8-13-14
AGDC Chair to speak at Chamber Luncheon ~ Sep 18, Delta News Web, John Burns, Chairman of the Board of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) will be the guest speaker at the September Chamber of ...
9-13-14
AGDC Chair to speak at Chamber Luncheon ~ Sep 18, Delta News Web, John Burns, Chairman of the Board of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) will be the guest speaker at the September Chamber of ...
Alaska Gas Project Moves Foreward
Journal of Commerce by Tim Bradner. Step by step, the Alaska LNG Project is moving forward. The project made a big advance Sept. 5 with its application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to begin a pre-filing process for the project. Earlier this summer an application was submitted to the U.S. Department of Energy for a license to export liquefied natural gas, or LNG. Pre-Front End Engineering and Design work, or pre-FEED, which will cost about half a billion dollars, also got underway this summer.
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9-11-14 ANOTHER NORTHWEST PASSAGE MAY BE VIABLE
9-11-13 "Lest We Forget, Year After Year and Today In 2014 We Remember" - Northern Gas Pipelines 9-2001 Instead of Mackenzie Delta natural gas flowing south, as had been the NWT/Yukon/Alberta dream for 40 years, Oil Sands bitumen flowing north may be one of the answers to Arctic Canada's economic challenges. -dh CBC. Sending oilsands bitumen north through N.W.T. to a port in the Arctic is feasible, according to a study commissioned last year by Alberta. Dubbed the Arctic Gateway Pipeline, the proposed link would ship bitumen along the Mackenzie Valley [...]
9-10-14 The Day Before 9-11, “Lest We Forget”
Hastings: Admin’s Response to Oversight Requests Shameful . “Either the Administration is incompetent or it is going out of its way to expend time and money to withhold information from Congress” WASHINGTON, D.C., September 10, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) delivered the following opening statement at today’s Full Committee oversight hearing entitled “The Status of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Responses to Committee Subpoenas and the Continued Lack of Transparency about Its Implementation and Enforcement of American Wildlife Laws, and Oversight of the Department of the Interior’s Solicitor’s [...]
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9-9-14 Begich – Sullivan Senate Race Makes National Headlines
Found! Lost ship from Sir John Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition near King William Island.... (Stan Rogers Audio-Ballad) This Senate Race Is All About Energy! by Dave Harbour (See Epilog Added 9-10-14, One Day Before 9-11 Anniversary) Yesterday, we found where the Wall Street Journal recently focused on the Mark Begich (NGP Photo-L) - Dan Sullivan (NGP Photo-R) U.S. Senate race. We mention that race here, because its outcome will affect energy policy in Alaska--and elsewhere. In recent years, the U.S. Senate has consistently failed to improve federal energy policies affecting Alaska, [...]
9-8-14 – ALASKA-JAPAN Memorandum Of Cooperation Is A Giant Step Forward For LNG Project
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) reacts to FERC progress toward Alaska LNG export project and TODAY'S Japan-Alaska Memorandum of Cooperation (i.e. two-year, renewable, non-binding understanding between governments ... Read full statement, with link to actual Memorandum). Business News Network. Are Canadian LNG Export Projects Facing An Uphill Battle With Competition? (Reuters) - Japan's trade ministry and Alaska's Department of Natural Resources on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding to help Japan procure low-cost and stable supplies of liquefied natural gas(LNG), a government official said. (Other links: Platts, O&G Journal, US Energy Information Administration) As Energy [...]
9-7-14 Prentice Is Premier-Designate!
National Post by Jen Gerson. Jim Prentice (NGP Photo) has been declared premier-designate of Alberta. After a three-month leadership campaign that ended with weeks of leaks, accusations, and attack ads, the former federal cabinet minister has won the province’s top seat with a record low turnout for a leadership race in a party that has held power in the province for 43 consecutive years. Prentice won with 77% of the vote. “I think the party is well-positioned for the future,” said interim premier Dave Hancock. “And the leadership going forward.... [...]
9-6-14 Jim Prentice Rises….
We first met Jim Prentice (NGP Photo) in Calgary while chairing the Arctic Gas Symposium several years ago. We visited together over lunch and then came the presentations. After following his career for nearly a decade we believe that as Premier of Alberta, his service would continue to reflect well on the citizens and his own considerable abilities. We further believe that he has the experience and judgment required for a future Prime Minister. Following is today's CBC story by Michelle Bellefontaine & Caitlin Hanson. -dh CBC. Jim Prentice has [...]
9-5-14
Northern Gateway pipeline unlikely to start up by 2018, project president says. Calgary Herald. The president of the Northern Gateway pipeline says it's ... would make use of underused natural gas pipe that's already in the ground. Next week's edition of Petroleum News released today; here are the headlines (We encourage NGP readers to subscribe): Through to 2019 09/07/2014 (Trouble viewing this article? Click here) Chugach Electric Association has released volume and price information for the recently announced extension to its gas purchase agreement with gas producer Hilcorp Alaska. In an Aug. 27 filing with the Regulatory [...]
9-4-14 Mining and Oil & Gas Have Much In Common: Sustaining Canadian & American Lifestyles
Mining.com. Here, "Visual Capitalist" helps us to grasp the enormous breadth, depth and wealth of Canada's Oil Sands, which makes a conduit (or, pipeline conduits) through the United States and other Canadian provinces even more valuable to those areas due to associated jobs and property tax benefits. Citizens of both states and provinces should not be fooled by environmental activist tomfoolery which seeks to isolate and lock up that wealth for both current and future generations. Demonizing and then snapping a ball and chain around the legs of reasonable natural resource [...]
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9-3-14 Top Energy Summits Coming
While we draw special attention to the following, upcoming meetings, we also urge readers to explore links to resource development, chamber of commerce and other similar groups in the U.S. and Canada which are linked above, and in the right-hand column. -dh "A Plethora of Organizations?" I've heard some say, "These organizations are duplicative! I can't support them all!" But this mindset ignores that free enterprise is under attack from a massive and well-organized Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal. The foundations, political activists and Soros-supported 'not-for-profit' organizations do not suffer from stingy donors. As [...]
9-2-14 Remember When The Alaska Gas Project Would Be ‘Largest Construction Project’?
Remember When Alaska Considered 'Gas To Liquids'? By Frank DiCesare / American Press A main component of Sasol’s final regulatory hurdle has been cleared. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday approved Sasol wetlands modification permit, allowing the company to disrupt -- and later replace -- wetlands during construction. Mike Hayes, Sasol’s public affairs manager for U.S. megaprojects, told the American Press on Friday that the permit will also allow Sasol to move ahead with the project's financing. "This means we can start planning to ask management for our Final Investment [...]
9-1-14
Since it is a holiday and since most vital northern energy issues are taking another day of rest, we bring you links to issues directly and indirectly related to energy...that we normally wouldn't feature due to other priority stories, issues and editorials. -dh Public Employee Union Day A lot has changed for organized labor since Labor Day was federally recognized 120 years ago. Obama's low-income, community lending shakedown reaches $128 billion Bank of America and other institutions get busted for engaging in risky low-income lending, and naturally, their penalty is to [...]
8-31-14
Marsden: Our oil gets a rougher ride than even dirty U.S. coal, Calgary Herald. ... talk about greenhouse gases being a reason to deny twinning of an existingpipeline. ... David Marsden is a member of the Herald editorial board.