Alaskans Rallied for Chukchi and State’s Future – Persily Beats Gasline Drum on Peninsula

New Chukchi Comments New Chukchi Comments From NGP Readers: Representative Mike Hawker (NGP Photo-r) Mary Ann Pease (NGP Photo-r) Will Chinn, Price-Gregory Representative Bob Lynn (NGP Photo-below) Yesterday was the announced deadline for public comment on the government's Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Chukchi Sea.  We received some new comment today (left column) and you can see those who commented yesterday, here.  We also know that hundreds of 'comment cards' reflected Alaskans' support for Chukchi development though we fear that the enormous, grass roots network mobilized over the years by [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:26-09:00November 30th, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Today You Will Change The Course of Alaska’s History and America’s Recovery

DO YOU THINK WE EXAGGERATE? See Our Editorial in This Morning's Standard, Our Warning (P.10) in Petroleum News Alaska's Annual Explorer's Magazine, and Advice from Shell's Pete Slaiby Dear Reader: Today, November 29, 2010 is the deadline the federal government has established for giving your opinion on whether the Chukchi Sea Lease Sale process should go forward.  (Send us your Comments and we'll post them here.)  Secretary Ken Salazar (NGP Photo-r), the Obama Administration and their activist allies have done everything possible to delay/derail this process.  Alaska Governor Sean Parnell's (NGP Photo-l) [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:26-09:00November 29th, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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PLANNING FOR THANKSGIVING TOMORROW IN ALASKA-AMERICA AND REMEMBERING OCTOBER’S SECOND MONDAY THANKSGIVING IN CANADA

George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation ("WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour....") Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation ("...Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.") Johnny Cash's Thanksgiving Prayer ("Join Hands and Thank the Creator....") COMMENT:  Tomorrow I join you in giving thanks for God's magnificent blessing on this land and people.  The 'hope and change' I hope readers join me in [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:26-09:00November 24th, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Last North Aleutian Basin Leases Dropped –

  UNALASKA, AK (KUCB) - The last of the active North Aleutian basin natural leases have been dropped. Hewitt Mineral Corporation let go its four leases in October, two years after Shell relinquished the 33 leases it possessed.  Hewitt's leases covered over 22,000 acres on the Alaska Peninsula. The company had hoped to develop a liquefied natural gas plant on the peninsula as well as a pipeline. But a number of challenges have caused Hewitt to release its stake, says company president William Dolman.  "Shell released theirs a couple of years ago, and [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:03:42-09:00November 23rd, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Alaska Governor Shuffles Cabinet – Mackenzie Decision Closer

Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo-r) chose the Resource Development Council for Alaska forum yesterday to announce a shuffling of his Cabinet.  Among the changes described were his appointment of Attorney General Dan Sullivan (NGP Photo-l) to the post of Natural Resources Commissioner.  We'll have a very complete review of the RDC conference for readers on the Monday posting, along with many photos of speakers and trade show vendors.  Meanwhile, here's a brief ADN story by Becky Bohrer. Calgary Herald by Dina O'Meara.  Federal and territorial governments have issued a long-awaited response [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:57:24-09:00November 19th, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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RDC Conference Continues With Canadian – US Government and Industry Leaders

We'll provide more stories and photos on the RDC conference this weekend; meanwhile, here is the exciting agenda.  Here's an Alaska Dispatch Story by Patti Epler.  (Photo: RDC President Tom Maloney opening the two day conference yesterday.) ...and here's RDC's Carl Portman with an outstanding review of last week's BOEM hearing. Then, there's our Op-Ed appearing this week in Petroleum News Alaska's annual oil and gas Explorers Magazine.

By |2016-03-13T04:07:15-09:00November 18th, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Back in Anchorage for RDC from Atlanta and NARUC – Barrett to Head Alyeska

The Annual Conference of the Resource Development Council for Alaska opens today in Anchorage to what we expect to be a standing room only audience.  Scroll down to read our commentary which debuts today in a special insert produced for this conference.  By Saturday, we'll also complete our NARUC entry in yesterday's posting.  -dh ADN by Elizabeth Bluemink.  Tom Barrett (NGP Photo coming), 63, is scheduled to begin working at the company, which operates the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline, on Jan. 1.  Barrett is taking the helm at a time when [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:58:37-09:00November 17th, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Feds Assault Alaska’s Economy – Canada Moves Closer to Mackenzie Pipeline Approval – Arctic Source for Terrorism? – NARUC Hears Consumer Messages

  Alaska: A Brave New World for Explorers and Producers by Dave Harbour For: Petroleum News Alaska: A review of federal policy assaults on Alaska's economy.... CBC.  The proposed $16.2-billion Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline is a step closer to reality after the federal and Northwest Territories governments agreed Monday with most of the recommendations set out by a review panel last year.  ...  "Should the [project] proceed, it will do so within a responsible environmental stewardship framework," federal Environment Minister John Baird said in a release     *   [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:26-09:00November 16th, 2010|Commentary, NEB|0 Comments
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Commissionners Focus On Consumer Energy Isssues

At 9 a.m. today,  Members of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) will focus on consumer energy issues, hearing from companies and organizations serving virtually all American citizens, companies, governments and utility rate payers.  The forum will occur in NARUC's Gas committee agenda.   While the program today was organized under the leadership of  the Committee's Chairman, Commissioner O'Neal Hamilton of South Carolina.  Yesterday, NARUC honored Hamilton as 'Chairman Emeritus' in conjunction with California Commissioner Timothy Simon's appointment as Gas Committee Chairman during the coming year.  Commissioners Colette Honorable [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:27-09:00November 15th, 2010|Commentary, Notes From the Road, Personal|0 Comments
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11-10-10 WHERE WERE THE DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS; DON’T THEY CARE ABOUT ALASKA’S FUTURE?

About Tuesday Night's Federal OCS Hearing In Alaska (Written on the road: Atlanta, Ga. - See our photos below and the Alaska Journal of Commerce Story.) Commentary:  NGP Readers know this webpage is non-partisan.  We encouraged all democrat and republican elected officials by personal email to weigh in at the BOEM hearing Tuesday (Scroll down for details).  Alaska news media publicized the event.  As if explanation were needed, we repeated in these pages and in our emails the reasons why approval of OCS exploration of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:27-09:00November 11th, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Send Us Your Testimony

Send us your testimony, here; and we'll post it! Since the overwhelming majority of witnesses supported OCS development we wonder why TV Channel 2's headline read:  Actor Ted Danson and others speak out against drilling in the Chukchi.  It should have read, "Most Alaskans spoke out for drilling in the Chukchi".  This is why citizens are so frustrated with the mainstream media.... Last night in Anchorage about 70 citizens had signed up for testimony during the Bureau of Ocean Energy, Management and Enforcement (BOEM) hearing on the agency's recently released, [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:07:17-09:00November 10th, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Send Us Your Testimony

Last night in Anchorage about 70 citizens had signed up for testimony during the Bureau of Ocean Energy, Management and Enforcement (BOEM) hearing on the agency's recently released, Suplemental Impact Statement on the Chukchi Sea Leasing Program, Lease Sale 193.  While the same plaintiffs that filled the record of the U.S. District Court in Alaaska with arguments opposing Alaskan Oil and Gas development,the preponderence of testimony arsupported development of Alaska's OCS natural resources.gument apppeared as expected, along with amiable actor Ted Danson, the preponde3rence of testimony came from Alaaska residents who

By |2016-03-13T04:07:17-09:00November 10th, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Ted Danson and Oceana Team Up Against Alaska Resource Development

See This Yukon Government Gas Pipeline Reference Library!  *   Mackenzie Pipe Supporters Still Dreaming  Call To Action, Alaskans!  Public Hearing TONIGHT, November 9th at 7 p.m. (BACKGROUND HERE AND HERE) Centerpoint Building, 3801 Centerpoint Drive, 1st floor conference room Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM)   Today's New York Times reveals part of environmentalists' strategy for tonight's hearing in Anchorage: Ted Danson and Oceana (Photo credit: Treehugger and Oceana) will team up to use star power and environmental rhetoric to attract attention to the "Everybody Loves Whales" movie and incite more [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:27-09:00November 9th, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Speak Out Alaskans Or Wave Bye-bye to Your Economic Future – Prentice Leaves Pipe Dream Behind

NGP Reader Testimony Here:   To whom it may concern,   It is with great pain that I witness our nation one of the greatest nations in the world being guided by fear and the power of the special interest groups.  We have wrongfully allowed special interest to use our court systems to derail energy development in our great state of Alaska and our nearby federal waters.  It is very unsettling that certain groups can yield so much power over the most powerful nation in the world that reason and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:27-09:00November 8th, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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An Evil Uncle Sam Continues the Alaska Assault – Here’s What We Can Do!

CBC.  New federal Environment Minister John Baird will take over the Mackenzie Valley pipeline file from Jim Prentice, CBC News has learned.  Our Jobs and Kids’ Futures May Depend On Federal Bureaucrats’ Chukchi Sea Decisions Information and comment by Dave Harbour     Meet at the Chukchi public hearing and testify: Tuesday, November 9, 7 p.m. Anchorage, 3801 Centerpoint Drive Send Us Your Comment and We’ll Print It!   Many of us -- all our lives -- have revered the many symbols of America: including the Uncle Sam character.  We [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:27-09:00November 5th, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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