Do We Exaggerate That Your Action Today Action Could ‘Save the Country? ‘ – Do We Exaggerate That Obama’s Environmental Extremism Is Killing the Economy?

By |2016-12-22T22:33:25-09:00July 23rd, 2011|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|

Monday: Another Important Deadline; here is how to easily comment!  Your OCS comment by Monday'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!  -dh Commentary:  Last week, the Obama Administration released its quarterly BOEMRE Ocean Science magazine (.pdf here - NGP Photo, BOEMRE Director Michael Bromwich).  It describes how it [...]

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Obama’s OCS Moratoria Devastating – OCS Comment Deadlines Continue – Governors Support OCS Revenue Sharing – Shell Describes Its Alaska OCS Plans

By |2016-12-22T22:33:25-09:00July 22nd, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|

Monday: Another Important Deadline!  OCS Comment Deadlines Continue Like Endless Ocean Waves (NGP Photo-below) Determined To Erode Our Shores.  But we cannot give up.  Send us your comment and we will post it to make it Internet searchable!  We have just intercepted this comment from Kaye Laughlin, a great American! Commentary: Stop....please take 3 minutes now to send in a comment on the revised exploration plan (EP) for the the Beaufort Sea leases.  Shell's EP has already gone through an extensive review and approval process back in 2009.  BOEMRE is again asking [...]

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Gwozd Says Arctic Gas Needed to Replace Declining Conventional Reserves – Korea To Buy Shell’s Delta Assets?

By |2016-12-22T22:33:26-09:00July 21st, 2011|Reader Comment|

 The CBC report suggests Korea may purchase Shell's Mackenzie Delta assets! Enjoy the art of our Tundra Comics friend, Chad Carpenter! Ziff Energy's Bill Gwozd responded to our editorial material yesterday:  Ziff Energy still has Alaska and Mackenzie Delta flowing in our models – both are required.  The key point you may wish to share with your readers is these projects have a 25 year life starting 2020/25 and ending 2050 ish.  So the questions the readers may wish to ask the politicians is what gas supply will be flowing in North America [...]

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Notes From the Road: The Alaska-Canadian North Is A Tough Place To Do Business…

By |2016-12-22T22:33:26-09:00July 20th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Notes From the Road, Reader Comment|

Geek note:  We lament your opinion of us when--as in this morning's alert email (subscribe above right)--the automatic editing program substitutes an "it's" when we actually typed "its".  This is not to say we don't make mistakes, but we prefer to take blame for our own mistakes and not for our robot's.  Actually, we shouldn't blame our robot either, since it's our responsibility to proof read, not its.  -dh Larry Persily's NARUC Impressions When we encountered the Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator, Larry Persily (NGP stock photo), in Los Angeles [...]

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7-19-2011 Notes From the Road, Los Angeles with Gregory Boyce, Aubrey McClendon and Paul Wenger

By |2016-12-22T22:33:26-09:00July 19th, 2011|Notes From the Road|

  Commissioner Tony Clark, NARUC President NARUC PROGRAM We had the pleasure at noon today of introducing California Farm Bureau Federation President Paul Wenger and think our readers will find his presentation unusual and compelling:    Los Angeles, Ca. -- The NARUC program yesterday kicked off at the J.W. Marriott's Dimond Ballroom here with keynote presentations by Peabody Coal's Chairman and CEO Gregory Boyce (NGP Photo-L) and Chesapeake Energy's Aubrey McClendon (NGP Photo).  The two CEOs exposed the continuing tension between fossil fuel cousins: coal and natural gas. Boyce took the high road, [...]

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Fairbanks Consumers Beware of Natural Gas Cost Decisions

By |2016-03-13T04:00:28-09:00July 18th, 2011|Commentary, Notes From the Road|

Notes From The Road: Los Angeles We see many old friends and energy leaders at the meetings we attend with the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOCC) and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).  Earlier this summer we were with IOGCC in Bismarck, during the "Great 2011 Flood".  This week with NARUC in Los Angeles with "Carmageddon" erroneously predicted, and will hear from Paul Wenger, President of the California Farm Bureau Federation and from Aubrey McClendon, Chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Company and Greg Boyce, Chairman and [...]

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LA Bound….

By |2016-03-13T04:03:42-09:00July 15th, 2011|Commentary, Personal|

Comment:  No sooner are we back from the booming state of North Dakota than we head down to Los Angeles for two purposes: Introducing California Farm Bureau Federation President Paul Wenger to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners for a Consumer Energy Alliance Luncheon Speech; and, photographing Beverly Hills and Santa Monica.  -dh

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Energy Issues Keep Erupting Here

By |2016-12-22T22:33:27-09:00July 15th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|

Comment.  Governor Sean Parnell is understandably concerned about Barak Obama's new executive order directed at Alaska.  The action purports to improve coordination among Federal agencies responsible for permitting energy projects by establishing an, "Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Domestic Energy Development and Permitting in Alaska (Working Group)."  If Obama had any management background, he would know that this effort just creates more opportunity for talk and confusion and delay.  Just one more meeting of over a dozen high level officials and a thousand more telephone calls and emails to [...]

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One Federal Comment Period Ends As Others Arise: The Federal-Enviroactivist Strategy To Kill Alaska’s Economy Continues

By |2016-12-22T22:33:27-09:00July 13th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|

NGP READERS: PLEASE COMMENT.  This coming Friday, July 15, comes the next deadline for comments about an Environmental Assessment regarding Beaufort Sea OCS development.  Then, lock and load for the next wave of regulatory onslaught: the July 25th deadline public comment on Revised Beaufort Sea Exploration Plan (EP) and associated Oil Discharge Prevention and Contingency Plan (ODPCP).  Please send your comment to the agency, then send us a copy for posting here, where your position becomes Internet searchable.  Here is the brief testimony your author filed today.  -dh Commentary:  Monday was the deadline for commenting on [...]

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Consumers Flood Government With Pro-Chukchi OCS Comments – Mackenzie Pipeline Boosted With New Exploration Licenses

By |2016-12-22T22:33:27-09:00July 12th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|

Companies commit millions to secure exploration licenses despite concerns over pipeline prospects Thandiwe Vela Northern News Services Published Friday, July 8, 2011 NWT - The recent call for bids on Northwest Territories land parcels has ended with oil and gas companies committing more than $500 million to secure exploration licenses in the Central Mackenzie Valley.  ... "We are pleased with the bidding results," Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment Bob McLeod (NGP Photo) said, adding the high value of bids shows the industry's renewed confidence in the NWT oil and gas reserves. "These [...]

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The Battle Continues And We Cannot Grow Weary

By |2016-12-22T22:33:27-09:00July 11th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|

The Battle Continues And We Cannot Grow Weary El Paso's Ruby Enriches Nevada Alberta Tory leadership candidate Gary Mar, wants to bog down Canada's natural resources prosperity with environmental obstruction.   -dh New gas pipeline for Kenai Peninsula?   Today's top Priority: Today is the deadline for Chukchi SEIS Comment.  Here is how to comment.  Then send us your comment to post here, tomorrow.  It can be as simple as: "Please allow Alaska OCS development to proceed quickly; domestic energy is essential to America's economic recovery."  Note: since today is the deadline, either [...]

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Joe Henri Adds Statehood Perspective – Marilyn Crockett to Retire – Rachael Petro Hits Investment Climate

By |2016-12-22T22:33:28-09:00July 8th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|

  Next Monday, July 11 is the deadline for comment on Chukchi OCS development.  Here's a website for easy, automated comment.  -dh Calgary Herald by Rebecca Penty.  An article in the Wall Street Journal championing TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL pipeline as an economic driver for a country hurting for jobs is evidence of support south of the border, president and CEO Russ Girling said Thursday.  The TransCanada executive said the opinion piece suggested the last phase of a $13-billion pipeline project would offer economic stimulus to a country facing a high unemployment rate [...]

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Alaska Statehood Act Passed 53 Years Ago TODAY; Sadly, Alaska is among the “worst of the worst”

By |2016-12-22T22:33:28-09:00July 7th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|

July 11 is the deadline for comment on Chukchi OCS development.  Here's a website for easy, automated comment.  -dh Alaska's Statehood Act is 53 years old today.   (Below is an email alert we issued on the subject and reader Joe Henri's first hand perspective.)  Today your author addresses the South Anchorage Rotary Club, suggesting that, "Alaska's Constitution Could Guide Us Through Alaska's Greatest Challenge: Breathing Life Back Into the Trans Alaska Pipeline"   -dh CNBC completed a ranking of state business climates and found  Alaska to be among the bottom [...]

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American Truckers Support OCS

By |2016-12-22T22:33:28-09:00July 6th, 2011|Uncategorized|

July 11 is the deadline for comment on Chukchi OCS development.  Here's a website for easy, automated comment.  -dh Reader Aves Thompson, Executive Director of the Alaska Trucking Association, reports that the American Trucking Association has asked the Federal government to expedite Alaska OCS development.  "On July 1," Thompson reported, "the ATA filed comments with the Bureau of Ocean Energy, Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) in support of drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea. ATA’s comments were filed in response to a court-ordered supplemental environmental impact statement, which must be finalized [...]

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Alaska Wins Investment Climate Unpopularity Contest

By |2016-12-22T22:33:28-09:00July 5th, 2011|Uncategorized|

Marketwire.  Proponents of the Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline were awarded six licenses comprised of Shell Canada Limited (3 licenses), Imperial Oil Resources Ventures Limited (2 licenses) and ConocoPhilips Canada Resources Corp. (1 license).  Petroleum News by Eric Lidji (NGP Photo).  Alaska is one of the least attractive places in NorthAmerica for oil and gas investment, according to recent survey of international petroleum industry executives.  The State of Alaska ranked 83rd out of 136 jurisdictions while the federal Alaska Outer Continental Shelf ranked 78th, according to the Global Petroleum Survey by [...]

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