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Gold/Mining/Energy : Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Snowshoe who wrote (189)	8/7/2006 1:37:37 PM
From: Kenneth Kirk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 570

I agree with most of your assessments, Snowshoe, except the one about Uncle Frank pulling a "Wally Hickel" and running on a third party ticket. I suspect most of Murkowski's supporters are royalist Republicans, who will support the party ticket in November even if it's not their guy. In fairness though, I could be wrong; I don't think I know anyone who's supporting the Governor so I'm not sure where his support comes from. (for those non-Alaskans who aren't following this, Wally Hickel was the former US Interior Secretary and Republican Alaska governor from the 60's. In 1990 a fairly liberal candidate won the Republican gubernatorial primary with a plurality. Hickel jumped in as a third party candidate and actually won, serving as Governor until 1994. Then we had a similar problem, in which a pro-abortion candidate won the GOP primary and Hickel's Lt. Governor ran a third party candidacy. He split the vote and Alaska got a liberal Democrat as governor.) FWIW I saw Hickel just recently - at a Sarah Palin for Governor rally, making a supporting speech.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (189)	8/7/2006 4:08:06 PM
From: kathtoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 570

Hello Snowshoe, Thanks for your informative posts on the pipeline situation. My hubby and I lived in Alaska from 82 to 88. He worked up at Prudhoe Bay and on the Kenai Penninsula for a subsidiary of Arco (Arco Chemical, who was eventually bought out by baker hughes). He's calling some of his old oil field friends for any more info. I remember he used to sell lots and lots of corrosion inhibitor up there. Sometime late in the 80's they really started cutting corners on the chemicals they used for that sort of thing. The business got quite cut throat and he got out. I don't know if that continued, or it had any bearing on the situation. He told me today that production was about a million and a half barrels a day back then and now it's down to 800,000 barrels per day. I can't imagine they didn't know about this problem. Hmmmm. OT; Regarding Susan Butcher: We were privileged to help hold her dogs back at the start of the Iditarod for one of the races. I think it was the year she lost because her team got tangled in a moose. One of her dogs was named Tekla (which I read was one of her daughters names). My hubby said that she had credited Tekla with one of her wins one year. She was an amazing woman and we had good friends that knew her quite well, so we would hear about her triumphs regularly back then, as well as her disappointments and defeats. The year her team got tangled in a moose, she had to quarter the moose and pack it out (those were the rules of the race). That used up a lot of valuable time. In addition, some of her most beloved dogs were badly injured (I can't remember, but I think she lost one or two). She tended to them, as her dogs came first; she would have had to drop her injured dogs, so realistically she knew she couldn't finish the race. She was such a favorite that year and it was really bad luck. She went on to win though, after that, and I remember seeing her on Jay Leno. She was just so self sufficient and self reliant. She could (and did) build a log cabin by herself, and she chopped ice to get water (for herself and her dogs). A true pioneer has left us. A one of a kind.