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Sean R. Parnell (born November 19, 1962) is an American politician and the 10th and current Governor of Alaska. A member of the Republican Party, Parnell was sworn into office on July 26, 2009, succeeding Governor Sarah Palin after her resignation.[2][3]
Born in Hanford, California, Parnell is a graduate from the University of Puget Sound School of Law. Parnell entered private practice before being elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1992. He served two terms in the Alaska House from 1993 to 1997 when he was elected to one term in the Alaska Senate from 1997 to 2001. Parnell then entered the private sector as a lobbyist, becoming the Alaska government relations director for ConocoPhillips and an advisor at the lobbying firm Patton Boggs.
Returning to public service, Parnell was selected as therunning mate to Sarah Palin's 2006 gubernatorial campaign, where they defeated former Democratic GovernorTony Knowles. Parnell was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of Alaska in December 2006 and later assumed the governorship after Palin resigned in July 2009. Parnell was elected to a full term as Governor in 2010, defeating former State Senator Ethan Berkowitz in the general election. Parnell is the first unelected Alaska Governor to be elected in his own right.[4]
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- 1 Early life, education, and law career
- 2 Alaska legislature
- 3 Lobbying career
- 4 Lieutenant governor
- 5 2008 congressional campaign
- 6 Governor of Alaska
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To drill or not to drill in a nationally protected arctic wildlife habitat and polar bear breeding ground? That is the question heading to court.
On Friday, the state of Alaska launched a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of the Interior and some of its directors, claiming they wrongfully rejected the state’s application to look for oil and gas on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. According the the lawsuit, the agencies didn’t even consider the plan — an act that “deprived” Alaska of “its right to provide adequate opportunity for the satisfaction of the economic and social needs of the State.”
The application rejected by the U.S. government was not for actual drilling. Rather, it was a seven-year seismic program that would have provided a more specific estimate of the oil and gas resources within the Arctic Refuge’s coastal plain — commonly referred to as the 1002 Area. That estimate, the lawsuit says, would help “to inform future decisions by Congress” on whether to drill there.
The U.S. government contends that Alaska’s authority to look for oil in the nationally protected area has expired. Alaska contends it has not.
The Arctic Refuge’s oil has been an ongoing political controversy since 1977, when a British Petroleum geologist named Roger Herrera testified to Congress that he believed there was enormous potential for production. In 2000, the U.S. Energy Information Administration called the area “the largest unexplored, potentially productive geologic onshore basin in the United States.”
Indeed, the area’s oil potential could be enormous. The United States Geological Serviceestimates that anywhere from 5.7 to 16 billion barrels of oil is technically recoverable from the 1002 area. Taken at its mean, that means the 1002 area could produce about one million barrels of oil per day — about 20 percent of America’s daily domestic production, according to the Institute for Energy Research.
However, there are still uncertainties regarding the importance of the area’s oil. Despite its estimates for production, the EIA has also said that the 1002 area’s oil would probably not have a large impact on world oil prices. “Additional oil production resulting from the opening of the Arctic Refuge would be only a small portion of total world oil production, and would likely be offset in part by somewhat lower production outside the United States,” the agencysaid.
There are also myriad environmental issues. Located within the Arctic circle, the 1002 area has no sunlight for 56 days of the year, and temperatures are often as low as below 30 degrees Fahrenheit. This makes it extremely difficult to figure out how to clean up an oil spill if one were to occur, according to the Sierra Club, whose recent report on the issue noted that there are no proven technologies to clean up spills in Arctic waters.
“Trying to clean oil out of frigid water, covered in sea ice, in the perpetual darkness of winter would be impossible,” the report reads. “The closest help, a Coast Guard station, is 1,000 miles away.”
In addition, The Arctic Refuge itself is a beacon of wildlife. It is one of only two areas within the National Wildlife Refuge System that are home to all three species of North American bear — black, grizzly, and polar. The 1002 area’s polar bear population is especially important considering its high possibility of global extinction due to climate change — a fact that the Sierra Club noted in its report.
“Burning the fossil fuels found in the Arctic will only accelerate global warming and hasten the disappearance of animals like the polar bear,” the report reads.
A larger-than-expected number of pregnant females come to the 1002 area every year to dig maternity dens, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The area is the only national conservation area where polar bears regularly den, and is the most consistently-used polar bear land denning area in Alaska.In the 2008 Presidential election, both President Obama and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) expressed oppositionto drilling in the pristine area.
Alaska’s Republican Governor Sean Parnell is touting the lawsuit, calling it “disappointing and disturbing” that the Obama Administration does not want to look for oil in the polar bear breeding ground. The stance is not unexpected for Parnell, who has expressed a desire to keep the Environmental Protection Agency out of the state, and immediately disbanded his state’s Climate Change Cabinet upon taking office in 2009.
Parnell — a former ConocoPhillips executive — is seeking reelection in 2014.
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Sean Parnell, a Republican, is the governor of Alaska since July 2009. He became governor when Sarah Palin resigned halfway through her term. Parnell then won in the 2010 general election for governor.[1] In the 2008 congressional elections for the at-large Congressional district of Alaska, he challenged incumbent Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) for the Republican nomination, but lost the primary to Young on August 26, 2008.[2]
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2008 elections
Parnell was seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) in the 2008 congressional elections, but lost the primary to Young by a small margin of votes.[2]
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Related SourceWatch articles
References
- Jump up↑ Sean Parnell profile, Politics Daily, accessed January 2011.
- ↑ ^Jump ^up ^to:2.0^ 2.1 ^Don Young Just Barely Edges Out Parnell
External resources
- Sean Parnell profile, The Washington Post, accessed January 2011.
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Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council
CCP President Sean Parnell represents CCP on the Public Safety and Elections Task Force of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). At the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting, he introduced the "Resolution in Support of Appropriate Disclosure Requirements" model policy for adoption by the Public Safety and Elections Task Force.[7] On July 20, 2011, Parnell published an article in The Daily Caller (conservative/Republican news spin organization founded by conservative reporter Tucker Carlson and former Dick Cheney aide Neil Patel) criticizing Common Cause for requesting that the Internal Revenue Service look into claims that ALEC, in violation of the laws governing 501(c)(3) organizations, has engaged in lobbying.[8]
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Sean Parnell is the President of the Center for Competitive Politics, a Virginia-based non-profit group that supports corporate "speech" in political campaigns.
Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council
Parnell represents CCP on the Public Safety and Elections Task Force of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). At the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting, he introduced the "Resolution in Support of Appropriate Disclosure Requirements" model policy for adoption by the Public Safety and Elections Task Force.[1]
On July 20, 2011, Parnell published an article in The Daily Caller (conservative/Republican news spin organization founded by conservative reporter Tucker Carlson and former Dick Cheney aide Neil Patel) criticizing Common Cause for requesting that the Internal Revenue Service look into claims that ALEC, in violation of the laws governing 501(c)(3) organizations, has engaged in lobbying.[2]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sean_Parnell_%28Center_for_Competitive_Politics%29
Background
A biographical note states that Parnell was "previously vice president for external affairs at The Heartland Institute, a free market think tank in Chicago. His primary responsibility for Heartland was fundraising. At Heartland, Sean also spent time researching, writing, and speaking on public policy issues. He wrote Congressional testimony and numerous articles and op-eds. He also authored two research papers for the Texas Public Policy Foundation and briefed public officials and trade groups on policy issues. Prior to joining Heartland, Sean worked on political campaigns in Iowa. He managed a successful congressional campaign and served as finance director for a U.S. Senate race. Sean received an economics degree from Drake University."[3]
Contact Details
Tel: (703) 894-6800
Fax: (703) 682-9321
Email: sparnell AT campaignfreedom.org
Website: http://www.campaignfreedom.org
Articles and Resources
Related SourceWatch Articles
References
- ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council, "Public Safety and Elections Task Force Meeting," agenda and meeting materials, August 4, 2011, on file with CMD
- ↑ Sean Parnell, Common Cause’s selective outrage, The Daily Caller, July 20, 2011
- ↑ Center for Competitive Politics, "CCP Staff", Center for Competitive Politics website, accessed February 2009.