The top of the Alaska Oil and Gasoline Conservation Fee, an company that oversees drilling and manufacturing in Alaska, is stepping down this week after three years on the job.
Jeremy Value stated in an interview on Wednesday that he plans to maneuver out of Alaska and be the general public relations supervisor for HF Sinclair at a refinery in Anacortes, Wash., the place Alaska North Slope crude oil is processed.
Value, who grew up in Alaska on a homestead outdoors Fairbanks, has labored for the late Rep. Don Younger and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, in addition to the American Petroleum Institute, an business commerce group, and the Alaska chapter of People for Prosperity, which has targeted on decreasing authorities regulation and different conservative points.
Value served as Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s deputy chief of workers till the governor nominated him in 2019 to serve on the fee. Value changed former commissioner Hollis French, whom the governor fired. Value was reappointed in 2021 to a six-year time period.
Value, who stated he earned $140,000 yearly on the fee, submitted his resignation letter to the governor on Sept. 12.
“Throughout my time on the fee, I targeted on updating and streamlining insurance policies, the place acceptable, modernizing AOGCC’s authorizing Statute, and being aware of business issues whereas nonetheless holding them accountable,” Value wrote within the one-page letter.
Value, 43, stated a one-year ban below Alaska ethics regulation designed to stop a former senior public officer from participating in lobbying in Alaska won’t be related in his new place as a result of he received’t be lobbying elected officers in Alaska.
“The explanation I made a decision to take the chance was as a result of it was a great alternative to concentrate on downstream (oil and gasoline) points, after I’ve been engaged on upstream points (on the fee),” he stated.
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