Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) will deliver remarks to the Fairbanks Chapter of the Alaska Support Industry Alliance and the Mat-Su Business Alliance Forum today.  Y'all come! 1.  Fairbanks.  Alaska Support Industry Alliance, 9 a.m., Westmark Hotel Financial Post by Diane Francis.  A major discovery of oil in shale deposits was made this year near Norman Wells (1,700 km north of Edmonton and 500 km south of Inuvik) and a bidding and drilling frenzy is underway.  ...   Vast portions of Canada’s North are unexplored and unmapped, making Canada itself a laggard in [...]

Sun Herald by Mary Margaret Halford.  To former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott (John Fitzhugh-Sun Herald Photo; Lott with Mississippi Energy Institute p​resident Patrick Sullivan), when it comes to discussing everything from jobs to national security in America, energy is a topic worth mentioning.  "The great news story in America today is energy," Lott said Tuesday morning at the 53rd annual meeting of the Southern States Energy Board. "Even while our economy has been struggling along, there have been great things happening with energy."  (Also, scroll down for yesterday's report.  Alaska [...]

Alaska Support Industry Alliance Annual Meeting Keynote Speech: Helvi Sandvik (coming on 10-16-13....) Alaska Dispatch by Alex DeMarban.  An impoverished group of Northwest Alaska villages whose residents hunt walrus and seals to survive have banded together to form a corporation to capitalize on an economic boom on the U.S. side of the Arctic, should that day ever come. ... The group's efforts will bear their first fruit early next week. Royal Dutch Shell agreed to sponsor a hazardous materials training workshop in Wales for 12 to 24 residents living in that village at [...]

Winter Energy Outlook EIA's Winter Fuels Outlook will be included in the October 2013 Short-Term Energy Outlook which will be released at 10:00 a.m. on October 8, 2013 on the EIA website at:  http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/  Alaska Dispatch by Suzanna Caldwell.   ... For the last decade, utilities and producers have warned of possible natural gas shortages in Southcentral Alaska. Aging wells in Cook Inlet have steadily waned in production. Despite the possibility of trillions of cubic feet of gas remaining undeveloped in the region, new wells haven't come online fast enough to keep up with [...]

Compass: Alaskans need to let permitting process work in Pebble application By SEN. MIKE DUNLEAVY (NGP Photo) Most Alaskans strive to grow and prosper and welcome those willing and able to invest their expertise and resources towards development of our state resources. Over the years, Alaska has developed permitting requirements that must be met before any project is allowed to proceed. Those decisions are based upon the data and science submitted to the state that allow it to then judge whether the project meets the predetermined standards. This protects the [...]