7-17-09.  KTUU by Rhonda McBride (NGP Photo).  Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) has quite a resume when it comes to oil and gas. As a legislator, lawyer, lobbyist and lieutenant governor he’s been on different sides of the issue.  As Sarah Palin passes the torch to Parnell, he promises to carry on her oil and gas policies aimed at giving the state more control of the industry.        *      ABC News.   Sarah Palin (NGP Photo) wrote an op-ed in today’s Washington Post attacking President Obama’s plan for a “cap and trade” system on carbon emissions as an “enormous threat to our economy".   "It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage,” Palin writes.        *        Andrew Halcro (NGP Photo) on Cap and Tax.     *         OCS.  Below, see how three responsible organizations are continuing to engage in the OCS domestic energy issue.  It is a matter of economic life or death for Alaska now and the rest of America in time.  We had better not let foolish policies deprive us of the opportunity to produce our own significant wealth.  Rather, we can and should stimulate the economy with REAL wealth while creating hundreds of millions of new jobs.  More below…   -dh      *       Calgary Herald.  The results of British Columbia’s drilling rights sale on Wednesday were released Thursday and total $38.3 million – a massive drop from more than $175 million bid for natural gas prospects in the northeastern part opf the province in June.  B. C., meanwhile, has raised $284.7 million. On Wednesday it sold 21 parcels covering 56,804 hectares at an average price per hectare of $675.

1.  American Solutions, Newt Gingrich.  Over one year ago this week, President Bush lifted a decades old executive ban on offshore drilling. Unfortunately, the Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (NGP Photo-r) has used his position to not only prevent any additional offshore drilling in the US, but also pulled the drilling leases for 77 potential domestic drilling sites in Utah.

2. The Consumer Energy Alliance, on whose advisory board I sit courtesy of its president, David Holt, urges the government on behalf of consumers to develop America’s own energy sources.  This will keep more dollars in America’s economy, fight inflation, support the dollar’s value, produce hundreds of thousands of high-paying American jobs, create additional millions of manufacturing, service, transportation and other types of jobs, provide billions of dollars of tax and royalty income to state and Federal governments, reduce government subsidy payments and make the country less vulnerable to energy supply disruptions

3.  Resource Development Council for Alaska.  Jason Brune (NGP Photo) says on our own Alaska website that, "Non-development interests have launched a nationwide effort to convince Secretary Salazar that no OCS development should occur off Alaska’s coast. How RDC members and their associates and friends respond to this challenge could well determine Alaska’s economic course for decades to come. A recent study by Northern Economics and the University of Alaska Anchorage reveals that OCS development has the potential to sustain Alaska’s economy for generations."