" ........Let's streamline the permitting with the Feds and build a toll road to Barrow all the way through NPRA from Kuparuk so that more discoveries like this can fill TAPS and help sustain Alaska's economy for 40 more years."
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So, here's the real, valid conversation which needs to begin....  what does Alaska intend to do after that 40 years?  The term "non renewable" will come home to haunt us all if we don't pay attention today, stop squabbling, sit down together and address a long term, sustainable plan.  Now. Not 38 years from now.