3-9-12

Alaska Dispatch/YLE News.  Oil giant Shell is planning to start charting the seas for oil drilling in the Arctic, and Finnish icebreakers are coming along on the test drillings, even as Greenpeace says oil drilling in the Arctic is dangerous in the extreme. Yedlin: Alison Redford's energy message has big impact - Calgary Herald - As Royal Dutch Shell chief executive Peter Voser said in a speech in Houston, the world needs everything - tight oil, heavy oil, oilsands, natural gas and renewables. Diversity of supply, as IHS chairman Daniel Yergin (NGP Photo) has noted in his [...]

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3-8-12

 Fairbanks News Miner Editorial.  the head of the American Petroleum Institute says oil production on federal lands, where the president has authority, has actually fallen. Jack Gerard, the group’s president, says production in the Gulf Mexico is down 30 percent, though that may be because of fallout from the BP spill, and lease sales in the Rocky Mountains are down 70 percent. He says, pointing to federal Energy Information Administration material for support, the president is only making 3 percent of the lands and waters under his control available for [...]

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3-8-12

 Fairbanks News Miner Editorial.  the head of the American Petroleum Institute says oil production on federal lands, where the president has authority, has actually fallen. Jack Gerard, the group’s president, says production in the Gulf Mexico is down 30 percent, though that may be because of fallout from the BP spill, and lease sales in the Rocky Mountains are down 70 percent. He says, pointing to federal Energy Information Administration material for support, the president is only making 3 percent of the lands and waters under his control available for [...]

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3-7-12 “J’Accuse”

Scroll Down For Commentary: "J'Accuse" Calgary Herald by Deborah Yedlin.  One year ago, at the annual IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates' CERA Week conference here, talk was infused with concerns of the Arab Spring, rising oil prices and whether releasing barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would be a good idea. ... As this year's event kicked off Monday, oil prices are rising and instead of the focus being on Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, the conversation has turned toward the uncertainty presented by Iran. Yesterday we had the pleasure of joining Dan Fagan and Elizabeth Giardina (NGP [...]

3-6-12

  We are now headed off for an interview on the Dan Fagan (NGP Photo) Radio-TV morning show with Elizabeth Giardina (NGP Photo), beginning at 7 a.m. (Anchorage Time).  Here's another link.  Hopefully, some of our readers will listen/watch and call in.  Later today or tomorrow, we hope to include the audio of our talks with presidential candidates last week: Gingrich, Santorum and Paul.  (Did you miss our TV interview last week?  -dh The Anchorage Tea Party last night presented a forum on the coastal management issue in Anchorage.  In the fall election, a ballot measure will [...]

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3-5-12 – TONIGHT THE TEA PARTY INVESTIGATES THE COASTAL MANAGEMENT ISSUE. RON PAUL COMPLETES A WHIRLWIND WEEKEND ALASKA VISIT!

Calgary Herald by Rebecca Penty.  National Chief Shawn Atleo said Thursday that oil and gas pipelines and other projects would have a better chance of garnering aboriginal support, and ending "conflict-filled" exchanges, if communities were involved in planning and not seen simply as stake-holders. LA Times by Kim Murphy.  Amid the tangle of towering steel, heavy cranes and overcast skies of Seattle's busy commercial shipyards, Shell Oil's massive Kulluk drilling rig is preparing to push off for the Arctic Ocean. Report: This week your publisher personally spoke with three of [...]

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3-2-12 – Alaska’s Socio-economic Civil War

Canadian Newswire.  Canada's manufacturing sector can build on its strengths and refocus its efforts on high value opportunities arising from development in the energy sector, says Hon.Jim Prentice (NGP Photo), Vice Chairman of CIBC. Earlier this week Alaskan leaders questioned presidential candidate News Gingrich on energy and natural resources issues--and NGP readers were able to call in and listen, courtesy of Consumer Energy Alliance.  President Obama and all Republican candidates have been invited as well.  Tomorrow (SATURDAY), candidate Rick Santorum will participate in CEA's second Alaska Tele-Town Hall and again, NGP readers are [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:46-09:00March 2nd, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments

3-1-12 – It’s Our Oil And We are Sovereign, By Golly!

Calgary Herald by REBECCA PENTY AND YADULLAH HUSSAIN.Ottawa can prevent future oil and gas pipeline projects key to Canada's economy from falling victim to regulatory missteps by overhauling the review process, the C.D. Howe Institute said Wednesday.  The complexities identified in assessment of the Mackenzie Valley, Keystone XL and the Northern Gateway pipelines highlight the need for reforms, the public policy think-tank said in a report.  Alaska Dispatch by Amanda Coyne.  In a conference call with Alaskans today, former House Speaker and GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich promised listeners that if elected, he would dismantle the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:47-09:00March 1st, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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