…in Vancouver, B.C. with Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. Governor Sean Parnell addresses commissioners this morning as this year’s IOGCC Chairman. Report coming….
| Exxon Mobil bullish on natural gas exports. But will Alaska benefit? Alaska Dispatch Sean Parnell supports the idea. Early this year, Parnell announced incremental … of a $40 billion natural gas pipeline to Canada to supply the Lower 48. |
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A first step: Gas storage legislation could help Fairbanks costs New York Times: Arctic Oil: 2 Perspectives ***LTE by Mead Treadwell
 (NGP Photo) Lieutenant Governor of AlaskaNews that North Dakota has overtaken Alaska in oil production tells the story of shale oil’s ascendancy in the country’s oil supply. But the potential of Alaska’s offshore resources could put Alaska back on top. Some would like us to believe that it’s too risky to explore the 25 billion barrels of potential oil in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. They argue that we should leave nearly a quarter of our known, technically recoverable outer continental shelf resources in place. This ignores science and the facts.
For years, Canada has been seen as an environmental leader on the world stage, pushing other nations to tackle acid rain, save the ozone layer and sign global treaties to protect biodiversity. Those were the old days. The government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is rewriting the nation’s environmental laws to speed the extraction and export of oil, minerals and other materials to a global market clamoring for Canada’s natural resources. “The government is saying, politically, we want to hitch our wagon to an economic development strategy in which natural resource extraction plays a very large part,” said Brian Crowley, managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a public policy think tank in Ottawa.
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