Calgary Herald by James Wood: The president of the country’s major oilpatch lobbying group says the energy industry doesn’t want government to put its planned review of Alberta’s energy royalties on hold.
Alaskans Prepare For President Visit
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White House Video/Alaska Public Television: "…the president says he’s coming to Alaska because it’s on the front lines of climate change, with lives and communities already being disrupted. “What’s happening in Alaska isn’t just a preview of what will happen to the rest of us if we don’t take action. It’s our wake-up call,” Obama says. “The alarm bells are ringing. And as long as I’m president, America will lead the world to meet this threat — before it’s too late.” (See the video.) Comment: Your writer suggests that Alaskans better learn that this president and his party and its supporters are determined to: -STOP development in Alaska. -Eliminate free enterprise jobs and conservatively voting employees. -Replace them with bureaucrats loyal to the regime, supported by armies of environmental and social activists. In these pages, we have provided ample demonstration of this principle. We remember treating President Carter and Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus well on their visits to the state. They burned our olive branch when the two then created — with their congressional allies — the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. ANILCA continues to VIOLATE THE STATEHOOD COMPACT and descimate Alaska's economy. The Obama Climate Change initiatives are only pretext to the accumulation of more partisan power at Alaska's expense and at the expense of every American energy consumer and job seeker and supporter of Arctic Sovereignty and national defense. For those still in doubt, read our report, "UN Climate Change Chief, Christiana Figueres: Against Capitalism…." To these 'end justifies the means' operatives, it's not about the environment; it's about power. Lastly, we think all recent presidents have underrated Alaska's importance to North America's Arctic defenses, which should be founded on assuring jurisdiction over and development of Arctic resources. Without a proper national defense and natural resources to back it up, North America is vulnerable and all other issues then become academic if not irrelevant. -dh |
"We don’t have a lot of presidents who stop here unless they’re low of fuel,” Gov. Bill Walker (NGP Photo) said…."Report and Commentary: On Monday, a number of well-intended Alaska organizations sent a letter to Barak Obama, in the wake of years of Federal overreach.
The communication was designed to prepare Obama for his trip to the state next week. It is a very diplomatic letter, very politically correct.
The letter notes the many natural resource wonders of Alaska and the need — and constitutional mandate — for Alaskans to develop those resources.
In part, it says, Alaska depends on the responsible development of its natural resources to expand and support its economy. Article VIII of our state constitution mandates that we develop our resources to the maximum benefit for all Alaskans. To do that, we need access and responsibility for our own lands. (See the complete letter here….)
Interior Secretaries (i.e. 1, 2) for this Administration alone have accomplished not one step toward supporting Alaska's best interest — which parallels the best interest of all Americans: responsible development of Alaska's resources.
Once again, Alaska offers the olive branch and while we respect the 'high road' nature of this letter, we know Alaska's history of federal oppression.
We expect the president and secretary of state have not become more respectful of Alaska's constitutional guarantees and obligations. We expect them to be greeted by armies of environmental activists, many of them flown in to celebrate a new era of eco-domination over Alaska's Constitution.
…and, as we prepare to welcome the presidential delegation, we also remember memorizing at the school of hard knocks the definition of insanity.
Salon thinks we're insane for overusing a cliche. But we always "consider and are often comforted in knowing the source" of criticism.
Peace, dear reader. -dh
Today's Consumer Energy Alliance relevant energy links:
Alaska Business Monthly: Message to President Obama from Alaska On behalf of our organizations and the tens of thousands of jobs we represent, we welcome you and Secretary John Kerry to Alaska. Thank you for coming, and we hope you take the opportunity to learn Alaska's true story and its value to the nation. As you visit our state, often referred to as “The Last Frontier,” you will see firsthand Alaskans’ achievements and the tremendous opportunities that are yet untapped for the United States.
Capital Soup: Officials to Converge in Tampa to Discuss Shared Opportunities and Challenges in Energy at Gulf Coast Energy Forum
Members of the Gulf Coast’s diverse energy community will gather in Tampa on Wednesday for the annual Gulf Coast Energy Forum, sponsored by Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) and the Partnership for Affordable Clean Energy (PACE). The Forum will bring together grassroots leaders, elected officials and organizations across the Gulf Coast, as well as thought leaders in the energy field, to discuss shared opportunities and challenges in energy for the region.
Consumer Energy Alliance: Consumer Energy Alliance Welcomes New Member: Ohio AgriBusiness Association
Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is pleased to welcome the Ohio AgriBusiness Association (OABA) as its newest affiliate member. Established in the late 1800s, OABA represents more than 240 companies including manufacturers and suppliers of plant nutrient and protection materials, the grain warehousing and marketing industry, the feed and seed industry, as well as businesses providing equipment, financing, insurance, and consulting, to agribusiness.
Consumer Energy Alliance: Energy Day Festival Links Future Generations with Future Prosperity
The U.S. Dept. of Labor announced in October that the number of job openings in the U.S. has reached 4.8 million, the highest since January 2001. In addition, a recent report by Manpower, a worldwide staffing company, predicted that the number of jobs in the energy sector, unquestionably one of the nation’s fastest growing industries, would nearly double to about 3 million by 2020.
Consumer Energy Alliance: For President Obama, Responsible Development Should be Job #1 in the Arctic
In National Journal, Consumer Energy Alliance President David Holt responds to the question “Can Arctic Drilling Be Done Safely?” with a resounding yes, outlining how responsible arctic development is paramount in ensuring West Coast energy stability and national energy security.
Christian Science Monitor: Oil prices collapse: Will Arctic drilling survive the crash?
Italian oil group ENI is expected to begin production from the Goliat Field off Norway in a few short weeks. The project, which has cost $5.6 billion, is expected to produce 34 million barrels of oil per year by the second year of production.
Business Insider: Low oil prices are making Arctic drilling even tougher
Italian oil group ENI is expected to begin production from the Goliat Field off Norway in a few short weeks. The project, which has cost $5.6 billion, is expected to produce 34 million barrels of oil per year by the second year of production.
Alaska Dispatch News: Alaska Gov. Walker to Obama: Help us put more oil in the pipeline
President Barack Obama is visiting Alaska next week, where he’s expected to argue climate change is an urgent problem that requires international action. The message he’ll hear from Gov. Bill Walker? Walker wants the federal government to help Alaska access more fossil fuels — consumption of which is widely viewed as one of the primary drivers of climate change.
Alaska Dispatch News: Obama won't let real Alaska voices disrupt climate change photo-ops on Arctic trip
President Barack Obama is coming to Alaska. So what? He’s not coming to learn. He’s made that perfectly clear in the video he circulated when he announced his trip. He’s coming to use Alaska as a backdrop to further his argument on climate change.
E&E News: Obama's Alaska trip will help him present a more dramatic view of climate change
President Obama's summer climate change tour will culminate in the Alaskan Arctic next week, putting him in a setting that has experienced the country's most dramatic climatic changes and one that Obama hopes will help him boost public support.
Washington Times: Obama accuses Kochs of un-American campaign to undermine green energy
President Obama accused conservative opponents of his climate change agendaMonday night of carrying out an un-American campaign to protect their fossil fuel interests at the expense of the country. “They’re trying to undermine competition in the marketplace and choke off consumer choice and threaten an industry that’s turning out new jobs at a fast pace,” Mr. Obama said at a clean energy summit here.
Town Hall: Las Vegas Review-Journal: Obama’s Clean Power Plan Is ‘Unlawful Overreach’
You know about Obama’s Clean Power Plan that will save all of humanity from the non-threat that is global warming. It aims to reduce carbon emissions by nearly 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2025. In the process, the regulatory costs will soar into the hundreds of billions of dollars, millions of jobs from black and Hispanic communities will be gutted, fixed-income seniors will have their budgets nuked by rising energy costs, and the plan pretty much punishes states that didn’t vote for Obama in 2012.
Forbes: Fracking Is Our Clean Power Plan
As environmental groups gather to strategize maximum mileage from the president’s “Clean Power Plan,” they would do well to remember what they might regard as the greatest environmental triumph of this century: The U.S. already leads the world in carbon emissions reduction, with emissions down 26% since the shale boom hits its stride in 2007.
Fierce Energy: Billion dollar injection: Obama shepherding new era of clean energy
President Obama's been busy over the past couple days. In addition to giving the keynote at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas — where he announced a robust set of executive actions and private sector commitments to advance the country's transition to cleaner sources of energy and cut energy waste — he has blessed more than a billion dollars in initiatives to advance innovative clean energy technologies.
Heartland Institute: Affordable Energy Summit Counters Obama-Reid Event
A coalition of Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians rallied today in Las Vegas to call for affordable energy and an end to government favoritism toward so-called “clean” energy sources. Speakers at the Affordable Energy Summit 8.0 explained wind and solar power championed by Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and renewable power activists at the rival Clean Energy Summit 8.0 are prohibitively expensive, yet producing few if any net environmental benefits.
Huffington Post: Environmental Activists Arrested Outside John Kerry's House
Twenty activists protesting an international pipeline expansion project were arrested outside Secretary of State John Kerry’s residence in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. They were part of a group of about 100 demonstrators organized by the youth environmental group Midwest Unrest. The protesters were calling on Kerry to block Enbridge Energy from expanding its Alberta Clipper oil sands pipeline, which runs from Canada to Superior, Wisconsin.
Associated Press: Part of Indiana BP Oil Refinery Reopens; Ohio Gas Prices Could Fall
BP says it has restarted a portion of a large Indiana oil refinery whose unplanned shutdown for repairs caused gasoline prices in the region to spike earlier this month.
OilPrice.com: Fate of U.S. Fracking Could Rest With Colorado Supreme Court
The oil and gas landscape is changing fast these days. And a big item this month suggests the courts may have a major impact on shaping the sector over the coming months. Especially issues like fracking.
Lincoln Journal Star: Bold Nebraska searching for evidence of TransCanada influence
Bold Nebraska has gone fishing. Volunteers for the environmental advocacy group known for its opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline spent hours Tuesday poring over boxes of records from former Gov. Dave Heineman’s administration.
Bloomberg: Oil plunge has gone too far, Morgan Stanley says
The global oil market is healthier than it looks, signaling that crude’s plunge to six-year lows has probably gone too far. While futures tumbled below $45 a barrel in London for the first time since 2009, Morgan Stanley and Standard Chartered Plc say other measures suggest physical markets for crude have stabilized or even strengthened in recent weeks.
Bloomberg: Energy Companies Cheaper Than Assets after Rout, Oil Search Says
Oil and gas companies are looking more attractive to buy than individual assets following the plunge in share prices, according to Oil Search Ltd., Exxon Mobil Corp.’s partner in Papua New Guinea.
Houston Chronicle: Tough times force companies to cut deeper, innovate
Oil prices recovered slightly Tuesday from the dramatic sell-off a day earlier, but not enough to brighten the dim outlook that's intensifying the industry's drive to find new ways to slash costs and operate more efficiently.
Fierce Energy: When is enough enough? Energy efficiency in Nevada, California
As the National Clean Energy Summit 8.0 wraps up in Nevada, a new report from the national nonpartisan business group Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) identifies energy efficiency as an economically beneficial way for Nevada to meet new carbon pollution limits set by the federal Clean Power Plan — the cornerstone of President Obama's climate agenda.
San Francisco Gate: Troubled California oil field regulator faces major overhaul
California’s embattled oil field regulatory agency will undergo a sweeping overhaul following revelations that the office for years let petroleum companies dump their waste water into federally protected aquifers.
Denver Business Journal: Pain and gain on the way for oil and gas industry, say experts at COGA energy summit
The pain isn’t over for the oil and gas industry, according to speakers at the Rocky Mountain Energy Summit, the Colorado Oil & Gas Association’s annual industry conference underway this week.
Fuel Fix: Oil is falling, but Eagle Ford, Bakken output on the rise
Oil prices are tumbling this year, but production from the Eagle Ford Shale and Bakken formation increased slightly between June and July, according to Bentek Energy. Average oil production in the Eagle Ford in South Texas was 1.6 million barrels per day in July, up by about 10,000 daily barrels over June production.
KGBT: Low oil prices haven't hurt the Texas economy — yet
Just one short year ago, Texas drilling country rumbled with activity and high expectations that the good times would last a long while. So much for that. Amid a plunge in oil prices, the bonanza has paused at the very least, wiping out thousands of jobs in the oilfields and communities dependent on them.
The Oklahoman: Budgets for oil drilling likely to decline again in 2016, according to experts at Oklahoma conference
The double dip of low oil prices over the past two months likely will lead to more severe cuts in drilling activity next year, speakers said Tuesday at the Pipeline and Energy Expo in Tulsa. "We've been thinking for three or four months that 2016 budgets would be smaller than 2015. Now we think they will be even smaller," said Skip York, vice president of integrated energy at Wood Mackenzie.
Monroe News Star: Revenue lost: Severance tax gives producers big break
The state of Louisiana may have missed out on some $1.1 billion in severance tax collections over the past five years as the result of a continuing state exemption that provides horizontal well operators substantial breaks or, in some cases, what amounts to a free pass.
The Advocate: Legislative Auditor: Louisiana missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars from oil and gas incentive
Louisiana has forgone hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes every year recently to spur the use of an oil and gas drilling technique that was being improved when the subsidy was created two decades ago but is commonplace now, a legislative audit says.
The Plain Dealer: Ozone alert: smog battle heats up again, manufacturers say cleaner air will kill them
Another battle about ozone is beginning. The air waves and blogosphere will soon be thick with warnings about lost jobs versus lost lives as the health and manufacturing industries engage in another round of fighting about lowering the amount of ozone in the air you breathe.
The Vindicator: FrackFree Mahoning Valley hosts town hall meeting on frackingThursday night
FrackFree Mahoning Valley will have a town hall-style meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the First Universalist Church of Youngstown, 1105 Elm St., to discuss the impact of fracking.
UPI: North Dakota plans more wind power capacity
In parallel with the White House, North Dakota said it was planning to connect a 43-turbine wind farm to the grid as part of an "all of the above" strategy. North Dakota Lt. Gov. Drew Wrigley was on hand for a ceremony to celebrate the upcoming completion of the Thunder Spirit wind farm, a 43-turbine wind farm with a maximum capacity of 107 megawatts of power.
WOWK-TV: West Virginia oil and gas safety panel to meet Wednesday
A panel appointed by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is holding its second meeting to study safety within the oil and natural gas industry. The Oil and Natural Gas Industry Safety Commission plans to meet Wednesday at the West Virginia state office building in Fairmont.
The Sanford Herald: Fracking restrictions challenged
Proposed changes to a local ordinance would restrict hydraulic fracturing and other mining activities in parts of Lee County, but not everyone is convinced they would be legal — namely the former chair of the N.C. Mining and Energy Commission.
The Journal Press: Supervisors to hold public hearing next week on fracking rules
The King George Board of Supervisors will take public comment at a 6 p.m. meeting onSept. 1 on proposals to tighten rules for oil and gas drilling in the county zoning ordinance and the Comprehensive Plan pertaining to fracking.
StateImpact Pennsylvania: Marcellus Shale drillers fined for methane migration
State environmental regulators say three natural gas drillers contaminated 17 separate drinking water wells in north central Pennsylvania and together the companies have paid close to $375,000 in fines. The Department of Environmental Protection blamed well construction for methane migrating into drinking water supplies.
Reading Eagle: David Rusk: Gov. Wolf's Property Tax Reform Plan Would Help More than GOP Proposal
At the entrance to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., is carved one of Dr. King's most famous themes: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Gov. Tom Wolf's proposals to reform property taxes and state school funding would bend that arc a bit further toward justice in Pennsylvania.
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