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1-29-15 Shell To Explore Chukchi Sea This Summer!

Shell Plans To Explore The Chukchi This Summer! Related Photo Cutline, Journal of Commerce, by Tim Bradner.  Alaska Gasline Development Corp. President Dan Fauske (NGP Photo) said the change in the Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline project to increase the capacity to a 36-inch diameter and use high-strength steel could allow up to 2.6 billion cubic feet per day to be shipped. That improves the economics of the project compared to previous restrictions that limited it to no more than 500 million cubic feet per day.  (Bradner's is one of the most [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:36-09:00January 29th, 2015|AGDC, Arctic Policy, Coastal Management, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, OCS|0 Comments
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1-28-15 Is The White House Intentionally Killing Alaska’s Economy and America’s Future?

NPR TODAY & Our Commentary WSJ YESTERDAY: Obama’s Trans-Alaska Oil Assault He’s slowly starving the current pipeline so it will have to shut down. Washington’s energy debate has been focused on President Obama’s endless opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, but maybe that was only a warm-up. His new fossil fuel shutdown target is Alaska. Refer also to Monday's editorial re: A Good Father Figure and Sunday's reports on: 1-25-2015 REPORT ALERT: Federal Government Makes Economic War On Alaska and All American Consumers and another layer of anti-development complexity courtesy of a new [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:37-09:00January 28th, 2015|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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1-27-15 Supporting a job creating mine and associated gas pipeline

Urgent note from our friends at the Alaska Support Industry Alliance. Our emailed submission:  Please register this as a voice in support of the proposed Donlin Mine and its associated gas pipeline.   The pipeline enables the favorable economics developed by Donlin management and serves the public interest.     A critical advantage is that rural residents will be given a new energy lifeline at the most reasonable possible price for fuel.  Furthermore, provision of numerous well paying, local jobs is a project component desperately needed in the proximity of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:37-09:00January 27th, 2015|Commentary, Intrastate Gas, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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1-26-15 New Week, New Challenges

NORTH DAKOTA RIG COUNT POINTS TO U.S. OUTPUT DECLINE The decline in oil drilling that has occurred so far across the United States is probably enough to ensure U.S. production peaks by April or May, though that might not be evident until June or July given delays in publishing production records. If the number of active rigs continues to decline in... A Good Father Figure by Dave Harbour ​Please refer to our Sunday review, yesterday, of the President's executive action against Alaska and consumers throughout America WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:37-09:00January 26th, 2015|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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1-25-2015 REPORT ALERT: Federal Government Makes Economic War On Alaska and All American Consumers

      (NGP Photos, Left to right: Governor Bill Walker, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Senator Dan Sullivan, Congressman Don Young) REPORT ALERT: Federal Government Makes Economic War On Alaska and All American Consumers BY Dave Harbour ​While Alaskans have a right to be outraged that their statehood birthright and economic future are now threatened, AMERICAN CONSUMERS EVERYWHERE will feel the pain as this Administration continues to violate the spirit and fact of due process and threatens the very rule of law protecting every citizen.   Today, Robert Dillon of Senator Lisa Murkowski's Energy Committee office [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:37-09:00January 25th, 2015|ANWR, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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1-25-15, Sunday

Points of personal privilege: on this beautiful Sunday, we note the following personal items and leave you witha poetic prayer. 1.  Kudos to all but a big hug and kiss to Nancy for a career of accomplishment far above and beyond any call of duty! -dh From the Arctic Sounder: 'Last week seven directors of various nonprofits in the state were awarded a six-month break through the Rasmuson Foundation Sabbatical Program. The recipients come from five communities across the state and include professionals in arts, and health and social services. "Among [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:37-09:00January 25th, 2015|Personal|0 Comments
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1-24-15 Alaska Senator Murkowski Addresses the Nation TODAY – Alaska Governor Walker Fights Low Oil Prices?

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski Addresses The Nation TODAY Alaska Governor Bill Walker Finishes A Week Facing Falling Oil Prices   Governor Walker Edited from 'Alaskanomics' by Katie Bender. Governor Bill Walker (NGP Photo) presented his State of the Budget speech to the Legislature on Thursday night. This was one night after the State of the State speech that he presented to open the Legislative session.  He said, “...it will not be easy, but we will manage Alaska out of the fiscal challenges facing our state.”  The budget challenge is well known to the Legislature, the Administration [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:37-09:00January 24th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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1-23-15 The Pot Is Beginning To Boil And We’re The “Frog”

Our concerns about Wednesday's Executive Order On the Arctic are here, for the record, and we hope Members of Congress and Alaska's Administration are paying attention as the temperature in the pot containing the complacent frog, increases. ALASKA SUPPORT INDUSTRY ALLIANCE: Here are more photos from the recent "Meet Alaska" Conference in Anchorage.   We fully support Senator Murkowski's Alaska viewpoint on supporting the Keystone XL Pipeline as reflected in this week's Op-Ed piece in the Alaska Dispatch News.  -dh​ Alaska Has A Powerful Fighter In Washington: Chair Murkowski! -dh Houston Chronicle, by  Jennifer [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:37-09:00January 23rd, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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1-22-15 White House Issues Arctic Executive Order

This afternoon, Alaska's newest US Senator spoke out on yesterday's Presidential Executive Order. On Thursday — just three weeks into the new year — the U.S. Senate chamber is set to surpass last year’s total of 15 amendment votes, thanks to a flurry of voting centered almost entirely on the Keystone XL pipeline.   Read more.... What happened to Alaska? Saudi.... CBC.  Irving Oil Ltd. is facing more questions about its use of a pipeline that was built on the property designated for the Canaport LNG facility.  Saint John struck a 25-year [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:37-09:00January 22nd, 2015|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Government Waste, LNG|0 Comments
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1-21-15 US News Commentator Worries Walker Will Create Uncertainty

  Calgary Herald by Dan Healing.  Oil services company Baker Hughes Inc. will lay off about 7,000 workers — likely including hundreds in Canada — as it prepares for a downturn in orders because of the plunge in crude prices, the company said Tuesday.  The layoffs represent about an 11 per cent cut to the 62,000-plus workers Baker Hughes says it employs worldwide.  Company spokeswoman Melanie Kania said....  Read more. Is Governor Walker Creating An Uncertain Investment Climate? US News by John Burnett.  In recent weeks, the state’s newly elected governor, Bill Walker, has said and done [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:37-09:00January 21st, 2015|Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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1-20-15 Highlights

Today we focus on northern energy highlights so that readers can join us in appreciating the bigger picture and how each of our own special interests is framed within it.  (Send us your comments and go here for yesterday's related commentary.   -dh  Today, we would add these comments to the observations in yesterday's essay: Thanks to Dr. Scott Goldsmith (NGP Photo) and the diligent professionals at the institute of Social and Economic Research, we present this simple economic model/game.​  Our readers can change the assumptions to derive their own results and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:37-09:00January 20th, 2015|Commentary|0 Comments
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1-19-15 Optimism Amid Challenges

Essay: Maintaining Optimism In A Challenging Environment An essay to assist both Alaska citizens and our thousands of readers abroad in understanding the critical circumstances now confronting the 49th state. By Dave Harbour (Send us your comments, and scroll up for tomorrow's related commentary!) America invented the term, “Keep a stiff upper lip”, exactly two hundred years ago in a book entitled, "Massachusetts Spy".  The Brits adopted the term and now oil producers throughout the world are repeating it to stay calm in the face of what may be a prolonged period of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:38-09:00January 19th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, LNG|0 Comments
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1-17-15

Wall Street Journal Opinion: Lifting the Oil Export Ban (i.e. as Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski has long advocated) will improve US US Supply and Lower US Prices.  

By |2016-03-13T03:41:59-09:00January 17th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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