A survey of Alaska state senators indicates Gov. Sean Parnell's plan to cut oil production taxes faces a tough road in the upcoming legislative session.  Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/12/02/2199922/survey-of-alaska-senators-finds.html#ixzz1fWcv5yTk ________________________________________________________________ The Honorable Barack Obama  President of the United States of America  The White House  1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.  Washington, DC 20500     Dear Mr. President:    Collectively, the undersigned represent a (large) majority of Alaska’s nearly 340,000 workers. As a diverse group of elected officials, business owners, community leaders and other Alaskan residents, we all support the exploration and production of Alaska's abundant Outer [...]

CEOs count themselves lucky to pull off one game-changing play in a career. Mr. George had three – when he rescued sad-sack Suncor in the early 1990s; when he made a big bet on the oil sands in the late 1990s; and when he bought Petro-Canada in a $19-billion deal in the depths of the 2008-09 meltdown.  Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/business/article2257429.html#ixzz1fWiJOXFg

ADN/AP by Dan Joling.  Alaska Native and conservation groups are again taking aim at a federal permit needed by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell to drill for petroleum in Arctic Ocean waters off Alaska's northern shore.  Read More: http://www.adn.com/2011/11/29/2193938/groups-challenge-another-shell.html#ixzz1fDEbKUlJ

 Bismarck News (11/27/11) reports: With millions, if not billions, of dollars hanging over the ledge, the boom in the oil patch would go into a free-fall if drilling suddenly stopped…Thousands of workers unemployed overnight, housing starts abandoned, businesses shuttered and bustling oil towns from Williston to Belfield emptying out instead of filling up are all part of a future few would prefer — even if they despair of the changes to land and lifestyle wrought by the upswing of oil…Even with oil near $100 a barrel and 200 rigs drilling in [...]

 Keystone delay fires up jobs debate Calgary Herald By Kelly Cryderman, Calgary Herald November 25, 2011 3:18 AM This month's delay of the $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline has reignited the long-standing Alberta debate about whether raw natural resources should be shipped abroad for processing, ...

 nlet find promising, but we must look at all energy options Alaskajournal.com (AGDC) to bring these elements together for the greatest benefit. ... We recently announced plans for legislation enabling AGDC and an in-state gasline. ...

 AJC by Tim Bradner.  The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, a state corporation, finalized an agreement last week to invest $27 million in the purchase of the Adriatic XI jack-up rig along with two partners, Australia-based Buccaneer Energy and Ezion Holdings Ltd. of Singapore, the chairman of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority said in a press release.  Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/11/20/2181026/second-jack-up-rig-to-explore.html#ixzz1eMTqIuAY

We haven’t spent a lot of time on this, but our oceans policy is very, very bad  CNS News (11/17/11) reports: The nation’s commercial fishermen say the Obama administration is trying to impose top-down bureaucratic regulation on the use of the oceans and the nation’s fisheries, which they say will put fishing jobs at stake..A group calling itself the Seafood Coalition is calling on Congress to do what it can to scuttle President Obama’s National Ocean Policy National Ocean Policy, which the president unilaterally imposed by executive order in 2010.