According to Senate Energy & Natural Resources Communication Officer Robert Dillon, Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) today said of the BOEMRE 
announcement (below): “It’s my hope that this additional analysis on the potential impacts on the region will help resolve the legal challenges that have held up resource exploration in the Chukchi Sea."
John Callahan of BOEMRE’s ANCHORAGE office, provides this Friday announcement. – The Bureau of Ocean Energy, Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today released a Revised Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) 
for Chukchi Sea Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193, held in February 2008. The bureau is accepting additional public comment before the document is finalized. “This Revised Draft SEIS offers additional scientific, environmental and technical analysis that will assist in future decisions pertaining to the leases issued in Sale 193 in the Chukchi Sea,” said BOEMRE Director Michael R. Bromwich (NGP Photo).
Calgary Herald by Jason Fekete. The federal Conservative government will regulate the coal-fired electricity and oilsands sectors this year as it looks to curb greenhouse gas emissions, but a carbon tax and cap-and-trade plan aren’t part of the environmental blueprint.
Edmonton Journal via CH, by Dave Cooper. Called a critical outlet for Alberta heavy oil, TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico is likely to be approved later this year in the U.S., says an energy expert. “We are saying 70-per-cent likely in the fourth quarter,” said Washington-based Robert Johnston of the Eurasia Group, speaking at PwC’s inaugural Energy Technology Update in Edmonton.
DOE. The U.S. Department of Energy today issued a conditional authorization approving an application to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Sabine Pass LNG Terminal in Louisiana, paving the way for thousands of new construction and domestic natural gas production jobs in Louisiana, Texas, and several other states.
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