House Committee on Natural Resources

Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

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 (Outside Experts)

• Mr. Nagruk Harcharek, President, Voice of the Arctic Inupiat, Anchorage, AK

• Ms. Deantha Skibinski, Executive Director, Alaska Miners Association, Anchorage, AK

• Mr. Dutch Kuyper, Vice President, Lands and Development, Cook Inlet Region, Inc.,

Anchorage, AK

• Mr. John Christensen Jr., Tribal President, Native Village of Port Heiden, Port Heiden,

AK (Minority witness)

Panel II (Outside Experts)

• Mr. Ethan Tyler, Senior Director, Public Policy and Lands, Aleut, Anchorage, AK

• Mr. Clark Penney, President, Penney Capital, Anchorage, AK

• Mr. Clarence Clark, Owner, Southeast Alaska Resources, Ketchikan, AK

• Mr. Philip Wight, Associate Professor of History and Arctic & Northern Studies,

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK (Minority witness)

Committee Notice and Documents:

https://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=418363

https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=118599