The oil industry has no interest in exploring for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
That’s the only real conclusion to be drawn from the federal lease that flopped—as the only bidders were a state-owned entity, AIDEA, and Hex Energy LLC.
Read MoreGlenfarne’s insistence on keeping its numbers secret has not gone over well with the Legislature or the public for months. The patience of legislators ended Tuesday.
By Wednesday, Glenfarne admitted that $46.2 billion “ballpark number” was not a defensible number.
It turns out that Glenfarne was in a different ballpark, one with total costs estimated at $8.3 billion above what Prestidge claimed on Tuesday was a “ballpark” number that he wanted the Legislature to focus on.
Read MoreThe “Build the Line!’ rally Tuesday demanded that legislators answer the wrong question.
See if you can spot what’s wrong with the question. And see if you can spot what’s wrong with the answer given by nine Republicans and Democrats in Fairbanks.
Read MoreThe “Build the Line!” propaganda campaign is perfect for people who think that numbers don’t matter.
The cost of the line doesn’t matter. The cost of the gas doesn’t matter. The cost of construction doesn’t matter. The details of the contract the state signed with Glenfarne don’t matter.
Read MoreSen. Robb Myers and Rep. Frank Tomaszewski enacted a secret plan to have Myers retire and Tomaszewski file for the Legislature in his place on the last day candidates could file. Tomaszewski’s wife, Harmony, filed to run for the state House seat that her husband is vacating.
The Tomaszewskis will have competition.
Read MoreThe “Build the Line!” pressure campaign against the Legislature by Glenfarne and the Republican Party is oversimplified gasbaggery.
The company and the GOP are trying to con Alaskans into strong-arming legislators under the cover of the “Build the Line!” slogan, insinuating that there is nothing for the Legislature to do but cut taxes and get out of the way.
Read MoreI want to pay tribute today to Elstun Lauesen II, who was lucky to have two names that strangers misspelled and mispronounced from Badger Road to Harvard Square and back during his 81 years.
Read MoreVictim Sen. Dan Sullivan will be able to collect cash from Donald Trump’s $1.776 billion political slush fund, according to a memo from the Trump Department of Justice.
Alaskans deserve to hear directly from Sullivan about the unethical slush fund created by an agreement that Trump made with himself. Trump’s Justice Department says it will apologize to Trump, Don Jr., Eric and Trump’s family business.
So far Sullivan has refused to take a position on this scam, hoping that no one will notice.
Read MoreThe average residential member of the Golden Valley Electric Association will see a $46 monthly increase in electric bills next month, created by Donald Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran.
The utility planned on paying $2.50 a gallon for diesel fuel, but Trump’s war pushed world oil prices up and diesel prices have doubled to more than $5 a galllon.
Read MoreSitka Sen. Bert Stedman is right. The claim that the Alaska LNG project would cost $46.2 billion is “complete garbage.”
On Wednesday, Stedman asked Nick Fulford, the consultant hired by the Legislature, what capital expenditure cost estimates he is using now on the expected cost of the project, saying that recycling old numbers is one of the “indigestion points.”
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