Government Waste Archives - Northern Gas Pipelines

12-2-2022 COP’s Nikiski Property: A Hub For Gas Imports or Exports?

A Perennial Alaska Energy Challenge Q. Does Being Off The North American Gas/Elecetric Grid Point To Future Natural Gas Imports...Or An Economic ANS Gas Transportation Scheme? A. We have always held that Alaska's politicians, for once, should wisely support the due diligent efforts of private industry to create economic solutions to ANS gas export potential. Likewise, since our particpation on the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, we have urged state government restraint in favor of supporting private sector due diligence in defining, funding, building and opetating the infrastructure necessary to [...]

By Dave Harbour|2022-12-02T08:12:37-09:00December 2nd, 2022|AGDC, AIDEA, Alaskanomics, China, Commentary, Fracking, Government Waste, Hilcorp Alaska (Harvest Alaska LLC), History, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, Japan, LNG, OCS, Uncategorized|0 Comments

10-17-2021 Heartland Institute: The Best Source On “Climate Change” Issues! -dh

Day 3 of the Live-stream of Heartland's Three-day Climate Realism Conference Begins at 8 am PT Watch the live-stream at Heartland's YouTube channel or at ClimateConference.Heartland.org. We have a full day of GREAT programming. If you miss anything, all presentations will be archived at Heartland's YouTube channel to watch at your leisure. See the full schedule at this link. TODAY'S SCHEDULE Plenary Ballroom Sessions & concurrent Science and Policy Tracks Click on the images to watch them on YouTube; All times PT. [Note: These video links are different from Friday and Saturday.] [...]

By daveharbour|2021-10-18T19:19:41-09:00October 17th, 2021|Alternate Energy, Crony Capitalism, Energy Calendar Dates, Fracking, Global Warming, Government Waste, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, Keystone XL, LNG, NARUC, NEB, Ocean Policy, OCS, Pedro van Meurs, Rule Of Law, TAPS and North Slope Oil|0 Comments

10-5-2021 America Continues To Evolve Into An Appeasement Country

America Continues To Evolve Into An Appeasement Country “I want it now at someone else’s expense” By Dave Harbour The disturbing trend continues. Modern generations, particularly this one, want what they want when they want it and they want it NOW. But only if someone else pays for it. And who would that be? It would be someone who cannot vote who can be involuntarily indebted and who would ONLY have to pay interest and not the principle for decades to come. In short, politicians can appease constituents by [...]

By daveharbour|2021-10-06T18:22:49-09:00October 6th, 2021|Alternate Energy, Commentary, Crony Capitalism, Dakota Access Pipeline, Fracking, Global Warming, Government Waste, Keystone XL, NARUC, OCS, Propaganda, Propane, TAPS and North Slope Oil, Trump Administration Energy Initiatives, What The Other Side Is Up To|2 Comments

9-30-2021 Taxes On Energy Producers and Consumers Grow From Inflationary Government Spending and Regulatory Policies

Open Letter To Alaska's U.S. Senators Is this what Alaska's U.S. Senators want for their state and country? If so, we believe they will be joining the Dems to support porky infrastructure and socialized reconciliation. This is not like past times when pork was routinely incorporated into legislation, but not mortally injurious to the Nation's future. This time could come to be known as, "The End Game". And maybe that outcome will be determined by Alaska's two Senators. -dh (Note: We believe that wasteful spending and rising [...]

By daveharbour|2021-10-05T07:30:20-09:00September 30th, 2021|Biden Administration, Commentary, Control Government Spending, Federal Obstruction, Government Waste, Interstate Gas, Keystone XL, LNG, NARUC, Personal, Trump Administration Energy Initiatives|2 Comments

2-8-2021 Alaska, Keystone & Climate Change

France Violates Its Own Climate Accords as Gas Prices and Gun Sales Rocket Skyward by David Blackman ...the United States, the only nation on earth that was not a formal participant in the Paris Climate Accords ..., was also the only industrialized nation on earth that has not only met its unenforceable “targets” under that sham wealth redistribution scheme but exceeded them. The U.S. has surpassed its emissions targets all the way through 2025, in fact, mainly thanks to the fact that clean natural gas has displaced huge amounts [...]

By daveharbour|2021-02-09T14:31:02-09:00February 8th, 2021|Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Alternate Energy, ANWR, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Coordinator, Fracking, Global Warming, Government Waste, Interstate Gas, Keystone XL, Trump Administration Energy Initiatives, What The Other Side Is Up To|0 Comments

5-27-20 Why An Alaska North Slope Gas Pipeline Is Infeasible. Is the Recovery of Oil Demand and Pricing Real?

Current Petroleum News Headlines Alyeska oil prorations now at 95% inventory; supply chain clearing - 05/24/2020 (Full story) Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. has adjusted oil flow prorations on the trans-Alaska pipeline system to a 95% proration as of May 15, up from an 85% proration in place earlier in May. “At TAPS, we're confident the supply chain has stabilized,” We're ramping back up and as of last Friday are back to saf.... Oil Patch bits: New features added to Lynden's mobile app - 05/24/2020 (Login to read Full story) As reported by Lynden News May [...]

By daveharbour|2020-05-26T21:35:14-09:00May 26th, 2020|AGDC, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Commentary, Competition, Government Waste, History, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments

4-15-20 Alaska Joins Other States/Canadian Provinces In Shouldering Double Whammy: CCPVirus + Oil Price Collapse

Please find this MOST INFORMATIVE oil and gas presentation on current status of the industry by Canary, LLC CEO Dan K. Eberhart (@dankeberhart), delivered to members of the Alaska Support Industry Alliance on April 9. Double bonus: Here's Dan's current take on the Texas RRC consideration of ordering production cuts vs. free market forces...followed by this Yahoo report on the result of the hearing (i.e. a difficult decision for the 3 commissioners). -dh Must Read Alaska: Fradulent Oil Tax Initiative Signatures?! Has it ever been tougher for the state's [...]

11-20-19 Quo Vadis, Canada?

Oh, Canada! Where art thy liberals taking thee? BC introduces gas price transparency law forcing companies to reveal data Calgary Herald No one from the Canadian Fuels Association, the voice of transportation fuels industry in Canada, was immediately available to comment on the ... Environment groups say climate change should dominate cabinet mandate Calgary Herald The shuffle is to be the first sign of the tone Trudeau will set as the head of a ... pipeline expansion and grow Canada's liquefied natural gas sector. One year on, most oil-and-gas bailout money has moved, federal government says CBC.ca Canada's $1.6-billion bailout for Alberta's battered oil industry [...]

By daveharbour|2019-11-21T14:22:28-09:00November 20th, 2019|Canadian Energy Policy, Government Waste, What The Other Side Is Up To|0 Comments

11-12-19 Farewell Epilogue and Alaska’s Dangerous Oil Tax Increase By Voters Initiative

“BOTAX” Dave Harbour Glen Biegel Lawyer’s oil & gas tax scheme threatens Alaska’s economy (.PDF of this commentary here: Footnote Version & Clean Version like this w/o footnotes.) By Dave Harbour and Glen Biegel First, let’s get some ‘housekeeping’ out of the way on the proposed oil tax initiative. Then we’ll explain why all Alaskans should be concerned. Alaska Lieutenant Governor Kevin Meyer recently certified a voter’s initiative petition application entitled “An Act relating to the oil and gas production tax, tax payments, and tax credits.” Attorney [...]

By daveharbour|2019-11-12T04:12:32-09:00November 12th, 2019|ACES, Alaska Governor Bill Walker, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy, Columnists, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Government Waste, History, LNG, Reader Comment, Sue & Settle, TAPS and North Slope Oil|4 Comments

11-10-19 Alberta’s Patience Is Tested Over Oil & Gas, Etc. Federal Policies

Red Deer, Alta. — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney outlined on Saturday the mandate for a new panel that will study what the province should demand as a “fair deal for Alberta” in Confederation, including looking at ways that will take back provincial powers that have been ceded to Ottawa. ... “We’ve had it with Ottawa’s indifference to this adversity. Albertans have been working for Ottawa for too long, it’s time for Ottawa to start working for us,” Kenney declared in his speech to the Alberta Manning Networking Conference. ... [...]

By daveharbour|2019-11-10T11:47:05-09:00November 10th, 2019|Canadian Energy Policy, Federal Obstruction, Fracking, Government Waste|0 Comments

11/9/19 Fairbanks Utility Wants To Buy LNG Facility But Is The Whole Deal Financially Feasible? We’ve Never Thought So.

Credit: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/the-west-is-on-the-wrong-path_082014 Commentary: With fuel oil prices low and the true cost of serving too few natural gas customers being high -- would enough oil-heated homes convert to gas to make the Interior Energy Project feasible? Gas rates to customers are subsidized, and artificially low. How can the repayment of loans to AIDEA be guaranteed? Meanwhile, the cash-strapped state could be investing the several hundred million going to Fairbanks subsidies for market-based income. That means the rest of the state at a time of budget shortfalls is subsidizing [...]

By daveharbour|2019-11-09T20:13:49-09:00November 9th, 2019|AIDEA, Commentary, Government Waste, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments

11-2-19 Is Alaska’s Economy Finally On the Move!?

Third Quarter Alaska Employment Numbers Commentary: The good employment news below is all about a dynamic Alaska oil industry on the cutting edge of new technology. Longtime Alaskans know that oil not only supports industry jobs, but pays the lions share of government budgets that also fund education, public works, public safety and infrastructure for retail, tourism and commercial fishing industries and JOBS! We're even pleased to spot signs of a new LNG project for commercializing Alaska North Slope gas. But a lawyer is a major sponsor of a voters [...]

By daveharbour|2019-11-02T04:34:06-09:00November 2nd, 2019|Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy, Commentary, ConocoPhillips, Government Waste, What The Other Side Is Up To|8 Comments

7-15-19 A Tale of Two Teachers

"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times... Alaska Budget Graph "...it was the age of wealth, it was the epoch of waste," we paraphrase with apologies to Charles Dickens. For over four decades Alaska's great Prudhoe Bay wealth elevated the sparsely populated, largest state in the U.S. to the biggest per capita spender. Its public officials knowingly created an unsustainable budget. They knew that North Slope production would decline but allowed their policies to create a state budget that was over 3/4 [...]

By wpnorthern|2019-07-15T13:29:43-09:00July 15th, 2019|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Commentary, Government Waste|0 Comments

8-3-18 Friday Musings

Friday Musings: Commentary: Nakedness We are extremely disappointed with republican Kevin Myer and Alaska's current democrat lieutenant governor for their continuing support of Governor Bill Walker's socialized LNG export scheme. For years we have provided evidence that in wake of lower shale-induced gas prices and extensive LNG export competition the producers have been right in proclaiming that, for an Alaska North Slope gas export project, "now is not the time". Alaska's mostly tidewater based competitors do not have to include the cost of a massive, 800 mile Arctic gas pipeline. [...]

By wpnorthern|2018-08-03T15:06:26-09:00August 3rd, 2018|AGDC, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Commentary, Government Waste, LNG|0 Comments

3-23-18 Which is worse off, Alaska or Alberta?

Commentary by Dave Harbour Which is worse off: Alaska or Alberta? Both are controlled by liberals (i.e. socialists). Both are dependent on fossil energy -- and the pipelines transporting it. Both prize expanding an ever-wanting-more entitlement voter base more than a taxpayer base of wealth-creating energy investors and WORKERS. Liberal leaders of both spend billions more than they can afford. Both have lost thousands of taxpayer workers while keeping tax beneficiaries mostly WHOLE. Both project a better economic day...when the current crop of political 'leaders' are safely out of [...]