Tomorrow.... Commentator Thorpe Watson advises us to get ready for a medieval lifestyle. This morning he emails us that: The G7 countries have declared war on hydrocarbon fuels (aka “fossil fuels”). They have pledged to end the production and use of coal, oil, and gas by 2100. (The Telegraph 9 June 2015 “G7 pledges to end fossil fuel use this century”). In other words, it is a pledge to commit economic suicide and to make us more vulnerable to natural climate change. It is a bleak [...]
Today's Energy Links From Consumer Energy Alliance: Town Hall: Follow the Trend: Support Energy Development A new trio of polls shows what’ll be at the top of Americans’ minds when they hit the voting booths next year to elect a new commander-in-chief – energy production. Surveys administered recently by Consumer Energy Alliance show that more than 80 percent of voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina – the first three primary states – said that candidates’ energy policy would be a key decision point on how they vote next [...]
Friday We Wonder If Today's EPA Announcement Pleases Our Energy Readers: layer this on top of the WOTUS, Ocean Policy, ESA, CAA, CWA and War on Coal MATRIX! Like the industrious Lilliputians did with Gulliver, is EPA -- under White House direction -- strapping the great American economy to the ground, immobilizing it, pretext to total control of the people and their free enterprises? Frankly, the EPA's authoritarian use of rulemaking -- to us -- more resembles a well coordinated attack strategy than simple incompetence. -dh (Ref. 2012 E.O.) RELEASED TODAY: BP's [...]
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A new competitor for the Alaska oil patch: A Bakken-sized NWT shale play? More.... The Hill's Energy Links NOTE: NEXT WEEK, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will have an Oversight Hearing on Arctic Resources and American Competitiveness. Our readers may watch, live. Here's more.... -dh U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), today advanced her efforts to end the current prohibition on most U.S. crude oil exports in a report entitled “Rendering Vital Assistance: Allowing Oil Shipments to U.S. Allies.” More.... BP in Alaska is a biannual [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Committee on Natural Resources has scheduled a markup beginning on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 4:00 PM in 1324 Longworth House Office Building. The Committee will consider the following bill, among others: H.R. 2295 (Rep. Thomas MacArthur), To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to require the Secretary of the Interior to identify and designate National Energy Security Corridors for the construction of natural gas pipelines on Federal land, and for other purposes. “National Energy Security Corridors Act” TODAY'S RELEVANT ENERGY CLIPS FROM CONSUMER ENERGY ALLIANCE: KZOR FM 94.1 – Hobbs, New Mexico: Media Interview. This week [...]
Comment. Readers can be sure that when Alaska's governor calls a summit on the state's fiscal situation, the outlook for oil and gas investors becomes less certain. (See ADN story, column left) This is because the natural course of politics is to tax entities with the most cash and fewest votes and protecting large voting blocks of beneficiaries. For example, the capital intensive oil industry employs very few, highly skilled masters of technology to produce great wealth. Other industries, like commercial fishing and tourism are people intensive; they employ huge armies [...]
What America's Decline in Economic Freedom Means for Entrepreneurship and Prosperity Why did the U.S. economy recover so slowly from the 2008 recession? What lessons have economists learned that can encourage economic growth in the future? A new book, comprised of five essays by noted U.S. economists, connects the dots between the role entrepreneurs and small businesses play in growing an economy, how high levels of economic freedom increase both the quantity and quality of entrepreneurship, the decline of economic freedom in the United States since 2000, and how the [...]
Commentary: Today, Governor Rick Perry (NGP Photo) announced his candidacy for president. His message embraced a reversal of most Obama-era policies--especially those involving energy. He said, "There is nothing wrong in America today that a change in leadership will not (correct)." (Full Video Below) We hope that is so; if it is to be so, it will take the sort of passion, commitment, experience and determination reflected in his remarks today. Yesterday a dear friend on Facebook posted an editorial about 'unaffordable housing costs and stagnant wages'. It sounded to me like [...]
TODAY: “The Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of a new rule that will dramatically increase the agency’s power, and will devastate Americans’ ability to use their own property and their own water." Pedro van Meurs Mexico Meeting This Summer National Energy Board Staffing AP/ADN by Dan Joling (NGP Photo). Ten environmental groups Tuesday sued a federal agency over its approval of a plan by Royal Dutch Shell PLC for exploratory petroleum drilling off Alaska's northwest coast. Comment on Arctic exploration. We have the highest regard for Shell, its employees and its [...]
NEW Alaskan Discoveries Are Significant: See TODAY'S NEWS! (Note: we thank Rebecca Logan {NGP Photo}, Alliance General Manager, for alerting us to this important announcement!) Keystone XL Commentary by Robert Dillon (NGP Photo), U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee TODAY'S RELEVANT ENERGY LINKS, COURTESY OF CONSUMER ENERGY ALLIANCE Calgary Herald British Columbia's energy projects lure companies stung by Alberta downturn Calgary Herald Still, all of the LNG terminals proposed for the British Columbia coast remain in the planning stage while gas and crude- oil pipeline projects face ... CBC.ca Kinder Morgan Trans [...]
TransCanada reaches deals with three more BC First Nations forpipeline CBC.ca According to the project website, the 900-kilometre pipeline is expected to deliver natural gas from Hudson's Hope to the proposed Pacific NorthWest ... Majority Leader, Chairmen Bishop, Chaffetz, Calvert Urge President to Nominate Permanent Inspector General at Interior WASHINGTON, D.C. – For more than six years the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has been without a permanent Inspector General which has “reduced the Department’s efficiency and deprived taxpayers from fully realizing the benefits of a strong inspector general,” according to key lawmakers in [...]
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