Ted Stevens: “Now, in a country of 25 million, you're trying to secure it with 135,000.”

Starting in the late 1980s, then-U.S. Senator Ted Stevens encouraged the community to actively explore and develop our first hydro facility.

They are not numbers. They were people, living, breathing, caring, loving people. And they're not anymore. And there is no rational explanation as to why not.

Thanks to the foresight of Senator Ted Stevens and his congressional colleagues in establishing the North Pacific Research Board in 1997.

I do believe that it is of such significance that we cannot turn away from it.