Jake, 1959 big oil with Nixon and a few state leader sold Alaskans out when they took the mineral rights away for the people, this trick did not work in other oil and gas states in the Union. This can be undone if the people wrote a petition and did a referendum on the ballot then get the Fed's to change this!  

Give Alaska back to the Alaskans, simply distribute all the land surface and subsurface using a lottery, each Alaskan would have two tracks of around 160 acres each with mineral rights 

If the state oil & gas agencies and state  government would work for the people instead of the majors this could be avoided, but that has not happen, but Mack and Walsh at the DNR under Walker may change but no sign yet. The DNR DOG increased the rentals 8,000% to keep Alaskans out of the lease sales, so no Alaskans can bid. The State  has 50 million acres warehoused but still increased min bids from $1.00 per acre to $25 in the state lease sales.

The DNR aim lease seems to keep Alaskans out?