Wall Street Journal by Cassandra Sweet and Jim Carlton.  In U.S. Energy Boom, Alaska Is Unlikely Loser.  former Dominant Oil Player Losing Out To Places Like North Dakota.


Note: The Resource Development Council for Alaska (RDC) urges our NGP readers in Anchorage to attend and testify at an EPA Public Hearing TOMORROW.  We and RDC believe that any project in Alaska should be vetted through existing permitting processes, and be properly evaluated through the National Environmental Policy Act.  Public testimony will be limited to two minutes per person, with tribal elders (i.e. Why not ALL ELDERS; is this discriminatory?) and elected officials invited to testify first.  Public comments are planned to be selected at random.  

Note that in the past we have seen federal tribunals like this allow 'tribal elders' and environmental activists to exceed the 2 minute limit by over 20 minutes while making sure other witnesses were held strictly to the limit.  -dh

Please see attached for RDC’s alert or view it online (http://www.akrdc.org/alerts/2014/epaproposeddeterminationalert.html).  Also attached is an alert from http://www.AKStopEPA.com.

Here is our Friday editorial on this subject: "Is The Federal Government Destroying America's Economy?"