text: Many commenters appear outraged at The Center for Biological Diversity.  Where's the outrage at paying a company to drill? BlueCrest isn't undertaking this venture because it's a moneymaker... They're being subsidized by the State of Alaska.  Alaskan lawmakers are giving our clean water and fish away & Alaskans are upset when an environmental group steps in to try and stop them?
  
  Key quotes below.  Read up. 
  
  "BlueCrest ... has received $21 million in tax credits."
  "BlueCrest looked all over the U.S. and what made the company look at Alaska was the tax credits and the opportunity"
  - House Resources Committee, July 2015
  
  "In no cases are we paying anyone to take our oil... With the possible exception of Cook Inlet.”
  "Cook Inlet oil companies contribute 5 percent of oil revenue  while receiving approximately 50 percent of the credits. We can’t look at this and not conclude that there is a substantial subsidy on Cook Inlet production'."
  Homer News July 2015