About Shell In Alaska: A Great Record, Great Potential
Globe & Mail. Floyd Roland (NGP Photo) is running out of time. Come fall, the Premier of the 
Northwest Territories will be looking for work after just a single term in the big chair. It’s a ticking clock at odds with his ambitious agenda as he scrambles to push several high-stakes projects to completion, each unfinished by premiers past. They include a new deal on resource rights, a pipeline and a key bridge.
PNA. Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) said that, with the Susitna power
plant only meeting half the power demand in Southcentral, the hydropower system will not render moot alternative energy sources such as natural gas through a pipeline from the North Slope. In fact, having abundant energy in the Railbelt region from various sources will create more opportunities for Railbelt businesses and residents, he said.
EPA Now Advocates Fracking Rules — More Federal Overreach. "EPA’s claim that the ozone health benefits of the proposed standards are commensurate with the costs doesn’t meet the straight-face test," says Howard Feldman, a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute. "The ozone benefits are illusory, greatly inflated and would be dwarfed by the costs. The standards may not be achievable and, worse, could destroy millions of American jobs.” (EnergyBiz by Ken Silverstein)
CBC. The government has approved a long-term water licence for Talisman Energy to draw water from Williston Lake, a BC Hydro reservoir in northern B.C. for the next 20 years. The water will be piped out of the Williston Reservoir, mixed with sand and chemicals and used to fracture shale rock underground to release natural gas.
Texas Independent by Jane Melzer. EPA continues attack on State Department approval of Keystone.
Environmental groups, eager to increase the price of energy for Americans, urge NJ Governor Christie to ban fracking, says New Jersey News.
Marcellus Shale is an unstoppable force for job creation and energy production, says Wall Street Journal.
More today from AP’s Mark Thiessen on BOEMRE’s Polar Bear controversy (See yesterday’s links).
Washington Examiner (8/1/11) reports: Reading the latest ravings of the Center for American Progress (CAP, but increasingly recognized as the Center for Reversing American Progress) is akin to a family being forced at holiday to listen to the crazy old Uncle George repeat the same old complaints about some injustice he suffered when everyone knows what he suffered was of his own making…CAP’s latest screed is no different, screaming as they do about the profits of oil companies. What they never mention is that their policies – and the policies of other anti-energy groups including the Obama Administration – are what are making and keeping gas prices high. In psychology, it’s called projectionism; in politics, hypocrisy…
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