I have been asked to be the liaison to you to ask whether or not the Department would consider a more reasonable reporting time frame for tr...
One of the challenges that we have in Alaska, just as it is difficult to get things in, you have to fly barrels of fuel in at the end of win...
Speaking about refining the procedures, of course you are familiar with the, in Alaska, the tribal consortia, and how they really are able t...
So as you are working to advance this program, please understand that the reason they are allowing consortia in NTIA and through IHS is beca...
In Alaska, again, with small tribes, it is complicated, but most utilities are also small and simply can't afford the match.
We are lagging and a commercially available icebreaker is just going to be a gap-filler.
Let's visit on that because I'd also like to talk to you about the potential for the Ukrainian people that have come to Alaska, many of whom...
So when they hear me coming to them and saying, we have tribal energy programs, we have a way to help you, believe me, they are interested.
If we can resolve some of these things quickly to allow for these applications to be submitted, and again, to take advantage of this, that i...
Know that again what we want to do is get to a long-term solution to that program.
Alaska is really the first line of defense for our nation up there.
I have found in some agencies... an unwillingness to speak the language of the tribes.
Well, know that we're paying close attention to Coast Guard.
That is what these consortia are able to do. They are able to build capacity so that these many, many much smaller and much less advantaged ...
If you have greater resources, it would seem to me reasonable that this would certainly free that up. Would you not agree?
There shouldn't be any ambiguity to it. To us, that is legislative intent, and it is specified, so it should be easy.
But we also have things like batteries out there, things that we really don't want to have sitting out there.
