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12-3-12

CBC/AP.  It's a decision U.S. President Barack Obama put off during this year's election campaign, but now that he's won a second term, his next move on the proposed oil pipeline between Alberta and Texas may signal how he will deal with climate and energy issues in the four years ahead.  (Comment: Note the stacked, unused TransCanada pipe on the right, as Obama appeared in Cushing, Ok., during the campaign.  In the early 1970s Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) pipe rested for several years, stacked and waiting for Congressional authorization.  That [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:22-09:00December 3rd, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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11-30-12

Elizabeth Morant, Editor of World Pipelines writes that, "The last issue of the year is now in print, and available to subscribers as a downloadable PDF here. In it, you’ll find our annual global round-up of pipeline projects (‘Tentative and tempestuous 2012’, p. 12), which looks back at the last 12 months and analyses the oil and gas pipeline activity that has taken place in each region of the world.

By |2016-03-13T03:46:37-09:00November 30th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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11-29-12 Alaska Oil Tax Reform

Huffington Post Canada/CP.  Joe Oliver pressed a room of business people in Vancouver on Wednesday to recognize their companies must play a key role in convincing the public their projects are advantageous not just to them, but to everyone.  He said future development of resources relies on public confidence, so business must make its case using messaging that is believable. Decision Makers Should Listen to Keithley and Marks Commentary by Dave Harbour Brad Keithley (NGP Photo-L) recently described in his blog, five recommended characteristics of oil tax reform.  We'll focus on the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:22-09:00November 29th, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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11-29-12 Alaska Oil Tax Reform

Brad Keithley (NGP Photo-L) recently described in his blog, five recommended characteristics of oil tax reform.  He liberally quoted from the good works of Alaska oil and gas economist, Roger Marks (NGP Photo).  We commend the combined thinking of these analysts to our readers.  While both have put thought into the issues we raise below, we would repeat and rephrase them from our earlier editorial pieces, here and here. If effective Alaska oil tax reform is to come, we believe it should have Keithley's first recommended characteristic of competitiveness, as further [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:22-09:00November 29th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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11-28-12

HOUSTON, TX: Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) yesterday endorsed recommendations released by the Bipartisan Policy Center, which called on the Obama Administration to create a National Energy Security Council and a companion Quadrennial Energy Review to provide a forward-looking national energy strategy that it believes has eluded every U.S. President since Richard Nixon.   The recommendation was prepared under the leadership of such influential decision-makers as former Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Reilly (NGP Photo) and former National Security Adviser Gen. James l. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:23-09:00November 28th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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11-27-12

NGP Reader Richard Peterson (NGP Photo)  reminds us that Alaska's LNG competition may well come from an undexpected direction: Northern Europe.  Here's the link. On Alaska's Cook Inlet Gas Supply comes this short report from the Anchorage Daily News' Mike Dunham.  (See our report on this subject along with a link to the causes of the current crisis here.) Prepare to pay more for your lights. That was the message from officials with the three biggest electric utilities in Southcentral Alaska at an Anchorage Chamber of Commerce forum on Monday. "Take [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:46:25-09:00November 27th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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11-26-12

Kenai Peninsula Clarion Editorial by Brian Smith.  Another legislative season approaches and again we find ourselves having pipe dreams. Will this finally be the year we wake up and start serious work on getting North Slope gas to Alaska communities and markets beyond?   Or will the nightmare continue? How many more decades must our ears endure politicians promising a gas line? How much paperwork, press releases, suits, plane tickets, bills — on and on — must be generated and consumed talking and talking and talking about this? Enough.   [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:23-09:00November 26th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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11-23-12

Access Important Industry Presentations and Videos of  RDC's Annual Conference Last Week In Anchorage.     *     Edmonton Journal/CH, by Dave Cooper.  Atco Pipelines announced Wednesday it is proposing to spend up to $700 million to replace 260 kilometres of high-pressure natural gas pipelines in Calgary and Edmonton, with the cost to homeowners spread over five years. CEA President David Holt Describes Next Steps Consumer Group Anticipates for The Keystone XL Pipeline: Cook Inlet Gas Supply: From Whence Does It Come?  Utilities Work the Realities.  Political Leaders Opine.   [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:23-09:00November 23rd, 2012|Commentary, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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11-21-12

Kenai Peninsula Clarion by Elwood Behmer.  Alaska Gasline Development Corp. CEO Dan Fauske (NGP Photo) provided figures estimating a major impact to Alaska if the proposed in-state gas pipeline is built.  “It will be the largest project in North America. It will supply 8,000 direct and 15,000 indirect jobs,” Fauske said Nov. 9 in a presentation to the Associated General Contractors of Alaska annual conference.  The numbers expand on those in the final environmental impact statement released Oct. 26. The estimated $7.52 billion construction cost will involve moving 10 million cubic [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:46:00-09:00November 21st, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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11-20-12 – Will Canada Begin Using the TAPS Terminal by 2018?

 Celebrate its 30th Anniversary with the Alaska Support Industry Alliance! North Dakota Sets New Record; take that, Alaska! Our American Readers Celebrate Their Thanksgiving. Our RDC Friends Have Posted Energy Conference Presentations Here. From the Huffington Post: We continue to admire Financial Post's columnist Diane Francis (CH Photo), for her probing work.  -dh   A group of Canadian businessmen has obtained the blessing of Alaskan tribes and Canadian First Nations to build a railroad through their lands that could carry up to five million barrels per day from the oil [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:23-09:00November 20th, 2012|You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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11-19-12 – Notes From the Road

Petroleum News Alaska by Kristen Nelson: BP Exploration (Alaska) and ConocoPhillips Alaska, the North Slope’s major operators, delivered similar messages to the Resource Development Council’s annual conference Nov. 14 in Anchorage: The state’s oil and gas tax system needs to be changed. Brad Keithley's Blog (NGP Photo): "in order to achieve what many call their first priority — oil reform — the Governor and legislature now are first going to need to relearn what they should have already been practicing all along — fiscal restraint." Commentary: Today's report features news from Canada's [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:24-09:00November 19th, 2012|Commentary, Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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11-18-12 Notes From the Road

  Dear Readers: We continue our photo, writing and other assignments as we explore more of Ecuador, this time the many micro climates leading gradually down from Cuenca to Loja and Vilcabamba.   We cannot speak too highly of the delectable, organic food and the sweetness of the indigenous people and courtesy of Spanish descendants--from children to shopkeepers to executives.  The cultural offerings challenge any accomplishments in the performing and visual arts of which we are aware and the scenery, wildlife and consistently moderate climate make visiting here a true [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:24-09:00November 18th, 2012|Commentary, Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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11-16-12

Ewart: U.S. energy self-sufficiency not doomsday for Canada - Calgary Herald - By Stephen Ewart, Calgary Herald November 15, 2012 10:32 AM. Tweet. Comment. 0 ... The IEA also predicted the U.S. would overtake Russia as the leading natural gas producer in 2015 and be all but self-sufficient in energy by 2035. Apparently, the ... Oilsands will be a definining showdown in battle between forms of ... - National Post - Jim Prentice (NGP Photo), the former Calgary MP who who served in the Harper cabinet as minister ...investment in Canada – in particular as it pertains to oil and gas. Braid: Latest obstacle to oilsands product pure [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:24-09:00November 16th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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11-15-12

Houston Chronicle: Energy alliance official: Keystone approval likely soon.  “I think there’s no doubt the Keystone pipeline will be approved in fairly short order and generate economic growth,” John Northington, counsel to the alliance, said. But Northington and former Bush campaign official Michael Whatley (NGP Photo), executive vice president of the alliance, agreed looming talks about tax reform threaten to hurt independent drilling companies if the tax credit for intangible drilling costs is cut or eliminated. “If you take away those intangible drilling costs (for) independent producers, 25 percent of their [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:24-09:00November 15th, 2012|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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