Letter: Age-old campaign strategy
The battle plan hasn’t changed much in 50 years: Make local spontaneity look genuine.
The battle plan hasn’t changed much in 50 years: Make local spontaneity look genuine.
Campaigning on a fat PFD without the cash to back it up is like writing a bad check: Worthless, even though it appears real.
We could keep hoping. Or we could accept the reality that Alaska North Slope gas cannot overcome market economics.
The corporation’s plan assumes that an economic analysis currently underway determines the project is economically viable.
Alaskans should think of lower oil prices as a long-term financial albatross around our state budget neck.
Rather than propose a meaningful new revenue source, the governor deals the cards for gambling.
Legislators have floated different revenue solutions and been vilified in social media. But at least they tried.
Though China’s commitment to buy a lot more U.S. oil, liquefied natural gas and coal over the next two years supplied political headlines, analysts generally dismissed the numbers.
Oil supplies are so ample that buyers just weren’t worried enough about next week’s or next month’s deliveries to push the price outside of the narrow trading band of the past 90 days.
Assuming no delay in the final impact statement, FERC commissioners could vote on the project application June 4.
A pipeline company wants state regulators to require a gas producer to put the fuel into a pipe and move it to market instead of burning it off.
A state agency is asking for public donations to do its job.