Alaska Governor Dunleavy Livestream

I'm really excited as always.

My friend, several days all over the state of Alaska trying to understand and help where you can and where the department can. As a result of what President Trump wants his administration to do for Alaska. In my opinion, we don't have a better partner than we do with Secretary Bergum. A number of things are happening here in Alaska. Pikka, Pikka oil field had its first oil.

It's going to ramp up here shortly, hopefully to 80,000 barrels. Glenfarm has signed milestone gas sales precedence agreements with ConocoPhillips. That was announced, I believe, yesterday. The state of Alaska signed an MOU with POSCO out of Korea on 6 Alaska research projects. Alaska and UAF signed an MOU with the National Laboratory of the Rockies on critical minerals and material supply chains.

And I'll be signing another MOU with our neighbors to the east in the Yukon, which we have a very good, positive, collaborative relationship on a whole host of areas here later on this afternoon. Alaska is entering into a period of unprecedented opportunity as a result of a number of issues. The Trump administration issued their executive order the first day in office. The assembling of a fantastic cabinet in which Secretary Bergum is kind of a— in my opinion— an indicator of where the Trump administration the administration wants to take this country. And it's all about opportunity for Alaska.

We have tremendous resource. We have an incredible location on the globe. A lot of things are happening in the world at this time. But Alaska is really being set up, I think, in a fantastic position to be successful, not just this year, next year, but if you look at the oil renaissance on the slope, You look at our large gas that we're on the verge of monetizing. You look at the fact that the international airport is now the number 1 cargo airport in the United States and the 3rd busiest in the world, and that is growing.

The Tongass National Forest, we've entered into a stewardship agreement with the Department of Agriculture Forestry Division to manage 300,000 acres in the Tongass. The list goes on. There'll be a couple more lease sales here over the next year or two up north. Just incredible opportunity that we're going to take advantage of for the people of Alaska. With that, I'd like to introduce Alaska's friend, my friend, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum.

Thanks for being here, Doug, as always. Good afternoon, everybody. I just wanted to make short remarks. I'm sure most of you had a chance to hear the governor and I on stage just recently here at the conference, but thank you to the press for being here. But I do want to say this is wrapping up another great trip to Alaska.

Arrived on Thursday, spent a couple days, both Friday and Saturday, up on the North Slope. And as the governor said, exciting times up there because we had a chance to be present at Pikka. I was embargoed until Sunday because of public trading, but to be there with the first oil happening on that project. And Willow, had a chance to see that project. One of the things that I would just say that is really impressive when we talk about Alaska and America doing it better, cleaner, safer, smarter than anywhere in the world, you don't have to go any farther than those new two projects.

Everything that's going on at Pitcairn is happening on a 20-acre pad. Multiple wells being driven off that single well pad. Some of them going out, you know, as far as 4 miles or longer, 4 to 5 miles. They're developing 20,000 acres of resource underground off of 20 acres of service disruption. A 1% service disruption would be 200 acres.

They're doing it in 1/10 of 1% of all the land. You know, compare this to solar, compare it to wind, compare it to whatever. The surface— the energy density and the surface occupation of the oil and gas industry exceeds every other industry by so far. I saw it happening in my own state. As the laterals got longer and the pads got smaller, the ratios just kept getting better and better.

And it's a credit to the high-tech industry called oil and gas where they're doing such a great job. So that was super impressive. Then we had an opportunity along the way, we did stop in Coldfoot and got out to what's going to be mile zero of the new Ambler Road. 1,700 Mining claims trapped back in a portion of the state which we know because of the incredible success of the Red Dog Mine just northwest of Ambler. But you know, there's an example there.

Red Dog I think started in 1979. '79 Or '80? '79 Maybe? Yeah, across the '70s. Yeah, so here you've got between, you know, NANA Corporation, so you've got an Alaska Native corporation Corporation working in conjunction with the private sector developing an incredible resource and doing a fantastic job of maintaining that balance in terms of a very small footprint relative to the scale of just that region, much less the whole state of Alaska, and then doing a fantastic job of managing wildlife and the environment.

So we just have example after example of Alaska where we can accomplish both. Responsible stewardship for the land and the wildlife, responsibility to the Alaskans that live here in terms of opportunities, and then economic prosperity that occurs when, not just for the people in that immediate area, but with the way the Alaska Permanent Fund, the way the corporations share revenue across the state. I mean, this is one state that is set up where develop resources, everybody in the state wins. So again, super exciting to seal that. Got to the AK Pass, another village, to hear and understand their concerns in terms of living next to a national park.

This morning I met with the King Cove folks down, those Native Alaskans that have been battling fighting for 50 years to get a 13-mile road built that would help save lives and improve their prosperity and economy. So they're making great progress on that. So it's fun to be tackling some of these issues that have been stuck for generations and now having the progress and then seeing the outpouring of support and enthusiasm and emotion from some of these Alaska Native communities who felt like the federal government had overreached decades and decades ago in terms of land use and regulation and trying to get back to the original intention and balance of the promises that were made. So that part has also been very exciting. We've done a lot more than that while we've been here, but that's just a few of the highlights I would share.

But the governor and I will stand for questions. But I would just say, which I shared out there, is I think the future for Alaska is incredible in terms of its position geographically in the world, in terms of the importance of its resources across oil and gas and critical minerals and the human resources that are here. It's just a fantastic thing. It's going to be— Alaska is going to play a really big role. In both American prosperity and world peace going forward.

It's a credit to the leadership of Governor Dunwoody and others that are here. Fun to be here to support him and the great work of all the folks in Alaska. I just want to add a couple of things. There's so many things they're doing. Up in Attitubic Pass, they had discussions with the people of Attitubic Pass and the leadership because of the proximity of Attitubic Pass to the park and restricted federal land.

That's one of the things that I think really goes unnoticed about this administration and the work that the Secretary does under President Trump. That's a reordering and reorganizing and getting back to what the relationship should be between the Park Service and the federal government with our native peoples. Their discussion that they had up in Attitubic, I think, is an example of that, as well as with King Cove Road, people down there in King Cove. I don't think we mentioned the $1.4 million 1.4 million acres, did we? We forgot about that.

1.4 Million acres transferred from the federal government to Alaska as part of our land conveyance going back to 1959. This is incredible, the amount of land that was transferred. This is all happening in how many years? Is this done? Is it even— 16 months.

It's absolutely incredible. It's breakneck speed and it's such a benefit to Alaska to have folks in Washington, starting with President Trump, Secretary of the Interior, but so much is going on and so much is going to continue to go on that I think it's going to boggle the mind as to what we could accomplish with our partnership with the feds. With that, where is Grant? Grant, I'm blinded by the sun here, but if you want to lead the conversation. We're going to start with questions over on this side.

If you can please say your name and your affiliation and who your question is directed toward. Thanks. Nath Herz with Northern Journal, which is a local outlet focused on the environment. For Secretary Burgum, you mentioned, I think, sort of the need to balance subsistence with development in Alaska. And I think, you know, there's good support on the North Slope locally for that balance.

But in particular, right now there's sort of active disagreement between your agency and not just the tribal government but the pro-development Native corporation in the village of Moikset over the lease sale and the management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve where your agency made areas available for leasing that you had all of those local entities in agreement should be protected protected. And so I'm wondering if you can speak to sort of why your agency has taken this position sort of in disagreement with the sort of consensus of that community.

Well, first of all, I would— having just met with the leadership of the community last night, I guess I would have some refinement of your premise, the premise in your hypothesis, because they are clearly pro-development. They are clearly pro-development. I think what they are looking for is that balance, and we had a really good discussion.

There is, as you know, and I'm sure reported on, legal action that's going between between several parties and the Department of Interior on that particular issue. So I'm in a position where I can't comment on something that's under active litigation in terms of the specifics, but I would just say we had a really good meeting last night. We had a good meeting that was not a negotiation around the legal thing. We agreed to meet and said we can't talk about, you know, this or that or all the different things and what happened and who did what. We could talk about But we can talk about what problem we're trying to solve and how do we work with that community because we absolutely support both their rights and the importance of subsistence hunting.

And I think for most Americans, they don't understand that many— we've got to come up with a different word. It's called food. I mean, it's not just like, oh, they want to hunt because they love hunting. No, this is a source of food. And it's not just— it is a historic and traditional way of life, but it is an important part.

I mean, some places it's 50% of what they're eating. We have to protect that resource and find that balance. But I'm very optimistic that we're going to find a resolution around that. And some of that is just making sure that we've got a good understanding between the parties. And maybe it'll get resolved in the courts, and maybe it'll get resolved outside of the courts and some of the stuff will just fall away.

But I know there's a— I know we can find a solution there.

Well, I think it's both directions. I think the where, because we're starting with a position where they support energy development because they know what it means in terms of jobs and the economy and infrastructure. And which, when I say infrastructure, I mean clinics, schools, hospitals. I mean, the greatest, you know, if you look at a map of the world and go, where in the last, you know, 20 or 30 years have we had the greatest expansion of lifespan? It's actually in the the north slope of Alaska.

I'm sure you've seen that. But it's because of infrastructure that has come in has allowed improvements in health that have been really dramatic. And so I'm on team human prosperity at the end of the day. And when we have more energy, we have more human prosperity around the world. And same in the U.S.

So they support energy development. We support subsistence is hunting. And I think we both understand each other's positions. And given that we believe that there's a pathway where those two things don't have to be in conflict with each other, even in this area that might currently be under dispute, I'm very confident we're going to be able to come up with a solution. Keep on this side.

Yareth Rosen from the Alaska Beacon. For Governor Dunleavy, I think the cat's already out of the bag, but you are going to call a special session on the gas line, can you elaborate? And also, Secretary Burgum, you seem to have a message for the legislature that might apply to the special session. Can you elaborate? My message was not specific.

I don't know the legislators and I don't want to get involved as governor. As a former governor, it would be inappropriate for me to be trying to weigh in on politics that where they're in the middle of a session. But I do know generically that one of the things that happens, you know, in— whether it's at the local township, borough, city commission, in state legislature, and even at the federal level, you know, people act like, you know, a project is going to happen, so then we better spend a lot of time thinking about how do we divide up the winnings. And the key thing for when we're competing with capital that can go anywhere around the world, the key thing for Alaska is get the project. Get the capital.

Get the thing built. And then once you get it built, I mean, any gas line that's been built in the world right now attracts all kinds of other things that come with it because there's so many things. And whether it's processing of of minerals. I mean, I just heard recently, I mean, there's, you know, if there's a mine that may get permitted, but if there's not enough energy here to do the refining, then what we would— we'd ship it out of Alaska on boat, ship it to the U.S., rail it to Ohio, and Ohio would do the processing. And that's cheaper than here because of high energy prices.

So it is like the opportunities to have things be homegrown are almost unlimited for Alaska if you have the source of energy. And right now in a state that interestingly with the declining amount of natural gas that's coming and people concerned about electric rates or whatever, to have this much gas in your state and not have everybody doing everything you possibly can to get that gas flowing and get it flowing to where the population centers are. 'Cause it's not just going to lower prices for the— between Fairbanks and the greater Palmer, Wasilla, whatever. What is it, 60, 70% of the population? Yeah, I mean, it's 500,000 people.

Yeah, so I mean, it's like everybody in that group should go, wow, we could have for our kids and our grandkids, everybody could have lower energy prices and everybody knows It's not the cheapest place in the world to live, Alaska. But man, if you could have some of the lowest energy prices, I mean, that's very cool to be able to do that. And then with that, if you have low energy prices, then as I said, the other thing, everybody's going to want to come. And whether it's advanced manufacturing, whether it's whatever it is, I mean, whether it's research. I mean, when you've got AI, AI equals, I said manufacturing intelligence.

But what are you going to do with that intelligence? Some of what you're going to do is research. Universities, the schools, the hospitals. I mean, it's like when it starts to become more broadly understood that AI doesn't raise your electric rates and AI can solve all your problems. And the more AI you have, the more you're gonna— the more it's intelligence for energy, energy for intelligence.

I mean, you think these things back and forth. But take— say that about anything. You know, intelligence for healthcare and then with better healthcare you get better lifespans. I just feel like it would be odd to have this debate again if there's a debate about dividing up the pie as opposed to let's bake 1,000 pies. Because that's the opportunity Alaska has.

Yeah, thanks, Mr. Secretary. So it has been one strange year. It really has. I mean, we've set records weather-wise, climate-wise, weather-wise I should say. Fairbanks experienced a record in which it had, I forget how many consecutive days below freezing.

Coldest January in Matsu and Anchorage. Cold March. If you look out here, we'd all agree this is a late, late spring. As a result of that, our limited gas supplies in cook in that were strained this year. NSTAR will tell you that.

We were almost getting on the verge of where we would have to call the bases again and say unplug things like coffee makers and copying machines. You can't run a forward-leaning fort called Alaska, at least from a national security perspective, defense perspective, when you're asking them to conserve energy like it's a 1970s oil embargo situation.

You have a problem growing in Alaska, but we have tremendous solution. And the tremendous solution is this gas line project, which has advanced further than anyone could have ever imagined. With the support of President Trump, with the support of his cabinet, uh, with, uh, the chaos caused by the Russian-Ukraine war, with the chaos caused by the Persian Gulf, Asian allies and others are looking for secure gas. Our oil is— the renaissance has taken off, but they're looking also for secure gas. Well, guess what?

We have trillions, uh, we have trillions and trillions of cubic feet of gas here in the state of Alaska. We know where the gas is. We don't have to drill for it anymore. We know where it is. We know how much we have.

We have the right-of-ways to this project. We have the permits to this project. We have backing by countless partners for this project. The people of Alaska— there's been polls, countless polls done. People of Alaska want this project.

Why? Well, predictions would show that in just a few short years you may be looking at a $5 MCF for gas, which translates somewhere in the neighborhood of 14 cents a kilowatt-hour. The RCA of Alaska just a week and a half ago announced a rate increase on the rail belt, I think of 10%, which may end up pushing Fairbanks— their kilowatt per hour closer to 40 cents a kilowatt. So, crazy winter, unbelievable opportunity. So what has been the reaction of leadership in the legislature to this point?

Nothing. And when I look for an alternative to the gas line, when I look for some major policy movement on the part of legislative leadership, I don't see anything. So the default The people of Alaska need to know this. The default, if something happens and this project doesn't move forward, which I believe it will, I think we're going to get something done here, I hope, in the next few days. But if it doesn't, it's importing gas.

Think about the irony of that. You're going to import gas into the state of Alaska, probably on foreign-flagged ships or coming from a different country. And that is not going to lower your energy costs, Alaska. That can't lower your energy cost. You're going to bring gas in on a ship to a place that has more gas than you can think of, with a project that's right in our grasp, that will produce thousands and thousands and thousands of jobs, that will lower the cost of energy, that will assure us energy for 50, 60— and with the drilling of oil on the slope, ancillary gas, you may be looking at 70 years.

And as the Secretary said, That doesn't even factor in all of the industry that could come to Alaska. Why do I say that? Because in the disruptions in the Persian Gulf, you're not just disrupting oil and gas. You're disrupting fertilizer. You're disrupting aluminum.

You're disrupting all kinds of petrochemical and fossil fuel-related industries. And there's the data farms. And there's cryptocurrency. The list goes on and on. And it's just waiting.

Everything is just waiting for power one decision in Juneau, Alaska, and that is a restructuring of our property tax, which is probably the highest in the country. You know, I've said to people, if you move Alaska from where it is today, way far north on the globe, where we're population-wise, we're the size of a county, way up on the top of the world. If you moved Alaska on the map down right next to Texas, you move New Mexico out of the way for a moment. We get the same interstates that Texas gets. We get the same material where material is made and material is shipped for these types of projects.

You have the labor there. You got everything there. But if we're right next to Texas and we don't change the property tax, we still lose investment to Texas. How's that, Don Levy? How do you lose investment to Texas?

Because this property tax is going to On a $50 billion project, at $20 million, it's going to be about $1 billion a year that has to be paid to the state by investors even before gas flows. So the key here, as the Secretary says, is get the gas flowing, solve those issues, and then those are— how do I word this? Alaska has issues and a problem related to this gas line that the rest of the country could only wish for with all the gas that we have. And the proximity of the age of the selling. So I would ask, and we're going to go into a special session, and that special session will go on as long as they need to come up with a decision.

I hope they do it sooner than later, but the people of Alaska are not going to tolerate us saying, "Well, you know, that's it, can't get it done," because this is a human issue. This is a human-made problem. This is not an act of God. This is a decision on the part of a handful of folks in Juneau who wish, for whatever reason I don't understand, to play with the future of Alaska. Excuse me?

Immediate. It's 1 hour after. You can't do it any later than 1 hour after adjournment. There will be a special session. That's correct.

Now, people have said to me, well, Dunleavy, We don't have the time. We don't have the time to do this. Well, last night there was time to shove a spay and neuter bill into an invasive species bill in finance. So Rome is burning and we're shoving a spay and neuter bill into an invasive species bill. There's a priority issue here that is out of alignment with what the people of Alaska need and want.

If you were to poll the 60 legislators down there, I guarantee you a majority, a large majority, want to get this thing taken care of because it's common sense. If you were to poll, and they have Alaskans, majority of Alaskans would like to have cheap gas, would like to have cheap electricity, would like to have a surety of energy, would like to have their kids stay in state and working in some of these industries, would like to have their grandkids here. A message has got to be sent to leadership in Juneau that enough of the games, stop playing the games, Let's get this thing going. Let's employ thousands of people. Let's solve our problems.

It's about solving problems. Great question. Last question here in the center. Hello, Governor Dunleavy. Joe Allgood, Alaska's News Source.

Hello, Secretary. I am curious on that note with the special session coming up, if there is a piece of legislation on the gas line and the property tax restructuring that you're talking about, is there any chance that you would consider a pension bill like the one that we saw last night that you vetoed in the future? The main focus— we should not be playing games with bills and subject matter being stuck into a gas line bill. The main purpose should be the gas line property tax changes occur so we can begin the execution of this gas line. A pension can wait.

And I'm not going to equate the value of these bills. Um, there's a lot of good people that, that, that support, uh, a DB, a defined benefit pension, and so forth. But it can wait. Our opportunity now— this is a window. You're not going to have the Persian Gulf in disarray.

You're not going to have the Russian war going on forever. And right now, as we speak, there are entities all over the world scrambling to find out where they're going to get their short, mid, and long-term gas from. They're looking at Alaska. I had an individual approach me up here in the conference room and said, boy, Governor, I hope you get this dealt with. Why?

Because we're really, really looking at Alaska. So what's my point? Get the gas line bill property tax change done, and we could talk about all these other bills and all of these other issues down in Juneau. But let's, let's get our priorities right. This is a massive, massive project, thousands of jobs and opportunity like we have never seen before.

Thank you. He jumped in. Look at that.

Well, I'm going to answer that question, okay? If we don't— if we can't solve our own issues as soon as possible, then I think it's incumbent upon me as a governor to have discussions with the federal government on what that might look like.

So let's see if we can solve our problems here in state, get this dealt with, but if not, I'm certainly going to open the conversation as to how we get this built because of the national security issues for our bases as well. You're taking 3 bites of the apple. I would just say on that, I mean, I know the way that this administration is operating on all the investments that are being made, which is that if it comes to that and there's going to be federal participation, there'll be an ask from the federal government about what's the state going to do. You know, the federal government is not going to throw a bunch of money in so that the state can have, you know, among the highest property taxes. I mean, it's not like we're going to subsidize that from another source.

I mean, that wouldn't be— that wouldn't make any sense to taxpayers. But I think, you know, the bottom— the question that, you know, the governor is asking appropriately is, you know, does the state want to have $50 billion of investment and tens of thousands of jobs and legacy project that's going to have a generational impact or not. And again, looking from the outside, the thing that's— again, staying out of the legislature and all the things legislatures have to deal with as a former governor, but just focusing on the national and strategic importance of this particular piece of infrastructure, the only piece of infrastructure that President Trump mentioned in his State of the State 15 months ago, this is the only one that made it into that State of the State. It's a signal to the world because it's not just people that are investing, not just people that are loaning the debt money, but it's also the people that are trying to—. He said people are looking for where they can buy the gas.

Countries like Japan where we've got 50,000 troops or South Korea where we've got 28,000 troops, They're going around the world right now going, who will sign a purchase agreement at X price for the next 10 to 20 years where we will guarantee we will buy this gas? And when they see something like last night, they're like, oh, maybe these guys aren't serious about actually building this pipeline. Throws doubt versus trust into the negotiation. And again, it's headwind versus tailwinds. And man, this is a time right now, as the governor described, with with the world events going on, this is a time where man, just wow, it's like the ball is on the tee, the wind is at your back, just hit it down the middle of the fairway as far as you can, and the prize is Alaska's.

I mean, there really isn't— there are very few infrastructure projects like this in the world. One of the only ways this is going to be a problem is if, as I said in my remarks earlier, is that Alaska somehow gets gets tangled up with itself because you've got the gas, you've got the demand, you've got the know-how, you've got the construction companies, you've got debt financing that was announced. I mean, this thing had got the permits done. I mean, you go around the world and go, name the other projects that would have a global impact on energy and geopolitics that have all their permits. I can't think of one.

You know, this is one of the last pieces that's in there. And again, this isn't costing anybody because if it's not built, then you can have a higher percentage of zero. Because if it's not built, there won't be property taxes, there won't be royalties, there won't be whatever. If it's built, you got the next 50 years to argue over, you know, how do you extract revenue out of it. So I'd say, yes, build it.

Build it and then you're going to see— they will come. You're going to see other industries that aren't even being discussed show up to get access to that gas. And protect the air bases and protect communities and have lower prices for every consumer in this region. So it's a—. Alaska's in a very enviable position right now and it's like, you know, grab that prize.

Make a decision. We all ran for office. We all knocked on people's doors. And we didn't give them a message of despair and lack of opportunity. We all, you know, shined ourselves up and said, hey, we want to be— we want your vote because we want to go to Juneau and do something good for you.

I can't think of anything better than this project, to be honest with you. What do you do now when you go back home in an election year? And you punted on this, or you dropped the ball, you knock on the door and say what? It was that guy's fault? It was that guy's fault?

I don't think the people of Alaska are going to go for it. People of Alaska are very tolerant with a lot of the political shenanigans that happen to the state. But when they're faced with the specter of turning their light on at 40 cents a kilowatt hour when it did not have to be that way, when they're faced with the specter of their kids going south, why? Because they're going to go a place with 14 cents a kilowatt electricity and unlimited job opportunities. We don't want to be the state that snatches the feet out of the jaws of victory.

And as we speak right now, they have an opportunity to make sure that doesn't happen.

Any other questions? Are we done? Thank you. Okay. I really appreciate the partnership we have with the Trump administration.

I really appreciate the personal relationship I and Alaska have with Secretary of the Interior Burke. People don't realize this, but the Secretary came up here during the bicentennial back in the '70s, '76, and he toured the state for 2 months. He was all over the place. He'll speak about it. What's that?

Hitchhike. Hitchhike. Well, you didn't hitchhike. OK. You're going to explain it here in just a minute. What's my point?

It's not like you're getting somebody out of New York City that read about Alaska. Not only was he here for months, he's been here for weeks since he got into office. As he said to me, "Mike, Alaska is 60% of our portfolio. You're going to hear a lot from us. We're going to do a lot of work." He's got his team here.

The team is up here when he's not here. It's just a tremendous gift what this administration has done. What Secretary Burgum has done. And again, it's not just oil and gas. It's human endeavors and dealing with folks such as our native folks and trying to make things right that didn't— that weren't made right over the years with regard to many of our communities in the state of Alaska.

So I couldn't wish for a better situation for Alaska. I couldn't wish for a better friend of Alaska than Secretary Burgum, and I'd like to give him an opportunity to close. Close this conference because we don't get this opportunity very much.

I'm just going to close with gratitude. First of all, thanks to the press for being here. Thanks for everybody that organized the conference. Thanks to Governor, you and your great staff. Thanks for your leadership.

Thanks for the partnership. And again, thanks to my team and all the team, the folks that are here from DOE, EPA, Interior. We got a great group of people all driving in the same direction. And I would like to say again, one of the things we talk about is Alaska for Alaskans. It's not just good for Alaska, this concept.

It's good for Alaskans. We always ask, is it good for Alaskans, is one thing we ask ourselves. And we know that whether it's reversing these things that have been stuck for 40 or 50 years or whether it's envisioning infrastructure that will pay dividends for generations to come in the future. That's one of the core things that we think about, and it's exciting. It's an honor to serve in this role, and it's an honor to— which we understand it's a great deal of responsibility, but want to make sure we get that balance of federal and state that was promised at statehood.

And that's why things like this land transfer to the state that happened this last week. People say, oh, isn't that really hot, 1.4 million acres? As a former governor, I would just say, as someone who grew up in a town of about 300 people that had gravel streets and one paved road through it, I have no qualms at all about transferring authority to the people in Alaska that are closest to the land, that have lived here for generations or millennia, because nobody takes better care of the air, the soil, the water, the wildlife than the people that live here, that live on the land, that understand the land. And so these long overdue transfers from the federal government to the state, or we did a land transfer between U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the corporation at King Cove.

I don't have to think twice about that because I know that if we're putting it in people's hands that live here, it's going to be in good hands. And the flip side, when I was governor, I never met anybody from DC that came to North Dakota that cared more about the land, the soil, the water, the wildlife than the people in North Dakota that have lived there for generations. So it's from personal experience that I support what's going on here. And there's just so many great people in Alaska that have done amazing things. So let's go Alaska, let's go Alaskans.

Thank you very much. That's it, guys. Thanks.