Calgary Herald by Don Braid.
Premier Rachel Notley won the support of 97.8 per cent of her party members Saturday. The other 2.2 per cent were said to be hiding in a broom closet at the convention hotel.
Notley is respected, admired, even adored in her party. Part of this is circumstance. Any New Democrat who wins in Alberta is bound to be popular with a party that wandered in the wilds for half a century.
But the other part, that’s all her. Notley can be fierce and funny in the same sentence. She lacks the pomposity so common to politicians. When the occasion demands, she can deliver a better motivational speech than any Progressive Conservative premier, including Peter Lougheed.
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Notley’s thumping support — more than 20 per cent higher than any PC premier received in later years — shows she has full party authority for every element of the NDP platform and plan.
That includes the drive to get pipelines built. There’s some Leap Manifesto sentiment at the convention (ban fossil fuels and all that) but it’s in the background.
The dominant view is that oil and gas will continue to be used and needs to be shipped. And these delegates, few of whom belong to Alberta’s economic elite, seem more than willing to pay the carbon tax.
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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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