[RightWhale]

No. There are next to no subsurface right available to ordinary people in Alaska. They say it is possible to get subsurface rights, but the land authority would have to at least respond to a request, and they don't anymore unless you are a corporation.

[A CA Guy]

If some major oil company came in with influence and expects the oil needs of the country to allow more drilling, I would expect they would know something you don't.

It isn't likely that Julia Roberts is buying up 400 thousand acres for a new estate to live on, so I think these purchases are by people who know something is going down there in the near future.