• National Post.  A panel that studied the environmental and social impact of a US$16.2-billion Canadian Arctic gas pipeline is rebuking Ottawa’s efforts to reject many of its recommendations in a dispute that is delaying the line’s regulatory decision. In a lengthy letter to Environment Minister Jim Prentice’s office, Robert Hornal, chairman of the Mackenzie gas project’s joint review panel, said the 176 recommendations in his panel’s key report must be preserved ….
  • AP by Dan Joling.  Alaska gubernatorial candidates answered questions for Anchorage high school students Monday that ranged from Arctic Ocean offshore drilling to their favorite Disney character.  Students gathered at West High for the League of Women Voters Youth Vote gubernatorial debate also heard the candidates’ views on gay marriage, the proposed Pebble Mine and a proposed natural gas pipeline.
  • ADN editorial supports Fire Island wind project.  Fire Island, just off the western tip of Anchorage in Cook Inlet, is home to a steady supply of wind, most from the southwest and north. Cook Inlet Region Inc. is clearing land and negotiating with Railbelt utilities with an aim to make electricity from that wind and sell it at competitive prices by 2012.  (See yesterday’s Op-ed, below, by CIRI President and CEO Margie Brown.