11-25-16 Energy Bill Has Bipartisan Support From Murkowski & Cantwell

After being Petroleum News Alaska readers since its founding, we continue to be amazed at both the array and depth of its outstaning Alaska-Canadian energy content.

Check out this Friday link right now for an impressive selection of important, weekend reading! -dh

Our readers recall that on election day the Washington Times ran our Op-ed on how this generation is stealing from our children.

On Thanksgiving Day, yesterday, there was quite a lot of commotion about North Korean hostility, South Korea’s leadership crisis, American military capability and Trump transition planning. So yesterday the Washington Times published our third Op-ed for their readers; this one regarding the Korean Peninsula and how a generation ago we faced the enemy to the north — much as our brave warriors do today.

In this 2010 Washington Times Op-ed we summarized Alaska’s relationship with an overreaching federal government.

We thank the Times and its editors for their effort to produce such a wide array of opinion for their readers that includes our perspectives!

Enjoy a well-deserved weekend of peace and thanksgiving. -dh

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November 25, 2016
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CONTACT: Nicole Daigle (Murkowski) 202.224.2576
Rosemarie Calabro Tully (Cantwell) 202.224.7556

Chairman Murkowski and Ranking Member Cantwell

Issue Joint Statement on Energy Conference

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the committee’s ranking member, today issued a joint statement on the current status of the energy bill conference report.

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Senator Lisa Murkowski, Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour

“Last Friday evening, we received a counteroffer on the energy bill conference report from our House colleagues. After reviewing it, we responded today with a new offer that restores a host of provisions that the House was prepared to drop—including those related to LNG exports, sportsmen’s, the Land & Water Conservation Fund, hydropower, natural gas pipelines, manufacturing, innovation, carbon benefits of biomass, and critical minerals. We also remain hopeful that an agreement can be reached on provisions to address California’s drought crisis, to remedy wildfire funding challenges, and to improve forest management.

“While neither of us supports every provision in this proposal, it is the result of good faith bipartisan negotiations, it encompasses the broad range of work that can be completed this year, and it balances competing preferences for energy and resource policy that will remain just as strong in the next Congress. We encourage our House colleagues to seize this opportunity to complete a good bill that we can send to the president’s desk before Congress adjourns.”

About the Author: wpnorthern

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.