Dan Joling of the AP reports Alaska officials are Thrilled with Cook Inlet Lease Sale.  Could this be light at the end of a slow-development tunnel--or a sign that producers now believe the Regulatory Commission of Alaska will not unreasonably disapprove gas sales agreements to utilities as it did in 2006-7?  -dh Help Alaska Continue To Produce Energy For the Country While Invigorating the National Economy! Notes From the Road, Day 1: Bismarck to Williston by Dave Harbour Yesterday, I was visiting oil industry folks in Bismarck, and today am [...]