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...burly anchorage longshoreman named Scott Heyworth turned up in the nearby town of Wasilla for a meeting with its mayor, Sarah Palin. Heyworth, a local Democratic activist, had grown tired of waiting for the Big Three oil companies to tap their huge natural-gas reserves in the state's North Slope, the long swatch of northern Alaska tundra that includes the largest oil and gas fields in North America. For decades, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and British Petroleum had little incentive to sell the trillions of cubic feet of natural gas that shares space beneath the ice with all those oil deposits...
...with Election Day about a month away, the battle for Colorado is fiercer than the annual Buffaloes vs. Rams college-football showdown. Barack Obama recently passed through on his ninth visit, while John McCain has made 10 stops of his own. Sarah Palin swung through twice in just her first two weeks on the GOP ticket. And Coloradans can't turn on Dancing with the Stars without seeing the campaigns' dueling ads on energy and the economy...
...Sarah Palin poured the visitor a cup of coffee and listened intently to his 45-minute pitch. "It sounds like a good idea," she told him. "I'll sign it and support...
...began Palin's unusual relationship with the oil and gas industry that dominates the state's economy. She says it is her experience in energy matters that best prepares her to be John McCain's Vice President. Indeed, she came out of nowhere to win the governorship by promising to get more out of the oil industry for Alaskans. But for many independent observers, this heady populism was more effective in getting her elected than it was in actually getting things done once she was governor. No initiative illustrates that better than the natural-gas pipeline project, which Palin pushed...
...industry. Over the past 25 years, the average Alaskan has received roughly $1,200 from the state each year. When fuel costs spiraled out of control in rural Alaska, instead of focusing on suggestions to help rural residents weatherize their homes or develop small-scale renewable energy sources, Palin wrote every Alaskan a second check...