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.
There shouldn't be any ambiguity to it. To us, that is legislative intent, and it is specified, so it should be easy.
I have found in some agencies... an unwillingness to speak the language of the tribes.
For far too long, we hear about these programs, we hear about the funding that we have put, outlined in legislation, in law with specific, s...
But when it is our own systems that effectively hold them back, that is not fair to anybody.
We are approaching April. This is the time of year we start hearing from our communities saying we have run out.
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...
Know that again what we want to do is get to a long-term solution to that program.
If you have greater resources, it would seem to me reasonable that this would certainly free that up. Would you not agree?
Fourteen percent, about 14 percent of households in Indian Country don't have electricity.
I want to underscore again using my State as an example, Alaska Native peoples as an example of why it is so imperative that we improve trib...
Thank you.
We have a responsibility to support the sovereignty of tribal nations in energy development.
But I will tell you, none of that is any good to a place like Alaska where the electricity is unaffordable and the service is unreliable.
Most Native communities in Alaska still are relying on diesel fuel and heating oil.
But we also have things like batteries out there, things that we really don't want to have sitting out there.
So you don't consider that outreach, do you?
