The American Culture. [T]he Anthropogenic Global Warming scare is not about science and never was. As Climategate proved (but as some of us suspected long before), AGW is the invention of a cabal of activists, all working towards more or less the same ecofascist agenda: Mother Gaia is suffering; it’s mostly our fault; the only way to atone for our sins is to destroy Western industrial civilisation and shackle ourselves with a form of One World government run by ‘experts’ and bureaucrats over whom we have no democratic control. It is a battle against a tyranny every bit as great as we faced in the second world war or the Cold War. All what’s different about this enemy is that instead of jackboots it wears long hair, a warm, caring smile and drives a VW Combi with an ‘Atomkraft Nein Danke’ sticker.
Politics News. While oil remains king, its revenue largely responsible for funding the state’s operation, production is expected to keep declining. There are no firm answers for how best to stem those revenue losses. One long sought project that could help is a major natural gas pipeline. Samuels and Walker have aggressively gone after Parnell’s approach to
building the line.
Parnell remains committed to the process championed by Palin, which she said would spur competition in bringing North Slope gas to market. Two competing projects are currently seeking shipping commitments and gauging interest. Parnell cites this as proof the market will win out. But Samuels said the state is really no further ahead than it was several years ago in realizing a line. Walker favors an “all Alaska line” that he says would put put Alaska, not oil and gas companies, in the driver’s seat. He said Parnell has shown no leadership on the gas line. While polls have favored Parnell and several analysts see the race as his to lose, the public is just starting to pay closer attention to the Aug. 24 primary.
Alaska Dispatch. Speculation about whether BP might soon be divesting itself of some or all of its Alaska assets is causing some political handwringing over what all this might mean for the state's efforts to finally get a natural gas pipeline built.
