Paul -- you are right that Mr. Steiner is way off base.

But.    Bad call Governor. Bad call by your AG.

This lawsuit will go forward with out any Alaska involvement. What did you get or gain by jumping in?? Not a word of answer to that question in anything that’s been said. More waste of the public resource tilting at Federal litigation windmills!

Who did you just get in bed with?? Seventeen states and pseudo-states of which only one where oil and gas is part of the local economy and a state revenue source. There is nobody on the list that Alaskans want to be “like” or that we have anything in common with.

The one clear common ingredient in the litigants is that their governments are dominated by the environmental movement. More than half the states on the list have actively opposed ANY DEVELOPMENT in Alaska for several decades. This is a lot bigger than ANWR and Exxon. Governor, stop being a lawyer and start representing Alaskans and Alaskan interests as a Governor should.