2-15-12

Alaska State Senator Cathy Giessel (NGP Photo) says to the US House of Representatives Rules Committee, "STOP! Please do not strip the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) provision from HR 7. We must open a small portion of the ANWR to responsible oil and gas development."  See video of Washington DC visit of House Speaker Mike Chenault, below. Vancouver Sun by Dina O'Meara.  TransCanada Corp. has set back the launch of the Keystone XL bitumen pipeline until early 2015, saying it expects to receive approval for the controversial line by early 2013. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:50-09:00February 15th, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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2-14-12 – Feds Descended On Anchorage Yesterday For Noon and Evening Meetings As The Legislature Tackles Tax Issues

CBC News: Most Albertans rate the oil and gas industry — and the provincial government — highly when it comes to creating jobs, according to a poll done for CBC News.  But almost a third of Albertans think both government and the oil and gas industry could do a better job communicating with the public. Commentary by Dave Harbour.  At noon in Anchorage, yesterday, citizens were asked for testimony regarding a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) published by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).   NMFS Chief Michael Payne and DEIS [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:50-09:00February 14th, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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2-13-12 – Q. How Can Readers Keep Track Of Today’s Alaskan and Canadian Related Energy Issues: In-state Gas, ANWR, Point Thomson Dispute, Mat-Su LNG Terminal, Oil Taxes, Keystone, Northern Gateway Pipeline, and More ….? A. Make Us Your Home Page!

The National Marine Fisheries Service is holding a public hearing in Anchorage TODAY from noon to 2 pm at the Loussac Library on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Effects of Oil and Gas Activities in the Arctic Ocean.  Anchorage NGP readers will want to attend the  hearing and present brief testimony. The DEIS is highly problematic and the  restrictions and mitigation measures it proposes would severely compromise the economic feasibility of any drilling program and make development of leases improbable.  Below is a link to the Resource Development Council for Alaska Action Alert, which [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:50-09:00February 13th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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2-12-12

ENERGY MARKETS: With gas prices low, shale bargain hunters take long-term view - E&E News, Colin Sullivan - In response, analysts say markets may have to wait at least 18 months for the price to recover and profits to rebound, with some suggesting that this bout of warm weather could be less of an anomaly than producers would like. In the short term, Herve Wilczynski, a partner in A.T. Kearney's energy practice, said the current dynamic could hurt independents that don't have the capital to survive the long haul.   [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:49:06-09:00February 12th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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2-11-12

Keystone contractor did not pose conflict of interest, IG says - Washington Post, Juliet Eilperin - The firm the State Department hired to conduct an environmental assessment of a controversial oil pipeline project did not pose a conflict of interest, the agency’s inspector general concluded in a report released Thursday.   Provinces must seek new markets for natural gas - The Globe and Mail, David Campbell - Without new markets, ambitious provincial plans from British Columbia to New Brunswick to benefit from shale gas will be have to be put [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:49:06-09:00February 11th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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2-10-12

ADN by Becky Bohrer, AP.  A state House resolution calls on the federal government to properly plug and reclaim the sites of so-called legacy wells within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The government drilled nearly 140  drilled nearly 140 wells in the reserve as part of an exploratory oil and gas program between 1944 and 1981....   The U.S. Bureau of Land Management oversees the abandoned wells.  The resolution says just seven wells have been properly plugged and reclaimed.  ...   Rep. Charisse Millett (NGP Photo), R-Anchorage, the resolution's primary sponsor, said [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:51-09:00February 10th, 2012|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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2-9-12 – FERC To Hear Gas Pipeline Comments Monday

ADN-AP.  Alaska's procedures for dealing with companies that buy oil leases but don't develop them were debated Wednesday in a case before the state Supreme Court. CBC.  Liquefied natural gas is the future of energy exports in B.C., Premier Christy Clark announced on Friday morning.  Clark was at Burnaby's BCIT campus to set out a new 10-year energy plan for the province, which includes the construction of two liquid natural gas plants in northern B.C. by 2020.  The premier said the plants in Kitimat would generate $2 billion in new [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:51-09:00February 9th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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2-08-12 – NEW BULLET LINE, SOUTH TO NORTH? – Senator Murkowski – Jim Clyburn – NARUC

NARUC, Washington, D.C. (Report and comment by Dave Harbour).  Yesterday, NARUC president David Wright (NGP Photo) introduced Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) to about 1400 attending the winter meeting at the Renaissance Hotel here of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.  “Your association has now been a major contributor to the development of energy policy for almost 125 years", Murkowski said.  "We count on you to present your views in the federal arena,  as you have always done, with vigor and precision.  Regulatory Commissioners have a solemn duty to [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:51-09:00February 9th, 2012|Commentary|0 Comments
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2-07-12 – Senator Lisa Murkowski Addresses Nation’s Commissioners

Personal Commentary:  This morning Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo, 2-6-12) is scheduled to address the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) on energy issues at Washington D.C.'s Renaissance Hotel.      The program begins this morning with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin, providing, 'an overview of the ongoing quest for energy resources in an increasingly competitive world,' according to the NARUC program.  Yergin's presentation will be followed by Murkowski's panel, also including Oregon's Senator Ron Wyden, West Virginia's Senator Joe Manchin and Congressman James Clyburn, also father of FCC Commissioner [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:51-09:00February 7th, 2012|Commentary|0 Comments
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2-06-12 “Hang Together or Be Hanged Separately”

Comment:  Today Congressman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) documents the Obama Administration's action to close down oil shale development in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.  We have come to expect anti fossil fuel, anti economy, anti job initiatives from the Obama Administration.  But today we hear Aubrey McClendon (NGP Photo) of Chesapeake Energy Corp and Michael Brune of the Sierra Club joined forces to -- in effect -- fight the coal industry's huge contribution to the low cost of electrical power production throughout the U.S.   After accepting McClendon's $26 million to oppose the coal industry, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:52-09:00February 6th, 2012|Commentary|0 Comments
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2-05-12

Pre-Keystone, Obama Backed Sands Pipeline - National Journal, Amy Harder - More than two years ago, on Aug. 20, 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton approved a 1,000-mile pipeline that has the capacity to send 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada’s oil sands to Wisconsin. That pipeline is owned by the Canadian company Enbridge and began operating in October 2010.   Imperial Oil launches $2-billion Cold Lake expansion - The Vancouver Sun, Rebecca Penty - The Nabiye expansion will tap a further 280 million of reserves at [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:52-09:00February 5th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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2-04-12

Alberta Federation of Labour opposes Northern Gateway pipeline, wants refining jobs in Canada – Daily Commercial News and Construction Record - The Alberta Federation of Labour is opposing construction of the Northern Gateway pipeline from the Alberta oilsands to Kitimat, British Columbia on the grounds that the construction jobs would only be “transitory,” higher oil prices would result and jobs in refining would not be created in Canada.   Energy regulator approves export licence for BC LNG - The Globe and Mail, Carrie Tait and Nathan Vanderklippe Canada’s national energy [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:48:49-09:00February 4th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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2-3-12 – Friday’s Gas Pipeline, ANWR and Northern Waters Potpourri

See Our Northern Waters Task Force Commentary and Links Below Office of the Federal Coordinator, by Bill White (Photo).  Building a major pipeline to carry stranded North Slope natural gas to market would boost the number of jobs and wealth in Alaska. But the impact would be muted compared to the economic upheaval from building the trans-Alaska oil pipeline 35 years ago.  That's a key conclusion of a draft economic analysis, prepared by the gas line project developer and released Jan. 13, that forecasts how life in Alaska would change if the proposed $32 [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:52-09:00February 3rd, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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2-2-12

Stelmach advising Ukraine on gas development plans - Calgary Herald - Main callout pointer for calgaryheraldcom ..... Lougheed served on a number of corporate boards became involved in the development of a gas pipeline to the.... Fairbanks Daily News Miner by Max Buxton.  Slow progress on an in-state natural gas line to bring the inexpensive, clean burning fuel from the North Slope into Fairbanks has Interior lawmakers looking at alternatives.   Rep. Bob Miller, D-Fairbanks, on Wednesday introduced a measure to study the feasibility of extending Southcentral’s existing natural gas system to the Interior within the next few years. ADN by [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:52-09:00February 2nd, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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2-1-12

  Link to NGP Reader Bill Gallagher's (NGP Photo) new book: Resource Rulers: Fortune and Folly on Canada's Road to Resources.   ADN by Becky Bohrer.  A proposal intended to advance an in-state natural gas pipeline project goes too far in giving too much authority to the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., the leadingHouse Democrat said Tuesday.  ...,  Rep. Mike Hawker (NGP Photo), a co-sponsor of the proposal, said the provisions contained in the measure are the kind needed to get a mega-project under way. He said he was terribly concerned to [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:52-09:00February 1st, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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