5-28-16 Canada's Pipeline Angst Continues - Alaska's Legislative Angst Continues

5-28-16 Canada’s Pipeline Angst Continues – Alaska’s Legislative Angst Continues

For readers who may have missed our commentary yesterday on Donald Trump’s energy policy statements Thursday in the great state of North Dakota

Canadian Pipeline Angst

Yedlin: PwC energy forum renews need for urgency on energy exports. Calgary Herald. … XL pipeline project, spoke at an industry event hosted by PwC in Calgary. … the United States in entering the liquefied natural gas export market.

Braid: A Trump welcome for a Notley ally. Calgary Herald. More from Don Braid, Calgary Herald … For starters, she says natural gas “is not being banned. … Ontario will spend $230 million to get natural gas to rural communities that currently lack infrastructure, … sewage and much more — that will travel through regular gas pipelines and is, according to Ontario…

Wynne soothes Calgary business crowd: Calgary Herald. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne reassured a Calgary business crowd … and that new pipelines carrying oil sands crude have a potential path forward.

Alaska’s Legislative Angst

STEVE STRAIT: ALASKA NEEDS TO CUT DEEPER BEFORE EVEN TALKING ABOUT HIGHER/MORE TAXES….

Anchorage Daily Planet. Not one penny more. The Alaska Legislature is gaveling in today for a 30-day special session called by Gov. Bill Walker to deal with the state’s $4 billion budget deficit, a subject lawmakers have wrestled with unsuccessfully for the past four months. There are deadlines on the horizon. Government worker layoff notices must be mailed by June 1 and, […]

Walker’s repackaged tax proposals land with thud in the Legislature. JUNEAU – Gov. Bill Walker’s newly repackaged tax proposals have landed with a thud in the Alaska Legislature, with criticism over having all the pieces rolled together and questions about the overall impact.

Fairbanks News Miner. Legislators critical of reworked tax proposals.

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.