About Tuesday Night's Federal OCS Hearing In Alaska (Written on the road: Atlanta, Ga. - See our photos below and the Alaska Journal of Commerce Story.) Commentary:  NGP Readers know this webpage is non-partisan.  We encouraged all democrat and republican elected officials by personal email to weigh in at the BOEM hearing Tuesday (Scroll down for details).  Alaska news media publicized the event.  As if explanation were needed, we repeated in these pages and in our emails the reasons why approval of OCS exploration of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas [...]