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Since the overwhelming majority of witnesses supported OCS development we wonder why TV Channel 2’s headline read:  Actor Ted Danson and others speak out against drilling in the Chukchi.  It should have read, "Most Alaskans spoke out for drilling in the Chukchi".  This is why citizens are so frustrated with the mainstream media….

Last night in Anchorage about 70 citizens had signed up for testimony during the Bureau of Ocean Energy, Management and Enforcement (BOEM) hearing on the agency’s recently released, Suplemental Impact Statement on the Chukchi Sea Leasing Program, Lease Sale 193.  While the same plaintiffs that filled the record of the U.S. District Court in Alaaska with arguments opposing Alaskan Oil and Gas development,lined up to repeat their talking points, the preponderence of testimony supported development of Alaska’s OCS natural resources… Your author sat next to the amiable actor Ted Danson, a board member of Oceana, in Anchorage to film the movie, "Everybody Loves Whales."  The preponderence of testimony came from Alaaska residents who supported oil and gas development of the Alaskan OCS. 

Your author is in Seattle now, typing on a barely readable notebook computer, headed for an Atlanta meeting with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.   We’ll provide more hearing stories and photos later….