7-9-13 Beware Of New Fracking Movie Hoax

By |2016-12-22T22:30:26-09:00July 9th, 2013|Fracking, Notes From the Road|

From American Energy Alliance: Morning Energy News - July 9, 2013   Let us save you three hours of avant garde, pouty whisper-narration: this is Gasland 1 retold with every inaccuracy, hoax, and outright lie. Don’t watch this movie, not because it’s so terribly presented and lacks any kind tie of reality, but because time is precious and there are so many better ways to spend those three long hours. Washington Free Beacon (7/8/13) reports: “Environmentalist filmmaker Josh Fox presents a hoax perpetrated by a Texas activist designed to malign an innovative oil [...]

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7-8-13 – Questions and Answers About Alaska’s Tax Reform Legislation

By |2016-12-22T22:30:26-09:00July 8th, 2013|Alaska Taxes, Arctic Policy|

Fairbanks News Miner by John Coghill (NGP Photo).  Coghill provides answers to questions about oil and gas tax reform legislation and the current attempt by referendum to repeal tax reform.   OUR COMMENTARY: We compliment Senator John Coghill this morning for two reasons: 1) his insight on oil and gas issues, and, 2) his political courage.   First, on the issue.  Sunday's News Miner featured his Opinion piece wherein he provided 'Questions and Answers' about the recent passage of oil and gas tax reform legislation and the current effort to [...]

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7-7-13 ANS Production Drops Below 500k Barrels/Day As Cook Inlet Production Rises

By |2016-03-13T03:55:05-09:00July 7th, 2013|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|

Petroleum News by Kristen Nelson.  Alaska North Slope crude oil production dropped below 500,000 barrels per day in June, averaging 497,582 bpd, down 6.95 percent, from a May average of 534,741 bpd, while much smaller Cook Inlet production volumes saw a 5.4 percent increase to 13,571 bpd in May over April. Note: Legislators have given Cook Inlet Producers favorable tax incentives for several years--resulting in more exploration and infrastructure investment.  North Slope producers have been given punishing taxes until this Spring when the legislature enacted tax reform.  However, that reform [...]

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7-6-13 – Like Alaska, British Columbia Faces Reality of Global Competition

By |2016-12-22T22:30:27-09:00July 6th, 2013|LNG|

Petroleum News Alaska by Gary Park.  Japan’s largest importer of LNG has delivered a sharp jolt to the British Columbia government: Drop the idea of a tax on gas exports or put its LNG dreams in danger.  Tepco, Tokyo Electric Power Co., also prodded the government to resolve the concerns raised by First Nations about the construction of pipelines from northeastern British Columbia gas fields to coastal liquefaction terminals.  A company spokeswoman said uncertainty hanging over the LNG projects, including taxation on Greenfield operations, could slow or stop plans.  Tepco [...]

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7-5-13 The White House Fatāwā On Energy Consumers and Taxpayers

By |2016-12-22T22:30:27-09:00July 4th, 2013|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Fracking, Global Warming|

President Obama's Climate Action Plan by Dave Harbour There is nothing significantly "good" about Obama's simultaneous attack on American taxpayers, energy consumers and the free market.     His "Climate Action Plan" will lead America away from energy Report and Commentary: CANADA.  (Draft, subject to edits) In Canada, the environmental community continues a more than 40 year strategy for opposing development.  It flowered in the 1970s as various environmental activists, church activists and other liberal allies created a 'moratorium' strategy for blocking construction of the original Alaska/Canada natural gas pipeline.  [...]

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7-4-13

By |2016-12-22T22:30:27-09:00July 4th, 2013|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|

Happy Independence Day Egypt and America; Defend Your Constitutions Against All Enemies, Both Foreign and Domestic!  -dh Alaska Extends TransCanada Agreement Platts.  Alaska has extended an agreement with TransCanada that sees the state offer subsidies for the firm's work on a natural gas pipeline and LNG export project in the state, a state official said Wednesday. The previous agreement expired June 30.  Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) is still unhappy with the rate of progress on the project, but the state believes TransCanada and North Slope producers are making progress toward a [...]

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7-3-13

By |2016-03-13T03:54:46-09:00July 3rd, 2013|Uncategorized|

  From Energy in Depth, today's shale news: The Rise Of Saudi Texas: Shale And Farewell To OPEC. Investor's Business Daily. Production data for April show how fracking has shattered not only the shale rock in formations like Texas' Eagle Ford and Permian Basin but also the myths of "peak oil" and petroleum as an energy source of the past.   Energy Secretary Defends Hydraulic Fracturing. Energy Unites, EID’s Dana Bohan. The President’s Climate Action Plan this week reinforced the important role natural gas production will continue to play in [...]

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7-2-13

By |2016-03-13T03:54:45-09:00July 2nd, 2013|Uncategorized|

Spacemart/UPI.  Electric cars, despite their supposed green credentials, are among the environmentally dirtiest transportation options....  

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7-1-13 More On The Coal War

By |2016-12-22T22:30:28-09:00July 1st, 2013|Federal Obstruction|

 More today on Obama's coal war from Money Morning, Consumer Energy Alliance and American Energy Alliance Strangling the US Economy by Executive Order Money Morning by Martin Hutchison.  Last Tuesday, President Obama announced his "Action Plan on Climate Change." One of main "actions" is to kill a core piece of the US energy sector.   Among other things, he promised to use the Environmental Protection Agency regulation of carbon emissions to phase the U.S. out of coal fired power, even for existing stations.   ...environmentalists praised this move as a [...]

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6-30-13 Following Rome Down The Road To Ruin

By |2016-12-22T22:30:28-09:00June 30th, 2013|Commentary|

Sunday Commentary Reference: Washington Times, 6-28-13, Victor Davis Hanson by Dave Harbour This morning, we were reminded by a Washington Times column, also printed in the Anchorage Daily News today, of how in its latter days, Rome debased its previously purer coins with alloys, increased taxes on productive farms, offered free games and food to the masses and counted on its military to continue defending a crumbling culture.   51% Say U.S. Economy is in Recession One evidence of North America's crumbling culture is the frequency and ferocity of political [...]

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6-29-13 Tomorrow (6-30-13) Is An Important Day For Alaska!

By |2016-12-22T22:30:28-09:00June 29th, 2013|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|

COMMENTARY: We have never sent an email alert out over the weekend.  We did so today because we fear that -- no matter how one feels about a certain project -- the federal government is very close to setting a precedent that will forever compromise the "Rule of Law" in the United States of America.     Americans for Tax Reform have pointed out that the EPA killing an Alaska mine project before a permit for review is submitted is like  a judge issuing a verdict before hearing the case.   [...]

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6-28-13 Do frivolous claims take advantage of BP’s good faith Gulf efforts and increase consumer costs?

By |2016-12-22T22:30:28-09:00June 28th, 2013|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|

TODAY, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2231, the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act, with a bipartisan vote of 235-186.  This legislation, sponsored by Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings, would expand OCS energy production in order to create new American jobs, lower energy prices, grow our economy, and strengthen America’s national security.   LAST NIGHT: US House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings joined Fox Business to discuss expanding energy development in HR 2231 and President Obama's war on coal.     (Watch Here) Remember the Calgary floods: sing along [...]

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6-27-13 – Pay Attention to RDC

By |2016-12-22T22:30:41-09:00June 27th, 2013|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|

  Alaska Dispatch by Alex DeMarban. Unemployment in Anchorage has dropped to one of the lowest levels in years, thanks in large part to a "mini-boom" in Cook Inlet and steady growth in other key areas, according to an official with the Anchorage Economic Development Corp (AEDC).   Unemployment in Anchorage fell in May to the "crazy low" figure of 4.7 percent -- the lowest in five years, according to Bill Popp (NGP Photo), the group's president.   ...   "We are the envy of much of the nation," Popp [...]

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6-26-13 Time To Unlock OCS Resources

By |2016-12-22T22:30:41-09:00June 26th, 2013|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|

CBC News: Joe Oliver says Keystone is in 'national interest of both our countries' The Hill, OpEd by Congressman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo).  It’s time to take action to create more than 1 million new American jobs and generate $1.5 billion in new revenue. This would significantly boost our economy and help to further remove us from the grip of foreign oil.  The president wants to continue to keep our offshore energy resources locked up, but this week, the House will take significant action to set it free. We owe it [...]

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6-25-13 President Acts To Circumvent Congress Again

By |2016-12-22T22:30:41-09:00June 25th, 2013|Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|

We're All In the Oil Business - Alaska State Chamber of Commerce CP via Huff Post by Robin Roland.  The proposed Northern Gateway project (Map here) reached a major milestone on Monday with the end of public hearings on the pipeline, and now the company will focus on resolving lingering questions, says president John Carruthers (NGP Photo, 11-02). Today's theme (below): The Federal Government Threatens Our Natural Resources Industry, the Foundation of Prosperity. Americans for Prosperity alerts us to a Federal government overreach that immediately threatens all economic land use in [...]

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