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2-28-15 Alaskanomics: All About Oil Prices

Understanding the Current Oil Price Environment- lPart III See Part II and Part I Posted: 27 Feb 2015 04:14 PM PST By Mark Edwards (NGP Photo) To wrap up our look at the current oil price environment, I show the reasons for optimism and reasons I believe that prices will not go much lower and will rise in the coming year. Reasons for optimism that Alaska can withstand the current price shock: Deficit spending from savings, coupled with measured, incremental cuts to the state budget should be the fiscal solution that helps Alaska [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:34-09:00February 28th, 2015|Alaskanomics|0 Comments
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2-27-15 Understanding Oil Prices

See Consumer Energy Alliance's Friday Energy News Links, here. ALERT - ALERT: Anchorage readers should PLEASE attend Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) meeting on Monday.  We hope that the Governor's Office and Legislators are represented--since the subject pertains to keeping the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) viable AND assuring the sustainability of South Central Alaska gas supplies!   Details here.  As Russia moves to cut Ukrainian gas supply, we wonder why the U.S. does not come smartly to the rescue with energy and weapons supplies!  -dh We urge our gentle [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:34-09:00February 27th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy|0 Comments
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2-26-15 Please Review Yesterday’s Commentary

What's next for Keystone XL? We urge our gentle readers to review yesterday's posting; we cannot remember -- in well over a decade -- posting a more useful, relevant and actionable commentary for our Alaskan, Canadian and Lower 48 readers.  -dh Alaskanomics by Mark Edwards.   Understanding the Current Oil Price Environment - Part I  (See later Parts II and III) Over the next couple of days, I will post a three part series about the current oil price environment in Alaska. It is well known that Alaska’s economy is highly [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:34-09:00February 26th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Alaskanomics, Commentary, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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2-25-15 We Are Optimistic That Good Intent Will Win The Day Over Daunting Challenges!

We Are Optimistic That Good Intent Will Win The Day Over Daunting Challenges! A tale of two pipelines and two chief executives: President Barack Obama and Governor Bill Walker by Dave Harbour  (Note: By Friday more links, references and other minor modifications will be added for archive purposes.) We must be optimistic!  After all, who wants to even contemplate the bankruptcy of Alaska or the destruction of America's way of life? So in our Churchillian way, we will never, never, never, give in to pessimism and will fight to the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:34-09:00February 25th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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2-24-14 Australian Investor Comments On Governor Walker’s Gas Project Rhetoric!

TransCanada's Keystone XL: This IHS study finds that Keystone XL replace other heavy crude imports from countries like Venezuela. What if he vetoes? 5 Keystone XL pipeline hurdles still ahead Keystone XL pipeline will be approved, Greg Rickford predicts Keystone bill would be vetoed by Obama, White House says Keystone XL pipeline bill passes major hurdle in U.S. Senate Keystone XL pipeline project decision back in Obama's hands Australian Investor Speaks! Our Northern Gas Pipeline (NGP) friends will want to tune in today to Alaska legislative video conferences dealing with [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:34-09:00February 24th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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2-23-15 We continue to wish Alaska’s new governor well, but hope there’s not a screw loose somewhere….

In tomorrow's posting, we'll explain why we struggle with the logic of recent public statements.  -dh Meanwhile, we urge our readers to carefully listen to Governor Bill Walker's words from his news conference last week. Then, we suggest that our discerning readers fill in any blank spaces by absorbing Walker's message in his Saturday, Mat-Su Frontiersman Op-ed piece: From Sunday's Fairbanks News Miner comes this related Op-ed by Senate Resources Committee Chairman, Cathy Giessel (NGP Photo):  See Harold Heinze's 2-21-15 letter to Senator Giessel, here. Walker sincerely shares the same goals as myself, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:34-09:00February 23rd, 2015|Commentary, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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2-22-15 Feds Create Con To Coerce Cash From National Petroleum Reserve Producer

Alaska Journal of Commerce by Andrew Jensen.  The $8 million exacted from ConocoPhillips in order to receive its permit to construct the Greater Moose’s Tooth-1 project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is a rather elegant combination of old school protection rackets and third world government kickbacks.

By |2016-03-13T03:49:52-09:00February 22nd, 2015|Arctic Policy, Coastal Management, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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2-21-15

News Miner.  HB 119, from Rep. Andy Josephson, would require the commissioners of Natural Resources, Environmental Conservation and Fish and Game independently find that an applicant has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that a large-scale metallic sulfide mine within the watershed of the Bristol Bay Fisheries Reserve would not constitute a danger to the fisheries.

By |2016-03-13T03:49:52-09:00February 21st, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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2-20-15 Alaska Gasline Board Appointees AND More On Fairbanks Gas LNG/Transportation/Distrbution Project

Yesterday, Alaska Governor Bill Walker appointed three new board members to the AGDC (Alaska Gasline Development Corporation, aka. "ASAP"). Video: note sound volume low in beginning, becomes normal after a few minutes. STATUS: Interior Energy Project (Government project to establish a new, natural gas LNG / transmission / distribution system for Fairbanks Alaska.) Here is our "links page" to the IAP for quick reference. COMMENTARY: IEP On February 12 we had become confused about status of the multi-hundred million dollar government program to provide one Alaskan community with low cost energy. Since a [...]

By |2018-03-07T10:59:15-09:00February 20th, 2015|Commentary, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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2-19-15 Interior Energy Project Suggestion….

BP and Commonwealth North: Two economic reports offer "Good News for Alaska" Commonwealth North hosted its 9th annual Alaska Assets Review on February 18. The program recognizes that as shareholders of “Alaska Inc.” the citizens of Alaska need to be informed about how the assets of their company are performing. This year Northrim Bank President and CEO Joe Beedle (NGP Photo-L) and former Lt. Governor Mead Treadwell (NGP Photo) presented the performance review.  Read full report....  BP’s Annual Energy Outlook also appeared this week; it has become one of the most reliable sources on the topic of the future of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:35-09:00February 19th, 2015|Commentary, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Reader Comment|0 Comments
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2-18-15 Open Letter To Interior Secretary Sally Jewell

Open Letter To Honorable Sally Jewell, Secretary Of Interior On Occasion Of Her Visit To Alaska Useful video references: 1) "Broken Promises" by Former Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel (NGP Photo-L) and, 2) "Alaska Under Siege" by Dan Fagan (NGP Photo) by Dave Harbour ​We keep hoping that the current Administration's agency appointees will place loyalty to the one appointing them secondary to the public interest and fidelity to the Constitution. Secretary Jewell:  We especially commend for your reading the wise counsel Alaska North Slope Borough Mayor Charlotte Brower has offered to you and the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:35-09:00February 18th, 2015|ANWR, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Rule Of Law|0 Comments
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2-17-15 “Here’s What I Would Do If I Were President”

Personal: We join our Fairbanks friends in lamenting the passing of our dear friend, Bob Bettisworth.  -dh As Interior Secretary Sally Jewell arrives in Alaska, North Slope Borough Mayor Charlotte Brower (NGP Photo) writes that ANWR, "...wilderness proponents ... completely ignore the plight of my people, the Iñupiat."   Read more here. What Would You Do If You Were President? By Dave Harbour On Sunday, Fox News interviewed one of the wisest combat leaders of the modern era, Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney, USAF-Retired (NGP Photo), co-author of Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:35-09:00February 17th, 2015|ANWR, Arctic Policy, Coastal Management, Commentary, Federal Obstruction, NPR-A, Personal|0 Comments
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2-16-15 Ready To Be Part Of A Fundamentally Transformed Country?

Energy Users and Internet Users Both Experience Government Overreach And Deterioration Of The Rule of Law (Canada is not immune) by Dave Harbour FCC commissioner Ajit Pai: Obama's push for 'Net Neutrality' will be "adopting a solution that won't work to a problem that doesn't exist using legal authority we don't have." To our energy readers: The dictatorial, FCC action described by Commissioner Pai, is consistent with the lawless character of the U.S. executive governmental branch.   In Alaska we've seen due process and the rule of law attacked by federal administrative / [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:35-09:00February 16th, 2015|ANWR, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, NPR-A, OCS|0 Comments
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2-15-15

ADN Op-Ed by John Coghill (NGP Photo-L), Chad Hutchison.   On Feb. 5, Steve Haycox (NGP Photo-R) published an opinion piece entitled, "Alaska leaders’ talk against Obama is cheap, and ignores the long-established law of the land." Respectfully, we disagree with a few of the points made, particularly on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 

By |2016-12-22T22:28:35-09:00February 15th, 2015|ANWR, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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