Tonight’s The Night – Spending Cap Could Solve Oil Tax Issue

Tonight is the night to speak out for the future of our children. The good professor, Steve Haycox (NGP Photo), says establishment of a spending cap could solve oil tax issue. (Reference: Daily Beast)  Commentary: we would rather not have all of Governor Sara Palin's (NGP Photo) emails released as it all recalls a good deal of water that has already passed under the bridge; but since the release is coming this morning, we'll be looking for gas pipeline and oil tax messages.  -dh

By |2016-12-22T22:33:46-09:00June 10th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Doc Hastings Visits Alaska Today & Unveils NPR-A Legislation! – US Red Tape Affects Canadian Producers – White House To Use About 30 Federal Agencies To Zone Oceans Without Congressional Approval

Call to Action.  Citizens, let's please prepare to give the White House our Input FRIDAY NIGHT on the combined effort of over two-dozen Federal Agencies to 'Zone' the oceans surrounding America (Alaska has about 3/4 of the US coastline).   This Federal control extends to the Great Lakes and throughout the watershed feeding the oceans.  Imagine the thousands of jobs this 'ocean zoning' will create for environmental activists and lawyers in almost every state!   Control the oceans and watersheds and you truly control the entire 'means of production' in this [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:46-09:00June 9th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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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  

By |2016-03-13T04:11:16-09:00June 8th, 2011|Personal|0 Comments
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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 [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:46-09:00June 8th, 2011|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Ever Consider Going To A Federal “Listening Session” On Date Night? – Reuters Says Denali Partner Freedom Is Silver Lining

Reuters.  While we dislike seeing the demise of any gas pipeline project before a gas line is under way, the silver lining here is that Denali's announcement frees ConocoPhillips and BP to independently become partners in another Alaska gas line project.   Canada.com by Mike De Souza.  Canada's federal energy regulator is defending its decision to keep Canadians in the dark about safety concerns with two major oil and gas pipelines. The concerns prompted the regulator to order pressure reductions on both lines last October, which are still in effect today. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:46-09:00June 7th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Alberta Celebrates Its Investment Climate While Alaska Is Creating Its Own Bear Market!

...just had to share our weekend black Bear encounter (NGP Photo) with my reader/friends!   We were closer to this back yard bruin than we were a weekend earlier to the Brown Bears of the Alaska Peninsula!  (ADN Story and Photo) Comment on Chukchi Sea Exploration Program Today! -Federal Register Notice- -Background From Consumer Energy Alliance- Readers: Check out this Calgary Herald article by Rebecca Penty outlining the celebration of Alberta's investment climate.  Then, compare that to Deborah Brollini's article, below, portraying how the greed of certain Alaska lawmakers is destroying Alaska's [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:47-09:00June 6th, 2011|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Doig’s June Digest Reviews Denali’s Closing and Other Northern Energy Issues

Comment on Chukchi Sea Exploration Program Today! -Federal Register Notice- Doig's Digest, by Ian Doig.  It is no surprise – the North American unconventional shale gas explosion that has been underway for the last decade continues to take its toll. Unfortunately, that toll becomes bigger when it is coupled with low natural gas field prices that travel without any near term sign of going higher. The combination of these two events recently became too much for the Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline, owned by BP PLC and ConocoPhillips.  Three years after it [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:00:27-09:00June 3rd, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Energy Intelligence Analysis of Alaska Natural Gas Prospects – Alaska Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan Testifies in Washington Today – Reactions to Salazar’s Wild Lands Policy

Comment on Chukchi Sea Exploration Program Today! Barbara Shook, Houston Bureau Chief of the Energy Intelligence Group, provides this "World Gas Intelligence" analysis (p.10) of future prospects for Alaska North Slope gas and reports on an important interview (p.5) with Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Rex Tillerson.  (We appreciate Barbara's insight.  Subscribe Here.  -dh) Here is Governor Sean Parnell's (NGP Photo-r) audio statement regarding Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s decision to reverse his order to allow the Bureau of Land Management to set aside federal acres as "Wild Lands.”     * [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:47-09:00June 2nd, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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6-1-11 Bill Walker Wants His Way And Others To Pay – Trans Canada Project Could Use Existing Pipes

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Enforcement, and Regulation (BOEMRE) is accepting comments on the development of offshore oil and natural gas in Alaska's Chukchi Sea.  With years of studying the potential impacts of production and ensuring all safety precautions have exceeded standards; and, with the country's need for domestic energy and jobs, we can make our views known today, here.  The Chukchi is one source for replenishment of declining volumes of oil traversing the 2/3 empty Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline System (TAPS).  A gas pipeline is important.  But keeping [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:54:14-09:00June 1st, 2011|Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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