Pre-Keystone, Obama Backed Sands Pipeline – National Journal, Amy Harder – More than two years ago, on Aug. 20, 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton approved a 1,000-mile pipeline that has the capacity to send 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada’s oil sands to Wisconsin. That pipeline is owned by the Canadian company Enbridge and began operating in October 2010.
Imperial Oil launches $2-billion Cold Lake expansion – The Vancouver Sun, Rebecca Penty – The Nabiye expansion will tap a further 280 million of reserves at the northern Alberta project, Imperial said on Friday. It will also include a 170-megawatt cogeneration plant to produce steam and electricity and a facility to process the bitumen produced at the site.
Natural gas stars in new energy policy – Times Colonist, Gordon Hamilton – Premier Christy Clark announced a new provincial energy strategy Friday that trades off the energy self-sufficiency target of the Gordon Campbell government for a new liquefied natural gas industry that has the potential to attract new businesses, new jobs and an estimated $20 billion in new investments to the province.
Sierra Club took $26 million from natural gas industry – Global Post, Amy Sliverstein – Brune said that Sierra Club only decided to accept donations from the natural gas industry because Sierra Club’s leaders at the time believed that natural gas was a safer, cleaner alternative to coal. The money helped fund Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign.
Shell Focuses On Natural Gas, Leading In Arctic, LNG, GTL – E&P, Scott Weeden – With the opening of the Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in Qatar and the final investment decision (FID) on the Prelude floating, liquefied natural gas (FLNG) plant off Australia, Shell’s portfolio will have an even higher proportion of natural gas to oil by the end of this decade.
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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