Dear NGP Friends:   (Read down for a 'call to action' that may save your job and our kids' future!)   All Alaskans are thankful for Alaska's 50th Anniversary of statehood this  year, made possible by the 1957 Swanson River oil and gas discovery.  Therefore, we should also be thankful for Alaska's oil industry and support industry employees whose labors sustain our current quality of life.   We are also celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the very important Joint State/Federal Beaufort Sea Oil and Gas Lease Sale of 1979--the first time Beaufort Sea OCS became available to [...]