8-11-16 World Knows What Alaska's Governor Won't Admit: NOW IS NOT THE TIME For An Expensive 800 Mile Pipeline/LNG Export Project!

8-11-16 World Knows What Alaska’s Governor Won’t Admit: NOW IS NOT THE TIME For An Expensive 800 Mile Pipeline/LNG Export Project!

Our Aussie Energy Analyst friend evaluates the Alaska LNG project: NOW IS NOT THE TIME.

We have long observed that Alaska’s governor and legislature would be wiser to focus their energies on enabling Alaska to live within its means, rather than overtaxing current investors or over spending dwindling state savings accounts and/or pursuing an uneconomic, expensive LNG project when, NOW IS NOT THE TIME! -dh

LNG and international gas, by our Aussie blogger:

An interesting regulatory comparison between two of the more interesting but challenging international pipeline projects – Alaska LNG and Power of Siberia.

The link below gives access to gigabytes worth of reports on the former (a project which in our view will now not go ahead for many years given the international competition – a fact likely internally recognised by its Super-Major proponents – but who are still spending US$100Ms on this sort of stuff): http://www.kpb.us/mayor/lng-project/lng-project-updates/909-alaska-lng-resource-reports-1-and-10

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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.