Governor Mike Dunleavy and U.S. Interior Doug Burgum spoke at the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference, touching on North Slope development, mineral resources, AI, and the Alaska LNG project.
ANCHORAGE , Alaska - Governor Mike Dunleavy and U.S. Interior Doug Burgum spoke at the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference, touching on North Slope development, mineral resources, AI, and the Alaska LNG project.
At the same time as the conference, legislators in Juneau were discussing an LNG pipeline bill, which Dunleavy said is necessary to the pipeline’s construction. With that top of mind for many meeting in Anchorage, Dunleavy and Burgum touched on the possibility of the pipeline.
“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,” Dunleavy said. After their keynote presentation at the conference, Burgum and Dunleavy weighed in on where Alaska LNG stands.
“As a former governor, it would be inappropriate for me to be trying to weigh in on politics that we’re in the middle of a session,” Burgum said. “But I do know generically that one of the things that happens, whether it’s at the local, township, borough, city commission, state legislature, and even at the federal level.
People act like a project is just going to happen, and so then we better spend a lot of time thinking about how do we divide up the winnings? ” Much of the conversation in the capital has surrounded property tax restructuring for an LNG pipeline project. Dunleavy, and the project developer, Glenfarne LLC, say such legislation is necessary to make the pipeline possible. On Tuesday, both Dunleavy and Burgum reiterated the need for such approval from the legislature.
“The key thing for when we’re competing with capital, it can go anywhere around the world,” Burgum said. “The key thing for Alaska is get the project, get the capital, get the thing built. ” Dunleavy called for a special session if the LNG bill doesn’t get passed saying it “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,’” Dunleavy said.
“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, play with the future of Alaska.
” Previously, Dunleavy told legislators he would pass a pension plan for state employees if the LNG legislation went through. The, saying it had “unresolved legal, tax, administrative, and fiscal issues. ” On Tuesday he emphasized that Alaska LNG is the priority.
“A pension can wait. And I’m not going to equate the value of these bills. There’s a lot of good people that support a DB, a defined benefit pension, and so forth. But it can wait,” Dunleavy said.
“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 going. They’re looking at Alaska.
” Burgum agreed with Governor Dunleavy saying current global headwinds support LNG project, but ongoing debate in Juneau “throws doubt versus trust into the negotiation” for potential buyers.
“This is a time where, man, just, wow, it’s like, you know, the ball is on the tee,” Burgum said. “You know, 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. ”Man killed in officer-involved shooting in east AnchorageWasilla men sentenced in illegal guide operation out of Kodiak, face prison, fines and worldwide hunting bansThe first king salmon hit Ship Creek on this day last year.
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