Recent articles in local papers and community forums hosted by Alaska State Senators have promoted Great Bear Petroleum and their North Slope shale oil play as THE answer to stemming the decline in TAPS. Beware. Great Bear, and the politicians who tout them as the silver bullet for declining production, are not telling the whole truth.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-10-03 16:02:272016-04-11 11:28:56The Biggest Oil Industry Giveaway without a Guarantee
Alaska North Slope oil production rose 30 percent in September from the previous month as maintenance ended on several fields leased by BP and ConocoPhillips.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-10-02 00:01:082012-10-02 00:01:08Alaska September Oil Output Jumps 30% as Maintenance Ends
An Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement has been reprimanded for improper release of government documents. The government also found that his research was based upon “incomplete” and “understated” data.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-10-01 03:46:082012-10-01 03:46:08Alaskan Scientist Galvanized ESA, Global Warming Movement to Polar Bear Drownings with Article that Used “Incomplete” and “Understated” Data
In a unanimous decision yesterday, the Alaska Supreme Court determined that former-Alaska Attorney General Wayne Anthony Ross’s son, an Annapolis graduate and active-duty Marine, no longer qualifies for an Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend. Find out why here.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-29 02:57:082012-09-29 02:57:08Alaskan Combat Military Veterans May No Longer Qualify For PFD, But Murkowski, Young & Begich Do
Russia has taken a bizarre step to declare its “ownership” of the Arctic Ocean region adjacent to Alaska by having a Russian Orthodox bishop “consecrate” the North Pole on behalf of the church.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-29 00:42:212012-09-29 00:42:21Russia declares “ownership” of Arctic Ocean Region Adjacent to Alaska by Russian Orthodox Consecration
Lance Roberts, a solid constitutional conservative from Fairbanks who will some day make an exceptional Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor, is calling for limited government, lower taxes and more property rights.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-28 01:30:342012-09-28 01:30:34Lance Roberts: `Limited government, lower taxes and more property rights are the answer’
Many suspect, given the premature adjournments of the other Alaska Republican Party meetings this year, that the failure to consider business in Fairbanks was motivated by a desire to avoid a vote on the pending Resolution to censure Lisa Murkowski.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-25 20:49:282012-09-25 20:49:28Did Lisa Murkowski Cause the Alaska Republican Party to Adjourn Prematurely in Fairbanks? (+video)
Heard a lot lately of the line “non-partisan” or “bi-partisan” in political advertising? Have you seen who is usually pushing that line? The “bi-partisan” coalition in our Senate this last year was “bi-partisan” as long as the bill was pushing the progressive, liberal line of thought.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-25 20:45:062012-09-25 20:45:06The “Non-Partisan” Scam at the Fairbanks North Star Borough
The outgoing chair of the Alaska Republican Party has again stopped a hard-hitting resolution against Senator Murkowski for her actions during the 2010 race and voting record since her tainted reelection. Read the text of the ARP Resolution here.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-25 20:12:492012-09-25 20:12:49Alaska Republican Party Resolution to Censure Senator Lisa Murkowski
From pushing the dead-end agenda of the Regional Native Corporations, to perpetuating honey buckets in the villages and telling everyone who to vote for, a former chair of the AFN tells Alaska that the Alaska Federation of Natives has lost its way.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-24 20:53:362012-09-24 20:53:36Former AFN Chair: Alaska Federation of Natives No Longer Represents the People
The Alaskan Republican Party central committee meeting in Fairbanks on Saturday, September 22, 2012, adjourned after only an hour, proving that the dysfunction of the state party is only growing worse.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-24 05:37:262012-09-24 05:37:26Video: Alaska Republican Party Dysfunction on Display in Fairbanks
This past weekend, the Restoring Liberty news site passed another milestone. As of Friday, it now exceeds the liberal Fairbanks News Miner in Internet traffic ranking, leaving only the Anchorage Daily News with more US web users.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-24 04:30:532012-09-24 04:30:53Restoring Liberty Now Second Most-Read Alaskan News Site
A tiny ray of common sense is peeking out of the court system. The court threw out a lawsuit from Friends of Mat-Su against Usibelli Coal mine. Guess who backed the suit and is running for office in the Mat-Su?
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-23 03:20:462012-09-23 03:20:46Common Sense and a breath of fresh air for the Mat-Su
This is the day Alaskans crow about to their brethren in the Lower 48, trying to make them jealous that the government gives them money to just live here. But what your Alaskan friends may not tell you is that the yearly bounty barely makes a dent in the higher cost to live in the nation’s northernmost state — and this year’s checks won’t go far.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-18 23:14:212012-09-18 23:14:21With Alaska’s Higher Costs, Dividends Won’t Go Far
Safety equipment that Shell Oil volunteered to put into place for drilling off the coast of Alaska is complicating the company’s quest to reach oil-bearing rock during the short open-water drilling season this year.
King salmon fisheries in major Alaska watersheds have been declared failures by the U.S. Department of Commerce, making commercial fishermen eligible for disaster relief.
Several GOP Electoral College members are looking for someone other than Romney to cast their votes for. Joe Miller’s wife, Kathleen, one of three Alaskan electors, was interviewed for this Associated Press article.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-13 02:35:572012-09-13 02:35:57Electoral College Members May Vote Against GOP Nominee
Only a day after Shell Alaska began drilling a landmark offshore oil well in the Arctic, the company was forced on Monday to pull off the well in the face of an approaching ice pack.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-11 03:18:492012-09-11 03:18:49Sea Ice Halts Shell Alaska’s Drilling of its Landmark Oil Well in Chukchi Sea
The impending food crisis, along with skyrocketing Alaska shipping costs, are combining to create a major food and feed price increases this next year in the land of the Midnight Sun.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-11 01:57:572012-09-11 01:57:57Alaska Feed & Food Prices Set to Soar
An outrageous decision from Alaska’s so-called Human Rights Commission has put in jeopardy the rights of Alaskan employers to speak freely about their faith on their own property.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-08 04:45:382012-09-08 04:45:38Outrage: Alaska’s Human Rights Commission Drives Christian Store Owner Out-of-Business for Religious Discussions with Employees
An overnight wind storm with gusts of over 100 miles an hour at high elevations knocked out power to at least half of Alaska’s largest city in the biggest outage in Anchorage’s center in decades, municipal and utility officials said on Wednesday.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-06 04:05:552012-09-06 04:05:55Rare Alaska Storm Packing 100mph Winds Takes Out Power to Half of Anchorage
In yet another case of a decorated Anchorage cop gone bad, the APD paid $5.5 million to settle several lawsuits arising from rapes committed by the police officer while on duty.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-06 04:00:162012-09-06 04:00:16Anchorage Pays Millions to Settle Lawsuits Over Rapes Committed by Decorated On-Duty Cop
Restoring Liberty’s readership has skyrocketed, surpassing most Alaskan media outlets. Read about this exciting development and see the numbers here.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-05 05:00:482012-09-05 05:00:48Restoring Liberty Milestone Reached: Site Surpasses Web Traffic of Most Alaskan Media Outlets
When Golden Valley Electric Association of rural Alaska received an administrative subpoena from the Drug Enforcement Administration in December 2010 seeking electricity bill information on three customers, the company did what it usually does with subpoenas — it ignored them. Not any more.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-04 04:55:112012-09-04 04:55:11We Don’t Need No Stinking Warrant: The Disturbing, Unchecked Rise of the Administrative Subpoena
A recent discovery of an enormous, ancient footprint in Denali National Park is being seen as another indication of how busy the prehistoric Alaskan landscape was.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2012-09-04 04:35:502012-09-04 04:35:50Gigantic Footprint in Denali Park Sheds Light on Prehistoric Alaska
The Biggest Oil Industry Giveaway without a Guarantee
/4 Comments/in Alaska News /by Jeff LandfieldRecent articles in local papers and community forums hosted by Alaska State Senators have promoted Great Bear Petroleum and their North Slope shale oil play as THE answer to stemming the decline in TAPS. Beware. Great Bear, and the politicians who tout them as the silver bullet for declining production, are not telling the whole truth.
Alaska September Oil Output Jumps 30% as Maintenance Ends
/0 Comments/in Alaska News /by Edward Welsch and Lynn DoanAlaska North Slope oil production rose 30 percent in September from the previous month as maintenance ended on several fields leased by BP and ConocoPhillips.
Alaskan Scientist Galvanized ESA, Global Warming Movement to Polar Bear Drownings with Article that Used “Incomplete” and “Understated” Data
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured, Updates /by Associated PressAn Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement has been reprimanded for improper release of government documents. The government also found that his research was based upon “incomplete” and “understated” data.
Alaskan Combat Military Veterans May No Longer Qualify For PFD, But Murkowski, Young & Begich Do
/6 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured, Original /by News EditorIn a unanimous decision yesterday, the Alaska Supreme Court determined that former-Alaska Attorney General Wayne Anthony Ross’s son, an Annapolis graduate and active-duty Marine, no longer qualifies for an Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend. Find out why here.
Russia declares “ownership” of Arctic Ocean Region Adjacent to Alaska by Russian Orthodox Consecration
/5 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Palash R. GhoshRussia has taken a bizarre step to declare its “ownership” of the Arctic Ocean region adjacent to Alaska by having a Russian Orthodox bishop “consecrate” the North Pole on behalf of the church.
Lance Roberts: `Limited government, lower taxes and more property rights are the answer’
/0 Comments/in Alaska News /by News EditorLance Roberts, a solid constitutional conservative from Fairbanks who will some day make an exceptional Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor, is calling for limited government, lower taxes and more property rights.
Did Lisa Murkowski Cause the Alaska Republican Party to Adjourn Prematurely in Fairbanks? (+video)
/5 Comments/in Alaska News, Original /by News EditorMany suspect, given the premature adjournments of the other Alaska Republican Party meetings this year, that the failure to consider business in Fairbanks was motivated by a desire to avoid a vote on the pending Resolution to censure Lisa Murkowski.
The “Non-Partisan” Scam at the Fairbanks North Star Borough
/1 Comment/in Alaska News /by News EditorHeard a lot lately of the line “non-partisan” or “bi-partisan” in political advertising? Have you seen who is usually pushing that line? The “bi-partisan” coalition in our Senate this last year was “bi-partisan” as long as the bill was pushing the progressive, liberal line of thought.
Alaska Republican Party Resolution to Censure Senator Lisa Murkowski
/6 Comments/in Alaska News /by News EditorThe outgoing chair of the Alaska Republican Party has again stopped a hard-hitting resolution against Senator Murkowski for her actions during the 2010 race and voting record since her tainted reelection. Read the text of the ARP Resolution here.
Former AFN Chair: Alaska Federation of Natives No Longer Represents the People
/1 Comment/in Alaska News, Featured, Original /by Joe MillerFrom pushing the dead-end agenda of the Regional Native Corporations, to perpetuating honey buckets in the villages and telling everyone who to vote for, a former chair of the AFN tells Alaska that the Alaska Federation of Natives has lost its way.
Video: Alaska Republican Party Dysfunction on Display in Fairbanks
/1 Comment/in Alaska News /by News EditorThe Alaskan Republican Party central committee meeting in Fairbanks on Saturday, September 22, 2012, adjourned after only an hour, proving that the dysfunction of the state party is only growing worse.
Restoring Liberty Now Second Most-Read Alaskan News Site
/4 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured, From Joe's Desk, Original /by Joe MillerThis past weekend, the Restoring Liberty news site passed another milestone. As of Friday, it now exceeds the liberal Fairbanks News Miner in Internet traffic ranking, leaving only the Anchorage Daily News with more US web users.
Common Sense and a breath of fresh air for the Mat-Su
/2 Comments/in Alaska News /by Amy WalkerA tiny ray of common sense is peeking out of the court system. The court threw out a lawsuit from Friends of Mat-Su against Usibelli Coal mine. Guess who backed the suit and is running for office in the Mat-Su?
With Alaska’s Higher Costs, Dividends Won’t Go Far
/4 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Mark ThiessenThis is the day Alaskans crow about to their brethren in the Lower 48, trying to make them jealous that the government gives them money to just live here. But what your Alaskan friends may not tell you is that the yearly bounty barely makes a dent in the higher cost to live in the nation’s northernmost state — and this year’s checks won’t go far.
Shell’s Safety System Problems Plague Arctic Plans
/0 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Dan JolingSafety equipment that Shell Oil volunteered to put into place for drilling off the coast of Alaska is complicating the company’s quest to reach oil-bearing rock during the short open-water drilling season this year.
Commerce secretary declares Alaska salmon disaster
/1 Comment/in Alaska News /by Dan JolingKing salmon fisheries in major Alaska watersheds have been declared failures by the U.S. Department of Commerce, making commercial fishermen eligible for disaster relief.
Electoral College Members May Vote Against GOP Nominee
/29 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured /by Mike BakerSeveral GOP Electoral College members are looking for someone other than Romney to cast their votes for. Joe Miller’s wife, Kathleen, one of three Alaskan electors, was interviewed for this Associated Press article.
Sea Ice Halts Shell Alaska’s Drilling of its Landmark Oil Well in Chukchi Sea
/0 Comments/in Alaska News /by Kim MurphyOnly a day after Shell Alaska began drilling a landmark offshore oil well in the Arctic, the company was forced on Monday to pull off the well in the face of an approaching ice pack.
Alaska Feed & Food Prices Set to Soar
/0 Comments/in Alaska News /by SUValleyThe impending food crisis, along with skyrocketing Alaska shipping costs, are combining to create a major food and feed price increases this next year in the land of the Midnight Sun.
Outrage: Alaska’s Human Rights Commission Drives Christian Store Owner Out-of-Business for Religious Discussions with Employees
/9 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured, Original /by Joe MillerAn outrageous decision from Alaska’s so-called Human Rights Commission has put in jeopardy the rights of Alaskan employers to speak freely about their faith on their own property.
Rare Alaska Storm Packing 100mph Winds Takes Out Power to Half of Anchorage
/0 Comments/in Alaska News /by Yereth RosenAn overnight wind storm with gusts of over 100 miles an hour at high elevations knocked out power to at least half of Alaska’s largest city in the biggest outage in Anchorage’s center in decades, municipal and utility officials said on Wednesday.
Anchorage Pays Millions to Settle Lawsuits Over Rapes Committed by Decorated On-Duty Cop
/3 Comments/in Alaska News /by Yereth RosenIn yet another case of a decorated Anchorage cop gone bad, the APD paid $5.5 million to settle several lawsuits arising from rapes committed by the police officer while on duty.
Restoring Liberty Milestone Reached: Site Surpasses Web Traffic of Most Alaskan Media Outlets
/3 Comments/in Alaska News, Featured, From Joe's Desk /by Joe MillerRestoring Liberty’s readership has skyrocketed, surpassing most Alaskan media outlets. Read about this exciting development and see the numbers here.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Warrant: The Disturbing, Unchecked Rise of the Administrative Subpoena
/2 Comments/in Alaska News /by David KravetsWhen Golden Valley Electric Association of rural Alaska received an administrative subpoena from the Drug Enforcement Administration in December 2010 seeking electricity bill information on three customers, the company did what it usually does with subpoenas — it ignored them. Not any more.
Gigantic Footprint in Denali Park Sheds Light on Prehistoric Alaska
/0 Comments/in Alaska News /by Lori TownsendA recent discovery of an enormous, ancient footprint in Denali National Park is being seen as another indication of how busy the prehistoric Alaskan landscape was.