In Response
Dear Editor: I was a little offended by the condescending tone of Sen. Stedman’s (Sentinel March 8, 2013) lecture on ‘‘Fairness to the Oil Producers.’’
Someone pointed out to me that three years ago the price of crude oil was $140 per barrel for crude oil. And, gas was $2.50 at the pump. Today oil is $98 a barrel; and gas retails at $4.25 a gallon.
All of which calls into question the entire promise of incentivizing the drilling industry during an unprecedented boom in the industry.
It seems farcical, to me, this ‘‘good cop-bad cop’’ facade that the senator adopts toward the Gov’s oil give-away plan. There is no real basis for any compromise of ACES. Shame on anyone who tells us otherwise.
Sigurd D. Rutter, Sitka
Food Film Festival
Dear Editor: The food movement is alive and we are right at the pulse of it here in Sitka; together we are building a more resilient food system! Thank you to all of the food conscious movers and shakers who attended the first ever Sitka Food Film Festival. And especially, a hearty thank you to our volunteers: Chelsey Wheeler, Anna and John Yearwood, Erin Fulton, Sabrina Cimerol, Kitty Wilson, Garrett Bauer, Judy Lehman, Wendy Alderson, Justin Maenhout, Tiffany Bryner, Allison Sayer and generous sponsors: the Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust, the Sitka Conservation Society, Art Change, SEARHC, the Sitka Film Society, the Island Institute, the Sitka Food Co-op, Alaska Pure Sea Salt Co., the Larkspur Café and anyone we may have missed. See you next year.
Andrianna Natsoulas,
Courtney Bobsin, Tracy Gagnon,
Sitka Food Film Festival
Constitutional Amendment
Dear Editor: Last year Sitka’s City and Borough Assembly passed a resolution saying that corporations are not people and should not be entitled to the rights of people. They also urged our state government to take the same stand and call for a Constitutional Amendment that would repeal these rights of corporations. Corporations don’t need clean air, water, safe food and medicine, or the beauty of the natural world. Their only concern is profit and it doesn’t matter at whose expense.
Recently Gov. Parnell has put the interests of corporations first and foremost in pushing his legislative and regulatory agenda. We have seen this with the cruise ship waste water ballot initiative which he tossed out, coal mining interests of Pebble Mine by removing DNR’s mandate regarding conservation and his push for a big oil industry tax giveaway.
Alaska and Alaskans should not be for sale. Please take a stand and contact Governor Parnell at: governor@alaska.gov.
Libby Stortz, Sitka
