U.S. OKs Expanded Oil Drilling in Alaska

iWon News/AP ^ | January 21, 2005 | H. JOSEF HEBERT

[brewer1516]

Your dad lives in Alaska? Cool.
Perhaps you can confirm something for me: is it true that residents get a percentage of the state surplus? I had someone tell me that their cousin has gold that she got from the state.

[Mark17]

I'm sure that there will be 1000s of enviro nuts just waiting for 1 drop of oil to hit the ground and they will claim environmental disaster.

Those fruit cakes are such dirt bags, they probably think saying the word "OIL" causes environmental disasters.

[thackney]

Last year each qualifying person was paid $919.84.
Families receive payment for adults and children each.

http://www.pfd.state.ak.us/
The fund is approaching $30 Billion in value.

[Chgogal]

Excellent!

[ChadGore]

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

"We're keeping for ourselves...as a national hedge against failure of foreign supply."

Beware of doing business with this guy, he's pretty much an idiot, or at least clueless.

[lodwick]

Finally, a bit of good news from the jackasses in dc.

You know it's there, just drill it.

[brewer1516]

That certainly explains why Alaskans are open to the expansion of exploration and drilling. Bully for them.

The state would benefit; the citizens would benefit; the country would benefit; and, if I understand the reports, the caribou would benefit. Sounds like a win-win.

For all their talk of progressiveness, liberals are incredibly short sighted.

[Rudder]

I'm listening to you...

[TexasCowboy]

First Alaska, then........

[NormsRevenge]

**FILE PHOTO** The rolling tundra of the Alaskan North Slope are shown in this undated aerial photo. The U.S. government plans to open thousands of acres for exploratory drilling after the Bureau of Land Management (news - web sites) concluded that oil and gas exploration in the northeastern corner of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska can be conducted with 'minimal impact' on the area's wildlife. (AP Photo/Bureau of Land Management)

[BibChr]

Citing a need for domestic energy, the government plans to open for exploratory drilling thousands of acres on Alaska's North Slope that have been protected for decades because of migratory birds and caribou

Nossir, no bias in that report.

Dan

[TexasCowboy]

"Nossir, no bias in that report."

I wonder why they didn't go ahead and finish the thought:

"...on Alaska's North Slope that have been protected for decades because of migratory birds and caribou which are now going to die."

[Judith Anne]

Great pictures!

;-D

[TexasCowboy]

Thanks, dear lady.

Good to see you!

[thackney]

NRPA is the area my projects are expanding into.

[thackney]

NRPA is the area my projects are expanding into.

[TexasCowboy]

Are you going to go up?

[thackney]

I've gone several times to the Alpine Central Facility. This the main gathering center to the planned expansion. My current projects involve new drill sites at CD3(Fiord) and CD4 (Nanuq). Click here for map, look to the far west.

CD5, CD6 and CD7 have also gone through the eviromental approval, they show as the 3 green triangles west of Alpine and into NPRA. CD5 has begun preliminary engineering. Exploration drilling in the Northeast Planning Area of the NPRA has been going on for years. We are just now getting ready to produce.

Click here to see the tracts already leased.

[thackney]

Here are a couple pics of a work-over rig that was at Alpine on my last trip.

Pic 1

Pic 2

Pic 3