Canadian Pipeline Angst

Yedlin: PwC energy forum renews need for urgency on energy exports.  Calgary Herald.  … XL pipeline project, spoke at an industry event hosted by PwC in Calgary. … the United States in entering the liquefied natural gas export market.


Braid: A Trump welcome for a Notley ally.  Calgary Herald.  More from Don Braid, Calgary Herald … For starters, she says natural gas “is not being banned. … Ontario will spend $230 million to get natural gas to rural communities that currently lack infrastructure, … sewage and much more — that will travel through regular gas pipelines and is, according to Ontario…


Wynne soothes Calgary business crowdCalgary Herald.  Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne reassured a Calgary business crowd … and that new pipelines carrying oil sands crude have a potential path forward.

Alaska’s Legislative Angst

STEVE STRAIT: ALASKA NEEDS TO CUT DEEPER BEFORE EVEN TALKING ABOUT HIGHER/MORE TAXES….

Anchorage Daily Planet.  Not one penny more.  The Alaska Legislature is gaveling in today for a 30-day special session called by Gov. Bill Walker to deal with the state’s $4 billion budget deficit, a subject lawmakers have wrestled with unsuccessfully for the past four months. There are deadlines on the horizon. Government worker layoff notices must be mailed by June 1 and, […]


Walker’s repackaged tax proposals land with thud in the Legislature.  JUNEAU – Gov. Bill Walker’s newly repackaged tax proposals have landed with a thud in the Alaska Legislature, with criticism over having all the pieces rolled together and questions about the overall impact.