text: Forget your local hire comments. Even the governor doesn't believe in that otherwise why is he having the engineering work for his LNG project being done down in CA? The oil companies already hire locally when the workforce can supply the people because it makes sense and it's cheaper. And many of us are now unemployed, or have already left the state in search of work. And the environmental regulations here in AK are very strict, and that's good. The environment for oil exploration and production here in AK has gotten very toxic.