Buying Northern Dynasty stock back is definitely a better deal than providing tax credits for big oil.  Tax credits for oil exploration in the Inlet will never ever pay off.  Who knows what Pebble could be in a hundred years.  It might be like having Prudhoe in the bank all over again.  Right now Alaska could buy it back for a small fraction of the money invested.  We could have bought it back many times for the money wasted studying the gas line.  We could buy in back many times for what we are wasting in oil tax credits.