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Call To Action, Alaskans!
Public Hearing TONIGHT, November 9th at 7 p.m. (BACKGROUND HERE AND HERE)
Centerpoint Building, 3801 Centerpoint Drive, 1st floor conference room
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM)
Today’s New York Times reveals part of environmentalists’ strategy for tonight’s hearing in Anchorage: Ted Danson and Oceana (Photo credit: Treehugger and Oceana) 
will team up to use star power and environmental rhetoric to attract attention to the "Everybody Loves Whales" movie and incite more public opposition to Alaska resource development. In effect, Danson has joined in efforts by more than a dozen national environmental groups intent on closing down resource development in Alaska. A third of Alaska’s economy is based on oil and gas and mining development, along with ninety percent of the State’s operating budget. The State’s Trans Alaska Pipeline is two-thirds empty, on its last legs. The Chukchi Sea subject of the hearing could produce 35,000 jobs (annually) and over $70 billion to a recovering economy while infusing new life into Alaska’s economic lifeline, its oil pipeline. The stage is certainly set tonight for an epic verbal battle. Facing off, for this title match are a no-growth alliance headed by Danson and outside environmental interests in one corner; and, in the other corner: a few Alaskan citizens and oil company representatives whose stardom and firepower seem somewhat outshined and outgunned. When the dust settles tomorrow, we’ll review the battlefield and survivors. -dh
will team up to use star power and environmental rhetoric to attract attention to the "Everybody Loves Whales" movie and incite more public opposition to Alaska resource development. In effect, Danson has joined in efforts by more than a dozen national environmental groups intent on closing down resource development in Alaska. A third of Alaska’s economy is based on oil and gas and mining development, along with ninety percent of the State’s operating budget. The State’s Trans Alaska Pipeline is two-thirds empty, on its last legs. The Chukchi Sea subject of the hearing could produce 35,000 jobs (annually) and over $70 billion to a recovering economy while infusing new life into Alaska’s economic lifeline, its oil pipeline. The stage is certainly set tonight for an epic verbal battle. Facing off, for this title match are a no-growth alliance headed by Danson and outside environmental interests in one corner; and, in the other corner: a few Alaskan citizens and oil company representatives whose stardom and firepower seem somewhat outshined and outgunned. When the dust settles tomorrow, we’ll review the battlefield and survivors. -dhAnchorage Daily News. The federal agency that oversees offshore petroleum leasing will conduct a public hearing on environmental concerns from a 2008 lease sale in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea.
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