Community Forum: Opposing political viewpoint to AGIA

Wed, January 16, 2008 
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ahalcro.jpgFormer Anchorage legislator, Andrew Halcro joins Nellie Moore on Community Forum. Halcro has been on outspoken critic of Governor Sarah Palin’s Alaska Gasline Inducement Act.

HOST: Nellie Moore, independent journalist

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3 Responses to “Community Forum: Opposing political viewpoint to AGIA”

  1. Robert Lee on January 16, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    The Governor is doing a good job in holding a tough line with the oil company. I’m not saying that everything she does is right, but one only need look at the profits of these compaies to see that they are weeping crocadile tears. What is the rush? The oil has been there for billions of years and it will keep unless we give it away like Murkowski did. I assure you, sooner or later somebody will do it her way and the whole State will be better off for that. Is Halcro looking for a job? He obviously has an anti-government pro-big oil stance.

  2. Mike Rosen on January 16, 2008 at 11:42 pm

    It is obvious that Mr. Halcro, in sharp contrast to Governor Palin and Mr. Lee, has a command of the facts and details, and an understanding of the economic conditions that an Alaskan gas pipeline must meet to attract the type of investment that a project of this magnitude requires. We Alaskans must choose to learn and understand the issues of an economically viable project and sustainable oil and gas industries in our state. We must stop relying on ignorance, misinformation, and prejudice to guide our policies and opinions. The fact is the Governor is doing a poor job, she is guided by a desire to pose as a crusader, but she is poorly advised about the realities of the oil and gas marketplace in which, like it or not, Alaskan gas is a minor component. Just look to what a fantastic job the Governor did to save the Matanuska Maid Dairy, and the great success the Delta Barley project led by the business savvy government of Alaska has been, and then try to convince yourself the Governor or the State of Alaska has even a remote chance of guiding the state through one of the largest investment ever attempted by a non-government commercial endeavor. Mr. Lee would be much better off if he tried listening to the lucid explanations offered by Mr. Halcro, instead of bringing up how long the gas has been in place, which doesn’t make one iota of difference to the issues at hand, but somehow it seems to be a rallying cry for the ignorant and uninformed. The sooner or later that someone (who? no one has come along in the last 30 years) will come around to take up the Governor’s pipeline plan that Mr. Lee refers to. It is going to be much, much later, after Plain is gone from the Governor’s Mansion, which by the way seems to have been strangely transported to Wasilla, of that I can assure you Mr. Lee.

  3. Antegren Kedd on January 19, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    Halcro speaks the TRUTH… AGIA is a disaster…Sarah is immature and incompetent and her EGO won’t let her admit she was wrong and she doesn’t have the skills or ability to sit down with Producers and negotiate… It looks like we now have to wait until 2010-2011 to get a new Governor… Unless the Legislature grows some and starts putting Sarah in her place, the gas pipeline will only be a pipe dream… Sarah’s approval is no longer 90%… If a poll was taken today, I would guess it would top out at 60%… It’s falling fast… In a year it will probably be down to 30% approval, tops… For Sarah, the chickens are coming home to roost…

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