NARUC and IOGCC
Alaska State Legislature Citation Honoring NARUC and IOGCC:
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TransCanada Confident Gasline Goes – China Increases Canada Investment – Get Great Petroleum Maps!
ADN. Tony Palmer (NGP Photo Archive), TransCanada's vice president for Alaska development, said that the project is likely to see bids in the last day or two of the open season, the three-month-long period when it seeks commitments from gas owners to use the pipeline. TransCanada's open season started barely two weeks ago and it set to run through July. (See our earlier story.) Vancouver Sun. China on Thursday beefed up its Canadian oilsands portfolio with a $1.25-billion cash injection in Penn West Energy Trust. (See earlier China - [...]
Governor Sean Parnell Signs Cook Inlet Recovery Act
Governor's Office. Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo-r) today signed into law House Bill 280, the Cook Inlet Recovery Act. HB 280, sponsored by Representative Mike Hawker (NGP Photo-l) and House Speaker Mike Chenault (NGP Photo), provides the legal framework and financial incentives for developing large-scale natural gas storage facilities throughout the state. The legislation is aimed at providing benefits for consumers not only in Southcentral but also in Fairbanks, where gas could be shipped from the North Slope. The bill adjusts Cook Inlet tax credits to encourage exploration for and development of new gas. And [...]
5-12-10 Gas Pipeline Czar Larry Persily Says, “What If You’re Wrong?” – Last Night’s USFWS-ANWR Hearing
Governor's Office Release: Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) today submitted comments (here) on upcoming revisions to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) Comprehensive Conservation Plan by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). A new refuge plan could potentially affect the most promising unexplored petroleum region in North America. ... “Responsible oil and gas development in ANWR’s coastal plain would provide a secure on-shore domestic supply source of energy for the nation, create tens of thousands of jobs throughout the country, and ensure the continued operation of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System for [...]
CALL TO ACTION — Confront the Fish and Wildlife Service Today!
FWS + ANWR = Beware by Dave Harbour (See the testimony I wrote for the hearing tonight.) (More ANWR Testimony and Photos Here.) While our thousands of Canadian and Lower 48 readers cannot participate in TODAY’S Anchorage meeting, they may find this ANWR evaluation process reflective of the Obama Administration’s continuing environmental initiatives Today, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service will hold a public meeting in Anchorage regarding its intent to revise the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Comprehensive Conservation Plan. The meeting will be held in the Service’s [...]
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TransCanada’s Tony Palmer Gives Gas Pipeline Update – Feds Support Gas Pipeline
KTVA/Fairbanks News Miner. Feds Support Pipeline. TransCanada's Tony Palmer (NGP Photo) Gives Chamber a Gas Pipeline Update At noon today, Tony Palmer told the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce that the Open Season commencing on April 30 will be on schedule and completed by July 30, leading to a filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the the Fall for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to build and operate the pipeline. He spoke of the unprecedented transparency of the project, noting that 1200 pages of information on the [...]
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We Grieve Loss With Family, Friends and Fellow Citizens Around the World – Bob McLeod Touts Arctic Gas At OTC
ADN/PNA by Eric Lidji. The Regulatory Commission of Alaska is letting four owners of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline keep charging higher shipping rates on oil bound for Alaska markets while it continues investigating whether the rate increases are reasonable. CBC. Bob McLeod (NGP Photo) said if the blowout — which has led to a massive oil spill off the coast of Louisiana — leads to tighter U.S. environmental restrictions on oil production, there could be more demand for natural gas from places like the N.W.T.'s Mackenzie Delta, where a gas pipeline has [...]
MMS May Stop Summer Alaska OCS Work – Canada Considers Gulf Spill – Alaska Gasline Benefits Canada, Too – EPA Jumps Into GOM Spill Action – Henry Hub Gas Prices Down
FLASH.........MMS Director Liz Birnbaum sent a letter yesterday to Shell Oil Company President Marvin Odum confirming that MMS will not make a final decision on the requested permits for the drilling of exploration wells in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas until the Department of the Interior’s report to the President has been submitted and evaluated. Also see ADN story by Erika Bolstad. (Comment: Earlier this week we discussed the cumulative effect of Federal actions to shut down Alaska. We believe that this newest action could inject fatal uncertainty into this [...]
GOM Impact on Alaska – Enbridge Moves with Kitimat – Alaska Governor Candidates Debate Gasline and Other Issues
E&E News (subs. req’d) reports, “In the wake of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, environmentalists today announced plans to sue the Obama administration over its failure to force preparation of an analysis of how an Arctic spill would affect the imperiled polar bear. (See our editorial, yesterday) Edmonton Journal by Dina O'Meara. Enbridge Inc. is plowing ahead with a controversial pipeline from Alberta’s oilsands to the port of Kitimat, B.C., to open new markets for Canadian crude, chief executive Pat Daniel said in Calgary on.... Alaska Dispatch [...]
Alaska’s Coastal Leaders Bite the Hand That Feeds Them – Add ANWR To The Obama Administration’s ‘Death to America’s Economy–By A Thousand Cuts’
Feds, Enviros and Disloyal Alaskans Threaten Alaska’s Economic Future By Dave Harbour This week, Erika Bolstad of the Anchorage Daily News wrote that, “The three-decade-long fight over whether oil companies should be allowed inside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is taking on a new wrinkle that could lock up the refuge for good.” The Associated Press’ Dan Joling reported that, “Alaska Native and conservation groups have filed challenges to clean air permits the Environmental Protection Agency granted Shell Oil for drilling exploration wells in the Beaufort and Chukchi [...]
Standard Airs Youtube of Northrim Chairman Marc Langland’s Call for Fiscal Certainty
We believe Langland's Counsel to Alaska's Business and Political Leaders Will Be Especially Critical in Wake of the GOM Tragedy and Potential Alaska Impact (See Alaskanomics, Northrim's new website!) Economics 101. On April 6 at Anchorage's Denaina Convention Center, Northrim Bank Chairman Marc Langland issued a challenge that Alaska's business and political address state fiscal policy issues. Your author asked the event host for his perception of Economics 101 and Alaska's oil tax policy. We are happy that the Alaska Standard obtained Langland's response: a pithy and useful economics review. Northrim hosted [...]
LAST CHANCE TO COMMENT ON MMS 2007-12 LEASE SALE PLAN!
In Spite of the terrible Gulf of Mexico spill, America still needs oil and gas. If we don't obtain it domestically, we will send our jobs and money to foreign exporters in order to purchase theirs. The adult in the room, I think, would not underestimate or overreact to the Gulf spill. He would say, "Let's do what we can to minimize damage, compensate those who were damaged, take action to assure it doesn't happen again and continue to develop robust, domestic, oil and gas leasing programs." -dh Comment Here! [...]
TransCanada Launches Alaska Gas Pipeline Open Season
With the GOM TransOcean Rig Spill Dominating Lower 48 News Programs, It's More Important Than Ever To Give the MMS Our OCS Comments Before the Monday Deadline! Go here for an easy way to comment. Calgary Herald by Lisa Schmidt. TransCanada Corp. is launching its open season for the massive Alaska pipeline project to sign up companies interested in shipping natural gas on the line. The 2,700-kilometre-long pipeline — expected to cost between $32 billion to $41 billion US — would bring northern gas to southern markets, connecting the [...]
Fiscal Stability Contract May Not Be Enough For Gasline Investors – Mackenzie “wait and see” – Author Comments On Mackenzie Project
May 3 Deadline: Please Give Your OCS Opinion, here, After Reading This NARUC Report Alaska Standard by Dan Dickinson (NGP Photo). Is a gas pipeline economic? First if investors think that commodity prices in the future won’t cover the tariff – and at today’s prices and estimated tariffs they certainly won’t – there will be no gas line. Moreover, if investors suspect that the State has no other new sources of revenue they will be equally reluctant to invest in a gas line. Unknown future taxes on a potential gasline can [...]
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Big Line: Largest in N.A. History – Will Pipelines Join? – Economist Says to ‘Slow Down’ On Instate Pipeline
Please Weigh In On Your OCS Position Before Next Monday's Deadline! Oil Daily. The three major oil companies involved in two competing pipeline proposals to bring Alaska North Slope natural gas to markets in the US Lower 48 will end up joining forces because of the huge scale of the endeavor, according to the federal coordinator for the gas pipeline project. “It not like the molecules as they come out of the ground are red if they’re Exxon’s and green if they're BP’s,” said Larry Persily (NGP Photo), who was [...]