May 3 Deadline: Please Give Your OCS Opinion, here, After Reading This NARUC Report Alaska Standard by Dan Dickinson (NGP Photo).  Is a gas pipeline economic? First if investors think that commodity prices in the future won’t cover the tariff – and at today’s prices and estimated tariffs they certainly won’t – there will be no gas line.  Moreover, if investors suspect that the State has no other new sources of revenue they will be equally reluctant to invest in a gas line. Unknown future taxes on a potential gasline can [...]

Please Weigh In On Your OCS Position Before Next Monday's Deadline! Oil Daily.  The three major oil companies involved in two competing pipeline proposals to bring Alaska North Slope natural gas to markets in the US Lower 48 will end up joining forces because of the huge scale of the endeavor, according to the federal coordinator for the gas pipeline project.  “It not like the molecules as they come out of the ground are red if they’re Exxon’s and green if they're BP’s,” said Larry Persily (NGP Photo), who was [...]

The Deadline Is Monday For Commenting On OCS; Please Do So HERE! For the best analysis we've seen of the recent, Alaska legislative session, see CPA Dan Dickinson's (NGP Photo-l) recent presentation, here, to the Anchorage Mayor's Energy Task Force.  -dh Fairbanks News Miner, by Christopher Eshleman.  Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) on Monday signed a bill that will beef up preparatory planning for a proposed intrastate natural gas pipeline.  ... A handful of agencies, including the state Housing, Finance and Railroad corporations, will steer the project — and have millions of dollars at [...]

We urge readers to comment on Feds' leasing policy, here.   Juneau. Last weekend, Successful Alaska entrepeneur and Chairman of the U. S. Arctic Reseasrch Commission, Mead Treadwell told the assembled delegages to the Republican State Convention that President Obama could order his departments to take actions that would begin to once again fill Alaska's oil pipeline--and increase possible throughput for an Alaska gas pipeline.   Governor Sean Parnell (NGP  Photo)  defended 'Freedom' last night on Fox News, here.  His stand on Health Care is consistent with his demand that the Obama Administration [...]

Hot Issue du Jour: Obama Administration Leasing Policy: Call To Action Dan Dickinson (NGP Photo) Summarizes Legislative Session Today At Noon 1.  Mackenzie progress.  Sympatica.  Dehcho Grand Chief Sam Gargan said the pipeline should not go ahead until the First Nations resolve two outstanding issues with Ottawa: the unsettled land claim and a land-use and resource management plan for Dehcho territory. 2.  Domestic Energy Crisis.  Canada's Globe and Mail describes America's domestic energy crisis better than we can.  The urgent message below from Canada describes why we should all join the [...]

The Alaska Dispatch, quoted below, suggests that the Governor could compromise in an effort to bring 'peace' to the Capitol.  This writer humbly suggests that the peace was threatened by those wishing to establish an unusually powerful Coastal Policy Board concept.  Advocates of a Coastal Policy Board have threatened House and Senate leaders with opposing their House and Senate organizational effort next year and with more actively siding with environmental activists against future development projects.  With such aggression, compromise is not needed.  Courage is needed.  The bullies--not the bullied--threaten the [...]

  See our earlier warning: Beware A Divided and Storm-Tossed Ship of State   Alaska Dispatch by Rena Delbridge.  The push by rural lawmakers for greater control of development in coastal areas throttledup Wednesday, as a Senate panel fast-forwarded a bill to a full floor debate.  But Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo-r) remains as steadfastly against such a bill as ever, saying he simply cannot support handing over control of resources like oil, gas and timber, to local people when those resources belong to the state and play an important role in [...]