House Natural Resources Committee
Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
1324 Longworth
09/16/2025 at 10:15AM
On Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at 10:15 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold an oversight hearing titled “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential.”
Witnesses:
Panel I
- Nagruk Harcharek, President, Voice of the Arctic Inupiat, Anchorage, AK
- Deantha Skibinski, Executive Director, Alaska Miners Association, Anchorage, AK
- Dutch Kuyper, Vice President, Lands and Development, Cook Inlet Region, Inc., Anchorage, AK
- John Christensen Jr., Tribal President, Native Village of Port Heiden, Port Heiden, AK (Minority witness)
Panel II
- Ethan Tyler, Senior Director, Public Policy and Lands, Aleut, Anchorage, AK
- Clark Penney, President, Penney Capital, Anchorage, AK
- Clarence Clark, Owner, Southeast Alaska Resources, Ketchikan, AK
- Philip Wight, Associate Professor of History and Arctic & Northern Studies, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK (Minority witness)