11-5-16 Government Sponsored Fairbanks Utility Flounders Like Government Sponsored LNG Project
AIDEA quietly parts way with Salix for work on Interior Energy Project, READ STORY Yesterday's related report: Progress Slow For IEP, READ STORY
11-4-16 Alaska Headlamp, Craig Medred, & Must Read Blogs Also Shed Light On Energy Issues
Stark warning for Canada - TransCanada sells U.S. assets to pay for Columbia Pipeline - A transition ahead for US Arctic - Progress slow for IEP - When it comes to Alaska LNG project, the big elephant in the room is cost - Inter Pipeline expects decision on petrochemical plants Medrid Today: It’s hard to make multi-million dollar business decisions in an unstable economic environment, and there is no doubt that Alaska’s constantly shifting tax structure – particularly its desire to squeeze another dollar out of the golden goose of oil any time a budget problem arises – makes [...]
11-3-16 Critical Readers Consider Both Sides of the Dakota Access Pipeline Project
If Dakota Access pipeline were to move, where could it go? CBC.ca The Dakota Access pipeline uses a nearly identical route as the natural gas pipeline to cross Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock reservation. Privately Owned Pipelines = GOOD Publicaly Owned Pipelines = BAD ... LIKE VENEZUELA (Read below) AK LNG transitions to state leadership. Kenai Peninsula Online. The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation is finishing up its negotiations to take over the leadership role on the gasline megaproject, negotiating ... The truth about the Dakota [...]
11-2-16 While Canadian Liberals Introduce Carbon Tax … American Liberals Seek Higher Corporate Income and Alaska Oil Taxes
While Canadian Liberals Introduce Carbon Tax ... American Liberals Seek Higher Corporate Income and Alaska Oil Taxes WE HAVE CONCLUDED THAT THE WEALTH USERS NOW COMPOSE A MAJORITY VOTER BASE THAT DOMINATES WEALTH PRODUCERS (See yesterday's commentary) Calgary Herald Editorial Board On the first day of the fall legislature sitting, the NDP government released what is billed as an economic analysis of the impact of a carbon tax. The document is a disservice to Albertans given the risk the levy, which will start being imposed Jan. 1, presents [...]
11-1-16 The Truth About The So Called Peaceful North Dakota Pipeline Protesters
Dear Friends Despite being held hostage by protesters amid threats of violence - we didn't let their threats and intimidation stop us from practicing real journalism and finding out the truth about the Dakota Access Pipeline. You can watch our interview with a local farmer here. His neighbors have lost scores of cattle and horses and they have reported incidents of trespassing and intimidation. Those protesting the development of the pipeline claim to be peaceful but up close it is clear they are the very opposite when challenged [...]
10-31-16 Can Oil Rebound Save Alberta? An Alaska Lesson. Energy and the Impact of Illegal Immigration.
Today: Alberta - Alaska - US Elections - An Illegal Alien Organizer -It's all related and we'll show why- -We hope you'll submit a thoughtful comment at the bottom of this page- Please review our commentary, column left. Then skim the email sent today by an illegal alien on SEIU letterhead, in the right column. The illegal immigration warriors are out of the closet and active. What about those supporting lawful immigration, logical policies and the rule of law: are we as willing to be heard? This whole complex [...]
10-29-16 Killing/Saving Canada’s Economy With A Carbon Tax?
PC leadership candidates clash over carbon tax, Calgary Herald. ... Canada-leading greenhouse gas emissions and winning support across the country for new pipelines to ship the province's oilsands crude. Coming ...
10-30-16 ConocoPhillips Keeps Exploring and Producing. When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going….
Conoco planning Putu program - 10/30/2016 (Login to read Full story). ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. is permitting an exploration program near the village of Nuiqsut, although the program is complicated by an appeal over leases in the area. The local subsidiary of the international Houston-based independent plans to drill one well and one sidetrack in the area south of th....
10-28-16 Why Clinton chopped a Keystone XL reference from her book
CALGARY HERALD BY ALEXANDER PANETTA, CP — A reference to the Keystone XL pipeline was chopped from Hillary Clinton’s memoir due to political considerations, according to the latest batch of stolen emails posted Thursday on Wikileaks. While writing the book Hard Choices, Clinton initially included a reference to the pipeline at the urging of her daughter, Chelsea, according to a 2014 email purportedly sent to her current campaign chair John Podesta. “She decided to write about Keystone because her daughter suggested that it would be a glaring omission and look [...]
10-27-16 Economist Roger Marks Fact Checks Lawyer’s “Fair Share” Cliché
Beware of False Oil Tax Prophets by Dave Harbour Roger Marks, Senior Oil & Gas Economist. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour (Scroll down to Ak-Headlamp report for Marks' reference.) Regarding our piece yesterday about one lawyer's advocacy for higher oil industry taxes, we provide (BELOW) Ak-headlamp's comment today. We would only add that the lawyer proposes a "fair share" oil tax policy without definition or rational. He simply opines an assumption that a "fair share" of oil wealth for the bureaucracy should be "one-third of gross"... not one-third [...]
10-26-16 ALASKA’S PLACE IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE: GAS PIPELINE/LNG POLICY, NORTH KOREA TRADE THREAT, DEFENSE OF ALASKA
(We urge readers to 'like' our Northern Gas Pipelines Facebook page and 'follow' our Twitter feeds. For, while we do issue periodic 'email alerts' to our thousands of subscribers, we do not intrude on their days except when we believe we offer them extraordinary developments or commentary. More often, we alert readers to subjects of somewhat less importance via our Facebook and Twitter feeds. Thank you for being our NGP reader. -dh) International Trade Implications of US-Korean Policy and North Slope Gas Monetization Presentation notes: The World Affairs [...]
10-25-16 Attorney Joins Lawyer/Governor Bill Walker In Advocating Oil Tax Increase. Fair Or Hypocritical?
Calling for a "fair share" could be -- and in Alaska usually is -- a sign of political hypocrisy This morning's Alaska Dispatch News features another clever Opinion-Editorial by an Alaska lawyer (i.e. for more, see Ak-Headlamp analysis, column right.) who has become one of the largest individual contributors to democrat tax & spend candidates for the Alaska state legislature this election cycle. Recently, in a Neil Cavuto interview, Las Vegas developer Steve Wynn provided an articulate response to the wealth distribution crowd (See video) using the term "fair share" to [...]
10-24-16 Hilcorp Is Working To Grow In Both Northern & Southcentral Alaska
Hilcorp Energy is here to grow. Hilcorp Energy is one of the companies bucking the trend among those in Alaska’s oil business.
10-23-16 Shell Sells $1Billion In Northern Assets
PennEnergy: Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its affiliate Shell Canada Energy (“Shell”) announced it has agreed to sell approximately 206,000 net acres of non-core oil and gas properties in Western Canada to Tourmaline Oil Corp. for a total consideration of approximately $1,037 million (C$1,369 million). The consideration is comprised of $758 million in cash and Tourmaline shares valued at $279 million. Subject to regulatory approvals the transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2016. The acreage includes 61,000 net acres in the Gundy area of Northeast British Columbia, [...]
10-22-16 Governor Walker Feels The Pain
Anchorage Daily Planet Editorial: "He Feels Your Pain" Bill Walker, Governor of Alaska. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour. Gov. Bill Walker addressed the Alaska Federation of Natives convention and zeroed in on Alaska’s budget deficit and his decision to cut this year’s dividend by more than half. He said Alaska is drawing down its reserves at about $12 million daily. “I cannot tell you, I cannot describe to you adequately how difficult of time this has been to be serving as governor,” APRN reports [...]