from the article: "Hungry for new oil development amid an unprecedented fiscal crisis, the Walker administration is now pressing ConocoPhillips to fulfill what the administration is calling the company's "commitment" to drill the exploration well by June."

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Good for the folks in Nuiqsut for stopping developments that they feel would be detrimental to their community. We down here in SC should do the same.

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Why no urgency to fix that gas pipe leak in Cook Inlet - that has got to be costing Alaska in lost revenues in this "unprecedented fiscal crisis;" at least that's what I assume?  None of our news outlets can manage the effort to report on who owns that leaking gas. Perhaps we are giving it away for free because it is being blown skyward and not sold? Gotta love the way the extraction business works.