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what you're experiencing today is really

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the future of sustainability for remote

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River communities

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and it's happening right here in the

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Yaak ik Alaska so I hope all of you are

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proud as we are of that fact

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Breanna dialogic Indian Arman the a

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geography mute the residents of in

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yogging are known for their cultural

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environmental and valued centered way of

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life since time immemorial

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our people survived by inventing or

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adapting to new technologies then

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refining them to the highest efficiency

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we perpetuate this way of life

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our River has supplied all of our salmon

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and food for centuries

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it's our only drinking water and it has

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a lot of power we're just a water people

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around the world there's over 700

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million people who live on grids that

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are powered by diesel fuel their retail

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cost of powers easily ten times what it

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would be in most grids in the US we've

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always come together to plan our future

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and the question has always been what

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kind of a place does the geography to be

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for our children to want to remain new

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that we want to draw power from the

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river but we absolutely cannot impact

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our fish because that is a first and

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foremost mode of survival

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starting it out with a conversation at

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the High School gymnasium from like I

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say the oldest elders to the youngest

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leaders to kids they needed to

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understand who we were and what we had

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to offer and we need to understand the

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same thing as I returned their attitude

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coming in here there's very much this is

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your home we're going to respect this

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and work here to help they work with our

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engineers they work with our barge

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captains energy developers experts in

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deploying all of this in rural Alaska

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and I attribute that to their success

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proof of concept proof this works in

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remote community the culmination of this

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Webjet project is this demonstration of

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this commercial device operating for a

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year through the summer and winter

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validating that we could generate

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meaningful amount of electricity and

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integrate it into the grid it's 24/7 365

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and it doesn't fluctuate

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it goes riff Jen to an underwater cable

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and comes up to here tie down to the

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communities grid and I cannot think of a

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better example of a community like Katie

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Hagen where the pride is palpable and

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they have a lot of things to be proud of

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this is just one of those things a lot

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of people have labeled us as a

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progressive community but we operate

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from indigenous values and we serve our

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people there's definitely an ownership

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it's you we owned this community so

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there's two very powerful things

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happening here when you when you're so

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invested you can't live elsewhere and

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then and you can change you can be the

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agent of change