Jack Roderick

I begin to see the problem: Sen. Cathy Giessel’s quote in Alaska Dispatch News on July 5 says it all. “If there was a significant profit to be made with an Alaska LNG line, I am confident that Exxon would be chasing it.” I’m afraid too many legislators hold this same simplistic and misguided belief. It needs … Continue reading Wait for Exxon to develop Alaska’s North Slope gas project? Nope.

OPINION: Alaska's lawmakers should table Gov. Sean Parnell's oil tax cut. A change this significant without any guarantees would be worse than bad politics. It would be selling the public down the river.

When I re-drafted for the state Alaska's oil and gas leasing law in 1978, it never occurred to me that after agreeing to produce oil from an Alaska lease as long as it was "in paying quantities," an oil company could later claim it could no longer make a profit from the lease in Alaska.