Edward Itta, mayor of the North Slope Borough, participates in a panel discussion on the energy situation in Rural Alaska at the Alaska Federation of Natives conference on October 2, 2008.
Parade magazine -- the Sunday newspaper insert read across the country -- will feature North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta this weekend.
From the magazine's Web site, which calls Itta "Alaska's other maverick':
Edward Itta, 65, may be one of America’s most powerful mayors—but you’ve probably never heard of him. He governs the Wyoming-sized North Slope Borough of Alaska, a territory larger than 39 of our 50 states. However, his influence doesn’t come from the size of that area but from what lies beneath the land and its adjacent waters. The North Slope contains the country’s largest oil field, Prudhoe Bay, which is now producing less than one-third of its former peak flow. The next great energy find—up to 27 billion barrels of oil and 132 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to U.S. government sources—is thought to be under the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, directly offshore from the North Slope.
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