ADN/AP by Dan Joling. Alaska Native and conservation groups are again taking aim at a federal permit needed by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell to drill for petroleum in Arctic Ocean waters off Alaska's northern shore. Read More: http://www.adn.com/2011/11/29/2193938/groups-challenge-another-shell.html#ixzz1fDEbKUlJ
RDC Action Alert: Proposed 2012-2017 Five-Year Plan for Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program Deadline for Comment is January 9, 2012 Overview: The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold a series of public hearings in early December to provide an opportunity for Alaskans to comment on the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for the Proposed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017. The Alaska hearings will gauge public opinion on the development of offshore oil and gas resources. These hearings are [...]
RDC Action Alert: Point Thomson Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement Deadline for Comment is January 3, 2012 Overview: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for ExxonMobil’s Point Thomson natural gas condensate development project. The DEIS presents five alternatives: no action (Alternative A), coastal pads with in-field gravel roads, (Alternative B), inland pads with a gravel access road to Prudhoe Bay (Alternative C), inland pads without a gravel access road (Alternative D), and coastal pads without in-field gravel roads (Alternative E).
Bismarck News (11/27/11) reports: With millions, if not billions, of dollars hanging over the ledge, the boom in the oil patch would go into a free-fall if drilling suddenly stopped…Thousands of workers unemployed overnight, housing starts abandoned, businesses shuttered and bustling oil towns from Williston to Belfield emptying out instead of filling up are all part of a future few would prefer — even if they despair of the changes to land and lifestyle wrought by the upswing of oil…Even with oil near $100 a barrel and 200 rigs drilling in [...]
Asian markets loom as remedy for North American gas woes Calgary Herald By Rebecca Penty, Calgary Herald November 25, 2011 A rendering of the proposed Kitimat LNG liquefied natural gas export facility. It would process 700 million cubic feet per day starting in 2015. In 2005, the Alberta government collected $8.4 billion ... See all stories on this topic » Oil firms demand access to markets Calgary Herald By Dan Healing, Calgary Herald November 25, 2011 Shell's Lorraine Mitchelmore said at a business forum on Friday that Canada is losing ground in the international energy marketplace and nothing is [...]
Keystone delay fires up jobs debate Calgary Herald By Kelly Cryderman, Calgary Herald November 25, 2011 3:18 AM This month's delay of the $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline has reignited the long-standing Alberta debate about whether raw natural resources should be shipped abroad for processing, ...
nlet find promising, but we must look at all energy options Alaskajournal.com (AGDC) to bring these elements together for the greatest benefit. ... We recently announced plans for legislation enabling AGDC and an in-state gasline. ...
Chamber, elected officials find common ground Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ... for a natural gas pipeline, military bases and local transportation projects. ... devices or theAlaska Stand Alone Pipeline, received mixed support. ... Businesses getting energy efficient Alaskajournal.com But the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts has worked to cut its utility bill, ... PAC President Nancy Harbour and her recently retired plant manager, ...
The authority says in press release that Harold Heinze (NGP Photo) gave notice to the ANGDA board of directors Monday. Heinze is the former president of Arco Alaska and a former Natural Resources Department commissioner under Gov. Walter Hickel. Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/11/21/2182732/heinze-steps-down-as-ceo-of-natural.html#ixzz1eS98dmFb The Hill: Keystone election year politics -- If President Obama was really interested in creating jobs, he would not cave-in to election year politics and surrender to the demands of special interest groups. Unfortunately, this is precisely what happened last week when he punted the final decision on the [...]
AJC by Tim Bradner. The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, a state corporation, finalized an agreement last week to invest $27 million in the purchase of the Adriatic XI jack-up rig along with two partners, Australia-based Buccaneer Energy and Ezion Holdings Ltd. of Singapore, the chairman of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority said in a press release. Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/11/20/2181026/second-jack-up-rig-to-explore.html#ixzz1eMTqIuAY
We haven’t spent a lot of time on this, but our oceans policy is very, very bad CNS News (11/17/11) reports: The nation’s commercial fishermen say the Obama administration is trying to impose top-down bureaucratic regulation on the use of the oceans and the nation’s fisheries, which they say will put fishing jobs at stake..A group calling itself the Seafood Coalition is calling on Congress to do what it can to scuttle President Obama’s National Ocean Policy National Ocean Policy, which the president unilaterally imposed by executive order in 2010.
AP by Dan Joling. A 2008 lease sale in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast remains legally flawed and should be cancelled, Alaska Native and environmental groups say in a new court filing. Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/11/17/2176673/groups-file-again-to-block-chukchi.html#ixzz1eMV8kY2w
Alaska Journal of Commerce by Tim Bradner. Engineering and planning for a 24-inch natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to Southcentral Alaska by a state of Alaska corporation is continuing for now, despite new gas discoveries in Cook Inlet. Read more: http://www.alaskajournal.com/Alaska-Journal-of-Commerce/AJOC-November-20-2011/Work-on-gas-bullet-line-continues-officials-say/#ixzz1e99dpGk0
Fuelling Asian energy market will be a challenge Calgary Herald By Roger Gibbins, Calgary Herald November 16, 2011 Western Canadians increasingly see the almost explosive growth of Asian economies as the solution to waning export prospects in our traditional American market. The combination of growing Asian demand ... See all stories on this topic »
ADN/AP. The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has opened public comment periods for Shell Oil's drilling exploration plan in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast. Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/11/16/2174842/public-comment-opened-for-shell.html#ixzz1e1NCqnG3
