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Point of Personal Privilege: Larry Crawford

The life of our longtime friend, Larry Crawford (NGP Photo with Susan Lindemuth), will be celebrated at his funeral service on Sunday, 1:30 p.m. at the Anchorage Municipal Cemetery.  A Chief of Staff to Governors and Mayors and a former President of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation, Larry always conducted business selflessly, with the public interest in mind.  Here was a true public servant and faithful friend.  Here was a man whose life was valuable and relevant and contributed to a better world.  -dh  

By |2016-03-13T04:11:16-09:00June 8th, 2011|Personal|0 Comments
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Feds Should Stay With API Standards

Comment on the White House's unprecedented and overreaching Ocean Policy initiative and on the Interior Department's open comment period on Chukchi Sea SEIS.  Wall Street Journal by Joseph B. White.  In a letter Tuesday to President Barack Obama, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue called on the administration to speed up issuing new offshore drilling permits, offer more offshore areas for oil and gas exploration, open new areas for drilling in the Western U.S., and approve permits for the Keystone XL pipeline proposed to bring oil from Canadian tar sands [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:46-09:00June 8th, 2011|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Ever Consider Going To A Federal “Listening Session” On Date Night? – Reuters Says Denali Partner Freedom Is Silver Lining

Reuters.  While we dislike seeing the demise of any gas pipeline project before a gas line is under way, the silver lining here is that Denali's announcement frees ConocoPhillips and BP to independently become partners in another Alaska gas line project.   Canada.com by Mike De Souza.  Canada's federal energy regulator is defending its decision to keep Canadians in the dark about safety concerns with two major oil and gas pipelines. The concerns prompted the regulator to order pressure reductions on both lines last October, which are still in effect today. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:46-09:00June 7th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Alberta Celebrates Its Investment Climate While Alaska Is Creating Its Own Bear Market!

...just had to share our weekend black Bear encounter (NGP Photo) with my reader/friends!   We were closer to this back yard bruin than we were a weekend earlier to the Brown Bears of the Alaska Peninsula!  (ADN Story and Photo) Comment on Chukchi Sea Exploration Program Today! -Federal Register Notice- -Background From Consumer Energy Alliance- Readers: Check out this Calgary Herald article by Rebecca Penty outlining the celebration of Alberta's investment climate.  Then, compare that to Deborah Brollini's article, below, portraying how the greed of certain Alaska lawmakers is destroying Alaska's [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:47-09:00June 6th, 2011|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Doig’s June Digest Reviews Denali’s Closing and Other Northern Energy Issues

Comment on Chukchi Sea Exploration Program Today! -Federal Register Notice- Doig's Digest, by Ian Doig.  It is no surprise – the North American unconventional shale gas explosion that has been underway for the last decade continues to take its toll. Unfortunately, that toll becomes bigger when it is coupled with low natural gas field prices that travel without any near term sign of going higher. The combination of these two events recently became too much for the Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline, owned by BP PLC and ConocoPhillips.  Three years after it [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:00:27-09:00June 3rd, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Energy Intelligence Analysis of Alaska Natural Gas Prospects – Alaska Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan Testifies in Washington Today – Reactions to Salazar’s Wild Lands Policy

Comment on Chukchi Sea Exploration Program Today! Barbara Shook, Houston Bureau Chief of the Energy Intelligence Group, provides this "World Gas Intelligence" analysis (p.10) of future prospects for Alaska North Slope gas and reports on an important interview (p.5) with Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Rex Tillerson.  (We appreciate Barbara's insight.  Subscribe Here.  -dh) Here is Governor Sean Parnell's (NGP Photo-r) audio statement regarding Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s decision to reverse his order to allow the Bureau of Land Management to set aside federal acres as "Wild Lands.”     * [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:47-09:00June 2nd, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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6-1-11 Bill Walker Wants His Way And Others To Pay – Trans Canada Project Could Use Existing Pipes

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Enforcement, and Regulation (BOEMRE) is accepting comments on the development of offshore oil and natural gas in Alaska's Chukchi Sea.  With years of studying the potential impacts of production and ensuring all safety precautions have exceeded standards; and, with the country's need for domestic energy and jobs, we can make our views known today, here.  The Chukchi is one source for replenishment of declining volumes of oil traversing the 2/3 empty Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline System (TAPS).  A gas pipeline is important.  But keeping [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:54:14-09:00June 1st, 2011|Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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Robert Duvall Supports Alaska Energy Production – Governor Steady On Tax Reform – Manitoba’s Spearfish May Outclass Saskatchewan’s Bakken.

Fuel Fix: A Houston-based exploration firm’s efforts to drill for natural gas in Alaska’s Cook Inlet is drawing the ire of shipping groups that believe it is violating the Jones Act. AP/ADN by Becky Bohrer.  Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) ... told The Associated Press he iscurrently working to get the votes needed in the Senate to advance the tax cut narrowly passed by the House during the regular legislative session. The bill stalled in the Senate, with leaders in the majority bloc saying they didn't have the information needed to [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:47-09:00May 31st, 2011|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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TODAY’S Federal Register Announces Comment Period For Alaska Chukchi Exploration – Alaska Governor and Congress Focus on Rare Earth Elements

Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) announced the availability of a Revised Draft SEIS, OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193, Chukchi Sea, Alaska (OCS EIS/EA BOEMRE 2010-034) for public review and comment, as well as the date, location, and time for public hearings.  This is another BOEMRE process that will materially affect the future of Alaska and all of its citizens. We will provide suggestions later today for how our readers can remain engaged in this process.  Please check back.   -dh  (See Maps and SEIS and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:47-09:00May 27th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Alberta Oil Magazine Examines Relationship Between Alaskan/Canadian Gas Pipeline Projects – Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell and Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan Announce Arctic Policy

Alberta Oil Magazine by Darren Campbell.  As everyone returns to the office after the Victoria Day long weekend, supporters of the star-crossed Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) are left to wonder what the future holds for the $16.2 billion proposed pipeline scheme now that BP plc and ConocoPhillips have announced they are dropping out of the race to build an Alaska natural gas pipeline. What does a couple of Big Oil companies giving up on their plans to build a pipeline have to do with the fortunes of a project proposing [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:47-09:00May 26th, 2011|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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House to Hold Alaska Energy Hearing Next Week – Governor Parnell and Rebecca Logan Promote Rare Earth Elements In Alaska – ARNI Thwarts Two Big Alaska Projects

Dan Healing of the Calgary Herald Reports Louisana LNG Project Is A 'Go'!  ARNI Dogs Alaska Projects. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael R. Bromwich (NGP Photo-l) today named Dr. James Kendall (NGP Photo-r at a 3-9-11 hearing in Anchorage) as the Director of the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region. Dr. Kendall has been serving as Acting Director for the region since January 1, 2011.  (More below.)   Yesterday, Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) --  also grappling with Washington over energy access issues -- urged the federal government to [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:48-09:00May 25th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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Like Oil and Gas, US To Also Export Mining Jobs, Wealth and National Security – Governor’s Bullet Line Plans Include Interior Alaska

Fairbanks News Miner by Christopher Eshleman.  Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) told local mayors last week to take  a deep breath — blueprints for a proposed intrastate natural gas pipeline won’t neglect the needs of Fairbanks or neighboring communities. TRADING CHARTS.  DENALI, May 20, 2011 (Alaska Journal of Commerce - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Alaska Gas Pipeline group's abrupt exit from its $40 billion-plus North Slope natural gas pipeline May 17 has put pressure on Gov. Sean Parnell to show progress with the state's strategy of financially backing TransCanada Corp. and ExxonMobil in [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:48-09:00May 24th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Responsible U.S. Administration? – Government Funded Gas Pipeline?

Benson and Walker Want Government  LNG\Gas Pipeline Project AT 2:15 EDT TODAY, SENATOR LISA MURKOWSKI (NGP PHOTO) WILL SPEAK ON THE SENATE FLOOR REGARDING HOW THE UNITED STATES IS "WAKING UP" TO THE FACT THAT AMERICA IS AN ARCTIC NATION. Comment: 1.  Would a responsible federal government be supporting a project to being Canadian energy to Americans...or seeming to favor the importation of more oil from non-North American sources?  Another Federal comment period ends next week; here's how to comment. 2.  How many hearings have the federal government held to take [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:07:16-09:00May 23rd, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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BOEMRE Releases Chukchi Draft SEIS For ADDITIONAL Comment – Keystone Nears Approval – No Cap & Trade for Canada

According to Senate Energy & Natural Resources Communication Officer Robert Dillon, Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) today said of the BOEMRE announcement (below): “It’s my hope that this additional analysis on the potential impacts on the region will help resolve the legal challenges that have held up resource exploration in the Chukchi Sea." John Callahan of BOEMRE's ANCHORAGE office, provides this Friday announcement. – The Bureau of Ocean Energy, Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today released a Revised Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for Chukchi Sea Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:58:38-09:00May 20th, 2011|Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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Alaska Railroad and Energy Share Destinies – Bullet Line On Course

Platts.  Alaskan state-sponsored efforts to build a gas pipeline to southcentral Alaska could provide gas to utilities there and allow the Kenai LNG plant to resume exports, Mike Chenault (NGP Photo), the speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives said Thursday. See video of the Resource Development Council for Alaska's (RDC) Thursday meeting featuring Alaska Railroad Corporation President Chris Aadnesen (NGP Photo-above). RDC President Tom Maloney's (NGP Photo-r) announcement Thursday that long-time Executive Director Jason Brune (NGP Photo) will be leaving the Council to join Anglo American's executive staff in Anchorage.  More coming..

By |2016-03-13T03:57:24-09:00May 20th, 2011|Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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