A Sunny (Mojonnier) Outlook From California … (For Editorial, Flip Four Pages)
Fairbanks News Miner Editorial. … The report, to which the Daily News-Miner was given limited access by Mr. van Meurs’ company, bluntly states that Alaska’s current oil tax system isn’t working.
Anchorage Daily Planet by Tom Brennan (NGP Photo). Alaska could use some good news on its 
economy, but don’t look at me for it. 
There is a little good news, but not much, I’m afraid. The good news is that Shell Oil cleared another hurdle for its plan to drill exploratory oil wells in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast….One piece of the bad news is that the challenge to the sale by green activists now goes back to the court system, where it could get tied in knots again. * ADN/PN by Alan Bailey (NGP Photo). "We feel we have some very strong permits, and we feel that there is reason to be optimistic that our permits will survive a court challenge," Pete Slaiby, Shell’s vice president in Alaska, told Petroleum News Sept. 30. "Litigation will always be a risk we have." … "Allowing Shell to drill when it has no credible plan to clean up an oil spill in the Arctic’s icy waters, and instead simply assume it can clean up 95 percent of oil spilled isn’t just unrealistic, it’s insulting and irresponsible," said Earthjustice attorney Holly Harris." … "I believe we have a very robust oil spill response plan," Slaiby said. "It was robust before Deepwater Horizon and has become even more robust since then," he said. * AGC by George Tuckness. History has shown that we cannot tax ourselves to prosperity. In fact, tax reductions have been the prevailing practice across the country for attracting business, keeping business, stimulating the economy and keeping people employed. Through the regular 90 day session and 27 days of a special session, 375 bills were introduced and 28 passed by both bodies. There was a lot of talk but, unfortunately Oil tax reform measures as proposed in HB110 were…
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