Oil Bulls Are In Trouble Kenai Peninsula Borough makes FERC Resource Reports Available to Public Alaska LNG Resource Reports Available Online Posted: 20 Jul 2016 09:45 AM PDT By Larry Persily July 20, 2016 Alaska LNG’s resource reports to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission are available on the Kenai Peninsula Borough website. Click here and select the report. As of July 20, Report No. 1 General Project Description and No. 10 Project Alternatives are available on the website; others will be added as they become available in the [...]

Canadian Libs Want It Both Ways: Grudgingly Support Downstream Pipelines by Enthusiastically Increasing Carbon Costs Upstream and Pipeline "Conditions".   This way, climate change pols can get tax money flowing from pipelines while piously defending them by paying homage to the climate change emission gods -- and collecting even more penalty taxes to boot.  What's the problem; government's got to make a living, too.   And you wouldn't want to cut the helpful bureaucracy, right?  -dh Notley says slow Canadian economic growth part of NDP's case for pipelines [...]

U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan, NGP stock photo by Dave Harbour Must Read Alaska by Suzanne Downing.  Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan will be one of the speakers at the Republican National Convention, his office has told Must Read Alaska. The exact time will be announced soon, but it will be in “prime time” for television viewers. ... U.S. Senate is his first held elected office. Prior to his election, Sullivan served as Alaska’s Attorney General and Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources. For Our Support [...]

Calgary Herald by Deborah Yedlin. There is no mistaking the sense of weariness pervading this year’s Stampede Week. Even the weather isn’t co-operating. But things are different compared to a year ago — when there were no deals being done, neither in the equity markets nor on the merger and acquisition front. In addition to the $15 billion that has been raised in the oilpatch since the beginning of the year — with most if not all deals being oversubscribed — there have been some interesting transactions that have taken place: [...]

AGDC’s Meyer: AK LNG hinges on better relations with Legislature (Our NGP comment: "Earth to Meyer.  Your greatest AGDC challenge is trying to run a government funded, governor supervised, legislative oversighted, highly regulated, taxed, politicized, and socialized project as if it were a freely developed enterprise -- which it is not.   Just wait until the enviros & socialists & feds decide to attack the project: they'll have a field day with the bear skin nailed to the door of the Houston office."  -dh) By: Elwood Brehmer Alaska Journal of Commerce [...]

Tim Bradner: Ending state's gas line partnership with producers would be a mistake

News updates of particular interest to our energy readers, courtesy of the Alaska State Senate Majority: Walker faces recall effort in response to budget vetoes Governor Bill Walker faces a potential campaign to recall him from office. Joe Miller backs the effort. He was the runner-up in the 2010 U.S. Senate campaign and 2014 Senate Republican primary. Sullivan on Trump VP vetting; ‘I was probably as surprised as you’ Is Donald Trump considering Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan for Vice President? A piece by People magazine speculating the Senator may [...]