Anchorage Chamber of Commerce: Andrew Halcro (NGP Photo-L), president of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, and Alaska Senator Bill Wielechowski (NGP Photo) have agreed to publicly debate oil tax reform at the next “Make it Monday” forum, held at noon on February 25 at the Dena’ina Center.
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TODAY OCS Governors, led by Alaska Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo-below), welcomed the addition of North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory. Calgary Herald: Alberta Premier Alison Redford says she is heading to Washington this weekend to lobby for the Keystone XL pipeline and she remains confident it will be approved. |
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Fairbanks News Miner. Federal spending and resource development drive much of Alaska’s economy but both are threatened as perhaps never before, 
Alaska’s senior U.S. senator said Thursday. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), in an annual address to the Alaska Legislature, said years of deficit spending have generated unprecedented debt that jeopardizes the federal government’s ability to meet its obligations. At the same time, she said years of government overreach have limited access to resource development in the state, which could help reduce Alaska’s reliance on federal funds. … She said the fastest progress on the energy front can be made at the state level but also spoke to the U.S. energy plan she recently released. (See our earlier story and link to Senator Murkowski’s Energy Plan. -dh)
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Governor Parnell Welcomes N.C. Governor McCrory to OCS Coalition
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February 22, 2013, Washington, DC – Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo-R) today announced North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (Photo-L) has joined the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Governors Coalition.Since its formation in 2011, the coalition of coastal governors has advocated for safe energy expansion through responsible resource development, and has supported proactive offshore energy production as part of a comprehensive national energy policy. The coalition provides a discussion and policy platform for offshore energy issues shared by the coastal states and the federal government.
“As chair of this coalition of coastal governors, I heartily welcome Governor McCrory and the Tar Heel State,” Governor Parnell said. “As Congress and the Obama administration focus on energy policy, Governor McCrory’s knowledge of and perspective on offshore energy exploration and production in the Atlantic adds an important voice to the discussion.”
McCrory joins the governors of Alaska, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina as members, with Governor Parnell serving as the coalition’s chair.
“I am pleased to be a member of the OCS Governors Coalition,” said Governor McCrory. “Pursuing responsible exploration and development of our offshore resources will help us reach our shared goal of greater energy independence and will create thousands of jobs.”
Within the last year, the coalition sent two letters to President Obama, advocating for sensible policies that responsibly increase offshore energy development, including oil, natural gas, and wind energy. The governors expressed concern about federal plans to effectively zone the oceans and limit leasing opportunities, as well as the federal government’s drawn-out permitting times that significantly impact energy development.
The OCS Governors Coalition made a formal request that states hosting offshore development participate in revenue sharing associated with the resulting energy production. The coalition requested that coastal states be allowed a more substantial role in the development of federal policy planning and sustainable development of coastal resources.
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Washington Times: Gas prices top $4 per gallon, fuel sticker shock – John B. Townsend II, a spokesman for AAA Mid-Atlantic, said the trend was particularly disturbing because of the time of year. “Typically, gasoline prices are at their lowest price point of the year during the dead of winter,” he said. “But this year pump prices are rising sooner and higher than ever before. That’s what so frightening about this.” Officials blamed several factors, from eight East Coast refineries being shut down for maintenance and a few shuttered for good, to prospects for growing demand in China and the United States as the global economy slowly rebounds from ongoing tumult in the Middle East.
Human Events: Energy production banned in half of petroleum reserve – The Obama administration on Thursday finalized plans to lock up from energy production half of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska – a tract of land the size of Indiana set aside by Congress 90 years ago to assure a domestic supply of oil. Of the 23 million acres in reserve on Alaska’s north slope, energy production will be allowed on an nearly 12 million acres believed to hold 549 million barrels of oil – a small percentage of what the U.S. Geological Survey estimates the entire reserve holds — nearly three billion barrels of recoverable oil.
Associated Press: Report: Flaws in EPA drilling pollution data – Limited data and unreliable estimates on air pollution from oil and natural gas production is hindering the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to police the drilling boom, the agency’s internal watchdog said in a report. Inspector General Arthur Elkins Jr. said the EPA has failed to directly measure emissions from some pieces of equipment and processes, and some estimates it does have are of “questionable quality.” “With limited data, human health risks are uncertain, states may design incorrect or ineffective emission control strategies, and EPA’s decisions about regulating industry may be misinformed,” Elkins said.
The Hill: Groups flock to White House to talk ‘fracking’ rules – Environmental advocates and representatives from the oil-and-gas industry are flocking to the White House following the submission of a draft rule that would govern the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing on public lands. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in January pulled a long-awaited proposed rule to regulate hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” after receiving a flood of public comments and push-back from industry. A new draft was sent to the White House on Jan. 22, but the document will not become public until the BLM officially proposes it. Groups are seeking to make their mark on the new rules before they are issued.
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Politico Pro: Conservatives plan ‘last stand’ vs. EPA – Grover Norquist and tea party activists are combining forces to battle EPA’s expected greenhouse gas controls on power plants and the agency’s renewable fuels mandate. The effort by Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform and the tea party-linked FreedomWorks would seek a successful Senate challenge through the Congressional Review Act of EPA’s greenhouse gas controls on new power plants, once that rule is finalized. “From our perspective, I view this as the last stand on climate for us,” said David Banks, a policy adviser to the Heartland Institute and former Senate GOP aide, who’s helping to organize the effort.
Houston Chronicle: Rail yard planned for Eagle Ford – A 1,000-acre rail yard is in the works just south of San Antonio — part of a South Texas railroad boom that’s followed the surging oil and gas activity in the Eagle Ford Shale region. Developers on Thursday said that the Mission Rail Park has broken ground and should open by mid-summer. Plans call for the site, near Elmendorf, to be a center for oil field service companies working in the Eagle Ford, shipping anything from sand for hydraulic fracturing to crude oil.
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