Our Xtra Commentary This Week: "Is the federal government overreaching its authority in Alaska?" Energy Wire.  Alaska boy Beaudreau finds his way home at Interior Last September, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Tommy Beaudreau (NGP Photo-6-14-13 White House Arctic Policy 'Listening Session') received a rare invitation from a group of Alaska's North Slope whalers to visit a tiny Arctic island that the villagers use to launch their fall whaling trips. Cross Island, an eyebrow-shaped sliver of land, is located 20 miles from Prudhoe Bay, the heart of Alaska's North Slope oil development [...]