Many readers have been asking if our syndicated Investigative Reporter Michael Webster is the same Webster borne in El Paso Texas.

Many readers have been asking if our syndicated Investigative Reporter Michael Webster is the same Webster borne in El Paso Texas. The answer is YES. Here is detail info on who Mr. Webster is.

Michael ( Mick) Webster  Syndicated Investigative Reports are read worldwide, in 100 or more U.S. outlets and in at least 136 countries and territories. He publishes articles in association with global news agencies and media information services with more than 350 news affiliates in 136 countries.
 He served as a trustee on trade Union funds. A noted Author, Lecturer, Educator, Emergency Manager, Counter-Terrorist, War on Drugs and War on Terrorist Specialist,  Newspaper Publisher. Radio News caster. Labor Law generalist, Teamster Union Business Agent, General Organizer, Union Rank and File Member Grievances Representative, NLRB Union Representative, Union Contract Negotiator, Workers Compensation Appeals Board Hearing Representative. Mr. Webster represented management on that side of the table as the former Director of Federated of Nevada. Mr. Webster publishes on-line newspapers including www.lagunajournal.com, El Paso Journal, Prospectors Journal, Small Business Journal, Indian Gaming Journal and others. Mr. Webster writes investigative reports for print, electronic and on-line News Agencies. 

Mr. Webster’s most recent past field of endeavor was that of a Venture Capitalist. Funding start-up and expansion businesses globally, while retaining equity positions in many of them. Mr. Webster also provided his clients with bulletproof asset protection. He is now focused and dedicated to his main interest of journalism as an syndicated Investigative He will maintain his other interests in Business Consultant, Worker’s Compensation, Emergency Management, Preparedness and Anti-Terrorist activities. As well as teaching in those areas and disciplines.
Over the years he has consulted and negotiated on behalf of his clients through five different administrations. He publishes newspapers and magazines and has been a newscaster in the electronic media. As a hearing representative for California's Workers Compensation Appeals Board he represents lien claimants and has recovered millions of dollars for his clients. He still finds in his busy schedule time to develop and write investigative reports. He has served as administrative Assistant to the president of the Alaska State Senate. He was formerly Executive Director of the Alaska Independent Oil & Gas Association (A.I.O.G.A.) serving under the direction of its founder and Statesman Edgar Paul Boyko, the states former Attorney General.
Mr. Webster was instrumental in raising bonus capital for bidding on the Alaska Northslope Oil Leases in 1968, as director of A.I.O.G.A. A.I.O.G.A. was awarded Tracks 20 & 21 by then Commissioner of Natural Resources Thomas Kelly, as the apparent high bidders, only later to be rejected by the Commissioner. This lead to one of the largest behind the scenes legal battles ever to involve A.L.O.G.A., their lead attorneys, Edgar Paul Boyko (former Alaska State Attorney General), famous attorney Melvin Belli, and former Judge Clem Stevens who were pitted against the State of Alaska and many of the worlds biggest oil companies.
The Northslope Oil Leases ultimately lead to the development of one of the worlds richest oil fields with billions of barrels of recoverable crude oil and the construction of one of the largest man made construction projects of its time, the Alaska Oil Pipe Line over 800 miles long stretching from north to south from Prudhoe Bay at the north slope to the deep water port at Valdez, Alaska. In 1969, Alaska's oil lease sale pumped nine hundred million dollars into Alaska's economy as 179 tracts of potentially oil-rich North Slope lands were leased. Later that year, former State Attorney General Edgar Paul Boyko filed suit on behalf of A.I.O.G.A to stop the awarding of 33 of the 179 state oil-lease tracts.
Mr. Webster handled the security analysis for the pre pipeline design and the safety worker issues for the Alaska Teamsters union under the direction of Alaska Teamster Boss Jess Carr.
There are more fields being explored, bid on, and developed even today in the largest of all our states... Alaska. The Federal Government and the state of Alaska has put aside millions of acres of pristine wilderness to protect it from further development by giant oil, gas and mining companies. Mr. Webster represented many of the worlds independent oil, gas, and mining companies, along with some of the worlds high net worth individuals, always with an eye on conservation Mr. Webster says the legacy of environmental destruction left by major oil companies with their spills, leaks, explosions, and violations argues that they should not be allowed to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge unless there is a clear real need related to a national emergency.