Keystone contractor did not pose conflict of interest, IG says – Washington Post, Juliet Eilperin – The firm the State Department hired to conduct an environmental assessment of a controversial oil pipeline project did not pose a conflict of interest, the agency’s inspector general concluded in a report released Thursday.
Provinces must seek new markets for natural gas – The Globe and Mail, David Campbell – Without new markets, ambitious provincial plans from British Columbia to New Brunswick to benefit from shale gas will be have to be put back on the shelf.
Rick Perry rips Keystone rejection – Cnews, Brynn Weese – "The union members that are supportive of this president ought to be up in arms that he’s killing jobs in America by not allowing this Keystone pipeline to go through."
Alaska lawmakers head for DC to lobby for ANWR drilling – The News Tribune, Lisa Demer – A contingent of state representatives including House Speaker Mike Chenault are missing several days of the legislative session next week to head to Washington, D.C., and make a pitch — once again — for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Room in pipeline, but . . . – Petroleum News, Kristen Nelson – Facilities are designed to handle the field they’re built for, Walsh said. Over time the oil volume declines but the volumes of gas and water coming to the surface with the oil increase.
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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