10-12-12

By |2016-12-22T22:31:42-09:00October 12th, 2012|Alaska Taxes|

As the Alaska LNG project discussion continues, please note our new 'media' link in the right hand column: Jim Jenson (LNG), a valuable research source on this subjects.  -dh Yakutia Airlines announces that its 2013 summer Alaska-Russian Far East service will operate from Anchorage to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Khabarovsk. Oil & Gas Journal (i.e. full. article) by Alaska Economist Roger Marks (NGPPhoto).   Comment: When Steve Forbes visited Alaska recently, he said, "...the State has the worst energy tax structure in the world -- except for North Korea.  "With a sustainable tax structure," he said, "you [...]

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10-11-12

By |2016-12-22T22:31:43-09:00October 11th, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Federal Obstruction|

"We could move toward energy self-sufficiency by the end of the decade," said Consumer Energy Alliance President David Holt (NGP Photo) this week following release of a new study of fossil fuel potential.   The Alaska State Chamber of Commerce announced its top state and federal priorities yesterday:   Comment:  We compliment the Chamber for its leadership and positions.   State and federal leaders would do well to heed the advice of these business leaders, job creators. During its meeting, the Chamber highlighted the University of Alaska Fairbanks' "Alaska Business Week" [...]

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10-9-12

By |2016-12-22T22:31:43-09:00October 9th, 2012|AGIA, Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Reader Comment|

Here is Cory Renauer's (Photo-r) Alaska Gas Pipeline Risk Analysis (Seeking Alpha) (Notice: two readers told me they encountered a 'virus warnining' when activating the link above.  I checked the link several times and ran my virus program check on the URL.  It received a clean bill of health.  If anyone has information to the contrary, please advise.  -dh) Notes: Alberta's oil fired economy is doing quite well.  TONIGHT: A big night for the Alaska Support Industry Alliance!  Other Consumer Energy Alliance and American Energy Alliance Daily Energy Links Here.  [...]

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10-8-12 Crouching Grouches Remembered!

By |2016-12-22T22:31:43-09:00October 8th, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|

Saskatchewan is growing up to be a big energy Province! Is the "Crouching Grouches" Spending Message of 2002 Still Timely? by Dave Harbour In 2002 oil was less than $17/barrel, about the same as it was priced in 1987 and Alaska Senator Fred Dyson (NGP Photo) was chairman of a legislative caucus calling itself the 'Crouching Tigers Grouches Caucus". The low price of oil was combining with the diminishing throughput trend we still have today to create more of an atmosphere of 'crisis' than of the more muted 'concern' we have [...]

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10-6-12

By |2016-03-13T03:45:01-09:00October 6th, 2012|Uncategorized|

Calgary Herald by Deborah Yedlin.  Given the issues facing the Enbridge Northern Gateway and TransCanada's Keystone XL pipelines, the increasingly heated rhetoric surrounding the possible takeover of Nexen by the China National Offshore Oil Company and Friday's announcement that the federal government will extend its review of Progress Energy's purchase by Malaysia's Petronas, it's clear the economics of Alberta's oilpatch are more dependent on the vagaries of politics than ever ....

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10-5-12

By |2016-12-22T22:31:43-09:00October 5th, 2012|AGIA, Alaska Taxes, Commentary|

This morning, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) commented on today's September jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  “When there are 23 million unemployed or underemployed Americans, it’s always welcome news to see people getting back to work. Unfortunately, staggeringly high unemployment rates have become all too common and there are still too many families struggling to make ends meet. Meanwhile, the Obama Administration has continued its assault on American job creators. Nowhere is this more evident than American energy production where government red tape [...]

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10-4-12

By |2016-12-22T22:31:43-09:00October 4th, 2012|AGIA, Federal Obstruction|

Calgary Herald by Steven Ewart.  Keystone XL brings Canada into presidential debate. Feds endanger citizens to zealously protect Puerto Rican frog ADN by Lisa Demer.  Shell Oil is now drilling wells in two Arctic seas off Alaska's northern coast.  Drilling began Wednesday afternoon in the Beaufort Sea after the end of an Inupiat whale hunt, according to Curtis Smith (NGP Photo), spokesman for Shell Alaska.  The company resumed drilling in the Chukchi Sea on Sept. 23 after a two-week suspension due to encroaching sea ice, he said.  But Shell still [...]

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10-3-12

By |2016-12-22T22:31:43-09:00October 3rd, 2012|Uncategorized|

...from the American Energy Alliance this morning: I'm pretty sure it wasn't the best of times.  But everyone is entitled to their opinion. IER (10/3/12) reports: “The Energy Information Administration just released its Annual Energy Review 2011 that provides U.S. energy data trends from 1949 through 2011. In short, it was a year that might be called “the best of times and the worst of times.” Production is up for oil, natural gas and hydroelectric power, but the largest landholder in the country — the federal government — is suffering from restrictive [...]

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10-2-12

By |2016-12-22T22:31:43-09:00October 2nd, 2012|Alaska Taxes|

Here are the latest Alaska natural resource messages from a natural resource organization including 400 employers of over 35k Alaskans    Dan Fagan (NGP Photo) has asked your publisher to be on his show this morning at 7 a.m. Alaska time with co-host Elizabeth Giordano.  For those interested, we'll try to find a podcast to post later.  -dh   See our earlier commentary regarding the Alaska Northern Waters Task Force:  Now for our current update and opinion:  Alaska's legislature appears to overreach its constitutional authority by establishing an entity, under its own aegis, [...]

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9-1-12 Wall Street Journal Weighs In On Pebble

By |2016-12-22T22:31:44-09:00October 1st, 2012|Uncategorized|

Commentary:  We have editorialized on how the Obama Administration has violated the spirit and rule of law.  One recent example deals with EPA's preemptive efforts -- not to regulate based on law -- but to stop development on the lands of a state though leases have been properly approved by a state and no permit applications have even been filed for development of those leases.  We appreciate that the Wall Street Journal now weighs in.  -dh USA Today, by Tim Mullane.  Of all the places that America's new jobs are, the [...]

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9-28-12

By |2016-12-22T22:31:44-09:00September 28th, 2012|Uncategorized|

Parnell, Sullivan promote Alaska LNG in Asia -  Alaskajournal.com - Sean Parnell (NGP Photo-R) and state Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan (NGP Photo) have been in Japan and Korea in the last two weeks, drumming up interest in a large Alaska liquefied natural gas project. North Slope producers and TransCanada Corp., a gas pipeline ... Petroleum News by Alan Bailey.  Great Bear’s results so far from its Alcor No. 1 shale oil test well on Alaska’s North Slope have met expectations for finding oil in North Slope source rocks, Ed Duncan (NGP Photo), the company’s president and CEO, [...]

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9-27-12

By |2016-03-13T03:56:30-09:00September 27th, 2012|Uncategorized|

  Japanese consortium scouting Alaska LNG project - Alaska Dispatch - As part of the decades-long quest for Alaska to get its vast reserves of North Slope natural gas to market through a pipeline, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP photo)  is currently visiting Asia on the eve of an expected announcement involving Alaska's major oil and ... Parnell in Asia Promoting Alaska Natural Gas -KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska - FAIRBANKS — As the state nears what is expected to be a major announcement on the future of a large-diameter natural gas [...]

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9-26-12

By |2016-12-22T22:31:44-09:00September 26th, 2012|Uncategorized|

ADN/AP by Becky Bohrer. It is Sean Parnell's (NGP Photo) second state-sponsored overseas trip as governor, and it comes as Alaska awaits word on progress toward advancing a liquefied natural gas project that would allow for exports to the Pacific Rim. Parnell said he plans to make a "compelling case" for Alaska gas in meetings with government officials, and utility company and business leaders in South Korea and Japan. He said he will explain the progress that's been made toward commercializing Alaska's North Slope gas and emphasize the comparative advantage Alaska [...]

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9-25-12

By |2016-03-13T03:55:26-09:00September 25th, 2012|Uncategorized|

Peninsula Clarion/ADN by Brian Smith.   Peninsula Clarion/ADB by Brian Smith.  In a report released to the Peninsula Clarion last week, David Erikson, senior biologist with URS Corp., concluded that the Endeavour's time in dry dock and aboard a transport ship for its month-long trip was largely responsible for killing the attached marine organisms, thus "substantially reducing the potential for any non-indigenous or invasive species" to be introduced into Kachemak Bay, where the rig is currently parked.

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9-24-12

By |2016-03-13T03:55:26-09:00September 24th, 2012|Uncategorized|

ADN OP-ED by Kathryn Thomas.  The Environmental Protection Agency's Dennis McLerran is claiming overwhelming public support for the agency's Draft Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment, a controversial report on the potential effects of mining in the region. What he fails to mention is the source of most of this purported support: pre-written mass emails generated by national environmental groups. The EPA describes the messages as identical in both form and content.  

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