Consumer Leader David Holt Talks With Alaska Radio Audience

Yesterday, Consumer Energy Alliance President, David Holt (NGP Photo-r, visiting with Alaska Trucking Association Executive Director Aves Thompson yesterday), told Anchorage talk show host Casey Reynolds, "We need a robust national policy to get the country going in the right direction again." E&E News (8/10/11) reports: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he will be looking for GOP cooperation to make energy policy a "signature issue" for the Senate this fall…Reid's comments today that the Senate will focus on job-creation legislation -- including energy bills -- echo those he made earlier this [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:58:41-09:00August 11th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Consumer Energy Alliance President, David Holt, Addresses National Energy Issues Today In Anchorage – How high on its own petard does vulnerable and foolish California hoist itself!

Our pre-programmed email alert this morning wished readers a "Good Friday Morning".  We also wish all a great Wednesday morning and hope that our news and comment below find a welcome reception in your early look at today's world!  -dh We are honored that the Alaska Dispatch chose to reprint our editorial in today's issue (Page one, and two) of their publication.  -dh This morning at 9 ADT, Consumer Energy Alliance president David Holt (NGP Photo) will appear on Anchorage radio station KFQD to discuss American energy policy from the Keystone [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:22-09:00August 10th, 2011|Commentary|0 Comments
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Alaskans Welcome Salazar But The Jury Is Still Out On the Federal Landlord’s Motives

Edmonton Journal: Enbridge, announcing increased profits over the past three months, is also expanding its plans to move oil to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Comment on Secretary Ken Salazar's Latest Alaska Visit by  Dave Harbour Today, the Associated Press' Becky Bohrer in the Seattle Times noted... ... that, "The Obama administration is interested in seeing more oil and gas development in Alaska, both onshore and off, but it wants to make sure that any drilling is done responsibly, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (NGP Photo) said Monday."   In virtually all of his [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:23-09:00August 9th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Fairbanks LNG Project Leaps Forward – Things That Can Stop A Pipeline Project

ADN by AP.  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Friday that Golden Valley Electric Association and Flint Hills Resources are partners in the $180 million project. The companies say a steady supply of natural gas will help wean their operations away from expensive diesel fuel.  See Doug Smith's recent Op-ed... and,  our earlier commentary. Energy Global Re: Pipeline Obstacles by  Elizabeth Morant In last month’s Editor’s Comment I wrote about the permissions, approvals and, in particular, the public support, that a company or consortium needs to win in order to successfully [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:00:28-09:00August 8th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Salazar’s BOEMRE Grants Shell Exploration Permit, Conditionally – Inuvik Pushes For Gas Pipe and Economic Development – Mark Hamilton Levels the Guns of Logic On Anti-development Liberals

A few minutes ago, NGP received the copy of a "Make Alaska Competitive Coalition" statement by former University of Alaska President Mark Hamilton (NGP Photo) smashing a specious contention by Senator Hollis French and Representative Les Gara (i.e. both downtown Anchorage attorneys are schooled in the art of rhetoric) that Alaska's predatory taxes are good for Alaska.   Here is the document for your weekend study.    Between Obama anti-development regulators in the Federal arena and the same mentality hindering development on Alaska lands, the state has a dismal economic [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:07:16-09:00August 5th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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Biting the hand that feeds us….

 Ramblings.  Yesterday in the Anchorage Daily News a longtime environmental gadfly wrote an opinion piece proposing additional obstruction to OCS development in Alaska.  A former professor employed by the University of Alaska, here's another hypocrite who takes a paycheck provided by natural resource revenues and for an entire career has little or nothing good to say about natural resource development.  God have pity on and provide insight to his students over the years who may have thought to disagree. Then there is Mayor Edward Itta (NGP Photo) of the North Slope Borough.  One has [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:23-09:00August 4th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Shell Pioneers Canadian Carbon Capture

Edmonton Journal by Dina O'meara.   Alberta could see its first commercial carbon capture and storage project as soon as 2015 if Shell Canada’s application for its Quest project is approved by provincial regulators — and the energy giant’s board.   Seventh Annual Oil & Gas Congress Is Coming To Anchorage In September

By |2016-03-13T04:10:06-09:00August 3rd, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Premier Roland Seeks Gasline & Bridge – Governor Parnell Seeks Gasline & Hydro – EPA Advocates Fracking Rules & More Federal Overreach Could Destroy Millions of Jobs

About Shell In Alaska: A Great Record, Great Potential Latest Statistic Yearbook of Upstream, Downstream and Midstream Operations In Former Soviet Union Countries! Globe & Mail.  Floyd Roland (NGP Photo) is running out of time.  Come fall, the Premier of the Northwest Territories will be looking for work after just a single term in the big chair. It’s a ticking clock at odds with his ambitious agenda as he scrambles to push several high-stakes projects to completion, each unfinished by premiers past. They include a new deal on resource rights, [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:11:16-09:00August 2nd, 2011|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Wood Mackenzie Gasline Study Released – Doc Hasting’s News Miner Op-Ed – Editor guesses gasline patience may be a trap, not a virtue

Alaska Oil and Gas Congress Right Around the Corner! AJOC by Tim Bradner.  Plans for a 24-inch natural gas pipeline built from the North Slope to Southcentral Alaska are moving forward a step at a time. A 430-mile state right-of-way was granted for the $7.52 billion project July 25 and a draft environmental impact statement is due out in August, Dan Fauske, president of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., a state corporation, told state legislators in a briefing. ADN editorial writer suggests that, "patience may be a trap, not a [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:23-09:00August 1st, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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