Shame On Associated Press
ADN and AP by Mary Pemberton. Rep. Edward Markey (Photo) on Wednesday reintroduced a bill to designate the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a wilderness area. If successful, the move would put the refuge -- and its estimated 11 billion barrels of recoverable oil -- beyond the reach of oil companies perhaps forever. (Comment: While Congressman Markey is a raving lunatic who blindly supports every crackpot, environmentally extreme idea, that doesn't excuse the AP from producing a biased report. First, the writer editorializes a news story by creating the specter of [...]
Governor Sean Parnell Reacts To Negative EPA Decision – Mayor Dan Sullivan’s Energy Task Force Meets This Morning
(Comment: Yesterday (Scroll down) we reported that the EPA's refusal to reject petitions to deny OCS air quality permits for Chukchi and Beaufort Sea activities next summer could at best delay exploration another year or at worst quash Alaska's Arctic OCS potential for a long time to come. -dh) We commend Governor Sean Parnell's (NGP Photo) leadership in this area, best illustrated by his response to the EPA decision: “It is extremely disheartening that Shell has been unsuccessful in trying to get this critical permit for almost four years,” Governor [...]
Obama Administration Stops 2011 Chukchi & Beaufort Sea Exploration Programs – Alaska Rig Count Lowest Of Major Producing States
U.S. Rig Count is down 20 from last week at 1694; up 505 year over year. Canadian Rig Count is down 65 from last week at 246; up 37 year over year. Alaska has highest oil and gas potential but lowest rig count of major states. Margo McDiarmid of CBC says, "the new environment minister will have a list of difficult issues to handle over the next few years. And it will start almost right away." Watch Live At 7:50 a.m. Alaska Time, 11:50 EST - Tune in for a [...]
Prepare For New BOEM Comment Period And Hearings
THE BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, REGULATION AND ENFORCEMENT For Immediate Release Date: January 3, 2011 Contact: Nicholas Pardi, (202) 208-3985 BOEMRE Plans Meetings on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed 2012-2017 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program New Public Comment Period Extends to March 31, 2011 WASHINGTON – The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today announced that it will hold a series of public scoping meetings in February 2011 on the Programmatic Environmental Impact [...]
AK Engineer’s 2011 Predictions – Alaska Second Behind Texas…Then Third Behind N.D.?
Fairbanks News Miner Editorial: We hope for substantial progress toward construction of a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope. Calgary Herald. Pengrowth gas pipeline explosion in the area of Swan Hills, Alta., about 220 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. Alaska Engineer Blog. The big story for 2011 will be the results of the 2010 open seasons. Each pipeline project (APP* and Denali) will complete and execute precedent agreements where shippers make long term commitments to ship gas. Prediction: With a little luck we’ll hear some positive news on these agreements before the Nenana ice goes [...]
Some Old News Is Haunting
Raise the Fist Dot Com. Transcanada ExxonMobil Mackenzie and Alaska Arctic Natural Gas Pipelines DEAD? YOU BETCHA!
Jeff Jones – John Rense – Dave Harbour Discuss Energy Issues
Yesterday the radio studios of KFQD in Anchorage hosted a vibrant discussion of energy issues facing Alaska and the U.S. Alaska Journal of Commerce Publisher Jeff Jones moderated the Dan Fagan Show conversation with invited guests, John Rense and Dave Harbour. (NGP Photos: Jeff Jones, seated, and John Rense) The conversations may be here: 2nd hour with Rense beginning and Harbour joining at .35 min; 3rd hour, with all three gentlemen. Audio:danfaganhour3 HARBOUR-JONES(1).wavdan fagan - HARBOUR-RENSE-JONES2 (7).wav
TUNE IN THIS AFTERNOON TO OUR TALK RADIO DISCUSSION – Alaskans Are Apprehensive – Understandably
This afternoon at 4 p.m. Alaska time, your author will be in the studio with Alaska Journal of Commerce publisher, Jeff Jones (NGP Photo) as we focus on 2011 energy/economic challenges in Alaska and throughout North America. You may stream the audio this afternoon at 4 AST by clicking here, on the Dan Fagan Radio Show Icon. Or, you may listen to or download the podcast later by clicking here on 'Hour 3'. Peninsula Clarion by Tim Bradner (NGP Photo). Expectation and apprehension: two words that say it all for 2011. [...]
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We’re very proud of our fellow Alaskans…
...for commenting on Shell Oil's 2011 Beaufort Sea exploration program. Today we received a copy of longtime Alaskan David Dittman's (NGP Photo) comment and thought you might be interested in his typically logical viewpoint. He said: There is a common expression that '…if there is any doubt, let’s err on the side of conservation.' On the surface, the expression may sound reasonable, but in reality, absolute perfection is impossible to achieve, so there will always be some element of doubt. So taken literally, this apparently reasonable position actually becomes an unreasonably hard line and barrier to [...]
Caught Again….
We Identified This Similar Departure From Truth Comment: Without new oil supplies from Arctic frontier areas controlled by the Feds, Alaska's oil pipeline future is jeapordized along with prospects for the North Slope gas pipeline whose economics are closely related to new gas discoveries and the sustainability of the oil pipeline. -dh Houston Chronicle (12/28) reports, “When federal officials lifted the ban on deep-water drilling in early October, Houston-based ATP Oil & Gas was ready to roll. The small production company was finishing up work on a well that tied into [...]
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Alaska’s Friend, Bud Greenspan, Passes….
(Personal note: We thank the Los Angeles Times and Mike Kupper for bringing us news of Bud Greenspan {Photo}. Here's a great AP story by sportswriter, Jim Litke. Sometimes we take a personal privilege prerogative, here, and note the passing of dear friends. One such friend is Bud Greenspan who became a steady friend of Alaska and this writer as our Anchorage Organizing Committee fought to become a venue for the Winter Olympics twenty years ago. Rick Mystrom (NGP Photo-r), Anchorage's former Mayor, and advertising executive Rick Nerland led [...]
All I Wanted For Christmas….
...see last year's editorial and the one we offered in 2001. Still valid? You be the judge. Merry Christmas. -dh
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12-25-14 Remembering Bill Tobin and The Anchorage Times At Christmas
On Christmas, I always remember how an old friend, Bill Tobin, used to include this "Christmas Tree" every year on the Anchorage Times editorial page. I'm honored to carry on the tradition and reprint Bill's Christmas Tree below as a tribute to our great Alaska predecessors and as a commitment to honor and propagate their pioneering spirit. (NGP Photo, holding Evangeline Atwood's book: Two years before his passing, Bill invited me to lunch at the Petroleum Club. I took the opportunity to ask him to put a note in Evangeline's book, [...]