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, specific set-asides for tribal interests.
But we also have things like batteries out there, things that we really don't want to have sitting out there.
But when it is our own systems that effectively hold them back, that is not fair to anybody.
Thank you.
We have a responsibility to support the sovereignty of tribal nations in energy development.
I want to underscore again using my State as an example, Alaska Native peoples as an example of why it is so imperative ...
Fourteen percent, about 14 percent of households in Indian Country don't have electricity.
Most Native communities in Alaska still are relying on diesel fuel and heating oil.
But I will tell you, none of that is any good to a place like Alaska where the electricity is unaffordable and the servi...
We are approaching April. This is the time of year we start hearing from our communities saying we have run out.
We should be working together to try to figure out how we can solve some of these problems...