Oil Tax Debate Coming – Wagoner Ponders Bullet Line – Cook Inlet Has Gas; Deliverability Still A Concern
1. Alaska Dispatch by Rena Delbridge (NGP Photo). Some lawmakers say there's a limit to the amount of taxation the oil industry -- which provides 90 percent of the revenue to Alaska's state treasury -- will tolerate. There's a line, they say, and if the state crosses it, oil companies will no longer be willing to keep reinvesting their profits in developing Alaska's resources. That line -- so fine it's invisible -- could be the centerpiece of debate in the legislative session that starts Jan. 19. 2. Radio Kenai by [...]
