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1-9-16 Government Gasline Ownership Based On Greed Not Need?

SUBSCRIBE TO PETROLEUM NEWS.  Gara: AKLNG needs to stay the course.  House Rep. Les Gara  (NGP Photo) has been around for several plans to advance a natural gas pipeline and believes the state is on the right track, but adds there are unknown variables that could still derail future progress. The Anchorage Democrat who serves on the House Finance Committee says the state made the.... *     *     * Our Commentary.  We have a hunch that as time marches on, more and more legislators will conclude that [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:44-09:00January 9th, 2016|Commentary, Interstate Gas|0 Comments

Yea for TransCanada! Prepare For The Alliance Tomorrow!

  Considering our editorial Tuesday, Tomorrow's ALLIANCE MEET ALASKA conference may be the year's most important meeting for readers living in/visiting Anchorage.  Agenda. Following Tuesday's editorial on the rating agencies' downgrades of Alaska's creditworthiness, see these reader comments by: an Alaska couple, an Alaska university professor, and our anonymous, Australian energy analyst friend (We hope his tough but realistic predictions are ameliorated by a successful TransCanada suit, as described below.  -dh Speaking of the Alliance (i.e. upper right), our Mid Atlantic anonymous energy analyst friend has this to say about the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:44-09:00January 7th, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, You Read It Here First|0 Comments

1-6-16

CBC.  Enbridge Inc. says flow on a pipeline through southwestern Ontario was shut down for several hours by protester activity near Cambridge, Ont. Spokesman Graham White says the protesters partially restricted flow on Enbridge Line 7 on Sunday night by tampering with a manual valve.

By |2016-03-13T03:43:28-09:00January 6th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

1-5-15 Alaska Is A Betting State – Aussie Oil & Gas Analyst Review & Outlook

You May Not Be A Betting Man or Woman, But Alaska Has Become A Betting State For years Alaska leaders have shunned warnings about overspending and being too dependent on volatile oil prices.  How many still think placing bets on the volatile gas market via equity ownership in an LNG project is wise? Commentary by Dave Harbour Today Standard & Poor's and Moody's credit rating agencies lowered the credit rating of the State of Alaska.   Here are today's Standard & Poor's and Moody's rating announcements. Here is Governor Bill [...]

1-4-16 For Those Hoping To Sell Natural Gas

Our Mid-Atlantic energy analyst friend writes: The Browning World Climate Bulletin is the best source we have seen for weather forecasting. Copyright restrictions prevent us from sending the whole document along, but the following excerpts summarize the its outlook rather well (spoiler alert: This is not for the faint of heart if the reader is in the natural gas production business): ·        The cold pool in the North Atlantic is blocking the flow of the Gulf Stream and creating a positive NAO atmospheric pattern, which has superheated Eastern North America and warmed Western [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:44-09:00January 4th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

1-3-16

ADN by Alex DeMarban.  What Are Alaska Politicians' New Year's Wishes?   www.danfagan.us.  Not trying to be cynical here but can someone please explain to me why Republican Sen. Kevin Meyer is demanding the average Alaskan give up more of their hard earned money via a new sales tax while at the same time state leaders for all practical purposes refuse to cut the bloated budget. I can see politicians like Meyer asking you for more of your cash if they had shown any kind of effort controlling state spending. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:44-09:00January 3rd, 2016|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments

1-2-16

Petroleum News by Eric Lidji.   Even decades after their discovery, and years past peak production, the Prudhoe Bay unit and Kuparuk River unit continue to be the two most active oil fields in Alaska. Although oil prices were drastically lower in 2015 than 2014, both units saw greatly increased drilling, according to Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission records.  (More for this story and other iweekly petroleum news)

By |2016-03-13T03:42:16-09:00January 2nd, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

1-1-16 New Opportunity and New Challenges For A New Year

Chris Nelson, in his CALGARY HERALD, piece explains why the energy industry is so essential to North American prosperity.  We are only amazed that these principles are not taught in the schools of both countries.  -dh ECONOMIC FREEDOM ON THE WANE IN THE LAST FRONTIER? (Alaska Headlamp) Posted on December 31, 2015 We always appreciate Headlamp's take on energy issues and this is another worthy opinion piece.   See our 12-17-15 commentary on the same subject. -dh Headlamp's Alaska Gasline response to Governor Walker's policy: "Walker said that where 2015 was Alaska’s 'year [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:44-09:00January 1st, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments

12-31-15 Happy New Year! There is a way to be optimistic!

As 2015 comes to an end today, let tomorrow's new year inspire the sort of dedication and successful work that creates a noble legacy from our service.  A great East Coast attorney reader emailed us about yesterday's commentary: "Great email, lots of news, but I would like to see YOU more positive about the future.  Give me some hope!"  Happy New Year!  L&E H   (The hope lies in the quality of our sowing, doesn't it?  -dh) A faithful, PhD biologist friend has it right: Alaska should keep its eye on [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:45-09:00December 31st, 2015|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments

12-30-15 Tomorrow is the eve of Alaska’s great year of budget challenge

Tomorrow is the eve of Alaska's great year of budget challenge! by Dave Harbour Our friends in Canada are not immune from fiscal challenges.  After all. spending too much may really boil down to 'human nature' issues that, to understand, require us to 'follow the flows of money and power'.   Canada's leaders and Rebecca Logan and a dedicated Alliance staff add perspective to Alaska's fiscal crisis.         Petroleum News.  No easy answer to Alaska's fiscal crisis. environ- mental consti-tuencies are under-mining   eco-   nomic health   with 'Climate Change' [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:45-09:00December 30th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments

12-29-15 Wilson Condon Passes

Our friend, former Alaska Attorney General Wilson Condon Passes: Anchorage Daily Planet.  NGP Photo.   Wilson and I became closely acquainted during his service with the Hammond administration.  In subsequent years, as he served in the Knowles and Murkowski administrations we had additional reason to confer an a number of gas pipeline policy matters as well as oil and gas tax, royalty and regulatory issues.   He was an accomplished Alaska attorney.  He was a gentleman, a kind man, and an objective, fair-minded professional.  Here is the Family obituary: Wilson [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:48:15-09:00December 29th, 2015|Personal|0 Comments

12-28-15 Tax Policy, Spending Policy, Oil Policy and Gas Pipeline Policy Are All Related!

Northern Gas Pipeline Readers Join Us In Commenting On Current State of Affairs From a liberal friend, and our reply.   Petroleum News.   House Finance Co-Chair Mark Neuman (NGP Photo) says if Gov. Bill Walker wants to generate new revenue, part of that solution needs to be removing regulations that could stifle {More....} From Ak-Headlamp:  The New York Times covered Alaska’s ongoing fiscal woes as oil prices continue to fall. ... although other resource-based economies are also seeing the long-term impact of declining oil prices, Alaska’s situation is unique as Governor Bill Walker (NGP [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:45-09:00December 28th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments

12-23-15 Chamber fights oil and other taxes in the name of investment climate “certainty”.

Job providing chamber urges legislators to resist job killing taxes as tax advocate Harry Crawford prepares for legislative bid.  -dh The day before Christmas Eve, we're just connecting some dots, as usual....  -dh Ak-Headlamp.  Harry Crawford, organizer of the failed ballot initiative for a gas reserves tax has filed to run for office.  Again.  Crawford didn’t identify if he would run for the house or the senate – Rep. Lance Pruitt would be his opponent in a house race and Senator Cathy Giessel would be the opponent in a senate race.  [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:45-09:00December 23rd, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments

12-22-15 Wise Counsel from “Keep Alaska Competitive”

Wise Counsel from "Keep Alaska Competitive" (Caelus, et. al.) Low LNG and oil prices threaten LNG projects and Alaska's economy....  dh Petroleum News by Alan Bailey (NGP Photo).   As oil prices tumble and with them the potential solvency of the state of Alaska's finances, a heated debate is emerging over both the extent of the problem and the means of putting the state's fiscal position back onto an even keel. On Dec. 7, during Law Seminars International's Energy in Alaska c.... APRN by Rachael Waldholz.  This month, the state committed [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:45-09:00December 22nd, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Arctic Policy, LNG|0 Comments
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