Alaskan Residents Call For a New Tax on Oil Production in the Far North

A group of Alaskan residents has begun urging the state government to impose a production tax on high-yield oil fields located above 68 degrees latitude. The group is now circulating a petition in the hope of subjecting the plan – which would only affect the operators of the Alpine, Kuparuk, and Prudhoe Bay fields – to a vote in 2020.

Posted by Jennifer Delay Iacullo

Jennifer DeLay Iacullo is a freelance writer specializing in global oil, gas, and power engineering topics. She has covered the energy industry of the former Soviet Union, China, Africa, Latin America and North America for more than 20 years. She lives in Atlanta with her family.

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