Alaska Dispatch News added by Editor on August 21, 2016.
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Fish plant. Just think fish plant when you hear about the state taking the reins of the $55 billion Alaska LNG Project that aims to move North Slope gas south for liquefaction and then shipment to Japan. Fish plant.
That long ago boondoggle cost Alaska $50 million and now the state – not unlike governments everywhere – wants to embark on something best left to private interests where being accountable – Sarah Palin used to call it having “skin in the game” – tends to lead to better decisions and real consequences for bad ones.
What too many officials do not get is that government and business play by different rules, with different expectations, different roles. All of that puts government at a disadvantage when it comes to building or overseeing massive projects.
The Alaska Gasoline Development Corp. – which represents Alaska’s interest in the massive project – says it wants to take over from the state’s partners, BP, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil, by year’s end. The North Slope partners have been battered by bottom-of-the-barrel oil and gas prices and seem leery about charging ahead.
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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.
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