Comment: No sooner are we back from the booming state of North Dakota than we head down to Los Angeles for two purposes: Introducing California Farm Bureau Federation President Paul Wenger to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners for a Consumer Energy Alliance Luncheon Speech; and, photographing Beverly Hills and Santa Monica. -dh
Comment. Governor Sean Parnell is understandably concerned about Barak Obama's new executive order directed at Alaska. The action purports to improve coordination among Federal agencies responsible for permitting energy projects by establishing an, "Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Domestic Energy Development and Permitting in Alaska (Working Group)." If Obama had any management background, he would know that this effort just creates more opportunity for talk and confusion and delay. Just one more meeting of over a dozen high level officials and a thousand more telephone calls and emails to [...]