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Reserves aren't recovered or produced resources.

Typically, no field produces it's estimated potential reserves.

Someone may cite some exception, but exceptions to a rule don't negate the rule.
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Tom Irwin has always been paid by his corporate handlers to paint rosy pictures,

…and, as should be noted, he's no longer Commissioner of DNR, 

…when he was Commissioner, he had a hard time fulfilling his responsibility to Alaska's citizens.