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1-8-14

Important Event: On Friday, leaders of Alaska's oil industry, the Interstate Mining Compact Commission, the National Mining Association and FrackNation producer Phelim McAleer, will join Governor Sean Parnell  (NGP Photo)​ to MEET ALASKA.  See agenda below.  NGP Readers may register here, but seats are limited and time is of the essence!  We'll have a report for our Canadian and Lower 48 readers by Monday. Here is our report on last year's conference.       -dh WGOW (Chattanooga, TN): Winter Energy Tips, A Radio Interview with Natalie Joubert, Consumer Energy Alliance (NGP Photo) AAPG Explorer: Ms. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 8th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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1-7-14 Murkowski Releases New Energy White Paper In Washington Today

Calgary Herald.  Canadian oil and gas producers were “overly optimistic” heading into 2013, failing to predict a slowdown in business activity over the last 12 months and the job losses that have occurred as a result. Alaska US Senator Lisa Murkowski Releases Energy White Paper by Dave Harbour  Yesterday we briefed readers on a webcast speech Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) would deliver today at 9 a.m. EST in Washington to a Brookings Institute audience.  Brookings promoted the speech as a discussion of the, "future of U.S. energy trade and its implications [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 7th, 2014|Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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1-6-14 Murkowski Addresses Brookings Institute Tomorrow

Fairbanks News Miner: EPA Clamps Down On Woodstoves With record Arctic temperatures hovering heavily over most of the Lower 48 this week, and our EPA supervisors condemning woodstoves, we recall two 'global warming' experiences: Copenhagen Business School Professor Dr. Bjørn Lomborg giving remarks in Alaska in 2008, and a related Earth Day story.  Our studied readers might be interested in this invitation to hear Dr. Lomborg speak in Florida.  We attended one of these Oxford Club conferences in Vancouver and highly recommend it--especially with Lomborg's contribution this year.  -dh All of our readers should consider [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:52-09:00January 6th, 2014|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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1-5-14 Oil Tax Advocates To Begin “Baying At The Moon”

ADN Op-Ed, by Paul Jenkins.  With the new year, those desperate to return to a failed oil tax system that promotes a huge government rip-off will begin baying at the moon in earnest to get their way at the expense of Alaska's future.  Given their previous record, they will be more than willing -- even eager -- to fudge facts or spin their own. They like ever-bigger government and more spending, no matter the long-term economic wreckage.  

By |2016-03-13T03:43:03-09:00January 5th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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1-4-14 Heimlich Named to “Top 100 in the Bioeconomy”

Airlines for America Chief Economist John Heimlich (NGP Photo) was recognized as a pioneer in renewable energy and biofuels. Heimlich was named one of the "Top 100 People in the Bioeconomy" as voted by the readers of Biofuels Digest and the publication’s editorial board. BiofuelsDigest.com (12/31).  Heimlich is also Chairman Emeritus and a board member of Consumer Energy Alliance.

By |2016-03-13T03:43:03-09:00January 4th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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1-3-14

Calgary Herald, by Susan Lazaruk.  Pipeline plans fuel house-price boom in parts of B.C. - Conversely, assessed values drop on Vancouver Island Alaska Dispatch by Dermot Cole.  The {Fairbanks, Alaska} utility that supplies 335-degree steam heat to 73 downtown customers through underground pipes has been burned by the public response to its request for a 95 percent increase in its rate capand is trying to cool the situation.  “It was not and is not Aurora’s intention to increase actual rates by that amount all at once,” Aurora Energy President Buki Wright wrote to the Regulatory Commission [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:42:50-09:00January 3rd, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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1-2-14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Natural Resources Committee will hold an oversight hearing next Thursday, January 9th entitled, “Obama Administration’s War on Coal: The Recent Report by the Office of the Inspector General.”  This hearing will examine the new Inspector General Report on the Obama Administration’s unorthodox rulemaking process surrounding the rewrite of the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule.    Today's American Energy Alliance Headlines & Comment: This is the real objective of the anti-Keystone crowd (besides raising money, of course). The Nation (1/6/14) reports: “By the end of the summer, distressed [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:52-09:00January 2nd, 2014|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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1-1-14 Happy New Year!

Today's American Energy Alliance Clips & Comment Prediction: This same article will be written exactly one year from now.   National Journal (12/30/13) reports: “Here's something to watch in 2014: the collective psyche of the green movement. If President Obama green-lights the Keystone pipeline, the movement will face questions about its tactics and goals at a level unseen since major climate-change legislation collapsed on Capitol Hill in 2010. ‘If the pipeline is approved, it's a defeat for 350.org, Sierra Club, et al, with no real strategy for what comes next,’ said Alex Trembath, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:52-09:00January 1st, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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12-31-13: Busy Year For Energy Consumers

新年好!     よいお年を!     새해 복 많이 받으세요!​     Bonne Année!     Feliz Año Nuevo!​     С Новым Годом!     سنة جديدة سعيدة!​     Buon anno! ​    מזל ניו יאר​     Bagong Taon Happy​!     Happy New Year!  New Years Eve Energy Clips From Consumer Energy Alliance Fuelfix: Top 5 Ways Energy Production Benefited Consumers in 2013, by David Holt (NGP Photo).  It’s been a busy year for U.S. energy production with consumer prices on the decline due to increasing domestic supplies of natural gas and oil. Here are the Top 5 energy related news [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:52-09:00December 31st, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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12-30-13 Drones Are Coming – High On Cook Inlet O&G Exploration

Calgary Herald Editorial: "...times are so good that some jobs are going begging. Statistics Canada recently noted that job vacancies in Alberta stood at 52,800 in the third quarter of 2013." Alaska Dispatch by Alex DeMarban.  A subsidiary of Alaska's wealthiest homegrown corporation is expanding its footprint in Cook Inlet to support increasing industrial activity there, a sign that more good things may be on the way for the resurgent oil and gas basin in Southcentral Alaska.  Joe Lo Sciuto, president of ASRC Energy Services Response Operations, thinks so. An expected [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:48:31-09:00December 30th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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12-29-13 Governor Frank Murkowski Opines On Pipeline

Alaska Dispatch, by Frank Murkowski (NGP Photo).   I urge that we not continue to fund overlapping energy projects. Over the last several years the administration and the Legislature have authorized the following: 1. $557 million has been expended over the last nine years on consultant fees and reports; 2. In the last session the Legislature approved $355 million for the in-state bullet line on top of $72 million from former years; 3. The Legislature committed $332.5 million in grants and loans to truck North Slope gas to Fairbanks; and 4. The Legislature appropriated [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:48:15-09:00December 30th, 2013|Alaska Taxes, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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12-28-13

Platts, by Tim Bradner (NGP Photo).  Alaska will withhold an ​offer of special state fiscal terms for a large North Slope gas pipeline and liquefied natural gas project until companies working on the project reach agreement on terms among themselves to proceed with the project, a spokeswoman for Governor Sean Parnell said Friday.

By |2016-03-13T03:48:14-09:00December 28th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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12-27-13

Petroleum News by Eric Lidji.  State regulators are allowing a new municipal utility to offer natural gas service to sections of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, and have rejected a similar application from Fairbanks Natural Gas LLC, the privately held distribution utility in the region. The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has given the Interior Alaska Natural Gas Utility the go ahead ....  The RCA said it made its decision “in the context of the entire project.” With that in mind, the RCA said it denied the Fairbanks Natural Gas application [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:48:14-09:00December 27th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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12-26-13

Calgary Herald: "Winter woes today are nothing compared to 100 years ago." ...In 1912 Calgary consumers starting burning gas, delivered by pipeline arrived from the Bow Island field.  By 1921 natural gas was flowing through a pipeline from the Turner Valley field, southwest of Calgary.

By |2016-12-22T22:29:52-09:00December 26th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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12-25-2013 “ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS”

"All I Want For Christmas!" Or, "The Loss of Self Reliance" On December 24, 2001 we wrote an editorial satirizing the human greed and mismanagement that was interfering with gas pipeline project advancement. In those days, Alaskan leaders and their supporters were engaged in the beginning of a decade-long fest of spending gluttony and tax increases to support self gratification of one generation at the expense of those to follow.   -dh 12-24-09 (Christmas Eve):  Gas pipeline news this week is light as all gas pipeline stakeholder thoughts turn to home.  [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:52-09:00December 26th, 2013|Commentary|0 Comments
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