3-17-15 Acknowledging the Day

Petroleum News by Kristen Nelson: The Regulatory Commission of Alaska and the House Energy Committee are struggling with overlapping issues related to the ability of independent power producers to sell electric power to existing utilities and to access transmission lines. The committee has held a number of hearings on House Bill 78.... Happy Saint Patrick's Day: What A Man! WND News.  St. Patrick of Ireland is one of the world's most popular saints. An icon of the Irish and the reason we wear green on St. Patrick's day, this influential saint [...]

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3-16-15 The Future of Oil Prices According to An Astute Reader – Senators Sullivan’s Reputation Spreads

Our friend, Rob Bradley (File Photo-R) of the Master Resource Blog, saw U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan's (NGP Photo) Maiden Senate Speech on this website and has further promoted it to his large international audience (here).  (Our original coverage and speech text)  -dh Halloran Opines On Proposed Ohio Severance Tax and Future of Oil Prices Republican Governor Proposes Ohio Severance Tax?  Our friend, Independent Energy Analyst James R. Halloran (File Photo) just returned from the Ohio Oil and Gas Association Winter Meeting where he reported that, "the big issue is Governor Kasich’s proposal for a (completely [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 16th, 2015|Personal, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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3-15-15

AJOC by Tim Bradner.   Despite Gov. Bill Walker’s threat of a veto, House leaders are pushing ahead with a bill that would put sideboards on the governor’s plan to expand a state-led backup gas pipeline into a large project that could be seen as a competitor to the Alaska LNG Project, the industry-led gas project in which the state is also a 25 percent owner. ...In a related development, Alaska Gasline Development Corp. Public Affairs Manager Miles Baker said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers informed AGDC on March [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:51:27-09:00March 15th, 2015|AGDC, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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3-14-15

JOC by Tim Bradner.   The first new jobs created by Gov. Bill Walker’s new gas pipeline plan may well be in California, it appears. Following the governor’s directions, the state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corp. has initiated a study of costs to do engineering to scale-up a state-backed North Slope natural gas pipeline, the Alaska Stand-Alone Gas Pipeline. The state pipeline is now planned with a capacity to move 500 million cubic feet per day. The governor wants to increase it to as much as 2.6 billion cubic feet per [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:51:27-09:00March 14th, 2015|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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3-13-15 Apology to Canada (and the world)

See Alaskanomics Posting of Mike Bradner's Column Re: State Spending.  Why do we at Northern Gas Pipelines often focus on the importance of a 'sustainable Alaska budget'?  Because if the state cannot control spending and continues deficit spending, no infrastructure project in the future will be safe from sudden, unplanned, predatory taxation to stave off bankruptcy: hence, no gas pipeline.  That's why.  -dh Apology To Canada And To The World by Dave Harbour Robert O. Anderson, Atlantic Richfield Co. Board Chairman, Board Member: Arctic Gas Consortium, Photo Circa 1975. Spring, 1976 [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 13th, 2015|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Keystone XL, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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3-1-15 Senator Murkowski Uses Bully Pulpit to Educate America

Landlocked: Murkowski Explains Alaskans’ Access Frustrations The Governor and Entire Congressional Delegation Recently Vowed to Fight the Administration's Overreaching Action to Shut Down Alaska Resource Development and Her Economy.  Senator  Murkowski Has Acted to Create A YouTube Video to Highlight Growing Federal Restrictions in Alaska.  Thank you, Senator Murkowski for Effective Work And Quick Action!  We believe that some educational entity could take that map video and expand it into a one hour lesson plan framework for elementary, high school and college students.  -dh WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski today released [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 12th, 2015|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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3-11-15 For the archives: gasline problems for Alaska’s new governor

  TODAY'S CONSUMER ENERGY ALLIANCE ENERGY NEWS LINKS KTVA by Rhonda McBride. AJOC by Tim Bradner.  I was puzzled, but not surprised, when Gov. Bill Walker made his surprise announcement that he would seek an expansion of a state-led gas pipeline that is being planned as a backup to a large industry-led pipeline and liquefied natural gas project, which is now in preliminary engineering.  More.... When Gov. Bill Walker (NGP Photo) announced he wanted to put a backup gas line project in competition with the Alaska Liquefied Natural Gas project, he opened [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 11th, 2015|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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3-10-15 Proud Of Our Newest Senator

Are We Proud Of Alaska's Newest U.S. Senator?  Yes We Are! (We are also delighted with the new, House Natural Resources Chairman, Rob Bishop.  Bishop replaced our longtime hero Chairman Doc Hastings and seems to be effectively and seemlessly moving forward.  More here....  -dh) During his tenure as Alaska's Attorney General Alaska's newest U.S. Senator, Dan Sullivan, brought lawsuits against the federal government for endangering Alaska's constitutionally reliant resource base. Sullivan later served as Commissioner of Natural Resources, continuing Alaska's stand against hostile instances of federal overreaching jurisdiction. As the 49th [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 10th, 2015|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, Keystone XL, LNG|0 Comments
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Mackenzie Valley Oil Pipeline? Cook Inlet Gas For Fairbanks?

Watch live hearing  today @ 1 p.m. ADT re: HB 105, AIDEA BONDS; PROGRAMS; LOANS; Fairbanks LNG PROJECT (Note increased C.I. reserve estimates) ... Friday, Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator's Office Closed; Larry Persily (NGP Photo) now Kenai Borough Gas Pipeline Coordinator ... AJOC, Midwest Utility Coming North To Alaska? Alberta Oil Magazine by Richelle Wiseman.  (Mackenzie Valley Oil Pipeline?  See our earlier stories.  Photo, Invuik Church, Circa. 2002) It took nearly 40 years, one national inquiry and thousands of hours of negotiations, but in 2011 the National Energy Board finally approved the Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 9th, 2015|Commentary, Energy East Pipeline, Federal Coordinator, Federal Obstruction, Keystone XL, LNG, Mackenzie Valley Oil & Gas Pipelines, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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3-8-15 Walker’s Wall Of Gasline Opposition

ADN by Paul Jenkins.  "Walker's Wrong Way Pipeline...."  For useful references, see: 3-4-15, Legislators Push Back; 3-2-15, Walker and Legislature Tangle; 2-28-15 Walker Op-Ed; 2-28-15, Jenkins Op-ed re: Crazy as a loon/fox. Gov. Bill Walker now finds himself at loggerheads with lawmakers correctly cranky about his grandiose expansion plans for the $10 billion Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline. His idea is to have ASAP compete with the $65 billion Alaska LNG Project, even though that could ball up the state’s business relationship with producers, who have spent hundreds of millions getting this far, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 8th, 2015|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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3-7-15 Undermining Two Of America’s Greatest Allies In One Week: Stupid or Treacherous?

America's elected leader has undermined Israel and Canada, two of America's greatest allies, within the week: Stupid or Treacherous?  Does this deplorable diplomacy also jeopardize US energy independence and give aid and comfort to America's enemies?  You decide.   -dh  

By |2016-03-13T03:52:20-09:00March 7th, 2015|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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3-6-15 Oil Investors Continue To Face Federal and State Obstacles

Alaska Journal of Commerce by Tim Bradner.  Just as things seemed to be going reasonably well for the large Alaska LNG Project, the $45 billion to $65 billion gas pipeline and liquefied natural gas initiative in which the state is a partner, Gov. Bill Walker may be throwing a wrench into the works.  More.... Houston Chronicle by Jennifer Dlouhy.  The Obama administration will decide soon whether to sign off on Shell's request for extra time to hunt for oil in Arctic waters, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Wednesday. Without action, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 6th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, OCS|0 Comments
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3-5-15 View Live Senate Arctic Hearing Now!

TODAY AT 10 AM EASTERN, The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing to evaluate opportunities for the United States to build on its status as an ​Arctic nation for the betterment of the nation and those who live in the Arctic. U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski ​(NGP Photo-Upper L) chairs the hearing.  The hearing features North Slope Borough Mayor Charlotte Brower (NGP Photo-L.  Said federal Arctic policy works against Alaska's and America's future and is like painting a mailbox while the house burns down...."); and Alaska State Senator Lesil McGuire (NGP Photo); [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 5th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy, Commentary|0 Comments
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3-4-15 If you could tour the AK-LNG gas pipeline route!

If you could tour the pipeline route (See AK-LNG): by Bill White, Office of the Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator. If you could tour the pipeline route Send by email By:   Bill White Researcher/Writer, Office of the Federal Coordinator bwhite@arcticgas.gov Release Date:   March 4, 2015 Alaska LNG project sponsors often remind people it's really three projects — a gas treatment plant on the North Slope, a long pipeline bisecting the state and a liquefaction plant at coastal Nikiski. Each would cost billions of dollars, and need tons of steel, thousands of workers and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:34-09:00March 4th, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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3-3-15 Yesterday’s Alaska Rally For “OCS Yes”

OCS YES! Consumer Energy Alliance Rally, 3-2-15. This video documents yesterday's rally and news conference, held in conjunction with a Federal Government OCS lease sale hearing at the Dena’ina Center in downtown Anchorage. Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska Executive Director Anne Seneca organized the program and introduced speakers supporting a responsible, OCS five-year leasing program.   Approximately 100 "OCS Yes" supporters filled a room in the convention center before attending the formal BOEM event afterward in an adjacent room.  For more details, see yesterday's notice.   Following is a listing of speakers included in the video: David Holt, president of Consumer Energy Alliance. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:34-09:00March 3rd, 2015|Arctic Policy, OCS|0 Comments
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