i was in charge of our nvironmental standards in alaska when i was the commissioner of natural resources, in the state, and i previously served in he bush administration under condoleezza rice as an assistant secretary of state in charge of economic, finance and energy issues, so i spent a lot of time in other parts of the world produce oil and gas, russia, saudi arabia, kazakhstan, brazil, i'll tell you this. fact.a there is no place on planet earth that has higher standards, higher standards of producing energy than alaska. and so my pitch has always been you want to protect the global environment and you know to continue need to produce energy, we should choose the place that has the highest standards. places like russia, in the arctic, they don't give a darn about their environment. we do. come up to the north slope, prudo bay and you see the high standards. also in terms of foreign policy, a lot of discussion right now on vladimir putin, him and the back on russian regime. i'm fully supportive in pushing but i ery way possible like to share this story that's quite interesting. senat