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Governor Sean Parnell Calls For Special Session Re: Gas Pipeline, Oil Taxes and Human Trafficking
See Our Friday Editorial On Business Investment Climate and a Tax Foundation Report
In Alaska, Is A Deal A Deal?
Commentary by Dave Harbour
Today’s Anchorage Daily News Editorial does not encourage Alaska’s elected leaders to improve the investment climate and compete with the world’s oil suppliers: rather, the Daily News advocates blackmail (i.e. "Invest As We Wish or We Will Continue to Punish You") or bribery (i.e. "If we pull back on progressivity, what exactly do we gain, and on what schedule?"). Note that this hostile, dictatorial, "pay to play" approach occurs while billions in taxpayers’ assets are already committed to Alaska, long after lease sale agreements and monies have exchanged hands. We suspect that if we asked, "Why would Alaska want to treat investors this way," tax and spend advocates would answer, "Because we can." That attitude is anti-American, anti-free enterprise, and anti-Alaska Constitution because it causes investors to lose faith in Alaska resource development upon which the Constitution predicated Alaska’s livelihood. Mistreating investors is also anti-children, for it frightens investors from wanting to invest now in ways that could employ and sustain our kids later. Instead, Alaska’s legislative leaders should, like Governor Parnell, be seeking to make Alaska competitive, radiating good will and good faith to the world’s natural resource investors. Perhaps the legislature should adopt a natural resource slogan, "In Alaska, A Deal’s A Deal".
Anchorage Daily Planet by Tom Brennan, two stories:
1. Brooks Range
Petroleum Corp. has the kind of problem that most independent oil companies would like to have. It made a discovery so large that the company and its partner have begun shopping for another partner with deeper pockets. Brooks Range is headed up by Ken Thompson (NGP Photo), a former president of ARCO Alaska. When Thompson retired from ARCO, he decided to stay in Alaska and put together a venture capital firm to fund oil and gas exploration operations.
2. Alaska has a lot of balls in the air right now. And revision of the ACES oil tax is just one of them. An important one, certainly, but there are more. One big one, obviously, is consideration by the major North Slope leaseholders of a gas pipeline to the Southcentral Alaska Coast and an LNG plant and port facilities to prepare gas for shipment on LNG tankers. The project would supply Pacific Rim markets where gas prices, at least for now, are quite a bit above those in the U.S., where abundant shale gas has driven prices down. Whether the differential will hold is an interesting question. One major utility in Tokyo is already looking at plans to tanker LNG from the U.S. East Coast.
| Governor calling special session on 3 issues – Coshocton Tribune Parnell issued a special session call shortly after the House and Senate adjourned their regular session early Monday. Also on the call are HB9, a bill meant to further advance an in-state natural gas pipeline project, and HB359, Parnell’s bill to … See all stories on this topic » |
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| House guts Senate oil tax proposal – Anchorage Daily News Sean Parnell call a special session? Parnell had said he would if the Senate passed an oil tax bill, to give the House time to vet it. But that’s before an oil tax overhaul stalled in the Senate bipartisan majority caucus, and the caucus went another … See all stories on this topic » |
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| House guts Senate oil tax plan, OKs film credit – Fairbanks Daily News-Miner The only remaining question was: Will Gov. Sean Parnell call a special session? Parnell had said he would if the Senate passed an oil tax bill, to give the House time to vet it. But that’s before an oil tax overhaul stalled in the Senate bipartisan … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Stalled oil tax, gasline bills to be heard in new session – Juneau Empire They ended without taking action on oil taxes, one of Parnell’s top priorities, or a small natural gas pipeline, one of House Speaker Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski’s top priorities. Those two issues and a popular crime bill caught in the last-minute … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Legislature adjourns; special session up next – Anchorage Daily News By RICHARD MAUER JUNEAU — After working overtime into early Monday to complete their work, legislators were told by Gov. Sean Parnell that they in fact were not done. He proclaimed a special session starting Wednesday at 1 pm Parnell issued his order … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Alaska state House tries to kill Senate oil tax reform – Alaska Dispatch Sean Parnell, along with many members of the House, had been calling for. A top official at Armstrong Oil & Gas Inc., one of Alaska’s new independent oil producers, urged the House to pass the bill. Parnell, however, didn’t support the bill because it … See all stories on this topic » |
| As Clock Ticks, Pipeline, Education, Retirement & Autism Bills Linger – KTUU.com … natural gas pipeline project. Chenault told the Senate Community and Regional Affairs Committee its rewrite of HB9 "neutered" the ability of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., or AGDC, to advance a project. Earlier this week, Gov. Sean Parnell … See all stories on this topic » |
| Senate passes oil tax reform bill – Anchorage Daily News … a small-diameter gas pipeline from the North Slope to Southcentral Alaska. In a prepared statement, Gov. Sean Parnell’s spokeswoman, Sharon Leighow, said, "HB 276 maintains status quo decline for at least 10 years. We can’t afford that. See all stories on this topic » |
| Alaska Senate takes new tack on oil taxes – Appleton Post Crescent Sean Parnell will call lawmakers back into special session to deal with oil taxes. Parnell said earlier this week that he would, if the Senate passed an oil tax bill in the Legislature’s last days to give the House time to vet a bill. See all stories on this topic » |
| Our view: Oil tax deadlock – Anchorage Daily News Sean Parnell and the House majority, both of which were too quick on the trigger, with too little information, in last year’s session — proposing to give up billions in tax revenues for not much more than a vague promise from the oil industry. See all stories on this topic » |
| Senate Passes Tax Credit for "New" Oil — Bill Now Heads to House – KTUU.com But it would extend a 30% tax credit for explorers who find and produce new fields. The measure is far less generous than what Governor Sean Parnell has been asking for. And those who back it say it will help re-fill the Trans Alaska Pipeline. See all stories on this topic » |
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