IOGCC Endorses Robust and Safe Alaska OCS Programs – Persily and McLeod Discussion Thursday

TODAY:  Reminder for US Readers to Protect America’s Economy and Alaska’s Future: Please Comment Today On The Chukchi Sea Exploration Program That Will Prevent Importation of Billions of Barrels of Foreign Oil and Create Tens of Thousands Of American Jobs.  -dh

YESTERDAY: We admire the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission — representing all of America’s oil and gas producing states — and a majority of the country’s governors, for supporting a robust and safe Alaska OCS development program!  -dh

THURSDAY: Larry Persily (NGP Photo-l) and Northwest Territories Minister Bob McLeod (NGP   Photo) will be discussing arctic natural gas issues this Thursday morning at an event sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.  More information, including how to RSVP, HERE.

KTUU by Michelle Theriault Boots.  When towering financial institutions fail, an economy that can fall back on fish, energy, clean water and the human need for wild places will survive.  That’s what Iceland learned in the wake of its dramatic 2008 economic collapse, the country’s PresidentOlafur Ragnar Grimsson told leaders in Anchorage.

Point of personal privilege.  Our friend, Ben Grussendorf of Sitka, with whom we trained during early morning hours in the Baranof Hotel’s health club thirty years ago, has passed on with our good feelings following his path.  He was a good man.  -dh