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BOEM Came and Went and We are Stunned - Alaska Energy Employment Hits 30 month Low
BOEM Came and Went and We are Stunned
by
Dave Harbour

Our story of Michael Bromwich's (Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy, Management, Regulation and Enforcement, NGP Photo) visit to the Alaska colony is coming, with commentary. (ADN story by Elizabeth Bluemink; KTUU story by Ted Lamb)
Alaska Dispatch. Data compiled by the Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development’s Research & Analysis Section show that since a modest rebound during the first quarter of 2010, oil and gas employment fell again in the second quarter and by mid-year stood at its lowest level in 30 months.
ALERT - ALERT - ALERT: CREDIT WHERE CREDIT'S DUE!
Your author is leaving now for the BOEM meeting, more fully discussed below in the previous page posts.
Come on down!
1. Alaskans should go down to the Dena'ina in Anchorage this morning from 8 a.m.- noon. Here's all the information you'll need. While the public cannot testify, everyone can fill out 'comment cards'.
2. We admire that Governor Sean Parnell will have Commissioner Larry Hartig represent him on Panel III (click link above for information), that Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan obtained a spot on the Panel, that Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich will testify.
3. We are amazed that the organizers refused to allow Alaska Legislators to participate and compliment Representative Craig
Johnson (NGP Photo) on his letter. We appreciate that Alaska State Senate President Gary Stevens and House Speaker Mike Chenault have encouraged Legislators to be involved.
4. We respect the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, Alaska State Chamber of Commerce, Alaska Support Industry Alliance and Resource Development Council for Alaska for defending Alaska's free enterprise system and urging member participation.
5. We also respect the various Anchorage talk show hosts for drawing attention to the event. This discussion by Dave Stieren and Jeff Jones pretty well summarizes the issues at stake (move to minute 35, Dave Stieren Show, Hour 2. This link may be downloaded until this evening).
ALERT - ALERT - ALERT: SUPPORT ALASKA OCS NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE!
Oliver received a caning for his impudence, I wonder what the DC bureaucrats will do to the sovereign people of Alaska.
It is indeed shameful that most elected officials are such sniveling wimps in the face of unaccountable bureaucratic authority."
Victor John Yannacone, jr., Attorney
A Federal Bureaucrat On Thursday Will Determine the Future of Alaska
A Federal Bureaucrat On Thursday Will Determine the Future of Alaska
Submitted To The Alaska Standard, August 24, 2010

meeting will occur in the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center this Thursday at 8 a.m. BOEM Director Michael R. Bromwich will preside. Back on June 23, Bromwich sat with Secretary Salazar before the Senate Appropriations Committee wherein Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) peppered the Secretary with Questions. That questioning revealed that while the Secretary’s moratorium on oil and gas activity only applied to certain Lower 48 drilling activity below 500’, the agency had put Alaska’s OCS ‘on pause’ (i.e. not a legal term) to look at oil spill response issues. Pushing that so-called pause button resulted in cancellation of this summer’s exciting exploration program. Even though Alaskan OCS exploration involves depths of about 150’, Murkowski’s questioning forced the Secretary to finally admit later in the meeting that, “The moratorium that is in place does in fact apply to Alaska.” No public notice. No public meetings. Just an embarrassing admission. Just one man saying he was -- by personal fiat -- attaching a moratorium to Alaska OCS as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill when no relationship to the Gulf Oil Spill exists. Next, will the Federal Government announce that it is grounding all airline flights in Alaska because a crop duster crashed on the Iowa State Fair? The lack of clarity is astounding for a public agency. As a former regulator I am appalled at this affront to the rule of law and to the right of due process. Six hundred Alaskan OCS jobs that could have been contributing to America’s economic recovery this summer have been hijacked with insufficient explanation. The leadership of the Department of Interior and BOEM have given no clarity, no assurance that they won’t continue to obstruct OCS development next year. Alaska’s social, economic, educational, political and subsistence future is in jeopardy—for these lifestyle values are all supported by declining production of natural resources.
