The Resource Development Council for Alaska's
34th Annual (two day) Conference begins tomorrow in the Dena'ina Civic & Convention Center in Anchorage. Here is the agenda, which includes on the first day Senate Energy Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (NGP Photo) and Ranking Minority Member, Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo).
Calgary Herald by Amanda Stephenson (Read and Learn, Alaska).
A new Fraser Institute report suggests Alberta is the third most attractive jurisdiction in the world for oil and gas investment, but that could change if crucial pipeline proposals aren’t approved soon.
Of the 864 industry executives who responded to the think tank’s 2013 Global Petroleum Survey, 62 per cent said their assessment of Western Canada as an investment venue would deteriorate if pipeline bottlenecks continue to constrain movement of oil to Eastern Canada, export markets overseas, and U.S. refiners.
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“Despite an abundance of resources, Alberta is only now regaining industry’s trust and recovering from what many saw as an unexpected royalty grab by the province in 2010,” said Kenneth Green, the Fraser Institute’s senior director of natural resources studies.
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