American Truckers Support OCS

July 11 is the deadline for comment on Chukchi OCS development.  Here's a website for easy, automated comment.  -dh

Reader Aves Thompson, Executive Director of the Alaska Trucking Association, reports that the American Trucking Association has asked the Federal government to expedite Alaska OCS development.  "On July 1," Thompson reported, "the ATA filed comments with the Bureau of Ocean Energy, Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) in support of drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea. ATA’s comments were filed in response to a court-ordered supplemental environmental impact statement, which must be finalized before the government can commence leasing of the area for petroleum development. ATA noted that developing the U.S. petroleum reserves in the Chukchi Sea is critically important to reducing our dependence upon foreign oil and urged the Department of Interior to finalize the environmental review process and move forward with Lease Sale 193."  The national association contact is:  Rich Moskowitz at rmoskowitz@trucking.org.  -dh  (Here is where we have inventoried samples of Chukchi comment and testimony.)

Dan Fauske by Dave Harbour, AHFC, ASAP, AGDA, Alaska Gasline Development Authority, Alaska Gas Pipeline, in state pipelineADN Editorial: Dan Fauske (NGP Photo) offered a panel of lawmakers and the public plenty to think about on Tuesday. In introducing his report on the Alaska Stand Alone Gas Pipeline (ASAP), Fauske said state ownership of such a line would be the most economical way to build it at about $7.5 billion. 

NGP Links.  Yesterday, the state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corporation's Dan Fauske (NGP Photo) presented its study for an Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline project, enthusiastically accepted by legislative leaders and supported by Governor Sean Parnell.  The Executive Summary says that, “This document presents the findings and recommendations of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation regarding how an in-state natural gas pipeline to deliver North Slope natural gas to Fairbanks, the Southcentral region of the state and other communities whenever practicable can be designed, financed, constructed, and made operational.”  -dh  (Study Link.  Study .pdf.  ADN story by Sean Cockerham.)