1.  Alaska Dispatch by Rena Delbridge (NGP Photo).  Some lawmakers say there’s a limit to the amount of taxation the oil industry — which provides 90 percent of the revenue to Alaska’s state treasury — will tolerate. There’s a line, they say, and if the state crosses it, oil companies will no longer be willing to keep reinvesting their profits in developing Alaska’s resources.  That line — so fine it’s invisible — could be the centerpiece of debate in the legislative session that starts Jan. 19.

2.  Radio Kenai by Joe Nicks.  Last week, Senator Tom Wagoner of Kenai participated in the special hearing about in-state natural gas and the questioning of the state’s In-State Gasline Chief Harry Noah, who is resigning from the Parnell Administration. Wagoner said he needs more questions answered about the price of natural gas from a bullet line to this region, before he would support it.

3.  ADN by Elizabeth Bluemink.  Despite recent public debate about future natural gas shortages in Southcentral Alaska, the Cook Inlet area contains enough known natural gas to supply the region’s energy needs for a decade or longer, according to a new study by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources.