Canada and Lower 48 Take Heart: You Can Do It Too!  (Don't leave the field to the rude, vocal minority; responsible voices can and will overcome when they finally get mobilized!  See background here.   Event photos below.  -dh) Comment:  Your author was privileged to attend the Friday night BOEMRE event and see Alaska's powerful, silent majority wake up and offer its wisdom to Washington decision makers.  We found it ironic that while the Sierra Club's community organizer had urged her allies to 'come early', they actually came late then rudely [...]

Is The Great Giant, Alaska, Toppling To Obama's Tethering Minions Today, Consumers Petitioned Congress for a Balanced Energy Policy! (PDF here) Comment: For Alaska's economy and national security to be sustained, the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) must continue operating.  At its peak, it provided well over 2 million barrels of oil per day, or 20% of America's domestic production.  America doesn't use less oil now than it did 20 years ago, but Alaska provides less of it while foreign imports grow.  TAPS is now 2/3 empty and without the billions [...]

What Could One Possibly Do to Help Rid Ourselves of Unjustified Moratoria?   One Could Start by Joining Consumer Energy Alliance's Call to Action To Comment Before the September 17 Deadline! Trouble in the Colony by  Dave Harbour    Thursday, Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo-r) and Alaska's Attorney General, Dan Sullivan (NGP Photo-l, with Parnell), announced that the State would resist being treated like a 'second class citizen' by the Federal government--and filed a lawsuit to overturn the 'arbitrary and capricious'  actions of Secretary Ken Salazar to illegally establish oil and gas [...]

***BREAKING NEWS...SALAZAR MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO BARROW AND ANCHORAGE!*** ***Alaska Dispatch Story***Barrow Details***Anchorage Media Conference Details*** (This Administration Has Treated Alaska Very Poorly.  Activities Affecting Alaska Are Opaque And An Affront to Both Due Process and Common Courtesy.  -dh) We Urge Readers to Follow Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) Coverage CEA Announcement:  On Tuesday, September 7th, The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) Director Michael R. Bromwich (NGP Photo) and other US Dept of Interior officials will be in Houston to hear expert panelists discuss the Obama Administration’s offshore oil [...]