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4-27-12

 EPA Representative Advocates "Crucification" of Citizens to Intimidate Others   House researches, Senate waits for answers - Alaskajournal.com - As passed by the House, HB 9 creates the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. as an independent subsidiary of the Alaska Housing Finance Corp. with the authority to plan, design, build and operate a natural gas pipeline. See all stories on this topic » From the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation: AEDC is excited to announce the 2012 AEDC Resource Extraction 10-Year Project Projection will be released onMay 2nd at 4:30pm the Downtown Marriott Hotel sponsored by Northrim Bank. The report focuses on the current [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:19-09:00April 27th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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4-26-12 – Dave Harbour Says Texas and Alaska Can Lead In Economic Recovery

Times Record News by Lee Anderson. native Texan Dave Harbour, encouraged members of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers on Wednesday to continue challenging federal mandates imposed on the oil and gas industry and insisted that Texas and Alaska can lead the nation from "the brink of economic crisis back to prosperity."The former chairman of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, said "We can do it by controlling spending and developing domestic natural resources in time to save our children's generation from what could be a time of great adversity," Harbour told the crowd of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:19-09:00April 26th, 2012|Personal|0 Comments
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4-25-12 – Texas Alliance of Energy Producers

Commentary:  Our friend, Consultant Paul Ziff (NGP Photo), sent us his new paper yesterday, “Natural Gas Under Siege”.  He says that in today’s price environment, every MCF of gas produced increases a producer’s financial loss.  If one adds to that scenario, desire of the Feds to overregulate shale, the loss to producers and production decline will be exacerbated.  -dh Today, your author has the pleasure of addressing the annual meeting of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.     -dh  Membership Breakfast Speaker: Dave Harbour, Commissioner Emeritus, Author, Regulator, Lobbyist Membership [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:20-09:00April 25th, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Personal|0 Comments
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4-24-12

Glouster Times by Richard Gaines.  The chairman of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, backed by a national coalition that ranges from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association, is urging a shutoff to all funding geared toward implementation of a National Ocean Policy created by an executive order signed by President Obama, rather than congressional action.

By |2016-03-13T03:52:55-09:00April 24th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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4-22-12

Scroll down to yesterday's post, "Is Alaska's Legislature Making A Big Mistake?" The Export Council for Alaska -- with support from Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska -- has endorsed improvement by the obama Administration and the Alaska Legislature of the Alaska investment climate. Calgary Herald.  Encana Corp said Japan’s Toyota Tsusho Corp will buy a royalty interest in its southern Alberta natural gas field for C$602 million ($606.2 million) as depressed dry gas prices force the company to cut spending or look for partners.  (We ask, "Could Toyota have bargained for Alaska [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:20-09:00April 23rd, 2012|Personal|0 Comments
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4-22-12 – Is Alaska’s Legislature Making A Big Mistake?

Today, we are pleased to provide you with a link to Tom Brennan's important commentary... embellished a bit with our own.  -dh Commentary: Tom Brennan's (NGP Photo) commentary below, notes that the Alaska Legislature seems enamored with providing tax credits to companies that explore new, potential petroleum reservoirs on Alaska state lands (i.e. most 'explorers' are relatively new to Alaska and have expressed publicly or privately a concern that if they do discover anything, production in this tax climate will be difficult or impossible).  State law provides subsidies for explorers by over taxing [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:52:55-09:00April 22nd, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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2-20-12

 Petroleum News.  Pipe dreams showdown  04/22/2012   The all-out contest to open new markets for Alberta crude oil producers, who are losing an estimated C$18 billion a year because of current export bottlenecks, and the battle against the rising tide of pipeline projects has reached a crescendo. Kinder Morgan has emerged from virtual obscurity with p....

By |2016-03-13T03:49:52-09:00April 21st, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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4-19-12

Petroleum News by Gary Park.  Dead man walking, a self-induced coma, or a lull in proceedings — call it what you want, but the latest lurch in the drawn-out history of the Mackenzie Gas Project does not bode well for the plan to commercialize Canada’s stranded Arctic natural gas.  Amid a flurry of mixed messages on April 8 from partners in the MGP consortium, the emerging consensus is that budgets are being slashed and some staff are being laid off in response to the erosion of project economics caused by [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:20-09:00April 19th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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4-18-12

  We remind fellow citizens to not underestimate the internal threat to our American freedoms.  We remind ourselves to not be complacent, thinking "It could never happen here".   -dh    Harbour and Hofmeister to Address Texas Alliance of Energy Producers Next Week   TransCanada’s Summer 2012 Western Canada Gas Supply Update is out… Read More… ___________________________ CBC North.  The federal government is reducing the number of departments and agencies that can do environmental reviews from 40 to just three to speed up approvals for projects that will bolster Canada's economy, Natural [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:21-09:00April 18th, 2012|Commentary|0 Comments
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4-17-12 Could America Experience Dictatorship This Summer

The US Coast Guard definitely recognizes that the Arctic presents a daunting challenge and the Canadian military of course sees the Arctic as a core concern.  Obama’s Quiet Executive Order: Reaffirming and Expanding Presidential Powers See Similar, Shorter Master Resource Version Here Commentary by Dave Harbour We wonder how many of our readers knew that one month ago, the President signed an updated Executive Order (E.O.) -- giving himself access to dictatorial powers -- under the guise of 'national defense' and under authority of the Defense Production Act of 1950.  Upon activation, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:21-09:00April 17th, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Personal|0 Comments
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4-16-12 – “In Alaska Is A Deal A Deal?”

Environment issues largely missing from election campaign - Edmonton Journal - That mash-up of debates has pushed the cleanup of oilsands tailings ponds or greenhouse gas emissions off the agenda, apart from campaign promises made by NDP leader Brian Mason and Alberta Liberal leader Raj Sherman, both of whom are polling low among ... Governor Sean Parnell Calls For Special Session Re: Gas Pipeline, Oil Taxes and Human Trafficking See Our Friday Editorial On Business Investment Climate and a Tax Foundation Report In  Alaska, Is A Deal A Deal? Commentary by Dave Harbour Today's Anchorage [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:22-09:00April 16th, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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4-15-12

ADN by Richard Mauer: The Senate on Saturday grabbed a modest, slow-moving bill encouraging petroleum drilling in the state's Interior, boosted it to the top of its agenda and stuffed it with a key piece of the oil tax reform it had been unable to pass in a much larger bill.   Sponsored by Rep. Peggy Wilson Co-Sponsors: Rep. Lynn, Rep. Costello, Rep. Kawasaki, Rep. Kerttula, Rep. Johnson, Rep. Tuck Rep. Peggy Wilson (R-2) House Majority Whip Chair, (H) TRA Com.  “An Act relating to fiscal notes for bills directing or resulting in the adoption, amendment, or repeal of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:22-09:00April 15th, 2012|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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4-14-12

  ADN by Richard Mauer -- The Senate on Friday took apart a House bill that would promote construction of a small-diameter gas line from the North Slope, leaving prospects for the line alive but distant and adding a new ripple of drama in the Capitol as the Legislature lurched into its last weekend.  The substitute to House Bill 9 took place at a morning meeting of the Senate's Community and Regional Affairs Committee under the unhappy gaze of the bill's principal authors -- none other than the speaker of the [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:52:54-09:00April 15th, 2012|Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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4-13-12 Debunking Detractors

Chenault opposes Senate committee rewrite of in-state gas pipeline bill - The Republic.  House Speaker Chenault told the Senate Community and Regional Affairs Committee that its rewrite of HB9 "neutered" the ability of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., or AGDC, to advance a project. And he said it reinserts politics into efforts to bring a gas line ... See all stories on this topic »   Debunking Detractors (See our follow-up commentary, "In Alaska Is A Deal A Deal?") Commentary by Dave Harbour Yesterday (Scroll down) we complimented the Anchorage Daily Planet for outing the "It's Our [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:23-09:00April 13th, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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4-12-12

Calgary Herald Editorial.  The Ballad of Wiebo Ludwig.  Despite the unsolved killing of teenager Karman Willis on his Trickle Creek commune and his conviction as an oilfield bomber, the headstrong radical Wiebo Ludwig may well go down in history, or at least in the eyes of many, as an Alberta folk hero. "It's Our Oil" Commentary: We Offer Our Readers this Anchorage Daily Planet editorial by Paul Jenkins, who correctly 'outs' the 'It's Our Oil' crowd (See our own coverage here, NGP Photo of David Gottstein, with advocacy pin) -dh. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:23-09:00April 12th, 2012|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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