12-16-13

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By |2016-12-22T22:29:53-09:00December 16th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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12-14-13

Governor Sean Parnell yesterday named Curtis Thayer acting commissioner for the Department of Administration. Thayer currently serves as deputy commissioner for Administration and fills the vacancy created by the resignation of Becky Hultberg.

By |2016-03-13T03:47:31-09:00December 15th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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12-13-13

Petroleum News North of 60 Mining News Yesterday, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) unveiled his FY 2015 budget, proposing $1.3 billion less in general fund spending than the current year and 150 fewer positions.  This FY 2015 budget proposes 18.4 percent less in general fund spending than the current year.   IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: - Nuke industry to Obama: You need us    - Vehicle fuel economy hits record high - House Dems press Obama to halt Keystone XL review - Bipartisan push imperils ethanol mandate - GOP [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:53-09:00December 13th, 2013|Alaska Taxes, What The Other Side Is Up To|0 Comments
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12-12-13 “Foxes in the Arctic Hen House”

Upon inquiry, ConocoPhillips provides us with the latest status on its Kenai Peninsula LNG export facility, below.  We regard this as very good news because it helps assure Cook Inlet explorers that they might have both domestic and foreign markets for their gas discoveries.  Absent foreign markets, the domestic market alone could be insufficient to provide adequate, long term gas exploration incentives.  -dh  With support from many local stakeholders, and in consideration of a request from the State of Alaska, ConocoPhillips Alaska (COPA) has submitted an application to the U.S. Department of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:53-09:00December 12th, 2013|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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12-11-13

Associated Press by VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV.  Expanding Russia's military presence in the Arctic region is among the top priorities for the nation's armed forces, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday....  Vancouver Sun.  Russian President Vladimir Putin is pawing the snow over Canada's claim to the North Pole.  A day after Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird confirmed Canada is extending its Arctic territorial claim beyond the area mapped by federal scientists, Putin responded with a highly visible message to the Russian military. Podesta's arrival shouldn't equate to Keystone's death knell, said Michael Whatley (NGP Photo), executive vice president of the Consumer Energy Alliance, a collection of oil [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:53-09:00December 11th, 2013|Arctic Policy, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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12-10-13 Michael and Chantell Sackett’s Victory Over An Overreaching EPA

ADN/AP — ConocoPhillips is budgeting $1.7 billion for 2014 capital costs in Alaska, twice what it says it spent in 2012 and $600 million more than was budgeted for 2013.  The company in a release says the larger budget reflects increased spending on the long-planned CD-5 development within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and increased activity due to the oil tax cut passed by the Legislature earlier this year. Spokeswoman Natalie Lowman says funding also is included for exploration, including two wells in the Greater Moose's Tooth unit, and major maintenance. So compelling was [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:53-09:00December 10th, 2013|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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11-9-13

CBC by Chris Hall.  The prime minister’s special envoy on West Coast energy issues says the federal government must take decisive action to engage aboriginal groups opposed to new oil and gas pipelines. Fairbanks News Miner.  ASRC Energy Services Response Operations and Foss Maritime Company have formed a joint venture to pursue marine services opportunities in Alaska, the companies announced in a news release.

By |2016-03-13T03:46:58-09:00December 9th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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12-8-13

ADN Guest Editorial by Lynn Johnson (NGP Photo).  A state that is 90 percent dependent on oil revenues cannot afford to lose 200,000 barrels of daily oil production -- and continue to prosper.  Yet that has been the state's fate under the ill-advised oil tax policy known as ACES.  Since ACES passed in 2007, North Slope production has fallen almost 31 percent while production is up everywhere else in the nation. ACES caused Alaska to miss out on the oil boom brought about by high oil prices.  That should concern [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:48:49-09:00December 8th, 2013|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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12-7-13

December 6, 2013, Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell has ordered all state flags to be lowered to half-staff on Saturday in commemoration of Pearl Harbor Day.  (Here is the personal tribute we wrote a year ago.)  -dh

By |2016-12-22T22:29:53-09:00December 8th, 2013|Personal|0 Comments
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12-6-13

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, January 10th the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold an oversight hearing on “The Science Behind Discovery: Seismic Exploration and the Future of the Atlantic OCS.” This hearing will feature testimony highlighting the technological advancements in the field of seismic technology and the essential role seismic exploration plays in future offshore energy development and job creation in the Atlantic.   Without seismic exploration, economic and energy development are left to rely on more than 40-year old data.  Seismic exploration is [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:54-09:00December 8th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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12-5-13

Governor Sean Parnell today said the state is well prepared to tackle the fiscal challenges associated with the state’s revenue outlook.

By |2016-03-13T03:48:31-09:00December 5th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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12-4-13

Fairbanks News Miner, by Jeff Richardson: GVEA to complete coal plant purchase.   Golden Valley Electric Association expects to finish the purchase of a dormant Healy power plant today, a step that puts the Interior utility on pace to restart the coal-fired plant by early 2015. GVEA President Cory Borgeson, who spoke at the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce weekly luncheon on Tuesday, said the utility will acquire the Healy No. 2 coal-fired plant from the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority for about $44 million. The deal doesn’t include rising [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:48:31-09:00December 4th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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12-3-13

Alberta Oil Magazine by Sebastian Gault.  At the London Oil and Money Conference in October, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce vice-chairman Jim Prentice (NGP Photo) made headlines when he told an international petroleum industry audience that Canada’s new takeover rules were scaring off foreign direct investment in the energy sector. In an interview with Alberta Oil in Calgary after a recent trip to China, Prentice took the time to elaborate on his comments.

By |2016-03-13T03:48:15-09:00December 3rd, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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12-2-13 10:30 AM Washington Meeting: What Good Can Come of EPA – Chinese Environmental Meetings?

Globe & Mail by Shawn McCarthy.  ... {Joe Oliver} returned last week from visits to South Korea and China amid concerns .... We urge our Washington readers to attend an EPA meeting this morning at America's major liberal coordinating center to discuss an upcoming EPA/Chinese summit.  We will be looking to our hundreds of US and Canadian media readers to keep all of us informed of developments.  -dh ChinaFAQs... United States and China account for over 40% of global GHG emmissions. How are these two nations working together to advance climate change [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:54-09:00December 2nd, 2013|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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12-1-13 Notes from the road….

Early Sunday Notes from the road: We hope readers have not sensed our skipping a beat in posting northern energy reports, though we are on a two week trip to Texas and Ecuador.  Cuenca is known as the 'world retirement capital', though we like it for other reasons and are certainly not retired.  We pursue our client work, web page, writing and photo assignments from this location a few weeks a year.  When not here, we rent our home (Casa San Sebastian) in the Andes to friends.  One of Cuenca's major [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:54-09:00December 1st, 2013|Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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