Mayor Dan Sullivan Photo
Mayor Dan Sullivan attends Anchorage Symphony Pops Concert, 8-29-09.
Col. Dave Harbour
Dad has been gone for over two decades now, but his books are still in circulation and his thousands of Sports Afield and other magazine articles taught a whole generation and part of another the art and science of hunting and fishing. Here is his Amazon page.
TransCanada and Denali to File by 2012 – Southcentral Utilities Working on Winter Contingency Plan – New Tax and Royalty Structure for Brazil (Will Greed Discount the Opportunity As In Alaska?)- Praising John and Sammye Seawell GalleryTransCanada and Denali to File by 2012 – Southcentral Utilities Working on Winter Contingency Plan – New Tax and Royalty Structure for Brazil (Will Greed Discount the Opportunity As In Alaska?)- Praising John and Sammye Seawell
TransCanada and Denali to File by 2012 – Southcentral Utilities Working on Winter Contingency Plan – New Tax and Royalty Structure for Brazil (Will Greed Discount the Opportunity As In Alaska?)- Praising John and Sammye Seawell
RIO DE JANEIRO -(Dow Jones), by Jeff Fick- Brazil's government is set to unveil a sweeping reform of regulations covering the oil and natural gas industries Monday, likely sparking a political fight that will reverberate for generations. PNA by Alan Bailey (NGP Photo) Faced with the strong possibility of a shortfall in utility natural gas deliverability in the event of a severe cold snap in the coming Southcentral Alaska winter, gas and electric utilities around the region are completing a contingency plan, to try to avert the need for power cuts and [...]
Harbour Testimony: Ocean Policy Task Force Public Meeting, 8-21-09
Ocean Policy Task Force Public Meeting, 8-21-09 Testimony: Dave Harbour, Retired Commissioner, Regulatory Commission of Alaska Madam Chair and members of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force: I am Dave Harbour, a retired Alaska regulatory commissioner. I publish an energy website and serve as a volunteer member of the Consumer Energy Alliance Board of Advisors. Since you wish to recommend Ocean policy that is based on science and facts I offer you these additional recommendations on ‘process’ as a former Alaskan regulator. First, On Timing. There are few [...]
We Alert America: Obama’s Ocean Policy Task Force Could Benefit Russia and Canada at America’s Expense!
Commentary: As Canadian and Russian forces are seeking to claim and protect their oil and gas rich Arctic territory, our President seems intent on regulating America away from a 'seat at the table'. Alaskans have joined other Americans in responding to Interior Secretary Salazar's (NGP Photo) call for comments regarding his Minerals Management Service (MMS) 2010-15 Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) lease sale plan. The preponderance of comment seems to favor more exploration and drilling, under America's safe and demanding regulatory process; most Americans support decreased reliance on foreign suppliers and increased domestic production [...]
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Questioning the Value of the Gas Pipeline Open Seasons…. Questioning the Probability of Alaska’s Economic Savior: OCS…. Hensley Questions Pipeline Survival In Wake of Palin Departure GalleryQuestioning the Value of the Gas Pipeline Open Seasons…. Questioning the Probability of Alaska’s Economic Savior: OCS…. Hensley Questions Pipeline Survival In Wake of Palin Departure
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Questioning the Value of the Gas Pipeline Open Seasons…. Questioning the Probability of Alaska’s Economic Savior: OCS…. Hensley Questions Pipeline Survival In Wake of Palin Departure
The Alaska Standard, By Alex Gimarc. Shortly after taking office, the Obama administration...put a six-month halt on oil and natural gas exploration off the Alaska coast. The most prominent location was the Chukchi Sea, which held a federal lease sale in early 2008, bringing lease revenues worth $2.1 billion to the US Treasury. The Chukchi Sea alone is thought to hold reserves of over 15 billion barrels of oil and over 77 trillion cubic feet of natural gas – or the equivalent of what was thought to reside in Prudhoe Bay. [...]
Mackenzie Valley Oil & Gas History – TransCanada and Enstar To Store Gas
More Mackenzie Valley Oil and Gas History, by Peter McKenzie-Brown. * PNA by Alan Bailey. TransCanada and Enstar are investigating the feasibility of establishing a Cook Inlet gas storage facility.
Are Alaska Gas Projects Aligned? – Natural Gas: now below $3 from $13 last summer – British Columbia Bombings….
Geology News. Someone has been bombing natural gas pipelines in Northeastern British Columbia. Some believe that it is a case of eco-terrorism against EnCana Corporation. * News Miner, by Dermot Cole (My hero)--Both the TransCanada and Denali pipeline projects are now predicting that they will file for a certificate of public convenience and necessity with the federal government in October 2012. * New York Times by Clifford Krauss. Natural gas prices plunged on Thursday to levels last reached in 2002 after an Energy Department report showed that the amount of gas in [...]
Mackenzie Pipeline Dead?
National Post by Peter Foster. Here’s a thorny question to pose as Prime Minister Stephen Harper moves about the Canadian North this week promoting Arctic sovereignty and use-it-or-lose it development: is the Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline dead? A year ago, Imperial’s CEO Bruce March declared that he was as optimistic about Mackenzie development as he had been “in five or six years.” As recently as January, Minister of the Environment Jim Prentice was talking about getting “framework issues” resolved and moving forward. But whatever fiscal terms the government has offered, Imperial and its partners apparently don’t like [...]
Northern Canadian Development Encounters Social Issues – Will Alaska’s Gas Pipeline Materialize from Hope or Strategy?
Alaska Standard. For 30 years Alaskans have also held onto the hope that a gas pipeline would be built, providing a new economic boom and a long-lasting tax base that could replace the inevitable decline of state tax revenues based on oil production. Today Alaska seems poised to realize this dream, but major unresolved obstacles could easily delay or end this project. ... With Sarah Palin’s (NGP Photo) resignation, it’s now up to Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) to develop a long-term fiscal plan for Alaska. Another critical challenge Palin left to Parnell [...]
The Alaska Standard Considers Pay to Play – AND – Is Alaska Taxing Itself Out of Prosperity?
The Alaska Standard Readers Also Consider Alaska's "Pay to Play" OCS Challenge. Our earlier Alliance story. ...and, is Alaska taxing itself out of prosperity?
Anchorage’s ML&P to Seek More Natural Gas…Says Interruptions Are Possible!
Read below for the full language of AR No. 2009-195: "...Whereas, declining BRU field production...may be insufficient to meet its full gas requirement on some heavy peak use days...." * See our earlier comments on Cook Inlet Gas Supply: 7-13-09, 7-29-07, 7-30-09 ("Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em....")9, 8-2-09, 6-4-09 and 6-2-09, and 5-23-09 and 5-19-09, and 2-23-09, and 1-30-09 and 12-16-08. * CITIZENS AGAINST CO2 SEQUESTRATION by Lawrence Solomon. The authorities in Canada promise to take this risk seriously and double-promise to design state-of-the-art carbon dioxide storage plants that won't [...]
Is Energy Czar Inconsistent with ANGDA?
Examiner. Last February, Sarah Palin created the position of natural gas pipeline czar. Sarah appointed Harry Noah, who was Executive Director of Mental Health Trust Lands. The position was charged with comparing costs of the options for constructing an in-state natural gas pipeline, or bullet line, to bring North Slope gas to market in south central. Harry Noah is a miner without oil and gas experience. Noah also has ties to Dep. Commissioner Marty Rutherford, Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR). Rutherford was a former lobbyist for TransCanada. She has worked [...]