text: Interesting article. The Center for Biological Diversity-Tucson, Arizona based is asking the feds to stop the development of Cook Inlet. Ok, bully for them. But this article is telling in that they describe us as a Southcentral Alaskan oil and gas province." 'Province' is the operative word here. A province is an administrative division of certain countries and empires. I don't know of any other place in the US described as a province. This says a lot about how we are perceived. Not a free state, just somebodies province.