Dear Reader:
 
This website has always been a public service effort.  It's Founder, Dave Harbour, has desired to see the Arctic Gas project he supported as a young professional finally come to completion in some modern form.  In his websites, he has not advocated for any particular gas pipeline route, yet he supported them all.  He especially supported 'due process' and free enterprise concepts for resolving the many issues and alternatives. The Arctic Gas reference materials and observations he has provided were for historical, research and perhaps entertainment purposes, not promotional, though he always maintained that the Arctic route and mode carried with it the maximum economic benefits for the countries, the companies and the consumers. His readers appreciated the archive he provided.
 
Mr. Harbour has argued that North America desperately needs Arctic energy from this continent, and that Alaskan and Canadian northerners are anxious to provide it. He has said the prosperity of whole new generations could depend on its success and that, "Success will reflect stakeholders' effectiveness in building and maintaining sufficient relationships, cooperation, diplomacy, communication channels and appropriate compromise."  He also believed that democracies should not allow the economic rights of the many to be held hostage by the few members of strident, vocal, extremist, special interest groups.  "Due process," he said, "does not mean 'do not proceed'."
 
While these websites have required day in and day out effort, Mr. Harbour and others have been pleased to contribute their time and resources, knowing that the living history contained in these pages will continue to provide benefits to every sort of gas pipeline researcher for many years to come.  Interested persons are invited to speak with us about modest, public service advertising visibility which does have the unique characteristic of reaching--over time--just about every Northern Gas Pipelines constituency.
 
NGP has not solicited new public service advertising support since it suspended advertising in early 2003, when Harbour became an Alaska regulatory commissioner and went on to serve the state in various positions with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.  Upon retirement in early 2008, Harbour recommenced postings to the website but did not solicit public service advertising support.  After redesigning the webpage in August 2009, he is inviting new sponsors.  Here is an archive reference to the earlier sponsor group.
 
-NGP Webmaster