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Dave Harbour, publisher of Northern Gas Pipelines, is a former Chairman of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, a Commissioner Emeritus of NARUC, NARUC's Official Representative to IOGCC and Vice Chairman of NARUC's Gas Committee. He served as Gas Committee Chairman of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners. He also served as commissioner of the Anchorage Bicentennial Commission and the Anchorage Heritage Land Bank Commission. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree: English, at Colorado State University, a Master of Science Degree: Communications-Journalism at Murray State University and graduated from Utility Regulatory School for Commissioners at Michigan State University. He served as a Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at Alaska Pacific University, taught bank marketing classes at the University of Alaska and was an English teacher at Los Alamos High School. Harbour served in ranks of Private - Captain during a 4-year assignment with the Army in Korea, Idaho, Georgia and Fort Meade and received the Meritorious Service Medal among other commendations. Harbour is also a past Chairman of the Alaska Council on Economic Education, the Alaska Oil & Gas Association Government Affairs Committee, the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, the Export Council of Alaska and the Department of Commerce's District Export Council. He is a past President of the Alaska Press Club, American Bald Eagle Foundation, Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska and Common Sense for Alaska. Harbour was instrumental in founding the American Bald Eagle Research Institute (UAS), the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, the Downtown Anchorage Business Partnership, and Arctic Power. He also served as CEO of several small Alaska organizations, including the Anchorage Parking Authority and Action Security, Inc. Harbour is also Chairman Emeritus of the Alaska Oil & Gas Congress. Harbour's wife, Nancy, is a professional, performing arts administrator and his three boys, Todd, Benjamin and William work in the fields of environmental management, energy marketing and medicine.
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4-6-17 Irresponsible Government Budgets Cry Out For Spending Limit

See our related spending limit commentary, 1-30-17 First warning to lawmakers December 30, 1980 was,"Control spending while you can; it is the CHALLENGE OF PLENTY!" Kudos to the "in the trenches" work of Jeremy Price, Commentary below GUEST COMMENTARY: Budget crisis highlights need for spending cap  By:  Jeremy Price Guest commentary Alaska Journal of Commerce, 04/05/2017 Irresponsible spending by state lawmakers has left us with a multibillion-dollar budget deficit. This latest crisis underscores the need to tighten the state’s “spending cap” on annual expenditures, and a bill recently passed in the [...]

4-5-17 Former Alaska Gasline Development Corporation CEO, Dan Fauske, Passed Away Today

   Former Alaska Gasline Development Corporation and Alaska Housing Finance Corporation Chief Executive Officer Dan Fauske passed away today after a courageous battle against cancer.  Our prayers are with his family.  -dh Dan Fauske. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour. “Dan Fauske touched the lives of so many Alaskans, first through his work with the North Slope Borough and later as the head of Alaska Housing Finance Corporation and Alaska Gasline Development Corporation. His work helped generate millions of dollars in construction projects and affordable [...]

4-4-17 The ‘Climate Change’ Farce Becomes More and More Apparent

From our friends at American Energy Alliance: Trust us. This isn't an anomaly. Inside Sources (3/30/17) reports: “Conservatives for Clean Energy seems like a right-leaning environmental group. After all, it has conservative in the name and its website praises “choice and competition” for providing benefits for consumers. Its website explains that the group “educates the public on the benefits of clean and renewable energy sources.” But is the group in fact more green than red? Despite its free market trappings, Conservatives for Clean Energy has financial ties to major [...]

4-3-17 Russia Is Strong In the Arctic — U.S. Better Get Its Act Together!

Note: The US better get its act together if it wishes to be a player in the Arctic.  Russia is on the march.  Alaska is the U.S. Arctic gateway.  Does the U.S. wish to become competitive in an area where the majority of the world's energy reserves are...or, do we play defense against Russian economic and military initiatives.   See our 4-1-17 Russian commentary.  -dh Russian tanker forges path for Arctic shipping super-highway Author: Olesya Astakhova, Reuters SABETTA, Russia — An ice-breaking liquefied natural gas tanker docked for the first [...]

By |2017-04-03T04:36:28-09:00April 3rd, 2017|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Competition, OCS|0 Comments

4-2-17 This Week’s Petroleum News

From Petroleum News Alaska   REI closing down - 04/02/2017 (Full story) Resources Energy Inc., a Japanese company that has been pursuing the potential exporting of liquefied natural gas from the Cook Inlet basin, is closing its Alaska operations. Mary Ann Pease, the company's Alaska vice president, told Petroleum News on March 28 that the company has been unable to secu.... Cook Inlet field shut-in - 04/02/2017 (Full story) In response to a continuing natural gas pipeline leak under Cook Inlet, Hilcorp Alaska has shut in its Middle Ground Shoal oil [...]

By |2017-04-04T09:32:44-09:00April 2nd, 2017|Keystone XL, LNG|0 Comments

4-1-17 IT’S APRIL FOOL’S DAY! But the comment below is real.

Alaska Governor Wants Trump to Back LNG Pipeline “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” —Perth, Scotland, 28 May 1948, in Churchill, Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 & 1948 (London: Cassell, 1950), 347. Our commentary:   As an Alaska citizen and federal taxpayer this writer resents and opposes the suggestion by Alaska's governor that public dollars be wasted on his government-owned, socialist LNG pipedream project: in the form of grants, loans or loan guarantees.     Conservatives and liberals alike should be able [...]

3-31-17 Shale is competitive but how about high cost, Alaska Prudhoe Bay and Alberta Oil Sands?

When we read Frost's, The Road Not Taken, neither he nor we know if the path he took was best.   Courtesy: Pinterest Heaven knows we've opined enough on the effect of hostile government policies on the ability of producers in high cost environments to continue producing taxes and royalties for their governments and profits for their shareholders.  We've encouraged northern Alaska state and Canadian provincial governments to spend more time looking outward -- to better understand global competition.  Instead, politicians on both sides of their national boundaries are [...]

3-30-17 Alaska LNG, State Fiscal Crisis, Worldwide Competition, U.S. Congress

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour TODAY: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, thanked her colleagues for their work to develop and report, en bloc and by voice vote, a total of 65 bills from members of both parties.   The committee approved seven bills introduced by Chairman Murkowski, as well as subcommittee assignments for Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala.  More..., Yesterday, the Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Ryan Zinke issued a Secretarial Order to formally end the coal leasing moratorium and [...]

3-29-17 Governor’s Government LNG Marketing Efforts Cost Much, Produced Little to Nothing

If you had a multi-billion dollar private sector project... Courtesy Buzzfeed. ...would you hire a government bureaucracy to do it for you?   Actually, this is what is happening.  The citizens of Alaska elected a lawyer who takes over a private sector project, flies around Asia and the Lower 48 on marketing trips, and continues to operate LNG marketing offices in Japan and Houston while supporting tax increases on the oil industry and presiding over a state that refuses to significantly cut its operating budget while its subsidized budget [...]

3-28-2017 TODAY: Congress Investigates ESA Delays & Failures

Washington Monument. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo. Copyright Dave Harbour 2012 This Morning On The Hill From Molly Block: This morning the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is looking into serious economic and environmental implications as a result of massive delays due to Section 7’s consultation requirements under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Ironically, many of these unnecessarily-hamstrung projects would improve conditions for threatened or endangered species – not to mention public health, safety and economic growth. Save your ink for the hearing’s Q&A, in the meantime [...]

3-28-17 PLF Takes On the ESA TODAY!

PLF expert will testify to House panel on ESA impediments to development Washington, D.C.; March 27, 2017:  This morning, Tuesday, March 28, Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Jonathan Wood will testify before a House subcommittee about the Endangered Species Act and the disruptive impact that its cumbersome “consultation” requirements can have on development and public safety projects. Conducted by the House Committee on Natural Resources’ Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, the hearing is titled, “Oversight Hearing on ESA Consultation Impediments to Economic and Infrastructure Development.” Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, chairs the [...]

By |2017-03-27T16:25:51-09:00March 28th, 2017|Uncategorized|0 Comments

3-27-17 To our export friends throughout the US

  EXPORT COMPLIANCE TRAINING   Keep Current on YOUR Requirements as an Exporter!  Why travel to the lower 48?! Learn from an EXPERT!    WHO SHOULD ATTEND:  Business Owners,  Finance Managers,Traffic Managers, Plant Managers, ISO Managers, Sales Managers, Controllers, Operations Managers, Purchasing Managers,  Shipping/Receiving Personnel, Customer Service Managers, Compliance Officers. Anyone Involved with Exports!   DATE:  April 7, 2017  TIME:  Doors Open at 8:00 am, Program 8:30 am - 5:00 pm            LOCATION:  NANA, NANAtkut Conference Room 909 W. 9th Avenue, Anchorage, AK     TOPICS INCLUDE Due Diligence Checking the 7 Mandatory Denial Lists Security Requirements/ Penalties Country Specific Requirements [...]

By |2017-03-27T08:15:42-09:00March 27th, 2017|Uncategorized|0 Comments

3-25-17 Failing to balance the budget, Alaska democrats seek to increase taxes as thousands of private sector employees lose jobs!

Resource Development Council for Alaska alerts citizens to today's hearing For reference see the jim Janson (lynden CEO) speech here re: solve the fiscal crisis! The House Finance Committee will take public testimony on the House Resources Committee Substitute for House Bill 111 (oil tax policy reform) tomorrow from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at your local Legislative Information Office. Remarks must be concise as testimony will be limited to two minutes. If you are not able to testify in person, please call 844-586-9085 for the call in number to deliver your [...]

3-24-17 Trump presses on with natural resources regulatory reform.

Statement on Trump Administration’s Plans to Repeal of Oil, Natural Gas and Coal Valuation Rule FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 24, 2017 CONTACT: Parish Braden or Molly Block (202) 226-9019    Washington, D.C. – Today, the Department of the Interior announced plans to repeal the Office of Natural Resources Revenue’s (ONRR) “Consolidated Federal Oil & Gas and Federal & Indian Coal Valuation Rule.”   “The Trump administration should be commended for beginning the process of reversing the impossible regulatory requirements imposed on energy development by this rule. Endless layers of regulation don’t [...]

By |2017-03-24T11:44:51-09:00March 24th, 2017|Uncategorized|0 Comments

3-23-17 New laws/punishments needed for pipeline saboteurs?

Dakota Access pipeline vandalism highlights sabotage risks.  Calgary Herald.  ... BISMARCK, N.D. - The developer of the Dakota Access pipeline has ... of the nearly 3 million miles of pipeline that deliver natural gas and petroleum in the U.S. are vulnerable to acts of sabotage. ... Kelly Sundberg, a professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, 

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