Financial Post by Juliet O'Neill.  Environment Minister Jim Prentice has condemned as "outrageous" the tripling of the time and cost to $18.6-million of an environmental review of the largest construction proposal in Canadian history -- the Mackenzie Valley gas project.

 7-17-09.  KTUU by Rhonda McBride (NGP Photo).  Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) has quite a resume when it comes to oil and gas. As a legislator, lawyer, lobbyist and lieutenant governor he's been on different sides of the issue.  As Sarah Palin passes the torch to Parnell, he promises to carry on her oil and gas policies aimed at giving the state more control of the industry.        *      ABC News.   Sarah Palin (NGP Photo) wrote an op-ed in today’s Washington Post attacking President Obama’s plan for a “cap [...]

  The Alaska Standard by Richard Peterson (NGP Photo, 1-01).  Perhaps a different approach is needed to get Alaska North Slope gas (hydrocarbons) to lower 48 energy markets (in a different form, i.e. transportation fuels) while also supporting a bullet line through Fairbanks to Anchorage sooner than later.  Alaska Natural Resources To Liquids (ANRTL) a long proponent of the F-T process to develop Alaska resources and reduce U.S. dependence upon imported crude oil ....    *     Wall Street Journal.  Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell said Thursday that he met with executives [...]

See special Op-ed and related stories, 6-30-09, and our 7-15-09 related story below.  -dh       7-15-09.  Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) appeared before the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce Monday along with other members of the business community.  Parnell briefed members on his succession plans.  Bill Popp (NGP Photo), President of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation, briefed members on findings of the "Anchorage Industrial Land Assessment", providing a sober outlook on Anchorage's capacity for expansion.  Assembly Member Debbie Ossiander (NGP Photo-r) addressed the extensive history of Anchorage land [...]

7-14-09.  Former Assembly Member Allan Tesche (60, NGP Photo) passed away today following heart surgery in Houston.  Here is the ADN Story.  But here is a story that is less known.  I first met Allan in 1965 at Los Alamos High School, high on a hill above San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico, somewhere between Taos and Santa Fe.  He was a well known student leader and I was the new English teacher in town.  The 1966 Yearbook pictures Allan (NGP Photo) as a member of the Senior Executive Committee [...]

6-28-09.  ADN Editorial.  U.S. Sen. Mark Begich (NGP Photo-l) wants to give Alaska's Arctic residents a formal way to offer their advice and perspective on decisions affecting the region. ... His idea (PDF Of Last Week's Draft Here) is modeled on the successful citizens' advisory council set up in the early 1990s for Prince William Sound after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. That council is a well-funded watchdog, keeping an eye on the oil pipeline and tanker operations to help avoid a repeat disaster.  Ideally, the Arctic citizens' council would [...]

6-22-09.  Journal of Commerce by Tim Bradner.  The new alliance between ExxonMobil Corp. and TransCanada Corp. on a North Slope natural gas pipeline announced June 11 is a potential game-changer that has set up a real race between the new team and the rival Denali pipeline consortium owned by BP and ConocoPhillips.  ...  TransCanada Vice President Tony Palmer (NGP Photo-r, 9-08) said in briefings June 11 that he will be the chairman of the management committee for the project and a senior ExxonMobil manager will be in charge of day-to-day [...]