August 23, 2014 - Northern Gas Pipelines

8-23-14

Fuel Fix by Colin Eaton. By a slim margin, Alaska’s new business-friendly oil tax regime has survived an effort to overturn it and revert to a previous tax structure that cost companies more. A measure on the state’s primary ballot Tuesday would have reinstated Alaska’s progressive oil taxes, originally installed in 2007 under former Gov. Sarah Palin and dismantled last year in an effort to lure oil companies to the state. The old taxes were tied to crude prices, and oil companies say they would have hampered the industry’s [...]

For Readers Interested In Travel and Photography

Under Construction.... Enjoy these Amazingly Timed Photos! 1. Ecuador. Some of our reader friends know of our long time interest in Latin cultures, generally, and particularly in the Ecuadorian lifestyle. Here is a link to our home/rental unit in Cuenca, world retirement capital where life is analog slow: we walk on cobblestone streets; consume the freshest fruits, vegetables, seafood, poultry and farm animals; pay $17 a year in property tax; walk everywhere in a city (or, take a $2 cab) with a little bigger population than Anchorage; and have many Ecuadorian friends. We have [...]