True story. My best friends middle son had worked for the oil industry in Alaska at that farthest north cliffs and his truck was equipped with special tires and engines that wouldn't freeze up. He was a highly respected geologist/scientist for the last 15 years of his career out there. He said at certain times of the year the ice cliffs would show oil equipment embedded in the ice from 100 hundred years ago. Yes, oil has been working Alaska for more than a hundred years. 50 years before it was even widely publicly known. He's now working in the conservation industry in gold mining. I blurted out to him that he went from one destructive industry to another. He agreed in part but said modern gold and mineral mining is more under the microscope now and tends to stay above board much more than before. Shit still happens he said, but it's getting better, not quick enough but getting better. He's actually an environmental scientist now and works with the DMR? designing protection laws and such. Mostly why he left big oil.
Also not too long ago that Discovery channel show I think, about the Alaska gold prospectors where they compete with each other, the guys with the beards and the young kid and his grandpa. My friends son was on that location a couple of times to check permits and stuff and the producers approached him about working with the show full time as Discoverys 'geologist' on the show. Actually being on the show regular.
And when he asked what his function would be and they said 'oh it's scripted, you don't have to worry about doing any real geology stuff', we really don't need you to permit and you know, be a real geologist." What's funny is the kid has a handful of citations he was going to hand them and all of a sudden they want him on the show...
He said "no thanks" ... here's your citations, call me at the office.
My friends scientist son said there was so much bullshit with that show he couldn't believe it. They had gone through like 4 geologists so far. Bribe?
Market Data 
Markets 
AI
