8-30-14 Another Labor Day Without Job Producing Keystone XL Pipeline

By |2016-12-22T22:29:11-09:00August 30th, 2014|Federal Obstruction|

This weekend's Consumer Energy Alliance Energy Links: BuildKXLNow.org: Another Labor Day without Keystone XL This coming Labor Day Weekend marks the fourth year Union construction workers will not be taking a day off from building the Keystone XL Pipeline to enjoy an end to the summer BBQ. Six years of delays are hurting, not helping, the thousands of people who will see benefits from pipeline construction. Independent and government reviews have exhaustively documented how construction would affect the U.S. economy, especially Union workers in the construction and manufacturing sectors.   The [...]

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8-29-14 NYT Reports On Alaska Tax Referendum

By |2016-03-13T03:55:23-09:00August 29th, 2014|Alaska Taxes|

NYT by Kirk Johnson.  SEATTLE — A hard-fought ballot referendum that would have overturned Alaska’s system of taxing oil industry profits, put to voters last week but until now considered too close to call, has failed by a narrow margin, with absentee ballots counted this week nailing down the outcome.

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8-28-14 President Set To Sidestep Congress Again. Where Is The Congressional Outrage?

By |2016-12-22T22:29:12-09:00August 28th, 2014|Federal Obstruction|

New York Times by Coral Davenport.  The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress.   In preparation for this agreement, to be signed at a United Nations summit meeting in 2015 in Paris, the negotiators are meeting with diplomats from other countries to broker a deal to commit some of the world’s largest economies to enact laws to reduce their carbon pollution. But under the Constitution, a president may enter [...]

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8-27-14 Like Alaska, Canadian Arctic Is Committed To Natural Gas

By |2016-12-22T22:29:12-09:00August 27th, 2014|Uncategorized|

Daily Courier.  Several months after the town of Inuvik, N.W.T., began trucking in liquefied natural gas to generate some of its power, the territorial government wants to do the same in smaller communities that continue to rely on dirtier and costlier diesel. But David Ramsay (NGP Photo), whose cabinet responsibilities in the Northwest Territories government include investment Eye On The Arctic by Ellis Quinn.  Premier Harper will visit Canada’s northwestern Yukon territory, the Northwest Territories and the eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut from August 21 -26. “Our Government is working [...]

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8-26-14 New App Tracks Canadian Drilling Rigs! An Alaska Business Opportunity?

By |2016-03-13T03:55:08-09:00August 26th, 2014|Alaska Taxes|

Calgary Herald, by Dan Healing.  A six-month-old app developed to track and identify drilling rigs in Western Canada has been burning up the rankings for free business downloads lately.  And the nine staff at Calgary-based startup software developer PetroFeed Inc. couldn’t be happier.  “It’s gotten some exposure and things are working out pretty well for us,” said founder and chief executive Ashley Dunfield. “We’ve gotten crazy explosive growth in the ’patch.” OPINION: The burden of proof that SB21 is the right plan for Alaska is on the oil industry now, [...]

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8-25-14 Canada Working To Defend Arctic Sovereignty

By |2016-03-13T03:55:08-09:00August 25th, 2014|Uncategorized|

Petroleum News by Gary Park.  Canada has two icebreakers in the High Arctic collecting scientific data that is designed to bolster its case for control of the seafloor on the Continental Shelf, including the North Pole. The Coast Guard vessels, Terry Fox and Louis S. St-Laurent, will spend six weeks on the mission “to ensure that Canada secures international recognition of the full extent” of the region, said Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.

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8-24-14

By |2016-03-13T03:55:08-09:00August 24th, 2014|Uncategorized|

Petroleum News by Alan Bailey.  In an Aug. 6 filing Chugach Electric Association has requested Regulatory Commission of Alaska approval of a revised tariff that extends the electric utility’s gas supply agreement with Hilcorp Alaska LLC for a year, from April 1, 2018, to March 31, 2019. The current supply agreement terminates on March 31, 2018.

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8-23-14

By |2016-12-22T22:29:12-09:00August 23rd, 2014|Alaska Taxes|

Fuel Fix by Colin Eaton.   By a slim margin, Alaska’s new business-friendly oil tax regime has survived an effort to overturn it and  revert to a previous tax structure that cost companies more. A measure on the state’s primary ballot Tuesday would have reinstated Alaska’s progressive oil taxes, originally installed in 2007 under former Gov. Sarah Palin and dismantled last year in an effort to lure oil companies to the state. The old taxes were tied to crude prices, and oil companies say they would have hampered the industry’s [...]

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For Readers Interested In Travel and Photography

By |2016-12-22T22:29:13-09:00August 23rd, 2014|Uncategorized|

Under Construction.... Enjoy these Amazingly Timed Photos!  1.  Ecuador.  Some of our reader friends know of our long time interest in Latin cultures, generally, and particularly in the Ecuadorian lifestyle. Here is a link to our home/rental unit in Cuenca, world retirement capital where life is analog slow: we walk on cobblestone streets; consume the freshest fruits,  vegetables, seafood, poultry and farm animals; pay $17 a year in property tax; walk everywhere in a city (or, take a $2 cab) with a little bigger population than Anchorage; and have many Ecuadorian friends.   We have [...]

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8-22-14 Alaska Gas Project: Permits Galore!

By |2016-12-22T22:29:13-09:00August 22nd, 2014|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|

ADN Op-Ed by Nils Andeassen.  America’s increasing attention on the Arctic is timely and well-deserved but it’s important to recognize that there have been many individuals and organizations whose focus on the Arctic over the years we are now building on. Office of the Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator, by Bill White.   Keystone XL CBC by Sophia Harris.  America and Canada are friends. That’s the main message Americans got from phase one of the federal government's multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to promote Canadian oil in Washington and drum up support [...]

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8-21-14 LNG Competition: What We Can Do To Help!

By |2016-12-22T22:29:13-09:00August 21st, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, LNG|

Is The Alaska LNG Project In A Race With Canada's Painted Pony? Commentary on, "A Brave New World of LNG Export Competition", by Dave Harbour Our friend, James Halloran (below, right) advises his newsletter recipients this morning that LNG Project competition is intense.  This is why Alaska cannot take its resources for granted--cannot just assume that they will be both marketable and marketed.  And, we can help!  In a Brave New World of LNG export competition, Alaska's government and people need to work with and support reasonable natural resource development in the State. [...]

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8-20-14

By |2016-03-13T03:55:08-09:00August 20th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|

  Yesterday's Election Results: Scroll down for yesterday's analysis. KTUU.  The outcome of Ballot Measure 1 decided whether Alaska should keep changes the Legislature made earlier this year to the state's oil tax structure.  Controversy surrounded the divisive issue from the time legislation was proposed through the days leading to the election.

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8-19-14 Today Alaskan Voters Determine Their Future!

By |2016-12-22T22:29:13-09:00August 19th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Rule Of Law|

Primary Election Day In Alaska A Historic Day Whereupon Alaskan Voters Will Determine the Future Of Their State and Their Country! by Dave Harbour ​(Responses to commentary) Alaska: Where A Deal Is A Deal? Last Spring we wrote a four part series, here, on Alaska's oil tax history going back to forty years.  We also explored Alaska's current status as a competitive investment climate and coined a phrase: "In Alaska, Is A Deal A Deal?", and variations on that theme. In one column, below, we explored the concept of a competitive investment climate/tax [...]

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8-18-14 ND Production Makes New Record

By |2016-03-13T03:55:07-09:00August 18th, 2014|Uncategorized|

Washington Times - AP.   North Dakota’s Industrial Commission says oil production numbers hit record highs again in the state in June as the state’s booming oil industry continues to grow. A report released Friday shows oil drillers in the state produced an average of about 1.09 million barrels of oil a day in June.

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8-17-14

By |2016-03-13T03:55:07-09:00August 18th, 2014|Uncategorized|

Petroleum News Alaska by Eric Lidji.  Hilcorp planning Bartolowits program - 08/17/2014  Hilcorp Alaska LLC is planning a five-well program at the Ninilchik unit. The Houston-based independent plans to drill two development wells at the Bartolowits pad by the end of the year and as many as three additional wells through 2017. The Bartolowits pad is in the northern portion of the Ninilch.....  

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