Alaska Gas Czar Swaps Pipeline Post For Academia

By |2016-12-22T22:34:31-09:00September 5th, 2010|Uncategorized|

ADN.  Mark Myers (NGP Photo), a former head of the U.S. Geological Survey, is joining the University of Alaska Fairbanks as vice chancellor of research.  Myers currently leads the state's effort, under the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, to encourage construction of a huge natural gas pipeline. He tells the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner that he will keep that job until mid-January to ensure a smooth transition.  The school announced Friday that Myers will replace Buck Sharpton, who was chosen last month to serve as acting chairman of the federal Arctic Research [...]

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Governor Sean Parnell Plays Offense With Federal Government – Secretary Ken Salazar Completes Surprise Trip to Alaska With Morning Press Conference

By |2016-12-22T22:34:31-09:00September 3rd, 2010|Uncategorized|

CALL TO ACTION: LIFT THE OCS MORATORIUM!!!  CBC.  Mackenzie Pipeline dissention over 'transparency'. Governor Sean Parnell Challenges Overreaching Federal Government   By   Dave Harbour   Yesterday, reporters gathered in Governor Sean Parnell’s (NGP Photo) Anchorage office to hear him describe an Alaska petition to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to remove (“delist”) Steller sea lions from Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections in Southeast Alaska.   In response to questioning, he invited likeminded stakeholders to support the State’s petition. He noted that the action was taken in coordination with Washington and [...]

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Legislators Examine Cook Inlet Natural Gas Storage and Supply Status – Interior Secretary Visits Alaska After 2 Days’ Notice

By |2016-12-22T22:34:32-09:00September 2nd, 2010|Uncategorized|

  7:32 a.m. ADT.  Rig fire in GOM.  Coast Guard responds.  Check news outlets White House Press Secretary says (12:28 p.m. EDT) production well not in active production - Thirteen people rescued - 100 miles offshore, federal waters    DOI.  Secretary Ken Salazar appears today in Barrow.  *    DOI.  Secretary Ken Salazar appears tomorrow in Anchorage.   Cook Inlet Natural Gas Storage Alaska (CINGSA): for a recent, outstanding summary see Alan Bailey's (NGP Photo-l) Petroleum News Alaska article, here.  Earlier ADN story.  KTUU's story today, by Ted Land.   Yesterday, representatives of [...]

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Our other recent articles….

By |2016-03-13T04:06:35-09:00September 1st, 2010|Uncategorized|

 1.  Note the similarities but different levels of concern: Our Alliance Op-ed this year ("Protecting Alaska’s Freedom From Federal and State Governments" p.16, reprinted in the Alaska Journal of Commerce) and last year's Op-ed.     2.  Our latest tribute to Senator Ted Stevens (NGP Photo) in this week's special edition of Petroleum News Alaska, p. 11 (Also see several NGP Photos).  

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ALERT: SEPTEMBER 7, HOUSTON MORATORIUM MEETING DESERVES EVEN BIGGER TURNOUT THAN ANCHORAGE!

By |2016-12-22T22:34:32-09:00September 1st, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|

***BREAKING NEWS...SALAZAR MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO BARROW AND ANCHORAGE!*** ***Alaska Dispatch Story***Barrow Details***Anchorage Media Conference Details*** (This Administration Has Treated Alaska Very Poorly.  Activities Affecting Alaska Are Opaque And An Affront to Both Due Process and Common Courtesy.  -dh) We Urge Readers to Follow Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) Coverage CEA Announcement:  On Tuesday, September 7th, The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) Director Michael R. Bromwich (NGP Photo) and other US Dept of Interior officials will be in Houston to hear expert panelists discuss the Obama Administration’s offshore oil [...]

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Is GTL Alaska’s Gas Answer?-Study Confirms Alaska’s Economy Poised for a Dive – Governor Sean Parnell Attacks Challenger’s Gas Pipeline Proposal – EIA Tests America’s Knowledge of Canadian Imports – Activist Sotomayor Will Make Final Energy Law Decisions

By |2016-12-22T22:34:32-09:00August 31st, 2010|Uncategorized|

Alaska Dispatch.  Because of all the coverage of the as-yet undecided Republican U.S. Senate primary, it may be easy to forget all the other primary races are settled, including the gubernatorial ones. According to KTVA-TV, Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) fired back against Democrat gubernatorial candidate Ethan Berkowitz's idea to stimulate the construction of a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope. Called "The Alaskan Ownership Stake," as Alaska Dispatch reported recently, the plan would ask Alaskans to voluntarily contribute some part of their own Permanent Fund Dividends to an escrow account in order [...]

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Last Tribute to Uncle Ted – “The Peoples’ Gas Pipeline” – Are Canadian Airships Coming? – Cook Inlet Gas Prospects Encouraging

By |2016-03-13T04:03:42-09:00August 30th, 2010|Uncategorized|

Petroleum News Alaska via ADN.  When Armstrong Cook Inlet brings its North Fork oil and gas project into production early next year, it could be the push needed to bring several other prospects in the region into development.  The southern Kenai is one of the more underdeveloped corners of the Cook Inlet basin, which supplies the natural gas that heats and powers more than half the state's population. Financial News.  The state's Democratic nominee for governor said Friday he wants to give residents the chance to invest in a proposed [...]

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We just had to share with readers our FB posting…

By |2016-03-13T04:09:16-09:00August 29th, 2010|Uncategorized|

Consider joining us on Facebook  Remove Dave     Harbour SOME OF MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY MAY NOT AGREE WITH THIS EDITORIAL COMMENT....BUT ALL OF YOU WILL LOVE THE YOU TUBE SONG LINK BELOW. LET'S WAKE UP, AMERICA: GO VIRAL! I'm the first to agree that Conservatives are not perfect--but for the most part our logic is pretty strong and based on the Nation's founding principles. Here are the most likely, TOP TEN reasons that today's Liberals explain their votes toward socialism. 10. I voted Liberal because I agree with mandatory posting [...]

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BOEM Came and Went and We are Stunned – Alaska Energy Employment Hits 30 month Low

By |2016-03-13T03:58:38-09:00August 27th, 2010|Uncategorized|

BOEM Came and Went and We are Stunned by  Dave Harbour  Our story of Michael Bromwich's (Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy, Management, Regulation and Enforcement, NGP Photo) visit to the Alaska colony is coming, with commentary.  (ADN story by Elizabeth Bluemink; KTUU story by Ted Lamb) Alaska Dispatch.  Data compiled by the Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development’s Research & Analysis Section show that since a modest rebound during the first quarter of 2010, oil and gas employment fell again in the second quarter and by mid-year stood [...]

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ALERT – ALERT – ALERT: CREDIT WHERE CREDIT’S DUE!

By |2016-03-13T03:57:25-09:00August 26th, 2010|Uncategorized|

Your author is leaving now for the BOEM meeting, more fully discussed below in the previous page posts. Come on down! 1.  Alaskans should go down to the Dena'ina in Anchorage this morning from 8 a.m.- noon.  Here's all the information you'll need.  While the public cannot testify, everyone can fill out 'comment cards'. 2.  We admire that Governor Sean Parnell will have Commissioner Larry Hartig represent him on Panel III (click link above for information), that Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan obtained a spot on the Panel, that Senators Lisa Murkowski and [...]

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ALERT – ALERT – ALERT: SUPPORT ALASKA OCS NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE!

By |2016-03-13T03:57:25-09:00August 25th, 2010|Uncategorized|

  ALERT-ALERT-ALERT-ALERT   Tomorrow one Interior Department bureaucrat with less than a week's notice will meet here to decide on the future of Alaska's OCS program.  OCS success or failure will impact the future of the existing Trans Alaska pipeline and future gas pipeline projects.  Those energy lifelines provide life support to Alaska's Economy...down to the last teacher, laborer or health clinic technician.   Do you care?   Every member of Alaska's Legislature, every news media person should be there.  Outside yesterday's Primary Election, nothing more important to Alaska's future (or more newsworthy) [...]

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A Federal Bureaucrat On Thursday Will Determine the Future of Alaska

By |2016-03-13T03:56:31-09:00August 24th, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|

-30- Dave Harbour is a retired member of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska. He is former Chairman of the Alaska Council on Economic Education and the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. He is publisher of: www.northerngaspipelines.com, the original gas pipeline public service webpage for Alaska and Northern Canada. * * * Reference: Below is Thursday’s schedule: Public Forum on Offshore Drilling Panelists and Elected Officials   Anchorage, Alaska August 26, 2010 8:00 a.m. - Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center.    Panel I   Leslie Pearson Person Consulting   Ron Morris Alaska Clean Seas   Marilyn Heiman Director, [...]

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Call to Action: Thursday in Anchorage – Is Mackenzie off or on? – Governor Candidates Debate Gas and Tax

By |2016-03-13T03:58:39-09:00August 23rd, 2010|Uncategorized|

National Post, by Don Martin.  If the weather is clear next week, possibly on the very day Prime Minister Stephen Harper drops in for a visit, whale hunters in this economically depressed Arctic Ocean outpost could watch their former and future prosperity being towed to Alaska.  The last drilling rig in Canada's Beaufort Sea is on the move, to a standby position in U.S. waters to drill a relief well in case of an oil spill.  ...   For Mayor Gruben, a good-natured businessman who seems to know everybody in this [...]

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Saturday Sundry

By |2016-03-13T04:07:16-09:00August 21st, 2010|Uncategorized|

 From Facebook.... Remove Dave Harbour An Alaska natural resources policy editorial your author wrote for the Alliance newsletter last week may be found by scrolling down to pages 16-17.... http://alaskaalliance.com/pdf/3rd_quarter_2010_link1.pdf alaskaalliance.com %PDF-1.5 %ãÏÓ 2613 0 obj > endobj 2658 0 obj >/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[]/Index[2613 80]/Info 2612 0 R/Length 184/Prev 2519053/Root 2614 0 R/Size 2693/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream hÞbbd`

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Come See the Governor Candidates Debate Sunday!

By |2016-03-13T03:58:40-09:00August 20th, 2010|Uncategorized|

Come and ask your Gas Pipeline questions! Our friend Pat Luby reports that NEA-Alaska and AARP are sponsoring one of the final forums for the 5 Gubernatorial candidates.  It will be moderated by Steve MacDonald and shown statewide on Channel 2, KTUU.    But…it will be much more fun to attend in person!   Sunday, August 22 7:30-8:30 pm Wendy Williamson Auditorium UAA  

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