Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, hard copy. Let me see if it's on their webpage.
National Center for Policy Analysis - Tired of the federal government hampering its economy by prohibiting natural resource recovery from federal lands located in the state, the Alaskan state government has taken matters into its own hands and opened more of its non-federal lands to oil and gas recovery.
Environmental activists have already filed a suit on behalf of the interests of caribou and other wildlife, but areas such as the National Petroleum Reserve were already designated for oil and gas development by the Federal Government back in 1923.
Moreover, 70 percent of Alaska’s residents favor oil and gas drilling in ANWR. In response, Alaska’s politicians are attempting to avoid a backlash from voters over economic harm to Alaska due to federal restrictions on oil and gas recovery by offering state lands.