10-6-16 US & Canadian Leaders Attack Fossil Fuel (Note: Both liberal policies increase consumer prices, decrease jobs, increase national debt, depress economies with no verifiable improvement in a conjured climate change narrative. -dh)

BREAKING NEWS!

ConocoPhillips Alaska today announced it has signed a contract with Doyon Drilling Inc. to build a new Extended Reach Drilling (ERD) Rig. The rig will initially target development of Fiord West, a field northwest of the main Alpine pad discovered in 1996. The ERD rig represents the third new-build drilling rig ConocoPhillips has contracted for since SB21 was passed in 2013. READ COMPLETE ANNOUNCEMENT HERE!

Oil Glut? Here Comes Some More! Good for Alaska!

BY CLIFFORD KRAUSS

Oil finds in Texas and Alaska come at a time when the industry is struggling with low prices and faces pressure to leave hydrocarbons in the ground.

While America’s Obama Attacks Coal, Oil, Gas and Pipelines, Canada’s Trudeau Taxes Energy During A Low Price Era

The enviro-industrial-governmental cabal now seems to control the energy agendas in both the U.S. and Canada. Our great nations will fall to their knees if this primary source of wealth for North America — domestic energy exploration, production and pipeline transportation — is not protected from socialist hegemony.

The socialist/globalist cabal corrupts the honest conservation community, the corporate world and the highest levels of government.

Recognizing one’s infirmity comes before the cure and it seems that large blocks of the population do not yet grasp that they are being herded like sheep, more and more quickly now, toward authoritarian government control.

Freedom ebbs — as taxes and restrictive regulations increase — along with free enterprise jobs and voters.

Authoritarian rule rises — as ballooning taxes and regulations fertilize growth of the bureaucracy — along with voting majorities that support government control.

Authoritarian rule rises as ballooning taxes and regulations fertilizing growth of the bureaucracy — along with voters who support government control.

-dh

Prime Minister Trudeau initiates carbon tax amid opposition from Alberta!

President Obama pledges to increase family utility bills!

The Daily Caller

Andrew Follett

This Labor Day, America has 83,000 fewer coal jobs and 400 coal mines than it did when Barack Obama was elected in 2008, showing that the president has followed through on his pledge to “bankrupt” the coal industry.

Government-Led Gas Pipeline/LNG Project Hires New PR Chief

Rosetta Alcantra

Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) president Keith Meyer yesterday announced his hiring of a new public/government relations chief.

Rosetta Alcantra, former President of E3 Environmental, will become AGDC’s Vice President of Communications of the government-led, North Slope natural gas pipeline & LNG project. “I am pleased to have Ms. Alcantra join the AGDC team,” said Meyer. “As AGDC takes the leadership for the Alaska LNG project, it is important that we have qualified talent to lead our communication efforts into the future.”

Alcantra has extensive statewide experience with stakeholder engagement and cross cultural awareness. In addition to her role as President of E3 Environmental, she has served as Executive Director of United Way in Kenai and a Legislative Aide in Juneau. Her duties will include directing and implementing the internal and external corporate communications, public and community relations, media, stakeholder engagement, and government relations.

“Rosetta has already been involved in stakeholder relations for Alaska LNG and other Alaskan oil and gas projects, so is able to hit the ground running. I am pleased to have a strong leader for engaging the diverse stakeholders in Alaska. Understanding the perspectives and building positive relationships throughout the State will be critical for this important Alaska project,” says Meyer. Alcantra will begin her tenure at AGDC on October 10.

About the Author: wpnorthern

Dave Harbour, publisher of Northern Gas Pipelines, is a former Chairman of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, a Commissioner Emeritus of NARUC, NARUC's Official Representative to IOGCC and Vice Chairman of NARUC's Gas Committee. He served as Gas Committee Chairman of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners. He also served as commissioner of the Anchorage Bicentennial Commission and the Anchorage Heritage Land Bank Commission. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree: English, at Colorado State University, a Master of Science Degree: Communications-Journalism at Murray State University and graduated from Utility Regulatory School for Commissioners at Michigan State University. He served as a Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at Alaska Pacific University, taught bank marketing classes at the University of Alaska and was an English teacher at Los Alamos High School. Harbour served in ranks of Private - Captain during a 4-year assignment with the Army in Korea, Idaho, Georgia and Fort Meade and received the Meritorious Service Medal among other commendations. Harbour is also a past Chairman of the Alaska Council on Economic Education, the Alaska Oil & Gas Association Government Affairs Committee, the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, the Export Council of Alaska and the Department of Commerce's District Export Council. He is a past President of the Alaska Press Club, American Bald Eagle Foundation, Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska and Common Sense for Alaska. Harbour was instrumental in founding the American Bald Eagle Research Institute (UAS), the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, the Downtown Anchorage Business Partnership, and Arctic Power. He also served as CEO of several small Alaska organizations, including the Anchorage Parking Authority and Action Security, Inc. Harbour is also Chairman Emeritus of the Alaska Oil & Gas Congress. Harbour's wife, Nancy, is a professional, performing arts administrator and his three boys, Todd, Benjamin and William work in the fields of environmental management, energy marketing and medicine.