Calgary Herald by Deborah Yedlin.
There is no mistaking the sense of weariness pervading this year’s Stampede Week. Even the weather isn’t co-operating. But things are different compared to a year ago — when there were no deals being done, neither in the equity markets nor on the merger and acquisition front.
In addition to the $15 billion that has been raised in the oilpatch since the beginning of the year — with most if not all deals being oversubscribed — there have been some interesting transactions that have taken place: TransCanada’s blockbuster purchase of Columbia Pipelines; Enbridge paying $282 million to bulk up in the renewable energy space by acquiring 50 per cent of Eolien Maritime France SAS; Birchcliff buying oil and gas assets from Encana last month for $625 million and the Seven Generations purchase of $1.9 billion in assets from Paramount Resources just before Stampede Week kicked off.
On Thursday, Wolf Infrastructure, which is backed by the Canadian Pension Plan and Investment Board, announced it was buying … Read more in the Herald!
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.
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