10-21-16 Alaska Support Industry Alliance Annual Meeting Honors Jim Udelhoven and Maynard Tapp / ALBERTANS WISELY REJECT CARBON TAX

By |2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 21st, 2016|Canadian Energy Policy, Commentary, Energy East Pipeline, Uncategorized|

Alliance Story Coming.... Irving Oil chairman confident Energy East pipeline 'will happen' - Calgary Herald - Calgary misses the pipeline now,” he said. The 4,500-kilometre ... About two-thirds is already in place as a natural gas pipeline. Following Irving's ... Albertans give NDP carbon tax thumbs down in new poll - Calgary Herald - The tax, which is aimed at lowering Alberta's Canada-leading greenhouse gas emissions and helping to win support nationally for new pipeline ... From Ak-Headlamp: Down under up North. According to the Alaska Journal of Commerce, Australia-based 88 Energy Ltd. said in an Oct. 18 release that it has identified five [...]

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10-20-16 Kenai Citizen Laments Ak-LNG Slowdown

By |2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 20th, 2016|Commentary, LNG|

"Experience is a dear teacher...."  B. Franklin/W. Shakespeare (See Alaska Public Media story, right column.) We would only point out that certain longtime advocates of strong state participation in an Alaska LNG project have experienced a personal reality lesson.  The lesson is that oil and gas investment is risky.   When government and citizens become involved in energy projects, they subject themselves to risk.   This is why we have consistently counseled public officials to avoid equity investment in private projects.   The private sector is ready, willing [...]

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10-19-16 Tonight’s Historic Presidential Debate: “God Bless Us, Everyone”

By |2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 19th, 2016|Uncategorized|

Tonight's Presidential Debate is Historic Because The Performances Could Dramatically Affect Election Results Brief Commentary By Dave Harbour Last weekend we urged Alaskan public officials to carefully consider the consequences of supporting one presidential candidate over another. Remember? Today, as participants prepare for tonight's ordeal in the Coliseum of public opinion, we will be pondering several questions.  Our questions are based on the unassailable fact that our way of life is based on a secure foundation of domestic energy wealth production.  This principle applies to both the United States as a whole and to [...]

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10-18-16 As Alaska’s Governor Chases A 40-year Uneconomic Pipedream, His Economy Falters

By |2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 18th, 2016|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Competition, LNG|

Breakenridge: NDP's bid to diversify oil and gas industry doesn't make sense, Calgary Herald Alaska's Governor Goes "Bulworth"? Opinion by Andrew Jensen, Alaska Journal of Commerce “Going Bulworth,” if you don’t know, is an expression for politicians who say what they actually think. It comes from the 1998 movie starring Warren Bill Walker, Governor of Alaska. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour. Beatty about a disillusioned U.S. senator who starts drinking at campaign events and rapping about single-payer healthcare. Gov. Bill Walker went Bulworth in [...]

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10-17-16 Alaska LNG: Among World’s Least Competitive

By |2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 17th, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Fracking, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|

Click edit button to change this text. Andrew Browning. Northern Gas Pipeline file photo by Dave Harbour A panel of experts gave their views on the shifting supply-demand balance, which is bolstered by more takeaway capacity to Mexico and via newly opened terminals on the Gulf Coast. Four panelists, including one from Canada, expressed different views about what was unfolding, but all agreed that the supply-demand picture will be quite different by the end of next year, not to mention the next 10 years, during the [...]

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10-15-16

By |2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 15th, 2016|Uncategorized|

  2016 First Quarter Employment, Posted: 13 Oct 2016 12:39 PM PDT By Scott Goldsmith: The Alaska economy contracted at a 1.4 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2016 according to the final count by the Alaska Department of Labor.  Employment was 4.5 thousand lower in the first quarter than the previous year.  Growth slowed through early 2015 and turned negative in the second half of the year. The drop was most pronounced in four sectors.  Petroleum was down 13 percent, a loss of 1.9 thousand jobs.  Business services [...]

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10-14-16 We Lament The Passing of Former Premier Jim Prentice!

By |2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 14th, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Commentary|

James Prentice. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour We lament the passing of a great Canadian leader: Former premier Jim Prentice, who, with three others, was killed in Kelowna-area plane crash, yesterday. When we chaired an Arctic Gas Symposium in Calgary, it was a pleasure to dust off our French and introduce Jim in both of his country's languages.  We sat together over lunch discussing his desire to see an Arctic gas pipeline properly developed with minimal delay...and his love for hunting pheasants in the Dakotas.  He seemed [...]

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10-14-16

By |2016-12-22T22:26:50-09:00October 14th, 2016|Uncategorized|

TransCanada offering a deal for Alberta natural gas shippers  -  Calgary Herald Calgary Herald Homepage ... Reader says 76,000 kilometres of pipelines are on the books or under construction worldwide. ... TransCanada Corp. is offering lower-priced long-term contracts for Alberta natural gas shippers that ... The Calgary-based company says its proposal for a new round of binding .... From our Mid-Atlantic energy analyst friend (Anonymous): Thesis: Crude oil producers have become akin to utilities. They have relatively high fixed costs, through contractual commitments (including debt, rigs rentals, throughput [...]

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10-13-16 Bradner Calls for Caelus Caution

By |2016-10-14T05:22:41-09:00October 14th, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Uncategorized|

ADN by Tim Bradner.  Shucks — just when Alaskans are starting to take our state's huge financial problem seriously, someone finds a bunch of oil. Last week's announcement by Caelus Energy that it had found a large oil accumulation on the North Slope is really good news. But it shouldn't give our legislators an excuse to chicken out again on some tough fiscal decisions. Need for caution For one thing, we have to view Caelus' find with a certain caution. The 6 billion-barrel figure, for example, is oil in place, [...]

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10-11-16 The New President Will Bring Alaska (and America) To Energy Based Prosperity Or Poverty

By |2016-12-22T22:26:51-09:00October 11th, 2016|Alaska Governor Bill Walker, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Coordinator, LNG|

We'd love to see you tomorrow night in Anchorage!  -dh Let's Keep Our Eyes On The Prize: One Presidential Candidate Will Support Reasonable Energy Policies That Build Prosperity And The Other Will Support Unreasonable, Impoverishing Energy Policies.   Dear Readers: Respectfully. It's not whether we prefer the morals of one imperfect candidate over another.  Both are flawed, as have been past presidents, as have been ourselves. One, in our opinion is more fatally flawed than the other, but setting that aside, we choose to focus on the prize. Since our [...]

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10-11-16 Join Us Tomorrow (Wednesday) 6 p.m.!

By |2016-12-22T22:26:51-09:00October 11th, 2016|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, OCS, Personal, Rule Of Law|

ALASKA WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL SOCIAL EVENT (MORE INFO HERE) Join us at 5:30pm for a social mixer with our guest speakers prior to the program start at 6:00pm. Beverages will be available for purchase during the event and social hour. Please plan to arrive earlier if you plan to eat food prior to the program or plan to try 49th State Brewing Co‘s delicious food after the discussion. Speakers: Community Perspective – Mead Treadwell Prior to joining Pt Capital as President, Mead Treadwell served as Alaska’s lieutenant governor and was [...]

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10-10-16 Did Alaska’s Senators Jump The Gun Trashing Trump?

By |2016-12-22T22:26:51-09:00October 10th, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, You Read It Here First|

Our take on this headline: Alaska Sens. Sullivan and Murkowski call on Donald Trump to drop out of presidential race After the disgusting Trump "hot mike" comments from 11 years ago, we collected our thoughts and offered them to Tim Pawlenty last Saturday.  Today, we wish we had similarly counselled Alaska's Senators to not, "jump the gun".  After all the outrage and dust settles, the reality is that a Clinton administration would 1) put the nail in Alaska's natural resource coffin, and 2) coordinate with the liberal Canadian Prime Minister on [...]

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10-9-16

By |2016-10-09T22:26:44-09:00October 9th, 2016|Uncategorized|

Daily Planet by Tom Brennan.  Things seem to be looking up for Alaska. It may be, as the fella says, we’ve been down so long it looks like up to us. But I don’t think so. First and perhaps foremost is the announcement by Caelus Energy that its discovery at Smith Bay off the North Slope coast is likely to produce at least 200,000 barrels a day of light oil for shipment south through the trans-Alaska pipeline.

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