October 2016 - Northern Gas Pipelines

10-31-16 Can Oil Rebound Save Alberta? An Alaska Lesson. Energy and the Impact of Illegal Immigration.

Today: Alberta - Alaska - US Elections - An Illegal Alien Organizer -It's all related and we'll show why- -We hope you'll submit a thoughtful comment at the bottom of this page- Please review our commentary, column left. Then skim the email sent today by an illegal alien on SEIU letterhead, in the right column. The illegal immigration warriors are out of the closet and active. What about those supporting lawful immigration, logical policies and the rule of law: are we as willing to be heard? This whole complex [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:26:45-09:00October 31st, 2016|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Canadian Energy Policy, Commentary, Competition, Federal Obstruction, Global Warming, You Read It Here First|0 Comments

10-29-16 Killing/Saving Canada’s Economy With A Carbon Tax?

PC leadership candidates clash over carbon tax, Calgary Herald. ... Canada-leading greenhouse gas emissions and winning support across the country for new pipelines to ship the province's oilsands crude. Coming ...

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:26:45-09:00October 30th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

10-30-16 ConocoPhillips Keeps Exploring and Producing. When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going….

Conoco planning Putu program - 10/30/2016 (Login to read Full story). ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. is permitting an exploration program near the village of Nuiqsut, although the program is complicated by an appeal over leases in the area. The local subsidiary of the international Houston-based independent plans to drill one well and one sidetrack in the area south of th....

By wpnorthern|2016-10-31T17:49:48-09:00October 30th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

10-28-16 Why Clinton chopped a Keystone XL reference from her book

CALGARY HERALD BY ALEXANDER PANETTA, CP — A reference to the Keystone XL pipeline was chopped from Hillary Clinton’s memoir due to political considerations, according to the latest batch of stolen emails posted Thursday on Wikileaks. While writing the book Hard Choices, Clinton initially included a reference to the pipeline at the urging of her daughter, Chelsea, according to a 2014 email purportedly sent to her current campaign chair John Podesta. “She decided to write about Keystone because her daughter suggested that it would be a glaring omission and look [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:26:45-09:00October 28th, 2016|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Keystone XL|0 Comments

10-27-16 Economist Roger Marks Fact Checks Lawyer’s “Fair Share” Cliché

Beware of False Oil Tax Prophets by Dave Harbour Roger Marks, Senior Oil & Gas Economist. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour (Scroll down to Ak-Headlamp report for Marks' reference.) Regarding our piece yesterday about one lawyer's advocacy for higher oil industry taxes, we provide (BELOW) Ak-headlamp's comment today. We would only add that the lawyer proposes a "fair share" oil tax policy without definition or rational. He simply opines an assumption that a "fair share" of oil wealth for the bureaucracy should be "one-third of gross"... not one-third [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:26:46-09:00October 27th, 2016|ACES, Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Commentary|0 Comments

10-25-16 Attorney Joins Lawyer/Governor Bill Walker In Advocating Oil Tax Increase. Fair Or Hypocritical?

Calling for a "fair share" could be -- and in Alaska usually is -- a sign of political hypocrisy This morning's Alaska Dispatch News features another clever Opinion-Editorial by an Alaska lawyer (i.e. for more, see Ak-Headlamp analysis, column right.) who has become one of the largest individual contributors to democrat tax & spend candidates for the Alaska state legislature this election cycle. Recently, in a Neil Cavuto interview, Las Vegas developer Steve Wynn provided an articulate response to the wealth distribution crowd (See video) using the term "fair share" to [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 26th, 2016|ACES, Alaska Governor Bill Walker, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Commentary, Fracking, Mayor Dan Sullivan|0 Comments

10-24-16 Hilcorp Is Working To Grow In Both Northern & Southcentral Alaska

Hilcorp Energy is here to grow. Hilcorp Energy is one of the companies bucking the trend among those in Alaska’s oil business.

By wpnorthern|2016-10-24T22:05:26-09:00October 24th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

10-23-16 Shell Sells $1Billion In Northern Assets

PennEnergy: Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its affiliate Shell Canada Energy (“Shell”) announced it has agreed to sell approximately 206,000 net acres of non-core oil and gas properties in Western Canada to Tourmaline Oil Corp. for a total consideration of approximately $1,037 million (C$1,369 million). The consideration is comprised of $758 million in cash and Tourmaline shares valued at $279 million. Subject to regulatory approvals the transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2016. The acreage includes 61,000 net acres in the Gundy area of Northeast British Columbia, [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-10-23T21:20:32-09:00October 23rd, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

10-22-16 Governor Walker Feels The Pain

Anchorage Daily Planet Editorial: "He Feels Your Pain" Bill Walker, Governor of Alaska. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour. Gov. Bill Walker addressed the Alaska Federation of Natives convention and zeroed in on Alaska’s budget deficit and his decision to cut this year’s dividend by more than half. He said Alaska is drawing down its reserves at about $12 million daily. “I cannot tell you, I cannot describe to you adequately how difficult of time this has been to be serving as governor,” APRN reports [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 22nd, 2016|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis|0 Comments

10-21-16 Alaska Support Industry Alliance Annual Meeting Honors Jim Udelhoven and Maynard Tapp / ALBERTANS WISELY REJECT CARBON TAX

Alliance Story Coming.... Irving Oil chairman confident Energy East pipeline 'will happen' - Calgary Herald - Calgary misses the pipeline now,” he said. The 4,500-kilometre ... About two-thirds is already in place as a natural gas pipeline. Following Irving's ... Albertans give NDP carbon tax thumbs down in new poll - Calgary Herald - The tax, which is aimed at lowering Alberta's Canada-leading greenhouse gas emissions and helping to win support nationally for new pipeline ... From Ak-Headlamp: Down under up North. According to the Alaska Journal of Commerce, Australia-based 88 Energy Ltd. said in an Oct. 18 release that it has identified five [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 21st, 2016|Canadian Energy Policy, Commentary, Energy East Pipeline, Uncategorized|0 Comments

10-20-16 Kenai Citizen Laments Ak-LNG Slowdown

"Experience is a dear teacher...." B. Franklin/W. Shakespeare (See Alaska Public Media story, right column.) We would only point out that certain longtime advocates of strong state participation in an Alaska LNG project have experienced a personal reality lesson. The lesson is that oil and gas investment is risky. When government and citizens become involved in energy projects, they subject themselves to risk. This is why we have consistently counseled public officials to avoid equity investment in private projects. The private sector is ready, willing [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 20th, 2016|Commentary, LNG|0 Comments

10-19-16 Tonight’s Historic Presidential Debate: “God Bless Us, Everyone”

Tonight's Presidential Debate is Historic Because The Performances Could Dramatically Affect Election Results Brief Commentary By Dave Harbour Last weekend we urged Alaskan public officials to carefully consider the consequences of supporting one presidential candidate over another. Remember? Today, as participants prepare for tonight's ordeal in the Coliseum of public opinion, we will be pondering several questions. Our questions are based on the unassailable fact that our way of life is based on a secure foundation of domestic energy wealth production. This principle applies to both the United States as a whole and to [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 19th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

10-18-16 As Alaska’s Governor Chases A 40-year Uneconomic Pipedream, His Economy Falters

Breakenridge: NDP's bid to diversify oil and gas industry doesn't make sense, Calgary Herald Alaska's Governor Goes "Bulworth"? Opinion by Andrew Jensen, Alaska Journal of Commerce “Going Bulworth,” if you don’t know, is an expression for politicians who say what they actually think. It comes from the 1998 movie starring Warren Bill Walker, Governor of Alaska. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour. Beatty about a disillusioned U.S. senator who starts drinking at campaign events and rapping about single-payer healthcare. Gov. Bill Walker went Bulworth in [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 18th, 2016|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Competition, LNG|0 Comments

10-17-16 Alaska LNG: Among World’s Least Competitive

Click edit button to change this text. Andrew Browning. Northern Gas Pipeline file photo by Dave Harbour A panel of experts gave their views on the shifting supply-demand balance, which is bolstered by more takeaway capacity to Mexico and via newly opened terminals on the Gulf Coast. Four panelists, including one from Canada, expressed different views about what was unfolding, but all agreed that the supply-demand picture will be quite different by the end of next year, not to mention the next 10 years, during the [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 17th, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Fracking, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments