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6-11-14 LNG Exports Are In America’s National Interest

ADN -- A 13-pound, battery-powered drone catapulted from a Prudhoe Bay gravel pit on Sunday has become the first authorized commercial operation by an unmanned aircraft over land in the United States.  (See our breaking news alert from yesterday.) Our friend, Katy, of energycitizens.org, write us today that, "Recent events in Ukraine and other parts of the world have made it abundantly clear that the United States can no longer sit on the sidelines.  (See our related editorial.) "By increasing liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports", she writes, "we have an [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:22-09:00June 11th, 2014|LNG, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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6-10-14 Alaska Natives Support Oil Tax Reform

2:24 PM, ADT: You Read It Here First.  From Julie Hasquet at BP comes this breaking news:   "BP and AeroVironment are deploying an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS, BP Photo) technology at Prudhoe Bay, marking the first time (i.e. our emphasis added) the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted permission for UAS routine commercial services over land in the United States. "The UAS technology has potential to improve safety, efficiency and the reliability of BP’s Alaska North Slope infrastructure and maintenance programs. "BP’s vendor, AeroVironment, is performing high-accuracy land surveying and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:22-09:00June 10th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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6-9-14 Polar Bears Are Cuddly and ‘Political Shenanigans’ Abound!

World Energy, by George Backwell.  ...a fraction of natural gas projects ... will become reality as high costs and weakening gas prices.... Alaska Dispatch, by Brigham McCown.   As political shenanigans continue to delay approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, Alaska voters hold the key to avoiding a similar fate for what could be North America’s largest pipeline project (i.e. Natural gas pipeline).   Washington Examiner by Mark Tapscott.  Another scientist has more bad news for global warming advocates who claim that Americans are killing Arctic Polar Bears....  *** Professor Matthew Cronin [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:22-09:00June 9th, 2014|Arctic Policy, Coastal Management, Global Warming, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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6-6-14 Alaska D-Day Energy Speech and CBC 70th Normandy Rememberance – Pedro van Meurs On Mexican Constitutional Amendments

Pedro van Meurs On Mexican Constitutional Amendments 70th Annual Remembrance Of The Normandy Invasion: D-Day by Dave Harbour We're now watching the Canadian Broadcast Corporation's 70th D-Day Anniversary remembrance online, here. Earlier this morning in Alaska, we heard former Anchorage Mayor George Wuerch (NGP Photo), a Marine veteran himself, give a moving address to the Alaska Miners Association in his role as Chairman of Veterans For Energy Security (Alaska Chapter). His speech title could, indeed, have been, "National Security Depends On Energy Security". Wuerch reminded the audience that the attack on Pearl Harbor (Your [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 6th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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6-5-14 Alaska North Slope Gas Conditioning Plant Challenges

Comment: We associate a current Governing Magazine article by Liz Farmer, below, with Matt Buxton's excellent News Miner review of Alaska gas pipeline project funding.   We have long alerted readers that with government participation in the traditional, private market comes an unintended list of future consequences to be faced by not only this, but future generations of public officials who had little or nothing to do with the original public funding decisions.   Current and future citizens, in these circumstances, should be prepared to absorb the same risks taken by [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 5th, 2014|Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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6-4-14 PLF Is An Important Ally Also Fighting Federal Government Overreach

    Globe & Mail by CP.  TransCanada Corp. says it plans to build a $1.9-billion pipeline to help feed Chevron Corp. and Apache Corp.’s proposed liquefied natural gas facility near Kitimat, B.C. Yesterday ExxonMobil's Karen Hagedorn briefed the Fairbanks community on Point Thomson project status.  Read Dermot Cole's ADN story here and see our report of Sofia Wong's Friday Point Thomson briefing in Anchorage, here.  Last night, Alaska Public Media aired this audio of a recent Commonwealth North panel discussing Alaska state investment in an ANS gas pipeline/LNG project that includes Alaska producers, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 4th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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6-3-14

Wall Street Journal TODAY re: Yesterday's Climate War Beginning: EPA War on Coal (Dan Kish Video), Coal Cutting Cuts Jobs, Carbon-Income Inequality. Globe & Mail by Peter Tertzakian.  Last week Total SA and their consortium partners shelved the $11-billion Joslyn oil sands project. Predictably, the belt-tightening announcement triggered the usual self-flagellating notions like, “Canadian oil and gas isn’t competitive,” and “The future of the oil sands is dim.” But .... Tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission will hold its monthly public meeting at 333 W. 7th Avenue [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 3rd, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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6-2-14 – Point Thomson On Schedule – Obama Exercises Climate Power – World LNG Supply Explodes!

Alaskan and Canadian Producers And Governments Are Sure To Keep Alert To Changing Conditions In The World LNG Market  (Read More) Michael Whatley (NGP Photo), former staff director and chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Energy Public Works Clean Air and Climate Change Subcommittee, raised a warning flag that EPA regulations will disproportionately affect energy consumers in states in the Midwest and Southeast that are heavily reliant on coal to generate electricity. Here is more Consumer Energy Alliance analysis. Today at 10:30 a.m. EDT, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy delivered [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 2nd, 2014|Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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6-1-14 Alaska Advantage Information Program – Alaska Oil & Gas Association Annual Meeting Economic Report Findings

Alaska Support Industry Alliance's Alaska Advantage Program (Video):               Alaska Oil & Gas: Fueling Our Economy by Katie Bender The Alaska Oil & Gas Association (AOGA) hosted its annual luncheon on Thursday.  Jim Calvin from the McDowell Group presented findings from their updated report “The Role of the Oil and Gas Industry in Alaska’s Economy”. The McDowell group was contracted by AOGA to assess the role of the oil and gas industry in Alaska’s private and public sector economy. The economic impact was based [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 1st, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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5-31-14 BSEE Federal Jobs In Anchorage: Two Supervisory Petroleum Engineers

Michael Haller (NGP Photo) at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) advises us of openings in a sister federal agency -- BOEM's enforcement arm -- the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).  In an email he said:  This is a courtesy notice to make you aware a job opening and opportunity to apply to work with the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)–Alaska Region – posted at USAJOBS.  This job is assigned to BSEE-Alaska Region in Anchorage. Please encourage anyone you know who is qualified and interested to apply. [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:53:36-09:00May 31st, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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5-30-14 EPA Action Could “Annihilate” Business Investment

EPA Action Could "Annihilate" Business Investment Alaska Senator Cathy Giessel (NGP Photo) responded this week to a California-based environmental activist who told the Wall Street Journal Alaskans favor more EPA controls in the state.   "The NRDC is urging EPA to issue the first pre-emptive veto in the 43-year history of the Clean Water Act," Giessel wrote. "If successful, this veto will annihilate business investment in my state and throughout our country. EPA is being litigated for its actions and rightly so. We can only hope our courts stop EPA’s usurping of power [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:24-09:00May 30th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, LNG|0 Comments
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5-29-14 RDC Alert: Help Senator Murkowski Fight EPA Overreach !!! – Murkowski Promotes Yergin Oil Export Ban Study

Alaska Mining Guru Steve Borell (NGP Photo) tips us that, "Sea NG Corporation is a Canadian company engaged in the development and commercialization of technology for marine transportation of compressed natural gas (CNG).  Sea NG offers its customers a safe, economic and reliable method of transporting natural gas by ship."  (We wouldn't be a bit surprised to see this company become more involved with Alaskan and Canadian coastal villages and rural construction and natural resource projects -- assuming its net, delivered BTU value meets or reduces prices paid for heating oil.  -dh) [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:24-09:00May 29th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-28-14 Playing By The Rules

  Information on today's Anchorage meeting with Commonwealth North on Government equity interest in an Alaska gas pipeline. Politico by Tal Kopan.  “I would be warning against using a chess analogy because in chess we have rules, and clearly Putin doesn’t care about rules because what he’s been doing now in Ukraine, it violates international law and international treaties Russia has signed before,” Kasparov said on CNN’s “The Lead.” Comment: The rule of law is all about citizens living within the law.   When a president like Putin cheats in chess or sends a disguised [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:35-09:00May 28th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-27-14 The Russians Are Coming. No, The Russians Have Come!

The Russians Have Come by Dave Harbour ​Dear Reader: we always solicit new content, comment and facts from our highly knowledgeable and experienced readers -- along with additions/corrections to our commentary.   Maintaining accuracy, with your help, is critical to the usefulness of our hundreds of thousands of pages of Northern energy archives spanning over 4 decades (See our internal 'search bar', upper right).  -dh In yesterday's Memorial Day commentary, amid unhappiness in Ukraine, we again reminded ourselves that the former owners of Alaska have returned as Alaska North Slope (ANS) [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:35-09:00May 27th, 2014|Commentary, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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5-26-14 Memorial Day – As Russia Threatens Ukraine Will Alaska Invite Russian Support of Gas Pipeline/LNG Project?

Point of Personal Privilege: On this Memorial Day I honor the memory of Dad (Col. Dave Harbour) and Mom (Bobbie) who were married in Honolulu a few days after the Japanese attack in 1941...and fellow veterans and supportive families, past and present, who defended America's constitutional principles through the country's majestic history of freedom and prosperity.  -dh Russian Company Involvement In Alaska Gas Pipeline Project? (Refer to our 2-14-13 related posting.) One of our Pacific Rim readers writes over the weekend, "that Rosneft was granted by Exxon to come into [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:35-09:00May 26th, 2014|Commentary, Interstate Gas, LNG, Personal, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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