E&E News (subs. req’d) reports, “In the wake of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, environmentalists today announced plans to sue the Obama administration over its failure to force preparation of an analysis of how an Arctic spill would affect the imperiled polar bear. (See our editorial, yesterday) Edmonton Journal by Dina O'Meara.  Enbridge Inc. is plowing ahead with a controversial pipeline from Alberta’s oilsands to the port of Kitimat, B.C., to open new markets for Canadian crude, chief executive Pat Daniel said in Calgary on.... Alaska Dispatch [...]

We believe Langland's Counsel to Alaska's Business and Political Leaders Will Be Especially Critical in Wake of the GOM Tragedy and Potential Alaska Impact (See Alaskanomics, Northrim's new website!) Economics 101.  On April 6 at Anchorage's Denaina Convention Center, Northrim Bank Chairman Marc Langland issued a challenge that Alaska's business and political address state fiscal policy issues.  Your author asked the event host for his perception of Economics 101 and Alaska's oil tax policy.  We  are happy that the Alaska Standard obtained Langland's response: a pithy and useful economics review.  Northrim hosted [...]

May 3 Deadline: Please Give Your OCS Opinion, here, After Reading This NARUC Report Alaska Standard by Dan Dickinson (NGP Photo).  Is a gas pipeline economic? First if investors think that commodity prices in the future won’t cover the tariff – and at today’s prices and estimated tariffs they certainly won’t – there will be no gas line.  Moreover, if investors suspect that the State has no other new sources of revenue they will be equally reluctant to invest in a gas line. Unknown future taxes on a potential gasline can [...]

Please Weigh In On Your OCS Position Before Next Monday's Deadline! Oil Daily.  The three major oil companies involved in two competing pipeline proposals to bring Alaska North Slope natural gas to markets in the US Lower 48 will end up joining forces because of the huge scale of the endeavor, according to the federal coordinator for the gas pipeline project.  “It not like the molecules as they come out of the ground are red if they’re Exxon’s and green if they're BP’s,” said Larry Persily (NGP Photo), who was [...]

The Deadline Is Monday For Commenting On OCS; Please Do So HERE! For the best analysis we've seen of the recent, Alaska legislative session, see CPA Dan Dickinson's (NGP Photo-l) recent presentation, here, to the Anchorage Mayor's Energy Task Force.  -dh Fairbanks News Miner, by Christopher Eshleman.  Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) on Monday signed a bill that will beef up preparatory planning for a proposed intrastate natural gas pipeline.  ... A handful of agencies, including the state Housing, Finance and Railroad corporations, will steer the project — and have millions of dollars at [...]

We urge readers to comment on Feds' leasing policy, here.   Juneau. Last weekend, Successful Alaska entrepeneur and Chairman of the U. S. Arctic Reseasrch Commission, Mead Treadwell told the assembled delegages to the Republican State Convention that President Obama could order his departments to take actions that would begin to once again fill Alaska's oil pipeline--and increase possible throughput for an Alaska gas pipeline.   Governor Sean Parnell (NGP  Photo)  defended 'Freedom' last night on Fox News, here.  His stand on Health Care is consistent with his demand that the Obama Administration [...]