The DNR DOG increased the state oil & gas lease sale rentals to over 8,000% and Min. Bids by 150% when oil prices crashed and no one bid in 2016! 

This year's 2017 Cook Inlet sale the DNR DOG kept these outrageous increases and the state took away all exploration tax incentives in the Cook Inlet and now DNR DOG Director Chantal Walsh can't see that only one private billionaire from Texas bidding is not reason to announce the return to the lower terms is sad?

It seems the DNR DOG decided to price Alaskans and other smaller competitors out and let one billionaire own company form a monopoly in the gas market as the DNR DOG management prices the competition out so Alaskans can't bid on any of the remaining 4.1 million acres that got no bids!

How can anyone that manages 29 million acres say "For the state, the sale of six leases was satisfactory, especially compared to last year's state lease sale, which yielded no bids, said Chantal Walsh, director of the Alaska Division of Oil & Gas"?