ADN Op-Ed, by Paul Jenkins. With the new year, those desperate to return to a failed oil tax system that promotes a huge government rip-off will begin baying at the moon in earnest to get their way at the expense of Alaska's future. Given their previous record, they will be more than willing -- even eager -- to fudge facts or spin their own. They like ever-bigger government and more spending, no matter the long-term economic wreckage.
Airlines for America Chief Economist John Heimlich (NGP Photo) was recognized as a pioneer in renewable energy and biofuels. Heimlich was named one of the "Top 100 People in the Bioeconomy" as voted by the readers of Biofuels Digest and the publication’s editorial board. BiofuelsDigest.com (12/31). Heimlich is also Chairman Emeritus and a board member of Consumer Energy Alliance.
Calgary Herald, by Susan Lazaruk. Pipeline plans fuel house-price boom in parts of B.C. - Conversely, assessed values drop on Vancouver Island Alaska Dispatch by Dermot Cole. The {Fairbanks, Alaska} utility that supplies 335-degree steam heat to 73 downtown customers through underground pipes has been burned by the public response to its request for a 95 percent increase in its rate capand is trying to cool the situation. “It was not and is not Aurora’s intention to increase actual rates by that amount all at once,” Aurora Energy President Buki Wright wrote to the Regulatory Commission [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Natural Resources Committee will hold an oversight hearing next Thursday, January 9th entitled, “Obama Administration’s War on Coal: The Recent Report by the Office of the Inspector General.” This hearing will examine the new Inspector General Report on the Obama Administration’s unorthodox rulemaking process surrounding the rewrite of the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule. Today's American Energy Alliance Headlines & Comment: This is the real objective of the anti-Keystone crowd (besides raising money, of course). The Nation (1/6/14) reports: “By the end of the summer, distressed [...]
Today's American Energy Alliance Clips & Comment Prediction: This same article will be written exactly one year from now. National Journal (12/30/13) reports: “Here's something to watch in 2014: the collective psyche of the green movement. If President Obama green-lights the Keystone pipeline, the movement will face questions about its tactics and goals at a level unseen since major climate-change legislation collapsed on Capitol Hill in 2010. ‘If the pipeline is approved, it's a defeat for 350.org, Sierra Club, et al, with no real strategy for what comes next,’ said Alex Trembath, [...]
新年好! よいお年を! 새해 복 많이 받으세요! Bonne Année! Feliz Año Nuevo! С Новым Годом! سنة جديدة سعيدة! Buon anno! מזל ניו יאר Bagong Taon Happy! Happy New Year! New Years Eve Energy Clips From Consumer Energy Alliance Fuelfix: Top 5 Ways Energy Production Benefited Consumers in 2013, by David Holt (NGP Photo). It’s been a busy year for U.S. energy production with consumer prices on the decline due to increasing domestic supplies of natural gas and oil. Here are the Top 5 energy related news [...]
Calgary Herald Editorial: "...times are so good that some jobs are going begging. Statistics Canada recently noted that job vacancies in Alberta stood at 52,800 in the third quarter of 2013." Alaska Dispatch by Alex DeMarban. A subsidiary of Alaska's wealthiest homegrown corporation is expanding its footprint in Cook Inlet to support increasing industrial activity there, a sign that more good things may be on the way for the resurgent oil and gas basin in Southcentral Alaska. Joe Lo Sciuto, president of ASRC Energy Services Response Operations, thinks so. An expected [...]
Alaska Dispatch, by Frank Murkowski (NGP Photo). I urge that we not continue to fund overlapping energy projects. Over the last several years the administration and the Legislature have authorized the following: 1. $557 million has been expended over the last nine years on consultant fees and reports; 2. In the last session the Legislature approved $355 million for the in-state bullet line on top of $72 million from former years; 3. The Legislature committed $332.5 million in grants and loans to truck North Slope gas to Fairbanks; and 4. The Legislature appropriated [...]
Platts, by Tim Bradner (NGP Photo). Alaska will withhold an offer of special state fiscal terms for a large North Slope gas pipeline and liquefied natural gas project until companies working on the project reach agreement on terms among themselves to proceed with the project, a spokeswoman for Governor Sean Parnell said Friday.
Petroleum News by Eric Lidji. State regulators are allowing a new municipal utility to offer natural gas service to sections of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, and have rejected a similar application from Fairbanks Natural Gas LLC, the privately held distribution utility in the region. The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has given the Interior Alaska Natural Gas Utility the go ahead .... The RCA said it made its decision “in the context of the entire project.” With that in mind, the RCA said it denied the Fairbanks Natural Gas application [...]
Calgary Herald: "Winter woes today are nothing compared to 100 years ago." ...In 1912 Calgary consumers starting burning gas, delivered by pipeline arrived from the Bow Island field. By 1921 natural gas was flowing through a pipeline from the Turner Valley field, southwest of Calgary.
"All I Want For Christmas!" Or, "The Loss of Self Reliance" On December 24, 2001 we wrote an editorial satirizing the human greed and mismanagement that was interfering with gas pipeline project advancement. In those days, Alaskan leaders and their supporters were engaged in the beginning of a decade-long fest of spending gluttony and tax increases to support self gratification of one generation at the expense of those to follow. -dh 12-24-09 (Christmas Eve): Gas pipeline news this week is light as all gas pipeline stakeholder thoughts turn to home. [...]
Globe & Mail by Jeffrey Jones. Imperial Oil Ltd. told regulators the estimated cost of its long-delayed Mackenzie Valley Project has surged more than 40 per cent to at least $20-billion since its last tally almost seven years ago, and that it has no idea when North American gas markets might turn around to rescue the project from limbo. (See our related commentary) In Tomorrow's Commentary, We will Bring Readers Our Historic Gas Pipeline Christmas Commentary: "All I Want For Christmas" Remembering Bill Tobin and The Anchorage Times At Christmas [...]
E&E Publishing. In 2008, Statoil was awarded 16 leases in Alaska's Chukchi Sea. But with little supporting infrastructure, offshore exploration in Alaska is still in its infancy. Meanwhile, Statoil's drilling is much more active in Newfoundland, even with the challenges of ice and harsh weather.
Petroleum News. The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority is aiming to choose a private-sector partner for its Interior Energy Project at an upcoming meeting in January 2014. The staff of the public corporation is “running parallel tracks,” according to Executive Director Ted Leonard. ... At the December meeting, the board heard presentations from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. and the Alaska Railroad Corp., as part of due diligence efforts. ... AIDEA is currently weighing turnkey proposals from MWH Americas Inc., Pentex Alaska Natural Gas [...]
