Juneau Empire, by Randi Spray.  Anchorage author Tom Brennan will be in Juneau Saturday to sign copies of his new book, "Snowflake Rebellion."

The book, released in April, follows what would happen if Alaska broke with the union. The hero, Colin Callihan, is a PR officer at an oil company and the villians are members of the enviromental lobby and federal government.

Brennan revealed the source of inspiration for the novel at a May 15 meeting of the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, recorded by friend Dave Harbour of Northern Gas Pipelines, who was present at the meeting.    (Photo: Dave Harbour/ Northern Gas Pipelines Anchorage author Tom Brennan will sign copies of his book "The Snowflake Rebellion" Saturday at Hearthside Books in the Nugget Mall.)          

            

See our May 15 story here, including the following conclusion of our editorial that day:  

"An executive summary of the study, "Economic Analysis of Future Offshore Oil and Gas Development," may be downloaded here, or seen here.  

…Yesterday’s presentation occurred in wake of court decisions which have delayed or stopped large wealth producing domestic exploration and development projects in Alaska and elsewhere.  The court decisions flow largely from complaints of environmental and Alaska North Slope Native special interest groups.  Meanwhile, in our deepening economic crisis, America continues to send more and more of our national treasure to foreign regimes that happily produce their oil and gas for us under less restrictive environmental regulations while gaining for themselves hundreds of thousands of jobs at America’s expense. 

As Slaiby, Burden and Goldsmith spoke yesterday morning, I remembered Governor Sheffield’s words a week ago (NGP Photo). Such words of prophesy hang in the air to be acted on by our leaders now or lamented by our successors in years to come.   How sad and suicidal is it that the wealth producers, who enable American prosperity and defense of country, are being blind sighted, attacked, demonized and decimated–little-by-little–by jackal-like extremists who owe their temporal freedom and lifestyles to those whose destruction they seek!  

Is the fictional Snowflake Rebellion so far fetched a concept, after all?     -dh"