We thank Petroleum News Alaska for this report and wonder why it is not on the front page of major Alaska Daily Newspapers! The U.S. Minerals Management Service has determined that Shell’s new Beaufort Sea exploration plan is complete, thus starting a 30-day period during which the agency must carry out an environmental assessment of the plan. At the end of the environmental assessment the agency will decide whether to approve the plan, require modification to it or disapprove it, the U.S. Department of the Interior said today. “The responsible development [...]

Simpatico.  A Prince Edward Island man (James Halstrum) is hoping to cash in on a $1-million reward EnCana offered for information leading to the arrest of the bomber who has been targeting the company's natural-gas pipelines in northern B.C. by offering to share the prize cash with the culprit.        *       Vancouver Sun.  By the end of the month, RCMP in northern British Columbia will open a small mobile detachment in Tomslake, the town along the B.C.-Alberta border that has been the site of six pipeline blasts since October [...]