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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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6-16-16 Canadian Community Fights For LNG/Pipeline Project

ACTION ALERT Five-Year OCS Lease Sale Plan, deadline today! PLEASE RESPOND TODAY: HERE’S HOW Here's the pat on the back you'll receive when you submit your comment: "Your comment was submitted successfully!" Mining by Dean Pelkey.  Canadians Stand In Support Of Pipeline/LNG Project! Platts.  Alaska and North Slope producers are discussing possible new ownership structures for the large Alaska LNG project.... We always value the wisdom and information transmitted by our Ak-Headlamp friends and today is another illustration of why this is so: Alex Epstein, a recent speaker at [...]

6-16-16 Lucky Sixes: N.D. Production Down; Could Higher Prices Be On the Way?

ACTION ALERT Five-Year OCS Lease Sale Plan, deadline today! PLEASE RESPOND TODAY: HERE’S HOW Mining.com by Dean Pelkey.  Fort Saint John fights for pipeline/LNG project against environmental activists..., Platts (Read more).  Alaska and North Slope producers are discussing possible new ownership structures for the large Alaska LNG project From our friend, Larry Persily, here are the latest news links of interest to our readers: Oil and gas news briefs for June 16, 2016 LNG producers may need to curtail supply if prices fall further (Australian Financial Review; June [...]

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6-15-16 BP’s Statistical Review Of World Energy Continues to Impact Energy Dialogue

ACTION ALERT Five-Year OCS Lease Sale Plan, deadline tomorrow! PLEASE RESPOND TODAY: HERE'S HOW BP's Annual Statistical Review of World Energy.  A week ago, we drew a number of conclusions from BP's annual statistical energy review, linked here if readers missed it.  Below are other perspectives our readers will appreciate, though the writers didn't focus as much attention on the serious financial impact alternative energy subsidies pile onto family and business consumers worldwide. The BP report paints a realistic world portrait of energy price and demand volatility: the enormous energy supply [...]

6-14-16 All About Alaskanomics

ALASKANOMICS: Today we observe Alaska's unsolved fiscal crisis and conclude that special interest advocates will ultimately create the "lowest common denominator" solution, which may be neither logical nor an answer to the fiscal mismatch between government income and spending.   Follow Alaskanomics for reliable updates!   -dh Nearing end, Legislature rebuffs most of Walker’s deficit plan 2015 State Employment Growth Turned Negative at Year End AJOC EDITORIAL: Money for nothing and the checks for free Alaska LNG outlines issues for next round of resource reports Economic Luncheon Seminar- The Keys [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:12-09:00June 14th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

6-13-16 Citizens Shouldn’t Let Government Invest In And Manage Private Industry Projects

Dear Readers:  Here is an article about LNG risk investment that every citizen who supports government ownership of energy projects should read.  (Our friend, Dan Kish, Senior Vice President for Policy at the Institute for Energy Research reminds us that, "the Spot price for LNG in Singapore last week was $4.62.") Our commentary on the above, Bloomfield article: We have made the case for a long time here that the State of Alaska has no business using precious public dollars now during a fiscal crisis -- or any other time -- to acquire equity [...]

6-12-16 Kudos To A Leftist Alberta Government That Knows What Butters Its Bread: O&G Production & PIPELINES

Calgary Herald by Don Braid. Premier Rachel Notley won the support of 97.8 per cent of her party members Saturday. The other 2.2 per cent were said to be hiding in a broom closet at the convention hotel. Notley is respected, admired, even adored in her party. Part of this is circumstance. Any New Democrat who wins in Alberta is bound to be popular with a party that wandered in the wilds for half a century. But the other part, that’s all her. Notley can be fierce and funny in the same sentence. She [...]

By |2016-06-12T18:49:07-09:00June 12th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

6-11-16 Democrat Policy For Alaska

Comment:  Just imaging what would happen to free enterprise -- and even national defense activity -- in Alaska if the presumptive Democrat nominee were to become President.    -dh FROM: THE HILL. SIERRA CLUB BACKS CLINTON: The Sierra Club on Thursday endorsed Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Michael Brune, the group's executive director, said in a statement that Clinton "will be the strong environmental champion that we need to lead our country," handing the former secretary of State her second major environmental endorsement of the week. "The Sierra Club, like so [...]

By |2016-06-12T03:54:21-09:00June 12th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

6-10-16 New Worldwide Energy Report Highlights Need For Competitive — Not Predatory — Government Policies

Keith Meyer, President, Alaska Gasline Development Corporation Alaska must not be facing a 'fiscal crisis' after all.  With HH gas less than $3 and some renegotiated Asian LNG gas deals in the $5 range and Alaska LNG sold in Asia needing 100-150% higher landed prices than that, here is the latest headline from the Alaska, government-owned LNG project company, AGDC: "New AGDC president to make half million dollars a year...."  Socialism may not yet be in full bloom on the Last Frontier...but its Alaska spring sprouts now range from pipeline/tanker [...]

6-9-16 Special Alaska Legislative Report – Saskatchewan Premier Defends Energy Industry

NOTICE TO CANADIAN READERS (This applies to Americans as well): This may be one of the most important calls to action you will have heard this year.  The clock is ticking and the North American way of life is running out of time.  -dh Calgary Herald, by James Wood.  Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall came to the heart of the oilpatch Wednesday to warn that the energy industry is under “existential threat” from environmental activists.  ...  In a speech to the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada at the Petroleum [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:12-09:00June 9th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

6-8-16 Repsol Left Argentina For Alaska — Now Closes Alaska Office!

Another Supreme Court victory by our Pacific Legal Foundation friends -- for private landowners and natural resource developers everywhere.  Congratulations!  -dh An oil and gas tax credit report from Alaska State Senate Natural Resources Committee Chairman, Senator Cathy Giessel June 7, 2016 June 6, 1944 was the turning point in World War II - the D Day offensive, on the beaches of Normandy, against Hitler's German forces in Europe. Alaska State Senate Resources Committee Chairman, Cathy Giessel. NGP file photo by Dave Harbour. Yesterday, June [...]

6-7-16 Plenty of North American Energy News Today!

Alaska Headlamp Reports ... the House and the Senate reached a compromise on Governor Bill Walker’s embattled oil and gas tax credit bill, HB 247. Alaska News From Daniel McDonald: Senate Votes to Protect the Dividend In response to the Senate’s passage of SB 128 today, Senators Anna MacKinnon and Lesil McGuire released the following statements… DOC investigation shows inmate died from drug overdose A Department of Corrections investigation into last April’s inmate death at the Anchorage jail indicates a drug overdose. Conference committee passes House oil and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:13-09:00June 7th, 2016|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis|0 Comments

6-6-16 An Alberta Energy Editorial Tailor Made For Alaska

From one of our heros: Chris Nelson, a writer who provided this commentary to the Calgary Herald. With a few word changes, we could produce a commentary just like this for Alaska...or, North Dakota or California or Texas or Pennsylvania or New York or Colorado, etc.    -dh According to a respected federal think-tank, Alberta’s on a slippery slope to having little energy industry left as the world turns instead to renewable sources of power. The scenario sounds like David Bowie’s epic Five Years, except we apparently have three times [...]

6-5-16 Brennan: Good days ahead

Tom Brennan with his novel, Snowflake Rebellion. NGP photo by Dave Harbour Our friend of the Anchorage Daily Planet, Tom Brennan, balances concerns for Alaska's fiscal challenges with this ray of sunshine: "Good Days Ahead". Summer gas prices forecast to remain stable CBC.ca From gas shortages in Western Canada to a dramatic spike in costs of ... thing that could upset the apple cart is refinery outage or a pipeline outage, ...

By |2016-12-22T22:27:13-09:00June 5th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

6-4-16 Alaska’s Fiscal Crisis: Problems With Kicking the Can Down the Road

Socialism for the uninformed, by Thomas Sowell.  Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster.  More.... Brad Keithley, NGP Photo by Dave Harbour This morning our friend, Brad Keithley quotes a member of the Finance Committee in an exchange we also witnessed recently:  Brad Keithley. Lynn Gattis, NGP Photo [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:13-09:00June 4th, 2016|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Commentary|0 Comments

6-3-16 NEB Breathes Life Into Mackenzie Project – Alaska’s Fiscal Crisis Unresolved

One of Earle Gray's books.... CBC News.  The National Energy Board is giving Imperial Oil until the end of 2022 to start building the Mackenzie Gas Project.  ...  Previously, Imperial Oil and its partners had until the end of 2015 to begin building the 1,196-kilometre, $16.2-billion pipeline. ... Lisa Schmidt, a spokesperson for Imperial Oil, said in an email ... the project participants "remain hopeful that they can assist in the development of Canada's significant northern gas resources.  This extension will allow time to assess whether changes in the North American natural gas [...]

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