7-28-16 U.S. Chamber Honors U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski's U.S. Energy Policy Proposal

7-28-16 U.S. Chamber Honors U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski’s U.S. Energy Policy Proposal

Karen Harbert, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for 21st Century Energy, speaks to the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce July 25 as part of her trip north to endorse Sen. Lisa Murkowski for reelection and to present her the chamber’s Spirit of Enterprise Award award. Photo/Elwood Brehmer/AJOC

Alaska Journal of commerce, by Elwood Brehmer. Alaskans should take a long and holistic view of energy prices despite the immediate challenges their state faces, according to the leader of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for 21st Century Energy.

Chamber Energy Institute President Karen Harbert said in an interview with the Journal that the long-term benefits the country will see from the Lower 48 fracking revolution that has once again made the U.S. the world’s premier energy producer will eventually reach north.

US Chamber Honors Alaska US Senator Lisa Murkowski for Energy Policy Work. NGP Photo by Dave Harbour.

She was in Anchorage July 25 to present Sen. Lisa Murkowski with the institute’s Spirit of Enterprise Award for her positions on “pro-growth, pro-America policies,” she explained.

Murkowski, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, drafted and moved the country’s first comprehensive energy policy reform bill since 2007 this year, along with help from ranking committee Democrat, Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell.

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On the Alaska LNG Project, Harbert said Lower 48 gas exports shouldn’t be seen as competition to Alaska because of the state’s location adjacent to Asian markets — and again, Alaskans need to look at the long game. * * * (Read full article here)

“(AK LNG) has to work (economically) for the capital to be there and if you look at the long-term demand forecasts the demand is there. It’s what’s going to happen in the next five-to-eight years,” she said. “It will happen. I’m thoroughly convinced that no matter who’s your governor or what the state Legislature looks like it’s inevitable. I think the question is when and who gets what part.”

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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.