Consumer Leader David Holt Talks With Alaska Radio Audience

By |2016-03-13T03:58:41-09:00August 11th, 2011|Uncategorized|

Yesterday, Consumer Energy Alliance President, David Holt (NGP Photo-r, visiting with Alaska Trucking Association Executive Director Aves Thompson yesterday), told Anchorage talk show host Casey Reynolds, "We need a robust national policy to get the country going in the right direction again." E&E News (8/10/11) reports: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he will be looking for GOP cooperation to make energy policy a "signature issue" for the Senate this fall…Reid's comments today that the Senate will focus on job-creation legislation -- including energy bills -- echo those he made earlier this [...]

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Consumer Energy Alliance President, David Holt, Addresses National Energy Issues Today In Anchorage – How high on its own petard does vulnerable and foolish California hoist itself!

By |2016-12-22T22:33:22-09:00August 10th, 2011|Commentary|

Our pre-programmed email alert this morning wished readers a "Good Friday Morning".  We also wish all a great Wednesday morning and hope that our news and comment below find a welcome reception in your early look at today's world!  -dh We are honored that the Alaska Dispatch chose to reprint our editorial in today's issue (Page one, and two) of their publication.  -dh This morning at 9 ADT, Consumer Energy Alliance president David Holt (NGP Photo) will appear on Anchorage radio station KFQD to discuss American energy policy from the Keystone [...]

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Alaskans Welcome Salazar But The Jury Is Still Out On the Federal Landlord’s Motives

By |2016-12-22T22:33:23-09:00August 9th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|

Edmonton Journal: Enbridge, announcing increased profits over the past three months, is also expanding its plans to move oil to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Comment on Secretary Ken Salazar's Latest Alaska Visit by  Dave Harbour Today, the Associated Press' Becky Bohrer in the Seattle Times noted... ... that, "The Obama administration is interested in seeing more oil and gas development in Alaska, both onshore and off, but it wants to make sure that any drilling is done responsibly, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (NGP Photo) said Monday."   In virtually all of his [...]

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Fairbanks LNG Project Leaps Forward – Things That Can Stop A Pipeline Project

By |2016-03-13T04:00:28-09:00August 8th, 2011|Uncategorized|

ADN by AP.  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Friday that Golden Valley Electric Association and Flint Hills Resources are partners in the $180 million project. The companies say a steady supply of natural gas will help wean their operations away from expensive diesel fuel.  See Doug Smith's recent Op-ed... and,  our earlier commentary. Energy Global Re: Pipeline Obstacles by  Elizabeth Morant In last month’s Editor’s Comment I wrote about the permissions, approvals and, in particular, the public support, that a company or consortium needs to win in order to successfully [...]

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Salazar’s BOEMRE Grants Shell Exploration Permit, Conditionally – Inuvik Pushes For Gas Pipe and Economic Development – Mark Hamilton Levels the Guns of Logic On Anti-development Liberals

By |2016-03-13T04:07:16-09:00August 5th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress, You Read It Here First|

A few minutes ago, NGP received the copy of a "Make Alaska Competitive Coalition" statement by former University of Alaska President Mark Hamilton (NGP Photo) smashing a specious contention by Senator Hollis French and Representative Les Gara (i.e. both downtown Anchorage attorneys are schooled in the art of rhetoric) that Alaska's predatory taxes are good for Alaska.   Here is the document for your weekend study.    Between Obama anti-development regulators in the Federal arena and the same mentality hindering development on Alaska lands, the state has a dismal economic [...]

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Biting the hand that feeds us….

By |2016-12-22T22:33:23-09:00August 4th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|

 Ramblings.  Yesterday in the Anchorage Daily News a longtime environmental gadfly wrote an opinion piece proposing additional obstruction to OCS development in Alaska.  A former professor employed by the University of Alaska, here's another hypocrite who takes a paycheck provided by natural resource revenues and for an entire career has little or nothing good to say about natural resource development.  God have pity on and provide insight to his students over the years who may have thought to disagree. Then there is Mayor Edward Itta (NGP Photo) of the North Slope Borough.  One has [...]

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Shell Pioneers Canadian Carbon Capture

By |2016-03-13T04:10:06-09:00August 3rd, 2011|Uncategorized|

Edmonton Journal by Dina O'meara.   Alberta could see its first commercial carbon capture and storage project as soon as 2015 if Shell Canada’s application for its Quest project is approved by provincial regulators — and the energy giant’s board.   Seventh Annual Oil & Gas Congress Is Coming To Anchorage In September

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Premier Roland Seeks Gasline & Bridge – Governor Parnell Seeks Gasline & Hydro – EPA Advocates Fracking Rules & More Federal Overreach Could Destroy Millions of Jobs

By |2016-03-13T04:11:16-09:00August 2nd, 2011|Federal Obstruction|

About Shell In Alaska: A Great Record, Great Potential Latest Statistic Yearbook of Upstream, Downstream and Midstream Operations In Former Soviet Union Countries! Globe & Mail.  Floyd Roland (NGP Photo) is running out of time.  Come fall, the Premier of the Northwest Territories will be looking for work after just a single term in the big chair. It’s a ticking clock at odds with his ambitious agenda as he scrambles to push several high-stakes projects to completion, each unfinished by premiers past. They include a new deal on resource rights, [...]

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Wood Mackenzie Gasline Study Released – Doc Hasting’s News Miner Op-Ed – Editor guesses gasline patience may be a trap, not a virtue

By |2016-12-22T22:33:23-09:00August 1st, 2011|Uncategorized|

Alaska Oil and Gas Congress Right Around the Corner! AJOC by Tim Bradner.  Plans for a 24-inch natural gas pipeline built from the North Slope to Southcentral Alaska are moving forward a step at a time. A 430-mile state right-of-way was granted for the $7.52 billion project July 25 and a draft environmental impact statement is due out in August, Dan Fauske, president of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., a state corporation, told state legislators in a briefing. ADN editorial writer suggests that, "patience may be a trap, not a [...]

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Global ‘Warming’ Cons From Alaska Feds?

By |2016-12-22T22:33:23-09:00July 29th, 2011|Global Warming, You Read It Here First|

(You probably read it here first; the next day the AP reported it locally.  We are often first to report breaking energy news of interest to our readers--in these pages and via more immediate email alerts for the more relevant items.  More than half the time, the tip comes from an observent reader.  We lament just beginning the category "You Read It Here First", today, since these pages are filled with at least scores of such breaking news reports to our readers.  But, better late than not at all.   [...]

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We will never forget gas pipeline readers, but… – Will Senate Act on Ocean Treaty? – Doc Hastings Takes On ESA

By |2016-12-22T22:33:24-09:00July 28th, 2011|Personal|

 ...today we take a break. We are honored to be providing photographic support and sponsorship to the Clare2Clare fashion show and fundraiser again this year.  There are a very few seats left, for interested, local readers.  Here is the program. See a few of our photos from last year, here, and some of our attempts to capture the exceptional qualities of a highly accomplished artist, model and professional administrator, Kodiak born Alaska Native, LaRita Laktonen, here.   House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) released the following statement after [...]

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Homer Electric Buys Hydro Power

By |2016-03-13T04:02:12-09:00July 27th, 2011|Uncategorized|

Peninsula Clarion by Molly Dischner.  Homer Electric Association announced last week that it will buy the Bernice Lake Power Plant in Nikiski from Chugach Electric Association for $11.8 million.  The purchase is conditional on the Regulatory Commission of Alaska agreeing to amortize the purchase price over several years, HEA’s Joe Gallagher said in a statement. That means that the cost of the plant would get spread out over several years, so that current members aren’t stuck with the full cost immediately.

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Alaska Gasline Caucus Hears Fauske’s Plan

By |2016-12-22T22:33:24-09:00July 26th, 2011|Commentary|

Alaska Gasline Development Corporation's Alaska Stand Alone Gas Pipeline Project 7-1-11 Report to the Legislature As Required Under Enabling Legislation, HB 369 Report  and observations: Yesterday the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) President and CEO, Dan Fauske (NGP Photo), told legislators that the Alaska Stand Alone Gas Pipeline (ASAP) project would be good for, "...all of Alaska, not just the urban areas," and predicted that with timely legislative funding natural gas could be flowing from Prudhoe Bay through Interior Alaska to the Cook Inlet area by 2019.  AGDC is a public corporation organized [...]

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OCS Comment Deadline Today – Legislative Gasline Caucus Meets Today – Canada’s Stockwell Day Weighs In – Fairbanks Natural Gas Op-Ed

By |2016-12-22T22:33:24-09:00July 25th, 2011|Federal Obstruction, Intrastate Gas, LNG, Reader Comment|

 TIME TO TAKE ALASKA OUT OF THE ICEBOX - Wall Street Journal TODAY: Another Important Deadline; here is how to easily comment!  Your OCS comment by TODAY's deadline makes the legal record more supportive of reasonable OCS exploration for Alaska and the benefit of all Americans. A reasonable OCS program will help save Alaska's economy and protect America's economic recovery and national security.  Send us your comment and we will post it to make it Internet searchable!  Meanwhile, here are comments from Jason Brune (NGP Photo),Bob Hoffman, Kaye Laughlin and myself.  Others who submitted [...]

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Legal Photo Use

By |2016-12-22T22:33:25-09:00July 24th, 2011|Uncategorized|

7-24-11. Today we decided to begin noting a sampling of the many instances wherein others use our photos as our attribution policy requires.  While we have noted literally hundreds of such instances in the past, we did not think until recently to compliment them through this posting for using our images appropriately.  The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step and today we take that step.  -dh Below we shall provide examples in order, beginning with the most recent, when we think to do so: 7-28-11.  Clare [...]

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