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11-20-15

TODAY, 12 P.M. ALASKA TIME, 2525 C Street, Anchorage.  Our friend, Mike Pawlowski, Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, will brief us on the latest energy legislation in Washington, D.C. Those outside of Anchorage, may teleconference: (907) 276-4900. Calgary Herald by Chris Varcoe and Darcy Henton.  More corporate layoffs, oil prices sinking below $40 and a grim drilling forecast for the battered energy industry sparked a new round of anxiety and finger-pointing at the legislature Wednesday. Two large Calgary-based companies, pipeline giant TransCanada Corp. and city-owned power utility Enmax Corp., confirmed they’re [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:47-09:00November 20th, 2015|Arctic Policy, LNG, OCS|0 Comments
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11-19-15 He who owns the gold makes the rules!

As we warned, Government ownership is a liability for Ak-LNG; "Gas line team reshuffle puts scrutiny on high salaries", APM, by Rachel Waldholz; Also see KTOO ​He who owns the gold makes the rules: see how the Feds can now make "all" the rules! The Morning Headlamp: 60 days until Regular Session begins; Schedule issues slow AKLNG progress; more urgency for Walker's fiscal plan; $1 billion for Arctic investment (A Bright Spot for Alaska!) EPA Chief: It’s Not ‘Extreme’ To Ban Coal, Oil, Gas Production On Federal Lands OTHER Today's Oil and Gas News Briefs, Courtesy: [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:47-09:00November 19th, 2015|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Global Warming|0 Comments
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11-18-15

ADN by Alex DeMarban.  The state gas line corporation will hold a special meeting Saturday to take the final steps in buying out TransCanada from the giant Alaska liquefied natural gas project considered critical to the state’s struggling oil-based economy. See today's AkHeadlamp! Julia Slingsby  (House Natural Resources Committee Press Secretary) helpfully suggests we tune in at 10 am today (LIVE NOW) to watch the legislative hearing where we ARE HEARING input on Chairman Bishop’s draft reform legislation to the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). The LWCF has received a lot of criticism and the Committee has received calls [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:47-09:00November 18th, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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11-17-15 Statoil Leaves Alaska – Murkowski Schedules ANILCA Hearing

TransCanada thrives amid intense challenges.  Read more below.  -dh U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski Responds TODAY TO  Statoil's decision to end its Alaska Arctic offshore exploration program.   Schedule now for this hearing of Senator Lisa Murkowski's (NGP Photo) Energy and Natural Resources Committee:   Thursday, Dec. 3, 10 a.m.,  Full committee hearing on implementation of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980, including perspectives on the Act’s impacts in Alaska and suggestions for improvements to the Act.  Seeking Alpha.  TransCanada says it is sticking with a plan to increase investor payouts by 8%-10% annually through 2020 even [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:47-09:00November 17th, 2015|Commentary, Keystone XL, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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11-16-15 Canada Waits For Political Winds To Shift In Favor of Keystone XL – and – Ak-LNG Update On the Kenai Peninsula

TODAY'S  relevant energy links, courtesy: Consumer Energy Alliance: Steel on Steel: News Radio with John Loeffler  President Obama rejected the Keystone Pipeline permit this week, handing green activists a victory and dealing the oil industry and Canada a loss. Michael Whatley (NGP Photo), Executive Vice President for Consumer Energy Alliance, examines how thousands of jobs and dollars will not find their way into our economy, and how Canada is waiting for the political winds to shift in America before revisiting the project.    Peninsula Clarion by Ken Boettger.   Nikiski residents gathered [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:47-09:00November 16th, 2015|Keystone XL, LNG|0 Comments
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11-14-15

CBC News.  For the past 25 years, oil and gas exploration in the Beaufort Sea has kept Inuvik on an economic roller coaster. In March 2011, the National Energy Board granted final approval for the Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline after the federal cabinet signed off on the long-delayed $16.2-billion project. Low natural gas prices have kept the project on the drawing board since then, although in August, Imperial Oil asked the National Energy Board to extend the sunset clause on regulatory approval through 2022 in the hopes that gas [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:45:43-09:00November 14th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Interstate Gas|0 Comments
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11-13-15 Notley Sacrifices Consumer Rates For Unknown “Global Warming” Benefits As She Prepares For Paris Global Warming Show and Tell Summit

Notley Wastes No Time In Jumping Off The Deep End Toward Higher Consumer Utility Prices   Calgary Herald by Chris Varcoe.  Earlier this year, the provincial government announced it would double the carbon levy now imposed on Alberta’s largest industrial emitters to $30 per tonne in 2017. “We are going to reduce carbon emissions by pricing them,” Notley said in her address.    More.... Commentary.  Notley, who yesterday made an effort to appease oil sands energy supporters, today obeys the enviro siren calls to raise consumer energy prices with what beneficial effect, exactly? As China [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:48-09:00November 13th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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11-12-15 IEA Says Oil Prices Loom Low, Longer — May Extend Alaska & Alberta Fiscal Crises

Log onto Alaska Headlamp for its useful report today! Our venerable, mid-Atlantic energy analyst friend is worried about overcapacity of gas transportation projects: Alaska and Alberta, are you listening?  Read more....  AND ... our Aussie energy analyst friend relays the story of Anadarko's interest (i.e. subsequently withdrawn) in taking over Apache Corporation.  Read more....   -dh Low Oil Prices Loom Longer.... CBC.  Oil prices are likely to remain low over the next five years because of plentiful supply and falling demand in developed countries, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday in its annual forecast.  The Paris-based body, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:48-09:00November 12th, 2015|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal|0 Comments
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11-11-15 Veterans Day In The U.S.

Veterans Day 2015 and Hilcorp's Alaska North Slope Liberty Project Yes, there is a link Commentary by Dave Harbour   It was a rainy, windy, cool day, that November 10, 1966. Panmunjom is the well known, Freedom's Frontier guard post -- the most dangerous in the world.   Today, we wore our Panmunjom hat in a Veterans Day ceremony.   Today we remind our readers and ourselves that there is more than one way to serve! Today, we remember with respect two fellow Anchorage, Alaska citizens who served with us on the Korean [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:48-09:00November 11th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Personal|0 Comments
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11-10-15 Calgary Office Market A “Bloodbath”

"Hmmm.  Who to thank at Thanksgiving?" Commentary Alaskans who don't want to learn the hard way better stop being so proud of their God given natural resources. Talk of oil tax increases at a time of low oil prices is not a good Thanksgiving message to send investors, still contemplating an LNG export project and a few exploration/development projects. Instead, Alaska might try maximizing its natural resource potential by treating investors who have cash to develop the State's resources, with courtesy and encouragement.  An attitude check on the part of citizens who [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:45:30-09:00November 10th, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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11-9-15 Former Alaska Commissioner Recommends Minimizing Gasline/LNG Risk

Our readers know that over the last year we have investigated and commented on the large risks accompanying large equity investments of public money into large energy projects. The two of which we are most concerned, are the AK-LNG gas monetization project and the Interior Energy Project. Under the 'Search Our Site' box, top right, readers can review these earlier commentaries by entering desired 'key words'. -dh Support Hilcorp's Liberty Project HERE...TONIGHT! Can Walker Find A Less Risky Way To Support Alaska's LNG Project? A former Alaska Department of Natural Resources Commissioner (DNR) [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:48-09:00November 9th, 2015|Commentary, LNG, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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11-8-15 Senate President Supports Alaska Governor Bill Walker’s Move To Increase Equity Ownership In AK-LNG Project

ADN Op-Ed by Kevin Meyer , Alaska State Senate President.  This past Tuesday in Juneau, the Alaska Senate endorsed (NGP Photo) Gov. Bill Walker’s request to buy out TransCanada's portion of the Alaska LNG Project, making the state of Alaska an equal owner in the largest integrated natural gas project in North America.  .   .   .   KTUU, by Austin Baird.  How The LNG Project Could Affect Alaska's Future. It is a privilege to serve as Senate president during this critical time for Alaska. I am proud of the Senate's united [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:48-09:00November 8th, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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11-7-15 Shouldn’t Alaska Act Like A Business As An Ak-LNG Owner?

Alaska Public Media.   One thing you heard over and over again during the special session was that the state of Alaska needs to start acting like a business. Here’s Rep. Lynn Gattis, (NGP Photo): “If we’re going to be in business and participate with business, why wouldn’t we act like business?”

By |2016-03-13T03:46:57-09:00November 7th, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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11-6-15 End of a historic week in Alaska

Our Alaska BP friend, Julie Hasquet, notes the launching this week of, "BP's inaugural, Technology Outlook.  Readers may obtain a copy here.  -dh Our Washington D.C. friend with IER, Dan Kish, notes that House democrats have filed this bill targeting an Alaska oil  & gas prohibition in Cook Inlet and the Arctic -- not to mention coal.   Founded on the religious belief in a concept called, Global Warming, the bill (i.e. called the "Keep It In The Ground Act Of 2015") is being filed as in concert with other Paris [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:48-09:00November 6th, 2015|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, LNG, Personal|0 Comments
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11-5-15: A Review of the November 2015 Special Session of the Alaska State Legislature

One Observer's View of the November 2015 Special Session of the Alaska State Legislature (Revised following receipt of reader comment)   Offered on this, the last day of the Special Session, November 5, 2015   Special Session Audio & Video Archives   by   Dave Harbour     As the special session called by Governor Bill Walker ended this week, we did not oppose the Legislature's decision to approve certain appropriations.  The appropriations allowed the governor to reimburse TransCanada (TC) for its expenses to date, plus interest, to "buy out" its participation in the [...]

By |2017-01-03T11:50:29-09:00November 5th, 2015|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Commentary, Competition, Government Waste, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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