And so here we are. We're suing the federal government for monetary damages for doing this. And at the same time, that lawsuit is going forward, We have Mary Peltola trying to take it off the table. She's trying to take hundreds of billions of dollars of opportunity to take that, to be rectified with the federal government because they're taking those preemptive actions and saying, no, we don't need that. We don't need that. Our people don't need that. Our people who are in poverty in that region who are a lot of Alaska natives don't need that. (25:23–25:37)
CLAIM
Asserts that Mary Peltola is attempting to remove the opportunity for Alaska to rectify the situation with the federal government.
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