5-29-15 Economic Death Spirals and More….

Economic Death Spirals: Part I By Dave Harbour Economic Death Spirals are never pleasant and can vary in impact.  As a former utility regulator, I was always on the lookout for potential utility death spirals, for their impact could bankrupt utility investors, make utility rates unaffordable for consumers and/or threaten the lives of those dependent on life sustaining heat, light, water and sanitary services.  A utility death spiral can strike when rates become too high for consumers to afford.  In such a case, fewer consumers can pay for the service.  [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:18-09:00May 29th, 2015|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal|0 Comments
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5-28-15 Murkowski Cheers LNG Export Approval … Urges Repeal of Oil Export Ban

Comment: We remind our Canadian and U.S. readers that with so much North American oil and gas existing and potential production and with so many more LNG export projects than the market can accommodate, any major news such as the Alaska LNG export approval today affects investors, jobs, treasuries and economies in both countries.  -dh BREAKING NEWS TODAY!  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today cheered the Department of Energy’s approval of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export license for Alaska’s massive North Slope natural gas resources.  READ ENTIRE STATEMENT HERE....  Our [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:18-09:00May 28th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Federal Progress, LNG|0 Comments
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5-27-15 Meetings For Our Readers

Alaska LNG Reviews Pipeline Route With Government Agencies, by Larry Persily (NGP Photo) on behalf of the Kenai Peninsula Borough   Petroleum News: Canada's Mackenzie Gas Project Still Breathing!   Today: funeral services for our longtime friend, energy advocate and "Alaska's Diplomat", Chuck Becker (NGP Photo). Tomorrow: the big LNG meeting in Anchorage, open to media and the public. Next Week:  The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) will hold its 2015 EIA Energy Conference on June 15 and 16 at the Renaissance Downtown Hotel in Washington, DC. The EIA Energy Conference has become a premier forum [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:18-09:00May 27th, 2015|LNG, Personal|0 Comments
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5-26-15 Big LNG Meeting In Anchorage This Week

Big LNG Meeting In Anchorage This Week U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, will host a roundtable discussion in Anchorage on Thursday on the federal processes for permitting an Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project. We invite you to join us.   The event will include a public discussion between senior energy officials from the relevant federal agencies about key federal permits, processes and opportunities related to an LNG export project in Alaska.    Attendees will include Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:18-09:00May 26th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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5-26-15 With Approval Of So Many At Home And Abroad, We Name Chuck Becker: “Alaska’s Diplomat”

Point of Personal Privilege: Scroll Down For An Update On, "Alaska's Diplomat", Our Friend, Chuck Becker  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), Friday issued the following statement in response to a letter that 18 Senate Democrats sent to Interior Secretary Jewell, calling on the Obama administration to stop energy production in the Arctic. This comes after the administration approved plans for Shell to drill in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea this summer. “Today’s attempt to block energy production in Alaska ignores the facts. For more than 30 years, Alaska has demonstrated its safe [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:19-09:00May 25th, 2015|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Personal|0 Comments
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5-22-15 EPA Broke The Law When It Preemptively Attacked the Pebble Project.

Many friends of "Alaska's Diplomat", Chuck Becker, have commented on the important life he led, including his energy industry understanding.  (Note: we will remove or edit any comments at the request of commenters.  -dh) Canada's Fraser Institute analyzes how US loss of freedom affects economic recovery...and wonders how Alberta's new government will affect energy industry vitality.  EPA's Pebble Blame Game Wall Street Journal (Write "Pebble" and/or "Federal Overreach" and/or "Rule of Law" in our NGP Google search engine, upper right.  You will find our many references, like this one, to the Pebble [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:19-09:00May 22nd, 2015|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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5-21-15 In Memoriam: Chuck Becker; Our Recent Commentary Reverberates

Today's News and Commentary In Memoriam Point of personal privilege: Our great friend, Chuck Becker, passed away this morning (Photos).  Today, family and countless friends are mourning his passing.  We will attempt to provide more official information as the family makes it available. Chuck and I met in the mid-1970s in Washington D.C.  Another dear friend, the late Anchorage Mayor George Sullivan was his client and I was representing the first North Slope gas project, the Arctic Gas Consortium, with Washington and Anchorage offices. After Chuck had moved to Anchorage and completed his [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:20-09:00May 21st, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Personal, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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More Alaska Oil Industry Angst Approaches

Attend the Annual Alaska Oil & Gas Association Luncheon!  Show support for a sustainable future! Our Instinct: Conservatives Must Seize Opportunity To Save Alaska's Economy  by Dave Harbour ​Please read news items below We admire Senator Lisa Murkowski's vigilance on Arctic exploration issues -- and the initiative of her committee's Communication Director, Robert Dillon.  See TODAY'S COMMUNICATION AND VIDEO HERE. Many moons will come before Shell Oil and other producers, under the most agreeable circumstances, can find and commercially produce oil and natural gas from Alaska's Arctic reservoirs in the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:20-09:00May 19th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Dave Harbour’s Ecuador

An Ecuadorian Story by Dave Harbour Like you, the Harbours love to travel.  This is a 6-7-12 NYT article written about our Casa San Sebastian home in Cuenca.  The featured apartment belongs to our neighbor across the hall. NBC News, Posted 5-8-15 ABC News, Posted 5-15-13 House Hunters International, Posted 5-15-15 Like most Americans, we usually make travel plans around points East and West and have spent time in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. But having been born in Texas and attended elementary and Junior High School in New Mexico, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:20-09:00May 19th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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5-18-15 New EIA INTERNATIONAL Portal; LNG Links Courtesy of Larry Persily

EIA launches redesigned International Energy Portal Today, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) launched a redesigned International Energy Portal to improve access to international energy data and trends in global energy markets. "With most of the future growth in energy consumption expected to occur outside of the United States and with increasingly interconnected world energy markets, a clear perspective on the international energy landscape is critically important, and EIA's redesigned International Energy Portal makes it easier to gain insight into global energy developments," said EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski. From our Energy Information [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:20-09:00May 18th, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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5-16-15 Useful Idiots Drive Miles to Paddle Kayaks to Protest Oil

Commentary: Earlier this week we gave credit to the useful idiots of the country by respecting their devotion as true believers in however climate change is defined today.  We also pointed out that one of the world's most respected climate change leaders admitted that her work was not so much about the environment as about destroying capitalism.  The story below describes the thought process, or lack thereof, of a graduate student from Olympia who drove to Seattle to protest the world's reliance on oil.  And he brought others with him. [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:53:34-09:00May 16th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal|0 Comments
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5-15-15

U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Tim Scott, R-S.C., this week each introduced separate proposals to increase energy production on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and increase revenue sharing with states that support offshore energy production activities. These targeted bills reflect the priorities of their sponsors. Murkowski’s bill would focus on Alaska’s OCS while Cassidy’s bill would focus on Gulf Coast States and Scott’s bill would focus on the Atlantic OCS. The proposals are: ·         S. 1278 (Murkowski), the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale Act ·         S. 1276 (Cassidy), the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:21-09:00May 15th, 2015|Arctic Policy|0 Comments
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5-14-15 UN Climate Chief Against Oil, Against Capitalism

Scroll Down For: "Useful Idiots" Commentary Published this morning: our MASTER RESOURCE Op-ed: "Seattle Hearing on Shell's Arctic Rig Docking: A Clash of Visions" UN Climate Change Chief, Christiana Figueres: Against Capitalism and Against Shell's Arctic Exploration  See earlier reports this week on Seattle's port hearing regarding the Staging of Shell's summer exploration in the Arctic   KILLING CAPITALISM: UN Climate Change Chief Investors Business Daily.  At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not [...]

By |2019-12-13T04:27:23-09:00May 13th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Global Warming, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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5-13-15 Alaskans Support Shell At Seattle Hearing

Senator Lisa Murkowski pushes to end oil export ban Yesterday's Port of Seattle Testimony: News, our commentary below... ..and more: Denny Westneat's Seattle Times Commentary, West Seattle Blog, AP Story by Gene Johnson, and Video Commentary.  We watched a "clash of energy philosophies" at yesterday's hearing online. We drew three main conclusions: 1.  Alaska witnesses.  Many testified.  All but one (i.e. a Mat-su area environmentalist who criticized Alaska's position on natural resource development) represented themselves professionally, presenting actual facts and history relating to the century-old relationship between Seattle and Alaska.   They also carefully briefed the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:21-09:00May 13th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary|0 Comments
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