2-24-12. “Never Give In”, We Say As The Week Ends!

  Feds must act on pipeline: Prentice - Vancouver Sun - ... pipeline is to go ahead as planned, former cabinet minister Jim Prentice ... Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline and other oil and gas corridors to the ... Comment:  Yesterday Commonwealth North (CWN) released its newest report, "Energy for a Sustainable Alaska: The Rural Conundrum."   The study was chaired by Meera Kohler and Ethan Schutt (NGP Photo.  Other event photos below.) and describes a number of energy production, distribution, fuel transportation, and consumption challenges facing rural Alaska.  Kohler noted that rural residential power generation is currently subsidized via a 'power cost equalization' program designed to [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:48-09:00February 24th, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments

2-23-12

Alaska Dispatch by Alex DeMarban.  In an argument on his "Restoring Liberty" blog, Joe Miller (NGP Photo)  claims President Obama's opposition to oil development is so deep he's refusing to reclaim several islands from Russia and the oil-rich seabed around them.  Some of the islands off the Kamchatka Peninsula and Russia's northern coast are hundreds of miles from Alaska, so they wouldn't be easy to maintain. They include Wrangel Island, where American naturalist John Muir once landed as part of an expedition that claimed the island for the U.S.   Oil tax debate [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:48-09:00February 24th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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