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.
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 ...
I want to underscore again using my State as an example, Alaska Native peoples as an example of why it is so imperative ...
But we also have things like batteries out there, things that we really don't want to have sitting out there.
But I will tell you, none of that is any good to a place like Alaska where the electricity is unaffordable and the servi...
But when it is our own systems that effectively hold them back, that is not fair to anybody.
We have a responsibility to support the sovereignty of tribal nations in energy development.
Fourteen percent, about 14 percent of households in Indian Country don't have electricity.
Thank you for the time.
Most Native communities in Alaska still are relying on diesel fuel and heating oil.