Stevens on the gas pipeline (click here)
Posted by Wesley Loy
Posted: February 19, 2008 - 3:56 pm
...No pipeline will be built until the companies holding the gas – chiefly Exxon Mobil, Conoco Phillips and BP – are sure of all the costs including state fiscal or tax terms, Stevens said.
That’s because of the enormous expense of the project – up to $40 billion.
As a press conference following his address to lawmakers, Stevens stopped short of saying Gov. Sarah Palin should sit down and start negotiating taxes with the oil giants....
See, Alaska has always been a frontier. It has never been a 'developed' state. Juneau, the state capital, has no road access. The only way into Juneau is by boat, ferry or plane. It is part of the charm of the city and the place where the lower extremes of the Juneau Ice Fields can be observed in the Mendenhall Glacier (click here).
By being elected Vice President, Ms. Palin, would be leaving Alaska and that has to be a relief somewhat to those still longing for Alaskan Frontier Politics. I haven't heard her comment on Ted Stevens yet, but, I am sure it would be 'the old Republican' stand-by-your-party routine whereby, "...well, we just don't know the truth regarding 'all that' with Senator Stevens, its only an indictment at this point and he was renominated after all by the same party I am a part of.
Senator, Alaska politics under siege (click here)
Wide-ranging corruption probe threatens to change the face of state government (click here)
Hal Bernton and Ralph Thomas
The Seattle Times
...The agents opened the door with the aid of a locksmith, and they didn't leave until about midnight as they sought evidence of a major campaign contributor's involvement in the remodeling of Stevens' home.
"I don't know how the senator feels about this," Pederson said. "But if this happened to me, I would feel so violated."...
Alaska is 'small town politics' spread out over a vast land mass which designates it as the largest state in the union. Its strengths are its beauty, not its natural gas. Tourism and its fisheries are Alaska's best economy and sometimes to folks this far north, that just ain't enough.
Currently, Alaskans receive a stipends of $1500 per year due to taxes received on 'the inflated value of oil' to the Alaskan treasury. Ms. Palin states she was able to give that stipends to Alaskans due to the huge profits that fell under the tax structure of that state.
On 'whom's back' did Alaskans' receive their stipends?
How about the folks from the Lower 48?
Ms. Palin's reply to Big Oil's Big Profits, is 'bring it on' because with her stipends to Alaskans, it makes for good politics.
Don't talk to me about Big Oil and corruption. There are all kinds and the form it takes with McCain and Palin is very creative indeed !
The 'exposure' of the Veco Corruption was NOT done by Ms. Palin, it was conducted by the FBI.
THAT WAS A FEDERAL INDICTMENT. Not an Alaskan State Bureau finding, okay?
Ted Steven's son, President of the Alaskan legislature, was paid off.
An interview with a former Alaska lawmaker on the Veco scandal (click here).
Posted by Anupama, May 14th, 2007 ·
On May 4, federal prosecutors charged Rep. Vic Kohring, an Alaska state lawmaker, and two former statehouse colleagues, Bruce Weyhrauch, and Pete Kott, for conspiracy to commit extortion and bribery. Three days later, two top officials from the oil services firm Veco Corp., CEO Bill Allen and Rick Smith, vice president for community and government affairs, pled guilty to bribing four Alaska lawmakers—Kohring, Weyhrauch and Kott and former state Sen. Ben Stevens, the son of U.S. Sen Ted Stevens, R-Alaska....
While Sarah Palin is clean as a whistle of any Veco corruption, that doesn't mean 'she has her head screwed on straight' when it comes to Big Oil and the exploitation of the USA's treasury to benefit Alaska if she were to become Ms. Veep.
Ms. Palin is nothing more than pure unadultered ambition and IF she were ever to achieve the Vice Presidency, she would see to it that every state had an oil derrick, including offshore, and that Alaska got its gas pipeline regardless of its NEEDLESSNESS.
By the way.
It was Hillary that achieved 18 million cracks in the White House Ceiling. NOT SARAH.
