Comments on: Protest calls out Buccaneer

By: I bowl. Drive around.

I bowl. Drive around. — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 03:21:12 +0000

Homer is damn lucky to have Shavelson and the Cook Inlet Keeper on their side!

By: raised by wolves

raised by wolves — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:44:43 +0000

Apparently you do not hail from the Homer crowd. I’m certain NO Homer resident would actually know anything about the charges for mooring the Buccaneer unless they are affiliated with the captain of the rig. Are you the City Manager? AND which local businesses are making those six figure incomes in the short period of time the rig has ben in Kachemak Bay? “I know of a couple of local businesses that have made 6 figure incomes in the short period of time the rig has been in Kachemack Bay,” (by the way most residents know how to spell Kachemak Bay), and … thanks for telling us all where the workers stay … and congratulations to the Bidarks for making so much money. The other thing is … gas in our area is not declining … but thanks for giving us your plans for Kenai.

By: kbaywatcher

kbaywatcher — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:25:03 +0000

It amazes me the protest from the Homer crowd. I believe I heard that the moorage alone at the dock for the Bucaneer is running $60,000 + a month for the Port and Harbor, at a time when the city is looking at a budget shortfall. I know of a couple of local businesses that have made 6 figure incomes in the short period of time the rig has been in Kachemack Bay, not to mention, the workers that have living at the Bidarka, buying groceries, and eating in our restaraunts. And all the while here to trying and boost our gas production that is declining, and provide needed gas for the new users of the pipeline here in Homer, not to mention maybe put the facilities in North Kenai but to full production.

By: Herb

Herb — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:40:40 +0000

Vote NO on the assessment. Definitely VOTE. The city will vote for you if you do not.

By: desal

desal — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:53:50 +0000

Because I was lazy at the time and did not spell well that makes me an outsider? O.K. I admit my spelling was really bad. So what. Also we are ALL outsiders even the “first people” are from asia. Just because you got here a few years before others does not make you a better “Alaskan” or that you have some “special” knowelege of alaskana .So don’t get yer panties in a bunch.

By: lonesome dove

lonesome dove — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:55:58 +0000

There is also the threat of the boss,(oim) on the rig just walking off the rig without telling anyone. I heard he did the same thing to the other company he was working for in the gulf of mexico. He just one day woke up got on a boat and went in to the dock with all his clothes. He would not answer the phone from the company calling wanting to know why he left the rig. He did say to someone that he had a heart problem. Well, do Alaskans really want a company around with rig leaders like that? What if a spill occurs and he is not on the rig? What if the rig blows when he is not on the rig? If,and I say IF, he does have heart problems, then can he really be in good enough health to be a boss on a drilling rig? There are way too many questions about the leaders on the rig to trust them completely.

By: concerned sourdough

concerned sourdough — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:13:23 +0000

Protesters do not require a ‘mission of importance’ if the cause for protesting is valid. Valid, meaning legally sound, gives the hope for a better quality of living for all, without destroying the eco-system in which we live. Ask the fishermen who lost all their life’s savings, jobs, businesses, families, to the reckless devastation of the Exxon Valdez oil spill (who btw, most never recovered) … go see the results in the museum, and then bring your snobs back to the table.

“Targeting the only company who has the potential to increase gas production in a meaningful way in the near future is doing Alaskans a diservice…” HOLY CRAP! Is this the best we can do people? Allowing only one company to issue orders to our community? Are they so big they can’t see themselves. Welcome to Homer, Hamlet by the Sea, a small community with a fishing problem, who sees all, hears all, knows all (in one hour of the event). Who are you people, who go behind the public’s back to instill your equipment and your big business plans, way before the people who made Homer a community to become available to you, ever knew of your HUGE plans? Propagandizer of lies … that’s who you are.

By: concerned sourdough

concerned sourdough — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:50:11 +0000

David I would like to agree with you, but you must think the people living in Homer are stupid and disconnected from the rest of the world. The rest of the world, who are mostly suffering from small holocausts because of BIG OIL PROBLEMS, can be blamed on “war and rumors of war,” and such, but, we are quickly learning war all stems from greed, programming, and ignorance, and the 1% taking advantage of science and the media because both can be bought. We already have better technology … but for greed, all the patents had been bought up, or we would all be sharing the same free energy God gave the world (enhanced for human use by Tesla. Ever heard of Tesla?) It’s time to change our greedy hunger for unrenewable resources such as oil, and if we have to tighten our belts a bit, and heat the old fashioned way for a while, we can, because we are human beings with inventive minds. Why are we drilling every source available to man right now? Oil is not a renewable source of energy and we are depleting it as we destroy the horn of plenty. How dare you try to fool us with your shilling remarks. Yes, we do all the things you say we do because that’s what we’ve been “given.” Our education system does not teach us how to survive the Planets conditions, so that gives BIG OIL a free hand to treat us as slaves to the conditions we are led into by Greed. Search your own soul.

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By: Louise

Louise — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:12:15 +0000

Thank goodness for Bob Shevelson and Cook Inlet staff: they do their homework, protect the environment and ask questions before driving off the cliff