ov Walker administration goes clueless in pursuit of fiscal plan, gas line. Alaska Dispatch News To make it happen, the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. paid $25,000 — $25,000 — to buy a silver sponsorship at the CWC World LNG and Gas ...
Panda and Aheer: Effort to win social license has been a failure, Calgary Herald. Calgary Herald Homepage ... It's why no one should be surprised that the Energy East pipeline project is facing new ... and the unemployment rate in Calgary threatening to hit double digits by Christmas, the NDP ... Instead of allowing pipeline projects and the NEB to be attacked by politicians Trudeau's pipeline remark puts focus on Pacific Northwest LNG project CBC.ca - "The Great Bear rainforest is no place for a crude oil pipeline and I haven't [...]
LATE AFTERNOON BREAKING NEWS (Scroll Down For Full Story): Commissioner Mack issues statement on Prudhoe Bay Unit decision (We'll let our savvy readers decide for themselves.... -dh) Attend the ALLIANCE's Annual Industry Update Forum in Fairbanks! - An ALBERTA court case is boosting environmental clean-up costs in other provinces - A new venture for the ALASKA railroad: Liquefied natural gas delivery test could provide low-cost energy ... - "Shooting at their own feet" -dh: CANADIAN First Nations, US tribes form alliance to stop oil pipelines FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 23, 2016 Breaking Story, 3 P.M.: Commissioner [...]
September 22, 2016 --- Vol. 22, No. 35 September 2016 DNR approves Prudhoe POD Tim Bradner Petroleum News, by Tim Bradner. State Natural Resources Commissioner Andy Mack has approved BP's 2016 Plan of Development for the Prudhoe Bay field on the North Slope, taking a highly contentious issue between the state and industry off the table.BP is the operator of the Prudhoe field on behalf of itself and other owners including ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil. A dispute had developed over a request by Gov. Bill Walker and former [...]
TransCanada bid for new pipeline deal stirs fear of 10-year tolls AGDC and ConocoPhillips Execute MOU – Position for Next Steps AGDC News Release – The State of Alaska (through the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation, or AGDC) and ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. have executed a Memorandum of Understanding MOU) regarding negotiations to form a joint venture company (JV) that could facilitate marketing LNG from the Alaska LNG project to global LNG markets and acquire North Slope gas, with the goal of bringing LNG buyers and North Slope wellhead sellers [...]
Here is Alaska's newest competitor. Don't get mad at Canada, Alaskans. Be responsible. Quit blaming others for Alaska's geographic and political shortcomings. Work on compensating for the state's stranded Arctic gas liabilities with competitive policies that attract rather than vilify investors!. -dh Calgary Herald/CP A northwestern Alberta natural gas producer dismayed by Canada’s “grossly oversupplied” gas market is investing in a company that has vowed to build a liquefied natural gas export terminal on Vancouver Island. Calgary-based Seven Generations Energy says it will take a minority stake in [...]
Honoring another dearly departed friend, Father Norman Elliott From Ak-Headlamp this morning: AGDC president Keith Meyer challenged the idea that Alaska LNG isn't the best path forward for the state in an Alaska Dispatch News op-ed. According to Meyer, "Everyone wants to monetize their gas, but we want to open the project to broader market participation. AGDC welcomes producer investment but also recognizes that investing in the project assets as an equity owner may not generate the return they need. Setting up a transparent tolling structure allows [...]
When Trust Is Trussed In Webs of Abuse (Forbes: Hope For Massive Alaska Energy Project Crashes and Burns ***** Clarion: Hope springs eternal - but the money won't) Sir Walter Scott's, "Oh! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive", contains a principle of trust essential to the survival of a free state. We have seen what a tangled web the U.S. federal administration has spun by its pattern of lawlessness and overreaching jurisdiction justified by complex alibis (i.e. IRS, Keystone, Pebble, Dakota Access, Alaska, etc.) We have also seen a new [...]
Point of Personal Privilege: Your author was honored to have called Bill his friend. -dh William E. Brooks (1916 - 2016) "Bill's smiling face will be missed. We are thinking of..." - Steve & Joanna Bobko-Hillenaar William (Bill) Edward Brooks has "gone west". He died September 15 at the age of 100. Bill was born February 9, 1916, in Klamath Falls, OR to Alden Ira and Leota Jean Brooks and grew up on a cattle ranch where he learned hard work and respect for others that later brought him great [...]
We are delighted to note that one of Washington's most knowledgeable energy analysts is joining the office of House Speaker Paul Ryan. We think our Alaskan, Canadian and Lower 48 readers will be grateful that such an advisor will be in such a position to improve energy decision and policy making in Washington. -dh GOP Energy Veteran Kish To Ryan's Office: As Playbook readers found out this morning, Institute for Energy Research Senior Vice President Dan Kish is headed to Speaker Paul Ryan 's office as a new policy adviser for energy, environment, [...]
Please note that we have always supported creation of an economic, Alaska North Slope gas monetization project. We have also observed that continuing efforts by politicians to "do it my way" over the last 45 years have been costly, wasteful efforts to master the free market -- always unsuccessfully. We are particularly concerned that Alaska's governor has an unrealistic fixation on government control over the "means" of energy production and transportation -- regardless of market supply/demand realities. We hope he studies the history of Venezuela and Argentina and [...]
From Ak-Headlamp: In a report released yesterday, in the Alaska section, BP said that about 16,200 people owed their jobs to the company, divided among direct employees, contractors and other support staff. That's a drop from more than 24,200 jobs in 2014, according to the oil producer's two most recent reports. "This is largely reflective of the price environment we're in," said Dawn Patience, press officer for BP Alaska. BP's U.S. Economic Impact Report 2016 is an annual update on the company's activities. With operations from Alaska to the Lower 48 and in deep-water [...]
From Must Read Alaska: FATHER ELLIOTT TAKES HIS LEAVE Beloved to many Alaskans, Father Norman Elliott passed away on Sept. 9, 2016. He was 97. Father Elliott was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was heading to seminary when he joined the Army in 1942, after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Elliott fought the Germans in France, Luxembourg, Germany, and England. In an interview, he said in 2013: “I remember good times, I remember bad times. I remember times where I barely escaped by the skin [...]
Lest We Forget: 9-11 REMEMBRANCE OF GAS PIPELINES POLITICAL PIPEDREAMS: LEST WE FORGET! by Dave Harbour Maybe history teaches that political pipedreams don't work so well. Would it not be wise to learn from our past? Would it not be logical to offer support and not hostile dictates to private sector investors -- for a change -- so that they might realistically conform energy exploration, production, development, transportation, marketing and distribution hopes to the realism of private sector expertise, science-based planning, decision-making agility, competition-inspired efficiency, volatile market [...]
Still on the road, but posting important updates as we receive them! Canada's National Energy Board says the three-man panel assessing TransCanada's (NYSE:TRP) proposed Energy East pipeline will step down "to preserve the integrity" of the board, a decision sure to drag out an already lengthy appraisal process. Critics had urged the dismissal of two of three panel members after it emerged that they had privately discussed the project last year with former Quebec Premier Charest, who was working for TRP as a consultant at the time. Environmentalists say the [...]