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Support Tax Reform Law!
From our friends at the Resource Development Council for Alaska (RDC).
"…there is currently a signature gathering referendum effort taking place to repeal SB21, the oil tax reform bill signed in to law by Governor Parnell.
In an effort to give the thoroughly vetted new tax structure time to work, the Alaska Support Industry Alliance is using its independent expenditure group, "We Are Alaska," to run a campaign educating Alaskans on what SB21 has accomplished and explaining why signing the referendum could be extremely harmful for the future of Alaska.
RDC and other business associations across the state support the new tax regime, the More Alaska Production Act (MAP Act), and have a high level of confidence that it will result in new investment, production, jobs, and revenues to fund education and a wide range of public services.
To learn more, visit the We Are Alaska website and be sure to like them on Facebook, as well as Twitter.
Alaska’s contribution to the nation’s energy supply has been in decline since the 1980’s.
While the resource is there to stem the decline, and perhaps even reverse the trend, Alaska’s investment climate has been unfriendly to attract the major investment dollars needed to do so.
After extensive review, analysis, and research, Governor Sean Parnell and the Alaska Legislature passed SB 21 to reform our tax system to make it more competitive. It will help will help invigorate Alaska’s energy production and bring jobs and investment to our state.
Don’t let a small minority take us two steps back when it comes to Alaskan jobs and competitiveness. Show your support for Senate Bill 21 and the Alaskan economy.
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The Federal Government Has Broken Its Word Many Times As It Has Sapped Sovereignty From America’s States (Commentary)
Earlier this week at an IOGCC (Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission) meeting in Alabama, Utah Representative Roger Barrus (NGP Photo) provided the nation’s oil and gas conservation commissioners with a high level history lesson.
The founders and their successors made it clear that the states were to manage state resources.
He noted that on October 10, 1780 Congress passed a Resolution affirming that it will hold title to western lands only “to create new states” and to pay the national debt “and for no other use or purpose whatsoever”.
Country’s founders and their successors supporting state control over state lands. Here is his PowerPoint presentation containing the useful history of references.
E&E Publishing by Margaret Kriz Hobson. At a time when international competition is heating up to export liquefied natural gas into Asia, Alaska is scrambling to become a major player in foreign export markets, while also giving state consumers access to local fuel.
America’s northernmost state wants to commercialize the 34 trillion cubic feet of natural gas available on its North Slope, roughly a tenth of all U.S. natural gas reserves.
But although Alaska has plenty of gas, transporting it from the frozen north to the world’s markets has been the subject of one of the most contentious and long-running battles in the state’s history.
Recently, Alaska officials expanded the authority of a state corporation in hopes of giving it enough flexibility and muscle to get a natural gas pipeline built.
During the 2013 legislative session, state lawmakers converted the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC) into an independent state corporation.
They gave the new body broad powers to take part in two projects: a large-volume LNG export project proposed by the energy industry and a small, in-state gas pipeline.
"We are currently on two parallel but merging paths" on building a natural gas pipeline, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (R) said in a recent interview. "We’re closer now to getting a pipeline than we were before passage of that bill."
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