Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities

Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities

Trade is Transportation

Commissioner Marc LuikenOctober 6, 2011

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Get Alaska Moving through service and infrastructure

• Provide for the safe and efficient movement of goods and people• Provide access to state services• Provide access for the development of state resources

DOT&PF Mission

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• Port of Anchorage• Alaska International Airport System• Dalton Highway

Trade is Transportation

• 85% of all goods and services for Alaska enter through POA

• Containers shipped via road and ARRC

• Other goods broken down and delivered to villages by Alaska’s Air Carriers

Port of Anchorage

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Alaska International Airport System

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•Gateway for trade and commerce between North America and Asia

• ANC – ranked #5 airport in the world for cargo tonnage and #2 in the U.S. for landed cargo weight

•Airports are economic engines1 in 8 jobs in Anchorage attributable to ANC

•Aviation contributes $3.5 billion to State economy

• Strategic road to Alaska’s oil fields – the bank

• Supports 12,000 jobs on the North Slope; services Alaska and all of US

• 980 trucks supplying oil field support, equipment and services each week

• Alaska’s first major road to resources

Dalton Highway

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HB 110

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• The North Slope of Alaska remains a world-class energy basin, with more oil than any other Arctic nation

• There are 40 billion barrels of oil and 236 trillion cubic feet of natural gas on the North Slope and OCS

• There are tens of billions of barrels of heavy oil, shale oil and other unconventional resources

Alaska is relatively underexplored: 500 exploration wells on the North

Slope compared to Wyoming’s 19,000

North Slope Production

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Problem• Production is declining while

high prices are causing a boom around the world

• Higher taxes have chilled investment

• Alaska’s economy is fueled by a robust oil patch, however the pipeline currently runs two-thirds EMPTY

• Low through-put increases maintenance costs and threatens a shutdown

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Solution• Reform our oil taxes to be globally

competitive

• Provide tax credits for drilling in technically challenged fields

• Lower the tax rate for drilling new, untapped fields

• Cap taxes to encourage more immediate investment at higher oil prices

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• Umiat

• Ambler

• Klondike Highway

• Strategic Minerals

Roads to Resources

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