What do you see as the benefits?  More industry and jobs in the area? We have a place in Willow, and I do not see much benefit. I do have concerns about our water well, traffic on little used dirt roads, and activity in the area. Is the road in to your place ready to have a drill rig and various commercial trucks moving up and back regularly? You probably do not own the subsurface rights, and the state laws and regulations are set up to give the subsurface lease holder access. This means they could drill beneath your land and not pay you much, if anything.  Alaska is not Texas or North Dakota where you would get money for gas or oil beneath your lot. There are some old homesteads in Alaska that had the subsurface rights written in the original deed but not many. I know a lot of people who would think it a really big change to have a drill rig park in the lot next door ( Noisy!! )