6-28-17 RDC Annual Conference Attracts US Mining Leader

Commissioner Colette Honorable. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour

Personal Commentary: Several years ago your publisher had the honor to serve as vice chairman of the NARUC (National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners) Gas Committee. Also serving on the committee was Arkansas regulatory commissioner, Colette Honorable. Colette has served the FERC, as Senator Murkowski notes below, with distinction. She has also been a highly accomplished and congenial colleague and friend. We join Senator Murkowski in wishing Colette well as she steps down from her duties as FERC commissioner. -dh

Today, Senator Lisa Murkowski said that, “Commissioner Honorable has served with distinction. … Although I understand and respect Commissioner Honorable’s decision.., her departure again underscores the urgent need to re-establish a quorum at FERC.

42nd Annual Membership Luncheon

Deantha Crockett, Alaska Miners Association. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour

Event Program

June 28, 2017 • Dena’ina Center • Anchorage
Doors open at 11:30 a.m., program begins at Noon

New Direction for American Mining and Energy Policy
featuring
Hal Quinn, President & CEO, National Mining Association

and
Alaska Mining Highlights
featuring
Deantha Crockett, Executive Director, Alaska Miners Association

About the Author: wpnorthern

Dave Harbour, publisher of Northern Gas Pipelines, is a former Chairman of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, a Commissioner Emeritus of NARUC, NARUC's Official Representative to IOGCC and Vice Chairman of NARUC's Gas Committee. He served as Gas Committee Chairman of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners. He also served as commissioner of the Anchorage Bicentennial Commission and the Anchorage Heritage Land Bank Commission. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree: English, at Colorado State University, a Master of Science Degree: Communications-Journalism at Murray State University and graduated from Utility Regulatory School for Commissioners at Michigan State University. He served as a Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at Alaska Pacific University, taught bank marketing classes at the University of Alaska and was an English teacher at Los Alamos High School. Harbour served in ranks of Private - Captain during a 4-year assignment with the Army in Korea, Idaho, Georgia and Fort Meade and received the Meritorious Service Medal among other commendations. Harbour is also a past Chairman of the Alaska Council on Economic Education, the Alaska Oil & Gas Association Government Affairs Committee, the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, the Export Council of Alaska and the Department of Commerce's District Export Council. He is a past President of the Alaska Press Club, American Bald Eagle Foundation, Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska and Common Sense for Alaska. Harbour was instrumental in founding the American Bald Eagle Research Institute (UAS), the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, the Downtown Anchorage Business Partnership, and Arctic Power. He also served as CEO of several small Alaska organizations, including the Anchorage Parking Authority and Action Security, Inc. Harbour is also Chairman Emeritus of the Alaska Oil & Gas Congress. Harbour's wife, Nancy, is a professional, performing arts administrator and his three boys, Todd, Benjamin and William work in the fields of environmental management, energy marketing and medicine.