In one of my phone calls to DNR DOG, a public relations person (of all people) shot me down in flames.  So impolite, so hostile, that I haven't been able to work up the nerve to call back since.  I'm guessing that the staff meeting that she had just come out of hadn't been pleasant?  Is that an example of their attitude towards, and treatment of all of the small (under one-billion cap) developers?
Any company can drill almost anywhere else in the world with a lot less flack!  Cheaper also, for less environmental difficulties!  Only thing that makes Alaska competitive, is America's political stability, with no "tickalunar revolutionaries" blowing installations to blazes during every full moon.