Supreme Court Hears John Sturgeon's Case Today
We just learned today of the passing of our longtime friend: Arlon Tussing (NGP Photo). We thank Dermot Cole for his thoughtful biography and offer a few comments of our own, here. -dh
Juneau Empire by James Brooks. The state’s budget crisis…
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Here is our position on what adults owe the coming generations. We mention it here, because all policies of oil producing U.S. States and Canadian Provinces revolve around energy production and consumption. …and, because we detest intergenerational enequity! -dh |
… isn’t a laughing matter, but a new group is trying to inject a little humor into the issue. For Our Alaska, which launched a Kickstarter fundraiser Monday, the goal is to reach younger Alaskans who might not initially care about arcane financial matters in Juneau.
The group is hoping to raise $10,000 to produce videos and a “Budget Balancing Game” to be distributed across the state. The project can be seen online at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouralaska/funding-alaska
Juneau Empire by Elizabeth Earl. With the annual lease sale approaching and the Alaska LNG Project proposed to enter Cook Inlet, some groups are asking what oil and gas development may do to beluga whale habitat in the inlet.
Today, our  Washington / Alaska friend, Joe Balash (NGP Photo) posted this very current Supreme Court report on his personal FB page, for which we are grateful: "Joe Balash. I didn't make it in until half way through the arguments …. the feedback I received, though, was that Matt Findley did a great job. Nearly the entire time was spent on the word "solely". When the NPS lawyer stepped up, it was pretty brutal. I think it is pretty clear that the court will strike the 9th Circuit's reasoning but it is unclear whether they will recognize any of the other arguments offered." |
ADN by Erica Martinson. (See our commentary and links posted yesterday.)
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case Wednesday questioning whether the federal government has authority over navigable waters in Alaska's national parks — a case brought by a moose hunter barred from using his hovercraft by the National Park Service.
The case is largely specific to Alaska, where the moose hunter in question — John Sturgeon (NGP Photo) — argues that a provision the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act gives authority to the state to set the rules for waters in national parks.
Sturgeon used his hovercraft on annual moose hunts in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve for more than 15 years before he was stopped by three National Park Service employees in 2007 and told ….
At one time (circa. 2001), we wrote this about Tussing:
Educator, author, lecturer & consultant: Arlon R. Tussing, PhD. is an economic and policy analyst in
the fields of energy, public utilities, the environment, natural resources, national and regional economic development, and corporate and government finance. You will see from his extensive bibliography that he is a prolific economic advisor, whose counsel–it may be easily presumed–has significantly affected history. Click here for the bibliography, which we asked him to prepare for our original Northern Gas Pipelines website. Send Northern Gas Pipelines a request here, for his resume and several important papers on northern gas pipeline issues.
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