6-12-14

Natural Gas Roundtable and Senate Natural Gas Caucus Luncheon Today, June 12th at the Hart Senate Office Building, Room SH-902. The invited speakers are: U.S. Sens. Mary L. Landrieu (D-La.), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and John Barrasso (R-WY).  The Hill.  Chairwoman of the committee, Mary Landrieu, and her ranking member, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), are discussing ways they might be able to swap President Obama's nominees to the nation's top energy regulatory commission.   Global Post/Canadian Press.  Alberta Tory leadership candidate Jim Prentice (NGP Photo) says he's the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:22-09:00June 12th, 2014|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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6-11-14 LNG Exports Are In America’s National Interest

ADN -- A 13-pound, battery-powered drone catapulted from a Prudhoe Bay gravel pit on Sunday has become the first authorized commercial operation by an unmanned aircraft over land in the United States.  (See our breaking news alert from yesterday.) Our friend, Katy, of energycitizens.org, write us today that, "Recent events in Ukraine and other parts of the world have made it abundantly clear that the United States can no longer sit on the sidelines.  (See our related editorial.) "By increasing liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports", she writes, "we have an [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:22-09:00June 11th, 2014|LNG, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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6-10-14 Alaska Natives Support Oil Tax Reform

2:24 PM, ADT: You Read It Here First.  From Julie Hasquet at BP comes this breaking news:   "BP and AeroVironment are deploying an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS, BP Photo) technology at Prudhoe Bay, marking the first time (i.e. our emphasis added) the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted permission for UAS routine commercial services over land in the United States. "The UAS technology has potential to improve safety, efficiency and the reliability of BP’s Alaska North Slope infrastructure and maintenance programs. "BP’s vendor, AeroVironment, is performing high-accuracy land surveying and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:22-09:00June 10th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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6-9-14 Polar Bears Are Cuddly and ‘Political Shenanigans’ Abound!

World Energy, by George Backwell.  ...a fraction of natural gas projects ... will become reality as high costs and weakening gas prices.... Alaska Dispatch, by Brigham McCown.   As political shenanigans continue to delay approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, Alaska voters hold the key to avoiding a similar fate for what could be North America’s largest pipeline project (i.e. Natural gas pipeline).   Washington Examiner by Mark Tapscott.  Another scientist has more bad news for global warming advocates who claim that Americans are killing Arctic Polar Bears....  *** Professor Matthew Cronin [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:22-09:00June 9th, 2014|Arctic Policy, Coastal Management, Global Warming, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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6-6-14 Alaska D-Day Energy Speech and CBC 70th Normandy Rememberance – Pedro van Meurs On Mexican Constitutional Amendments

Pedro van Meurs On Mexican Constitutional Amendments 70th Annual Remembrance Of The Normandy Invasion: D-Day by Dave Harbour We're now watching the Canadian Broadcast Corporation's 70th D-Day Anniversary remembrance online, here. Earlier this morning in Alaska, we heard former Anchorage Mayor George Wuerch (NGP Photo), a Marine veteran himself, give a moving address to the Alaska Miners Association in his role as Chairman of Veterans For Energy Security (Alaska Chapter). His speech title could, indeed, have been, "National Security Depends On Energy Security". Wuerch reminded the audience that the attack on Pearl Harbor (Your [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 6th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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6-5-14 Alaska North Slope Gas Conditioning Plant Challenges

Comment: We associate a current Governing Magazine article by Liz Farmer, below, with Matt Buxton's excellent News Miner review of Alaska gas pipeline project funding.   We have long alerted readers that with government participation in the traditional, private market comes an unintended list of future consequences to be faced by not only this, but future generations of public officials who had little or nothing to do with the original public funding decisions.   Current and future citizens, in these circumstances, should be prepared to absorb the same risks taken by [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 5th, 2014|Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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6-4-14 PLF Is An Important Ally Also Fighting Federal Government Overreach

    Globe & Mail by CP.  TransCanada Corp. says it plans to build a $1.9-billion pipeline to help feed Chevron Corp. and Apache Corp.’s proposed liquefied natural gas facility near Kitimat, B.C. Yesterday ExxonMobil's Karen Hagedorn briefed the Fairbanks community on Point Thomson project status.  Read Dermot Cole's ADN story here and see our report of Sofia Wong's Friday Point Thomson briefing in Anchorage, here.  Last night, Alaska Public Media aired this audio of a recent Commonwealth North panel discussing Alaska state investment in an ANS gas pipeline/LNG project that includes Alaska producers, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 4th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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6-3-14

Wall Street Journal TODAY re: Yesterday's Climate War Beginning: EPA War on Coal (Dan Kish Video), Coal Cutting Cuts Jobs, Carbon-Income Inequality. Globe & Mail by Peter Tertzakian.  Last week Total SA and their consortium partners shelved the $11-billion Joslyn oil sands project. Predictably, the belt-tightening announcement triggered the usual self-flagellating notions like, “Canadian oil and gas isn’t competitive,” and “The future of the oil sands is dim.” But .... Tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission will hold its monthly public meeting at 333 W. 7th Avenue [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 3rd, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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6-2-14 – Point Thomson On Schedule – Obama Exercises Climate Power – World LNG Supply Explodes!

Alaskan and Canadian Producers And Governments Are Sure To Keep Alert To Changing Conditions In The World LNG Market  (Read More) Michael Whatley (NGP Photo), former staff director and chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Energy Public Works Clean Air and Climate Change Subcommittee, raised a warning flag that EPA regulations will disproportionately affect energy consumers in states in the Midwest and Southeast that are heavily reliant on coal to generate electricity. Here is more Consumer Energy Alliance analysis. Today at 10:30 a.m. EDT, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy delivered [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 2nd, 2014|Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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6-1-14 Alaska Advantage Information Program – Alaska Oil & Gas Association Annual Meeting Economic Report Findings

Alaska Support Industry Alliance's Alaska Advantage Program (Video):               Alaska Oil & Gas: Fueling Our Economy by Katie Bender The Alaska Oil & Gas Association (AOGA) hosted its annual luncheon on Thursday.  Jim Calvin from the McDowell Group presented findings from their updated report “The Role of the Oil and Gas Industry in Alaska’s Economy”. The McDowell group was contracted by AOGA to assess the role of the oil and gas industry in Alaska’s private and public sector economy. The economic impact was based [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 1st, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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