EPA cross state emissions rule put on hold by appeals court Tom Schoenberg, Brian WIngfield and Julie Johnsson writing in Bloomberg Business Week Friday reported that a federal appeals court put the cross-state emissions rule on hold pending a hearing. Comment: Expect the EPA to fight the injunction. This rule limits sulfur dioxide emissions from electrical generation. If allowed to go forward, expect consumer utility prices to increase, more families to face budget challenges and massive layoffs from coal fired power plants further hindering America’s job and economic recovery. The utilities are arguing they do not have sufficient time to comply. – AG/DH
The Anchorage Daily News reported Sunday that an Alaska Superior Court judge increased the valuation of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). Comment: The suit would allow local governments to increase oil and gas property tax revenues by increasing valuation of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). Another result of increasing the valuation of TAPS is to put pressure on increased TAPS shipper rates that could, in turn, result in higher prices of refined products in Alaska and elsewhere. We might expect to see more of this as governments at all levels bump up against the limits of what citizens will pay in taxes, fees and other revenues. Unfortunately extracting more of any of the various oil taxes encourages less investment here and deflects it elsewhere. If Alaskans want investors that create large scale, expensive projects, the tax and regulatory environment must be more attractive and stable over an extended period of time than that of our competitors. – AG/DH
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.
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