Know that again what we want to do is get to a long-term solution to that program.
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 ...
I have found in some agencies... an unwillingness to speak the language of the tribes.
We are approaching April. This is the time of year we start hearing from our communities saying we have run out.
If you have greater resources, it would seem to me reasonable that this would certainly free that up. Would you not agre...
But when it is our own systems that effectively hold them back, that is not fair to anybody.
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.
We have a responsibility to support the sovereignty of tribal nations in energy development.
Thank you.
I want to underscore again using my State as an example, Alaska Native peoples as an example of why it is so imperative ...