We joined Dan Fagan (NGP Photo-r) today on his radio show. Our segment, 
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) yesterday sent a letter to 
the Department of the Interior’s Acting Inspector General (IG) Mary Kendall to question her about discrepancies between her testimony before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and documents recently provided to the Committee that suggest she was involved in the process of producing the report that recommended a six-month drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico when she told the Subcommittee she was not.
ADN by Lisa Demer. A pro-development luncheon sponsored by Alaska business groups and featuring Gov. Sean Parnell among the speakers became a vehicle Tuesday to rally against the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency. … The event was built around the private property rights case of an Idaho couple, Michael and Chantell Sackett (NGP Photos). They won a 9-0 decision before the U.S. Supreme Court in 
March on a technical point. The ruling gives them the right to challenge in court a 2007 EPA decision designating their property as wetlands and blocking them from building a home on it. They are trying to work out a settlement. The Supreme Court didn’t rule on the bigger question of whether the EPA has the right to regulate their property as wetlands. “I think the EPA is the biggest bully” but other federal agencies overreach as well, Michael Sackett, who lost his excavation company during the long battle with the EPA, asserted before a big crowd at the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center. The couple got a standing ovation. (Other event photos below.)
Michael and Chantell Sackett with Tom Maloney
Senator Tom Wagoner and Heather Brakes
James Burling and John Sturgeon
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