June 8, 2011 - Northern Gas Pipelines

Point of Personal Privilege: Larry Crawford

The life of our longtime friend, Larry Crawford (NGP Photo with Susan Lindemuth), will be celebrated at his funeral service on Sunday, 1:30 p.m. at the Anchorage Municipal Cemetery. A Chief of Staff to Governors and Mayors and a former President of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation, Larry always conducted business selflessly, with the public interest in mind. Here was a true public servant and faithful friend. Here was a man whose life was valuable and relevant and contributed to a better world. -dh

Feds Should Stay With API Standards

Comment on the White House's unprecedented and overreaching Ocean Policy initiative and on the Interior Department's open comment period on Chukchi Sea SEIS. Wall Street Journal by Joseph B. White. In a letter Tuesday to President Barack Obama, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue called on the administration to speed up issuing new offshore drilling permits, offer more offshore areas for oil and gas exploration, open new areas for drilling in the Western U.S., and approve permits for the Keystone XL pipeline proposed to bring oil from Canadian tar sands [...]