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11-5-15

Juneau Empire by James Brooks.  Alaska’s natural gas megaproject is moving forward. With a 39-0 vote, the Alaska House approved spending $161.25 million to advance the AKLNG project, which promises to bring natural gas from the North Slope to an export terminal at Cook Inlet.  (Governor Walker's LNG Project press releases are here.) TODAY, November 5, 2015 at 10:30AM EST, Chairman Rob Bishop will hold a press conference call to discuss legislative reforms to the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). WHAT: Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop outlines [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:48-09:00November 5th, 2015|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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11-4-15 Converting TransCanada’s Ak-LNG Equity To Alaska Government Interest – Great Profits Ahead Or A Risky Experiment In Socialism?

The Alaska Legislature's House Finance Committee Voted This Morning To Support A Senate Bill Approving The Buyout Of TransCanada's Participation in the Ak-LNG project. (Audio here).  Tune in live, here, for upcoming House and Senate floor sessions and press conferences. Comment:   HARBOUR SPECIAL SESSION COMMENTARIES:  11-03-15.  House Finance Committee Testimony (CA issue) 10-29-15.  Government Ownership: Mission Impossible 10-25-15. For Whom The Bell Tolls We will have more to say about this Alaska LNG government ownership policy and appropriation Tomorrow.  We believe we are witnessing a paraphrased version of what one national leader said nearly 8 years [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:48-09:00November 4th, 2015|LNG, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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11-3-15 Alaska’s Senate Approves TransCanada LNG Buyout As the US State Department Ignores TransCanada’s Keystone XL Request

More Critical Alaska LNG hearings TODAY.  Tune in live, here.  Decisions are about to be made! Alert: late this morning the Senate passed CSSB3001 following yesterday's approval by the Senate Finance Committee.  The measure gives Alaska's governor the LNG project appropriations he requested in spite of many legislative concerns about his handling of the project to date. Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux's angry floor speech taking Attorney General to task (We agree with her comments.  -dh)​ Here is our written testimony, provided to the House Finance Committee yesterday evening. From our Consumer Energy Alliance friends [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:48-09:00November 3rd, 2015|Arctic Policy, LNG|0 Comments
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11-2-15 Shell’s $7 Billion Chukchi Effort A “Dry Hole”, Predecessor Mistake; Analyst Calls Chukchi Shell’s “Strategic Mistep”

More Critical Alaska LNG hearings Monday.  Tune in live, here! Find Latest LNG Updates Here News Briefs From Former Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator, Larry Persily We appreciate comment from the Transportation Institute, represented by our longtime reader, Rich Berkowitz.  -dh This pronouncement from Shell's CEO, Ben van Beurden, is the first time I have heard mention of a "dry hole" with respect to Shell's Arctic drilling.  It is discouraging, to say the least. "In a conference call with journalists on Thursday, Mr. van Beurden said the well that Shell drilled [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:49-09:00November 2nd, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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11-1-15 Link to today’s Alaska LNG Legislative hearings

More Critical Alaska LNG hearings today.  Tune in live, here! AP's Becky Bohrer explains the Alaska LNG challenge that the Legislature grapples with this month in Juneau.  -dh APR, Rachel Waldholz. ​Who’s the boss of Alaska LNG? I am, Walker says.  As lawmakers close out the first week of their special session on the Alaska LNG gas line project, there’s one question in the air — why are we still here? Juneau Empire by James Brooks.  Alaska LNG project head, Steve Butt (NGP Photo) says project is on course.   KTUU by Austin Baird.  TransCanada: Alaska [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:49-09:00November 1st, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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10-31-15 Murkowski sharply criticizes the Obama administration’s actions to block energy

More Critical Alaska LNG hearings today.  Tune in live, here! Sen. Murkowski Draws National Attention to Alaska’s Energy Priorities Energy Committee Chairman Delivers Weekly Republican Address Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today highlighted Alaska’s energy priorities as she delivered the weekly Republican address to the nation. In her remarks, Murkowski sharply criticized the Obama administration’s actions to block energy production in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), the non-wilderness portion of ANWR, and offshore, while bringing attention to the barrage of destructive regulations coming from the EPA. “Since taking [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:49-09:00October 31st, 2015|Arctic Policy, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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10-30-15 End Of Week Alaska LNG Project News

More Critical Alaska LNG hearings today.  Tune in live, here!   Alaska Gasline Development Corporation Daily update ⋅ October 30, 2015     NEWS Alaska LNG Daily update ⋅ October 31, 2015     NEWS       Kenai Peninsula Online Neighbors weigh-in on the impacts of the Alaska LNG project Kenai Peninsula Online Nikiski resident Bill Warren gives comments to members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee during a meeting on the Alaska LNG project on ... Flag as irrelevant       KTUU.com Asian gas market slumps as Alaska policy makers voice support of LNG pipeline KTUU.com JUNEAU – There is [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:49-09:00October 30th, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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10-29-15 Dave Harbour: A True Alaska Statesman

A True Alaska Statesman by Dan Fagan •  • 10 Comments Dan Fagan (R) with Dave Harbour Alaska is full of wonderful, smart, and competent leaders who care deeply about our state. But few match the wisdom, historical knowledge, and peaceful temperament of Dave Harbour. Harbour is in every sense of the word a true statesman. Mr. Harbour’s accomplishments throughout the years are too many to mention. He currently publishes the very insightful Northern Gas Pipelines website. In it he explains very clearly why Alaska Gov. Bill Walker’s tendency to prefer state ownership of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:49-09:00October 29th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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10-29-15 Legislature Undertakes Alaska LNG Project Due Diligence

More Critical Alaska LNG hearings today.  Tune in live, here! Government Ownership: Mission Impossible (Our Commentary) ADN by Alex DeMarban.  Vincent Lee, director of major project development for TransCanada, said the company learned in late spring of the Walker administration’s “strong desire” to buy the company’s interest in the gas treatment plant and the 800-mile-long pipeline. Comment: Lee represented TC well.  However, in reciting the history of TC's involvement in the Alaska gas project, he began with the 1978-79 U.S. and Canadian approvals of the so-called Alcan project, which TransCanada opposed [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:49-09:00October 29th, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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10-28-15 Shell Hit Again–This Time In Canada

Today's LNG Hearings and Shell's Canadian Setback (Note as you read all these items how closely related energy projects are to the economic health of our economies!  Perhaps as enviro activists and hostile local and federal governments attack energy projects in the future these case histories will cause the adults in the room to better and more loudly articulate a wiser way forward.  -dh) ADN by Pat Forgey.  Gov. Bill Walker (NGP Photo) is wondering if pension borrowing may be useful in Alaska. Under consideration are what are known as "pension obligation [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:49-09:00October 28th, 2015|Commentary, Keystone XL, LNG|0 Comments
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10-27-15 TODAY ConocoPhillips Began Producing New Oil On Native Land In the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska

ANCHORAGE – ConocoPhillips Alaska today announced that its CD5 drill site began producing oil. CD5, part of the Alpine Field, is the first commercial oil development on Alaska Native lands within the boundaries of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPRA). CD5 is the second new ConocoPhillips North Slope drill site to come on stream this month. First oil was announced at Kuparuk Drill Site 2S on Oct. 12. “First oil at CD5 is a landmark for our company, Kuukpik Corporation, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and for Alaska. This announcement is the [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:44:45-09:00October 27th, 2015|Arctic Policy, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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10-27-15 Alaska Special Session On LNG Project Continues Today!

Here is a link allowing our readers to monitor live streaming of legislative hearings today re: the Alaska LNG project.  -dh ADN by Nathanial Herz.  Gov. Bill Walker’s (NGP Photo) administration is asking the Legislature to approve an $840,000 salary and benefits package for a public employee to work on Alaska’s natural gas pipeline megaproject. Fuel Fix by Collin Eaton.   A $32 billion operating cash shortfall and persistent low oil prices will probably force big shale drillers to announce billions in oil field impairments and spending cuts in third-quarter earnings reports [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:58-09:00October 27th, 2015|LNG|0 Comments
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10-26-15 Alaska LNG Legislative Struggle

What do you think Alaska should do? Commentary by Dave Harbour Commentary: Yesterday a friend from Canada called after reading our rare, Sunday email alert.   Earle said, after watching some of the Alaska special legislative session weekend meetings on line, "Looks like your politicians have gotten themselves in over their heads.  What would you do, Dave"? Of course, Earle was referring to the state's fiscal crisis: the $3-4 billion annual deficit; the diminishing Trans Alaska Pipeline throughput; billions in unfunded state employee pension liability, and the out of control spending by a [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:58-09:00October 26th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, LNG|0 Comments
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