Caution: We would urge our Arctic oriented readers to carefully follow this BSEE Arctic/General OCS Research Plan, for if contracts are given to organizations or professors that are predisposed to be agenda driven, the results may be less than scientific, less than objective. In short, one hopes we can avoid the situation wherein a Federal Administration sells leases, then does everything in its power to nullify action–at considerable expense to leaseholders and consumers. -dh
| But hold on…. Bradner has an update for this story.
Alaska Attorney General Craig Richards … said in a Jan. 14 interview with the Journal that the current requirement keeps too much information from the public and that a new policy is being developed that will allow more open discussion of AK LNG issues in public while protecting certain private information |
Alaska Journal of Commerce by Tim Bradner. The state’s political and resource communities are still buzzing about Gov. Bill Walker’s sudden firing Jan. 6 of three Alaska Gasline Development Corp. board members and his order that new board members not sign confidentiality pledges.
Apache Cuts This Week. WSJ by Lynn Cook. Apache Corp. is laying off as many as 250 employees this week in one of the first major workforce cuts at an American oil producer since crude prices began to plunge last summer.
Washington Times. BP has announced it will cut an estimated 200 staff jobs and another 100 contracting jobs in light of falling oil prices. |
The Houston-based energy company, one of the biggest in the U.S., pumps oil and gas in places from Texas to Egypt and employs about 5,000 …
(including Alaska, we might add. -dh)
Keystone XL Week’s End Commentary
by
James R. Halloran
We have made it clear that our position is that Keystone XL will not be constructed, at least the five feet of pipeline that would cross the border. The basic weapon that will doom it is time. Its opponents will drag out the approval process until TransCanada gives up. The combination of litigation in multiple courts and dithering by Obama and his minions will drag out the process for years to come.
Much has been written about the Nebraska Supreme Court supposedly clearing the way for Obama acolytes to back into a four-corner stall. But according to Washington Analysis (below), Nebraska may be able to baby-sit the proposal for some additional time. Read the explanation below.
(Follow-up material coming….)
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