That is patently not true. Oil and gas companies explore all the time in countries where they are not laided tribute to appease them.

I am tired of paying for the attempts at someone else to get rich. So while the dividend is taken from us I am supposed to be okay with millions of dollars go to some guy that bought a failed Australian company and seems to be just one person that took us for a bunch of money.

If you run a small local business you cannot ask the government to do your market research and explore a location for you to do your work. Look at the pot shops and that leg work they had to do.

So we do no help local companies that actually open store fronts but we do shovel millions of dollars toward companies that are running blue sky projects and hoping to make some money.

Money that for the most part will leave Alaska. Most of these businesses are not here and they take their money with them when they leave.

They want to drill oil, make them pay for their own business.