July 2017 - Page 2 of 2 - Northern Gas Pipelines

7-10-17 Wind Energy Blowout Week

A Wind Update From our Mid-Atlantic energy analyst friend (i.e. who prefers to remain anonymous): Blowout week, batteries and offshore wind Don and Monica Kotowych at Grouse Mountain BC by Dave Harbour, IOGCC Meeting, 6-2-12 ...we link Euan Mearns’ Blowout Week collection of links to major energy articles from the past week, with a host of excerpts and links to many timely energy topics. The excerpt delivery approach follows our effort to pass along the basic part of a story quickly. This is perfect in our time-challenged society. http://euanmearns.com/blowout-week-184/ [...]

By wpnorthern|2017-07-11T11:32:56-09:00July 10th, 2017|Alternate Energy, Commentary, Competition, Crony Capitalism, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Global Warming, Pedro van Meurs|0 Comments

7-9-17 Memos Won’t Get An Alaska Gas Pipeline

A Memo Does Not An Energy Project Make, according to Paul Jenkins who provides this viewpoint in an ADN op-ed piece this weekend. -dh Memo to: bla, bla, bla. Non committal. Bla, bla. With conditions. Bla, bla. If economically feasible. Bla, bla. We'd love to have Alaska gas under the right economic conditions. Bla, bla. Assuming pipeline/LNG tariff and taxes and producer prices are acceptable to us. Bla, bla.... "This project is Alaska's get well card," bla, bla.... Reading the breathless news that Korea Gas Corp. [...]

By wpnorthern|2017-07-08T11:25:01-09:00July 8th, 2017|LNG|0 Comments

7-8-17 Secretary Acts To Reduce Regulatory Delay and Expedite Lease Sales

Murkowski: New Secretarial Order Will Help Reduce Permitting Delays Ryan Zinke. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour HOMER, AK - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following statement after Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke issued a Secretarial Order directing the Department to hold regular onshore oil and gas leasing sales and to reduce delays in the processing of Applications for Permits to Drill (APDs) “After years of bureaucratic delay that held back [...]

By wpnorthern|2017-07-08T10:48:22-09:00July 8th, 2017|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Arctic Policy, Federal Progress|0 Comments

7-6-17 President Trump Offered Poland Energy and Missile Defense Lifelines

Today President Trump announced to an admiring crowd in Warsaw that Poland should not be dependent upon a single source of energy. As the President leaves Poland for Germany -- and a demanding G-20 summit -- he leaves behind a legacy of warm cooperation. That legacy on the one hand includes Poland's continuing commitment to NATO and on the other hand a US commitment to provide an alternate fuel supply of LNG as well as a missile defence program. See related stories below. -dh (Photo: President Trump in [...]

By wpnorthern|2017-07-06T12:12:40-09:00July 6th, 2017|Commentary, Federal Progress, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, NARUC, Reader Comment|0 Comments

7-5-17 Energy Evolution Continues – North Korean Threat Approaches Climactic Conclusion

At 3 p.m. EST today we witnessed U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's speech regarding the dangerous conditions evolving from North Korea's latest threatening missile test. She offered the U.N. members a choice: act together to impose serious sanctions or expect the U.S. to act to defend itself. Here for reference is a "Korea" speech we offered the Alaska World Affairs Council last October and a Washington Times Op-ed on Korea we provided last November. -dh The Day After America's Fourth Of July, We Pray The Energy Evolution Continues In Freedom For [...]

By wpnorthern|2017-07-05T11:00:23-09:00July 5th, 2017|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Canadian Energy Policy, Commentary|0 Comments

7-4-17 Independence Day

Our Friend, Margy Johnson, is Executive Vice President of the Alaska Dispatch News. Margy Johnson. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour On the 2011 Fourth of July weekend, she opined on the importance of the oil industry to Alaska and asked, as we often have, why major beneficiaries of oil do not more actively support oil industry projects that sustain citizen and state government financial prosperity. Here are excerpts! The University of Alaska has buildings named after some of their more generous donors: BP and Conono Phillips, [...]

By wpnorthern|2017-07-05T08:37:43-09:00July 4th, 2017|Uncategorized|0 Comments