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The Alaska oil comeback

...several new discoveries on the North Slope: "Recent tax reform passed in...Alaska's massive resource basin on the North Slope. We worked to ensure Alaska's...oil taxes was vital to increasing North Slope production and filling the pipeline...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-05-23/alaska-oil-comeback
Opinion
Oil flow decline key factor in oil tax reform

...session that all is fine on the North Slope, ACES is a good system, and that...and the vast resources on the North Slope; and making Alaska competitive...working.We can do the same on the North Slope. Sixty-five percent of the Alaska...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-05-21/oil-flow-decline-key-factor-oil-tax-r
Opinion
Police Standards Council to review Alaska officers

...received a 911 call from his wife, who reported him armed, suicidal and intoxicated.The panel will review a former North Slope Borough police lieutenant who pleaded no contest to drunken driving in January and a former Anchorage police officer...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-21/police-standards-council-review-alaska-
State
Juneau has lowest unemployment in state

...having more jobs in summer and fewer in winter, Juneau's unemployment rate is 4.4 percent, as is the rate for the North Slope Borough.The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the United States is 7.5 percent. Unemployment in the U...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-17/juneau-has-lowest-unemployment-state
State
Referendum on the Oil Tax Bill

...quarter. That is a profit of over $2 billion per year, and Conoco Phillips in only one of three major producers on the North Slope. The severance tax is the major source of revenue to the state. Loss of billions of dollars means cuts to school funding...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-05-12/referendum-oil-tax-bill
Opinion
Ex-Gov. Murkowski: Environmentalists hurt development in Alaska

...National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.The vast majority of North Slope oil production so far has come from state land, but the bulk of the potential resources belong to the federal government...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-09/ex-gov-murkowski-environmentalists-hurt
State
Facts about the oil tax giveaway

...this investment ... amounts to $768 million. The start of exploratory work is scheduled for next winter.... The North Slope of Alaska is an especially promising area for Repsol as it has already shown to be oil rich and carries low exploratory...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-05-09/facts-about-oil-tax-giveaway
Opinion
BLM releases plan to address abandoned Alaska wells

...additional action. The 68 include wells that have been previously remediated by a federal agency, conveyed to the North Slope Borough and shallow test boreholes that pose no surface or subsurface risks, according to the draft plan.Affected...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-09/blm-releases-plan-address-abandoned-ala
State
Success is never ours to define

...law more time to prove itself. ACES was only in effect for a few years before he began blaming it for the decline in North Slope oil production and investment. And he ignored the 2010 Department of Revenue findings that investment incentives in...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-05-01/success-never-ours-define
Opinion
Sean Parnell says he'll seek re-election as governor

...session in which he scored some major political wins, including passage of a controversial oil tax cut aimed at spurring North Slope investment and production.The announcement comes with the 2014 primaries more than a year away. Attorney Bill Walker...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-05/sean-parnell-says-hell-seek-re-election
State

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