Note from Rep. Les Gara: Oil Company “Liar Liar” Accusations: Spin, Attack on Sen. French and Yours Truly, Make Truth a Casualty

This job is hard sometimes. It becomes harder when you have to waste your time researching facts that others – in this case an oil company lobbying group – tell half-truths about to get the law changed in their $$$$ favor. Shocking that those who shill for multinational foreign corporations would not tell you the whole truth in an effort to take your money (when you lose a fair share for Alaska’s oil the next demand will be for an income tax or a cut in your Permanent Fund Dividend). Nobody likes being called a liar by well-funded special interests.

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East-West Pipeline Corridor in NPR-A Critical For Oil and Gas Development

For Immediate Release: August 9th, 2011   East-West Pipeline Corridor in NPR-A Critical For Oil and Gas Development Ten Alaska lawmakers urge federal agency to include corridor in draft plans   ANCHORAGE-Ten Alaskan lawmakers today sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Land Management, urging the agency to create an east-west pipeline corridor as …

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