22

Mike Dunleavy

“We are this close to getting this right. We're this close to a massive project. We are this close to getting Alaskans gas. We are this close to just getting this project going. And I would say it would be a travesty if tomorrow one body or the other gavels out because they're basically telling Alaskans we're done with this.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:14

Mike Dunleavy

“here's a couple things that are wrong with the bill. We don't know exactly what the S-Corp language in this bill does. We don't know. It's gotta be unraveled and we gotta take a look at that.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:39

Mike Dunleavy

“the most, um, forward-leaning base in America protruding into the Arctic and the, and the Pacific with 200 trillion cubic feet of gas. They import gas from Canada to fuel their bases. I don't know, maybe it's just me, seems a little, little different, a little strange.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:18

Mike Dunleavy

“by doing this project, you get revenue. You get revenue, you get royalty, you get corporate tax, you get severance tax. As the representative said, what— this is basic math. Zero times zero is zero.”

Source · Jun 19, 2026

0:21

Speaker A

“this will support millions of dollars in annual harvest of bigeye tuna, swordfish, reef fish, and many other types of fish. It will protect small local fisheries and coastal communities that depend on their livelihoods.”

President Trump Signs a Proclamation, Jun. 11, 2026 · Jun 11, 2026

0:21

Speaker A

“with today's action, we're officially reopening nearly half a million square miles. Wow. Of water around northwestern Hawaiian Islands, northern Mariana Islands, and America. American Samoa.”

President Trump Signs a Proclamation, Jun. 11, 2026 · Jun 11, 2026

0:33

Speaker A

“it's my honor to be taking this action to lower seafood costs and generate millions and millions of dollars in new business for our great, really great fishermen, great people, by restoring commercial access to 3 areas of the Western Pacific Ocean. It's a large amount of space we're talking about that they were restricted. Other countries would use it, but our country couldn't use it.”

President Trump Signs a Proclamation, Jun. 11, 2026 · Jun 11, 2026

0:09

Speaker A

“They're taking it from your water and selling it in to the United States. That's right. The whole thing is just crazy.”

President Trump Signs a Proclamation, Jun. 11, 2026 · Jun 11, 2026

0:13

Speaker A

“there's a tremendous seafood deficit in trade. Imports are undercutting us left and right. But seafood is healthy—”

President Trump Signs a Proclamation, Jun. 11, 2026 · Jun 11, 2026

0:36

Speaker C

“American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands— we've got the Congresswoman here from Northern Marianas Islands— these are all American citizens. The— as Howard said, this is U.S. territorial waters, and they were closed to us and open to others, and that makes no sense.”

President Trump Signs a Proclamation, Jun. 11, 2026 · Jun 11, 2026

0:23

Speaker C

“this is an example again, putting America's first, America first, workers first, and really this country first. And so on behalf of Alaska, on behalf of all fishermen, And women, I want to thank you for what you're doing for this country, for the state of Alaska as well.”

President Trump Signs a Proclamation, Jun. 11, 2026 · Jun 11, 2026

0:24

Speaker A

“The United States fisheries are the best managed in the world, and this action is really about balancing, you know, the interests in U.S. exclusive economic zone. You can have both ocean protection under our laws as well as sustainable fishing. And that's what this is about.”

President Trump Signs a Proclamation, Jun. 11, 2026 · Jun 11, 2026

0:22

Speaker C

“Alaska provides 60% of the country's seafood. We're the state with halibut, salmon, king crab, you name it, comes from Alaska. Alaska's one— fishing in Alaska is one of the oldest industries in that entire state, employs thousands of individuals.”

President Trump Signs a Proclamation, Jun. 11, 2026 · Jun 11, 2026

0:43

Speaker C

“the proclamation today, and the executive order last year prior to this is really going to help us. We have 3,000 families that work with us and 715 fishing families, lower 48 and Oregon, Washington, California, and Alaska, that depend on what we catch, what we process, and what we grow and sell is the healthiest protein on the planet.”

President Trump Signs a Proclamation, Jun. 11, 2026 · Jun 11, 2026