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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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5-2-16. Alaska has condensate but not enough crude oil; Alberta has massive crude but insufficient condensate (at the right price). Should they renew talks about an Alberta-Alaska rail….

Our observation:  A rail line between Alberta and Alaska could export Oil Sands crude through Alaska and backhaul North Slope condensate.  (See story below).  We'll leave it to others to consider economic feasibility of different routes and modes.   We will observe that the backhaul idea might make any Canadian export project more feasible.   Furthermore, the Oil Sands new challenge of requiring heavy oil to be thinned by about a third, with condensate, and Exxon's new Point Thomson condensate production does create more condensate for sale...and does reveal a nearby market [...]

5-1-16 TransCanada Survives Hard Hits

Yedlin: TransCanada weathers challenging environment More from Deborah Yedlin, Calgary Herald ... president and CEO of TransCanada Corp., speaks at the company's annual meeting in Calgary on Friday. ... The problem, of course, is that it can't change tolls on other lines to offset ... That has resulted in “gas-on-gas” competition that requires producers to ...

By |2016-12-22T22:27:26-09:00May 1st, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

4-30-16 The World Sees Alaska’s Fiscal Crisis

Wall Street Journal: Alaska’s Folly: Politicians Contemplate a State Income Tax Republicans in Juneau would sock the state economy rather than tap a $51 billion reserve fund. By STEPHEN MOORE April 29, 2016 5:54 p.m. ET The first and only state to ever abolish an existing income tax was Alaska. It happened in 1980 when the oil boom in Prudhoe Bay and the construction of the Alaska pipeline brought gushers of windfall-drilling royalties and fees into the state coffers in Juneau. The combination of high-paying energy jobs and the lure [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:26-09:00April 30th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

4-29-16 Alaska Gas Pipe/LNG Project Schedule Slips

Alaska LNG to delay filing of FERC application for project Platts ... agency, said Miles Baker, spokesman for the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. the state gas corporation that is part of the project with North Slope ... Calgary Herald TransCanada quarterly profit falls on end of coal deals Calgary Herald Investors are focused on the company's takeover of Columbia Pipeline ... acquire Columbia for $10.2 billion to grow its U.S. gas pipeline business.

By |2016-12-22T22:27:26-09:00April 30th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

4-28-16 Alaska And Its Democratic Socialist Look-Alike, Venezuela

THE HILL: Energy will play a major role in at least five races that could determine control of the Senate next year.  President Obama’s controversial climate policy is looming large in Ohio and Illinois, where the coal industry still employs thousands, while battle lines are being drawn in Colorado, pitting environmentalists against oil and gas companies over drilling. Read the full story here "Venezuela doesn't have enough money to pay for its money", by Bloomberg's Andrew Rosati.  (Full story here: http://tinyurl.com/jmn46sn) Please review the above story.  Here [...]

4-27-16 Alaska Headlamp: A Source of Economic, Political and Intellectual Light In The Land Of The Midnight Sun!

Today's Alaska Headlamp Is An Example Of Useful, Practical Commentary Crunch time, industry at risk. Under a rewrite of HB247, currently pending in the House Rules Committee, current oil and gas tax credits in Alaska would be phased out by 2020. A summary of the rewrite states that in addition to phasing out nearly all credits by the start of 2020, a tax break for North Slope oil produced from newer fields would be limited to 10 years once regular production starts, rather than being a timeless benefit. Democrats don't [...]

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

4-26-16 Alaska’s Fiscal Crisis Continues. Later This Week, We Explain Why And How The State Can Prosper Again!

Juneau Empire.  The Alaska Legislature is being evicted. Kevin Meyer, NGP Photo By May 1, renovations to the Alaska Capitol will force lawmakers to a new location for continued work to fix Alaska’s $4 billion budget deficit.  ...    “It’s my desire and, I think, most of us here in the Senate, that since we’re in regular session and sessions are held in Juneau, we’re going to do it here,” said Senate President Kevin Meyer, R-Anchorage, on Monday afternoon.  ... the 98th day of the Legislature and voters [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:27-09:00April 26th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

4-25-16 Leftist Alberta Government Now Sees the Light: Pipelines Are Necessary!

Calgary Herald by Don Braid. KANANASKIS VILLAGE — Premier Rachel Notley figures her pitch to the federal cabinet on Sunday was a limited hit. “It’s not like I was accosted by a bunch of combative questions,” she said afterward. “They were lovely in there.” Invited to speak at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet retreat, Notley encouraged pipeline approvals, explained Alberta’s desperate need for market access, and outlined the NDP climate change plan to ministers, especially the easterners, who are dimly aware of it. Notley loaded them up with facts and figures. An [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:27-09:00April 25th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

4-24-16 New Volume for Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS)

ADN by Alex DeMarban.  Oil production has begun at ExxonMobil’s Point Thomson field near the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a complex project that became a reality after decades of failed attempts by the company and court fights with the state. ExxonMobil announced the news on Friday.   More here: https://www.adn.com/article/20160422/after-decades-failed-attempts-oil-production-begins-point-thomson

4-23-16 Politician Kills Pipeline

Cuomo Kills Constitution From our Mid-Atlantic energy consultant friend: We normally take Friday and Saturday off, but this was too timely to wait; it follows neatly up to underscore points we made yesterday. As noted below, New York Governor Cuomo essentially killed the Constitution Pipeline project, which would have been a major cog in supplying additional natural gas to New York and New England: http://constitutionpipeline.com/ -dh

By |2016-04-23T19:24:53-09:00April 23rd, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

4-22-16 The Best Energy Source On the Planet

Fossil Fuels: Hanging Together or Hanging Separately by Dave Harbour   Today's commentary is offered in the spirit of helping to defend our readers against the endless advance of politically correct energy rhetoric. We present a Praeger University presentation, "Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy".  Here, Alex Epstein, founder of the Center for Industrial Progress, "...reveals that such an energy source does indeed exist, and in fact we use it every day: fossil fuels. Despite what most environmentalists would have us believe, fossil fuels have made our lives more livable, not less. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:27-09:00April 22nd, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

4-21-16 Safety Must Accompany Efficiency In Today’s Modern World Of Oil & Gas Operations

Today we are traveling back home to Alaska.  We believe it to be a good time, amid the headlines, to recall the intense technical expertise and management focus needed to keep today's modern oil and gas industry operating both profitably and safely.   This timely, safety publication from BP will be useful to many of our readers.   -dh BP Safety Fact Sheet Coming....

By |2016-12-22T22:27:27-09:00April 21st, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

4-20-16 Murkowski Scores for Alaska and U.S. – PLUS – Does Alaska’s Legislature Have the Moral High Ground From Which To Seek “More Revenue” Before Serious “Cutting”?

BREAKING NEWS.  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today led the Senate’s approval of broad, bipartisan energy legislation that contains a wide range of provisions vital to Alaska’s future. The bill, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016, was authored by Murkowski and.... (More) Senate Unanimously Approves Murkowski’s Major Lands and Water Package for Energy Bill Alaska U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP File Photo) NGP File Photo Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved two amendments offered by Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) to [...]

4-19-16 The Alliance Tells It Like It Is: We Like That

We like it when the respected people and organizations among us, "tell it like it is".  Below (Left), is what the Alliance's Ak Headlamp said yesterday about Alaska's fiscal crisis and how leaders are dealing with it.  -dh Lynn Helms, Director, N.D. Department of Mineral Resources. NGP File Photo.   Billings Gazette.   North Dakota oil production had a smaller decline than expected in February as more companies put fracking crews to work to maintain cash flow, the state’s top oil regulator said.     ...     Director [...]

Northern Energy Stakeholders

Current and past public service sponsors: AeroMetric Alaska Airlines Alaska Cruise Association/Cruise Lines International Alaska Miners Association Alaska Oil & Gas Association Alaska State Chamber of Commerce Alaska Support Industry Alliance Ak-Headlamp Akita Drilling Ltd. AJT Mining Properties, Inc., Juneau Bethel Native Corporation BP In Alaska Commonwealth North ConocoPhillips Alaska Consumer Energy Alliance Enbridge, Inc. Robert Bell & Associates GCI Inside Government  Inuvialuit Environmental & Geotechnical Inc. (IEG) Lynden - Shipping to Alaska Northrim Bank Network Business Systems Pacific Legal Foundation Pacific Star Energy/Pacific Rim Leadership Development Peak Oilfield Service [...]

By |2016-06-21T17:01:15-09:00April 18th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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