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7-17-14 Gas Pipeline/LNG Project Public Meetings

Fairbanks LNG/Gas Pipeline Project Meeting Tonight In Fairbanks.  Details....  Tuesday's Anchorage Meeting Report Below: KSKA (Audio here) by Anne Hillman.  The Alaska LNG Project hosted a community meeting in Anchorage on Tuesday night. About 90 people listened to an explanation of the newest version of a plan to get natural gas from the North Slope to market. Project manager Steve Butt (NGP Photo) explained this project is different from previous failed attempts to build a gas pipeline. “An LNG project is when resource owners work together to create an infrastructure to connect [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:54:44-09:00July 17th, 2014|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments

7-16-14 Inuvik Suffers Gas Pipe Loss While Alaska and BC Plan For LNG Exports

CBC.  The price of houses in Inuvik has dropped by 10 to 15 per cent in the last three years — ever since plans for the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline were set aside, according to a local realtor..., Jim Weller ... with Coldwell Banker.... Petroleum News.  Parnell names municipal advisory board. Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has named members of the Municipal Advisory Gas Project Review Board... Petroleum News.  BC's LNG list grows.  British Columbia's lineup of LNG proposals has grown to 15 with U.S.-based WesPac Midstream requesting a 25-year export license from the National Energy Board to [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:17-09:00July 16th, 2014|Federal Progress, LNG, You Read It Here First|0 Comments

7-15-14 LNG Forum In Anchorage Tonight

Today's LNG Community Meeting In Anchorage EPA Land Grab By Bill White   It’s been clear that the executive branch of the federal government is working overtime to extend its authority. This started long before Obama became president, but it has accelerated at an alarming rate since he took office. Obama’s administration has put out more regulations per week than any before, each of which extends EPA's authority to reach into people’s lives and control them and their businesses. While the IRS has the reputation of being the most insidious of all government [...]

7-14-14 Consumer Energy Alliance Looks Out For Us All

As longtime supporters of Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), we appreciate this week's notes below from Natalie Joubert (NGP Photo), of the organization's Washington Office.  CEA works to make sure energy consumer interests are served and their projects include support for the Keystone XL pipeline, many Alaska energy positions endorsed by Alaska leaders and Lower 48 energy issues also affecting both Alaska and Canada.  -dh Calls to Action: CEA is seeking our readers' support on initiatives this month, including: Comments on the OCS Five-Year Offshore Oil & Gas Leasing Program; Comments and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:18-09:00July 14th, 2014|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments

7-11-14 Native Leaders Support SB 21 – Is Enbridge Alaska’s Newest Pipeline Sweetheart?

Did You Read It Here First?  Last Night The Globe & Mail Posted News Involving A Relationship Between One of Canada's Greatest Pipeline Companies And The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation. Globe & Mail by Shawn McCarthy.   Enbridge Inc. is turning its eyes north to Alaska, entering talks with the state to build an $8-billion (U.S.) natural gas pipeline there if a competing project falters. The Calgary energy company and the state-owned Alaska Gas Development Corp. (AGDC) “are undertaking substantive and exclusive discussion” which would see Enbridge become the builder and [...]

7-10-14 Respecting The Duty To Consult

See the LNG Project's Public Meeting Schedule here.  News Miner Story: Gasline Advisory Board          See Senator Cathy Giessel's 5-year OCS Lease Sale Comment Letter, here. Here is how our readers can comment. Respecting both "Due Process" and the “Duty to Consult" by Dave Harbour Canada's "Duty to Consult" (1,2) and America's similar concept are not and should not be just legal requirements for natural resource companies.  Consultation is a basic principle of good communications, responsible corporate citizenship, or, at the least, enlightened self interest. Bill Gallagher We have [...]

7-9-14

Globe & Mail by Jeffery Jones.  A big supporter of oil sands industry expansion, as well as export pipelines such as Keystone XL, Jeff Immelt said he wants to share his company’s environmental technology as a way to win over critics concerned about the climate impact of the oil sands. Respecting the "Duty to Consult" by Dave Harbour Canada's "Duty to Consult" (1,2) is not and should not be just a legal requirement for natural resource companies -- it is a basic principle of good communications, responsible corporate citizenship, or, at [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:55:06-09:00July 9th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments

7-8-14 Fairbanks is ‘gearing up’ for a ‘deluge of affordable, clean-burning natural gas’.

1350+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic Arguments Against ACC/AGW Alarmism Fairbanks News Miner by Matt Buxton.  Utilities, state agencies and local leaders are gearing up for what they say will be a great deluge of affordable, clean-burning natural gas into the Fairbanks area.  Crews are busily installing service lines, utilities are boasting of grand plans for expansion, there are town halls on the subject and local politicians are patting themselves on the back.

By |2016-03-13T03:55:06-09:00July 8th, 2014|AGDC, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments

7-7-14 Feds Not Credited For Energy Surge (EIA)

  Comment by Robert Dillon (NGP Photo), Senator Lisa Murkowski's Senate Energy Committee Staff   We’ve known for some time that the majority of new oil and natural gas production in the United States was occurring on private and state lands. Fairbanks News Miner by Jim Dodson. Develop Alaska’s human resources. Increase its standard of living. Diversify its economy. Strengthen free competition in its private sector economy. Here at Fairbanks Economic Development, we are in favor of “Vote No on 1.” Our reasons are simple: we believe the description of “maximum benefit,” [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:19-09:00July 7th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments

7-5-14 Alaska Gasline Agreement Signed

Governor's Website – Citing significant progress on an Alaska gasline that gets Alaska’s gas to Alaskans and markets beyond, Governor Sean Parnell welcomed news that a formal commercial agreement has been signed between the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC), BP, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and TransCanada to advance the Alaska LNG Project. “Environmental and pipeline engineering fieldwork has officially begun,” Governor Parnell said. “I am pleased all parties continue to make progress on building an Alaska gasline project that will create thousands of Alaska jobs and fuel Alaska homes and businesses. This milestone [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:19-09:00July 7th, 2014|AGDC, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments

7-3-14

TODAY'S Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator Office Energy Links: Indonesia signs new LNG pricing deal with China at $8 per million Btu Indonesia sells 18 LNG cargoes to BP at $14.80 per million Btu BP signs 20-year LNG supply deal with Chinese company Korean shipyard waits for Yamal LNG to complete tanker orders Rosneft says it will go to court to gain access to Gazprom pipeline Gazprom names new head of gas export division New French pipeline could move imported LNG to Germany Contract dispute between Bechtel, unions threatens Australia [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:19-09:00July 4th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

7-2-14: Fairbanks Natural Gas Wants Rate Increase

ADN by Dermot Cole.  Fairbanks Natural Gas said Monday it wants a 6.92 percent rate increase, filing a cost study and other documents with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska in which it makes the case that it should be allowed to collect $1.4 million more from its customers under standard utility practice. Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2014/07/01/3543284/fairbanks-natural-gas-seeks-rate.html?sp=/99/171/#storylink=cpy   TODAY'S Consumer Energy Alliance Energy Links: NBC News: Main Street, Montana: Small Towns Pray for Keystone XL Pipeline The town hangs like a charm on the proposed route of the Keystone XL, a pipeline that [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:19-09:00July 2nd, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

7-1-14 Russian Arctic Aggression Targets Alaska and Canada

NGP Readers Connect The Dots To Anticipate the Future: We Note US Financial Misstep Yesterday (scroll down) and Defense Vulnerabilities Today...With A Little Help From CBC.  -dh CBC by Brian Steward.  ...     Putin even seems determined to test spots along the vast North American Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), which stretches out 200 miles, or 321 kilometres, beyond Canadian and U.S. continental borders.   U.S. jets intercepted Russian long-range bombers off Alaska and California this month, just the latest in an increasing number of confrontations off the Pacific coast. [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:54:43-09:00July 1st, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments

6-30-14 FACHA’s Chances

Fairbanks News Miner, by Matt Buxton.  Things were quiet out at Flint Hills Resources’s North Pole refinery on Friday. There were crews cleaning and dismantling Crude Unit 2, the last refining unit to close in May, but gone is the loud buzz of crude being refined into gasoline and jet fuel. Commentary: FACTA and Energy (We invite readers to correct any misunderstanding we may have and offer additions/corrections.  We particularly invite comments regarding the effect of FACTA on energy companies/employees.  Comment here.) It isn't an energy issue, but, yet it [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:19-09:00June 30th, 2014|Commentary|0 Comments
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