Ted Stevens Story…
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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. -B. Franklin
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." G. Santayana (Photo) If you tax something, you get less of it. Alaska: "Essentially a third world government." -Frasier Institute Global Petroleum Survey Globe and Mail (3/12) reports, “The Alberta government is rolling back a royalty regime loathed by the province's all-important energy industry, in a bid to revive its political fortunes and lure oil and gas investment back into the province. After months of feeling the wrath of an industry chafing under a year-old royalty hike intended to give [...]
Environmental Armies Encircle North America: “Remember the Alamo!” …and much other news today!
"Remember the Alamo!" "Remember Pearl Harbor!" "Remember Bunker Hill!" "Remember the Maine!" "Remember 'Nuts'!" The Mexicans, Japanese, Spanish, Germans and British--once our enemies--became our friends because we prevailed. Had we not prevailed, America's democracy would have vanished long before now. Today, our own Federal leaders are attacking the institutions of freedom through propaganda and demonization, over-regulation, delay tactics and executive orders that evade Congressional oversight and constitute the acts of modern-day despots. The American citizen is an endangered species, suffering economic death by a thousand cuts at the hands [...]
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Alberta’s Big Day Today – More Energy Council Results – Sara Palin Woos Canada – Chenault In-state Gasline Bill Moves – Palin Supporters Pan White House Gas Pipeline Support GalleryAlberta’s Big Day Today – More Energy Council Results – Sara Palin Woos Canada – Chenault In-state Gasline Bill Moves – Palin Supporters Pan White House Gas Pipeline Support
Alberta’s Big Day Today – More Energy Council Results – Sara Palin Woos Canada – Chenault In-state Gasline Bill Moves – Palin Supporters Pan White House Gas Pipeline Support
Calgary Herald by Shaun Polczer. Get ready, because today's going to be a Big Day for oil and gas types in Alberta. In fact, the next 48 hours promise to be a barnburner that's going to set the tone for the next decade or so as far as the importance of petroleum in this province. Around 3 PM MST we're going to get the goods on the latest Alberta land sale, where an area the size the Netherlands is up for bid. Speculation is rampant that EnCana, Shell, Esso or all of [...]
Is ANS Gas Uncompetitive? – Will Larry Persily End Up in the White House?
Alaska Dispatch by Rena Delbridge. ...two new bills hit the Senate on Monday, delivering, as promised, a major change to the state's oil and gas tax structure as a pipeline open season approaches. The bills, SB 305 (.pdf), and SB 306, would tax oil and gas separately instead of as a combined resource. Senate President Gary Stevens (NGP Photo-l) , R-Kodiak, took the unusual step of referring the bills to only one committee. Typically, bills are sent to three for hearings. Some lawmakers -- most vocally, Sitka Republican Sen. Bert Stedman (NGP Photo-l) [...]
03-08-2010 Energy Council Hears Moratoria Study Report
See Our Original Moratoria Story With Many National Media Links Here is audio of the Alaska Legislators' report on the Energy Council Meeting Washington, D.C., by NGP Staff. On Saturday, March 6, public officials from throughout the U.S. heard a report from the NARUC-administered Study Group on findings of its almost 2-year-long, $300 thousand study to determine the social, economic and environmental costs of continuing a national policy that restricts access to energy resources on Federal lands. The Energy Council was convened at its 2010 Federal Energy & Environmental Matters Conference [...]
Harper Administration Cuts Canadian Pipeline Red Tape – Alaska considers $167 million gas pipeline budget – Rick Mystrom addresses RDC – Mushers’ Banquet another success! GalleryHarper Administration Cuts Canadian Pipeline Red Tape – Alaska considers $167 million gas pipeline budget – Rick Mystrom addresses RDC – Mushers’ Banquet another success!
Harper Administration Cuts Canadian Pipeline Red Tape – Alaska considers $167 million gas pipeline budget – Rick Mystrom addresses RDC – Mushers’ Banquet another success!
We began the day yesterday with former Anchorage Mayor Rick Mystrom's briefing on an an Alaska Railroad extension that could ameliorate gas pipeline logistical costs; we ended it with the Iditarod Mushers' Banquet (Stories and Photos coming....) Tomorrow will be another big day in Washington: tune in over the weekend and find out why before you read about it elsewhere. Alaska Dispatch by Rena Delbridge. The state has directed an estimated $142 million toward gas line development in the past six or so years. Now Gov. Sean Parnell is asking the [...]
Oil and Gas Taxes and Spending Continue to Ignite Controversy: Rep. Doogan Says, “Something Has To Be Done” – Canada’s Prentice says, “We’re trying….” GalleryOil and Gas Taxes and Spending Continue to Ignite Controversy: Rep. Doogan Says, “Something Has To Be Done” – Canada’s Prentice says, “We’re trying….”
Oil and Gas Taxes and Spending Continue to Ignite Controversy: Rep. Doogan Says, “Something Has To Be Done” – Canada’s Prentice says, “We’re trying….”
Today's News Observation: "Some politicians are busy trying to find detours around energy roadblocks government has created. Other politicians are still busy creating energy roadblocks." -dh Calgary Herald by David Akin and Jason Fekete. ... "We're trying to ensure major resource projects are not unnecessarily slowed down by duplicative procedures," said Environment Minister Jim Prentice (NGP Photo), regional minister for southern Alberta. There's potentially $85 billion worth of oil and gas projects to be built in northern Canada over the next decade, including the Mackenzie Valley and Alaska pipelines, [...]
They get it, we don’t – TransCanada and Denali Spar In Calgary
Canadian Press by Lauren Krugel. An official working on Alaska's proposed US$30-billion Denali pipeline says there are benefits to moving the project ahead without the help from the state government, which its competitors have secured. ... "No proponent has an exclusive right to build pipelines in the United States or Canada," Bob Bleaney, general manager of Denali Canada, told the Canadian Institute's Arctic Gas Symposium on Tuesday. ... "Denali is proceeding outside of AGIA. We think that actually is a benefit for our project because we're not tied to those particular conditions and [...]
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Alaska Cruise Association Newsletter Features Our Editorial – Bill Walker Opines – Just Put Your Feet Up
Alaska's economy deteriorates with lower energy production as higher industry taxes nip at the heels of departing jobs and undermine all gas pipeline projects. Blissfully obese, the bureaucracy and budget crave more and consume our savings. Unfunded government pension liabilities increase the debt burden to our children and threaten retirees. Each well-intended elected official has a plan and each plan points to a different path. Citizens with no intent to invest their own money clamor for public funding of their pet projects. Predatory federal policies flanked by environmental activist allies [...]
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Murkowski Defends Against More Monuments – Lawmakers Prepare for D.C. – TransCanada’s Higher Profits Offset Alaska Project Spending
E&E News (2/26, subs. req’d) reports, “Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) will introduce legislation next week barring the president from creating or expanding any national monuments in Alaska without first obtaining congressional approval. ... "Sixty percent of land in Alaska -- some 220 million acres -- is already under federal control, large swaths of which are protected as monuments, parks and wilderness," said Murkowski spokesman Robert Dillon. "That makes it exceedingly difficult for the state to realize its full economic potential." ADN by Lisa Demer. Twenty-one Alaska lawmakers, including half the state [...]