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Mary Peltola: “Alaska is the size of a small country. We're very, very big…”

Featuring: Mary Peltola, Democratic | Former U.S. House Representative, Alaska At-Large

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Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola sits down for her first interview upon return to Capitol Hill

Published | Video Starts at 08:36

We've got a lot of extreme weather there, and this infusion of money is going to help Alaska make sure that we have storage capacity and transmission capacity, also allowing renewables to get into the grid in a much more efficient way. And again, Alaska is the size of a small country. We're very, very big. We're twice the size of Texas, three times the size of California. So we're traveling very long distances. And that's just on the rail belt. We call it the rail belt, where it's, you know, the road system and the railroad system, and it's just one section of Alaska, but that's where most of our population lives. (08:36–08:44)

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Asserts that Alaska is twice the size of Texas and three times the size of California.

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