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In reply to the discussion: How about a picture thread? Where do you live? [View all]Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)as "Alaska's oil and gas company," which is a huge joke, and also our governor Sean Parnell was a CP lobbyist before he was governor and has been cutting breaks for Big Oil here ever since he's been in office. We call him Seanoco Parnellips.
We had legislative process issues going on here, too, with the passage of SB 21 last year. Long story short, it DOES limit the competition, as the article states, and creates about a $2 billion a year shortfall to Alaska's budget, while enriching those Big Three oil companies. We will have a referendum on the August ballot to repeal the bill because no one was in favor of it. ACES, our previous oil tax scheme, was about the only good thing Sarah Palin did while governor, but Sean decided to kill it.