1.  Is Alaska losing ground in the world competition for oil and gas investment?  Of course she is.  Poor, foolish Alaska...thinking everyone would always come to her court no matter how high her taxes, how burdensome her regulations, how remote and hard to access her resources from the markets.  See our earlier editorial.  Then, link to this stunning story reflecting the British Columbia-Alberta competition which Alaska has tried earnestly to ignore, until the last week or so.  -dh        Financial Post, by Carrie Tait -- British Columbia fired the latest [...]