Dave Harbour is publisher of Northern Gas Pipelines, created in 2000-2001. His articles and photographs have appeared in thousands of newspapers, magazines and web pages throughout the U.S. and Canada along with countless radio-television interviews, documentaries and client information and promotional programs.
Harbour 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 served on the board of Anchorage's Olympic Organizing Committee in the role of Television Commissioner and on the Mayor of Anchorage's Energy Task Force. He currently serves on the national board of Advisers of the Heartland Institute and served on the Consumer Energy Alliance national board and was first President of Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska. He is former Chairman of both the Export Council of Alaska and a U.S. Department of Commerce District Export Council.
A communications professional (PRSA-APR), he has served as director of public, government or external affairs for Northern Natural Gas, the Arctic Gas Consortium, Atlantic Richfield Company and the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation. His consulting clients have included Alaska's major O&G producing companies, Northwest Pipeline Corporation, the Trans Alaska Pipeline System, several airline and automotive companies, the Alaska Railroad, Alaska Marine Highway System, Bureau of Indian Affairs, construction and engineering firms, many non-profit corporations, among many others.
Harbour earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree: English, at Colorado State University, a Master of Science Degree: Communications-Journalism at Murray State University and completed Utility Regulatory School for Commissioners at Michigan State University. He served as a Vice President for University Affairs at Alaska Pacific University, taught bank marketing classes at the University of Alaska and was an English teacher at Los Alamos High School. The Governor of Kentucky named Colonel Dave Harbour a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels (i.e. not to be confused with his world famous writer-Father, Col. Dave Harbour .)
Harbour served in ranks of Private – Captain during a 4-year assignment with the U.S. Army at Fort Dix, Fort Benning, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Fort Meade (1st Army HQ), Korea (I Corps HQ), Idaho (Boise Sub Sector Commander) and received the Meritorious Service Medal and Army Commendation Medal among other decorations.
Harbour is a past Chairman of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, the Alaska Council on Economic Education, the Alaska Oil & Gas Association Government Affairs Committee and the Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation-Alaska. He is a past President of the American Bald Eagle Foundation, the Alaska Press Club and Common Sense for Alaska.
He was instrumental in founding the American Bald Eagle Research Foundation at the University of Alaska (Southeast), the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, the Anchorage Downtown Partnership, Anchorage's Saturday Market and Arctic Power.
He also served as CEO of several small Alaska organizations, including the Harbour Company, Anchorage Parking Authority and Action Security, Inc. Harbour is Chairman Emeritus of the Alaska Oil & Gas Congress. His wife, Nancy, is a professional, performing arts administrator and his three boys, Todd, Benjamin and William work in the fields of environmental management, marketing and medicine.
