Unalaska, AK – Leading up to Tuesday's election, KUCB is running interviews with the Senate candidates. Alexandra Gutierrez talked with Republican nominee about climate change, genetically modified salmon, and oil spill response efforts.

Here are a few highlights.

On a previous statement suggesting support for genetically modified salmon: "I think that that really is a misconstrued position, and in fact I may not have said that properly when I was interviewed on that question. My response is that I'm a science guy - I like good science. But absolutely, let me make this very, very abundantly clear: genetically engineered salmon that could escape, that could end up in natural waters, that could end up creating adverse impacts to our fisheries should be absolutely prohibited."

On Pebble Mine: "The development of the project, if it goes forward, cannot be with ill consequences. In other words, it can't hurt the fisheries."

On Sen. Lisa Murkowski's record on oil spill response legislation and the oil spill liability cap: "It surprised me that McAdams has not pushed that issue more. I, too, was absolutely shocked. It was Murkowski I think alone standing against that increase in the liability cap, and then you look at who's contributed to her campaign and you understand why she did it Now, I absolutely am resource development friendly, but if you think that I think that Alaskans should pick up the tab for bad resource development practices, think again. I mean that is just absolutely crazy that the American taxpayer or the Alaskans themselves should pay for the cost of a spill created by bad practices. Obviously, if the industry is out there developing an oil resource, and they do a spill or they make a spill by their bad practices, then they've got to pay for it. And they absolutely have to be in a position that they contain it."

On climate change: "There's been a real effort to cast current climate change as a consequence of man-made activity. We know that climate change occurs; I don't deny that. To sit back in your chair and say OK, well man has no impact,' well, that's not a real scientific approach. But also to sit up at the table and say that man is definitely causing this adverse impact to the environment - we know it, and therefore this is what we have to do' - is equally disingenuous. I think that what we have to do is, first, if we do believe that the climate change is ongoing now is not just climatic cycles like we've seen in the past that we better have science that backs it up."

On transparency: "I am a fighter. You know, I'm probably the most disclosed candidate that this state, maybe even the United States, has ever seen. You know, we now have my personnel file. You know I have more documents out there by far than the President of the United States has. So you know who you got."