7-14-14 Consumer Energy Alliance Looks Out For Us All

By |2016-12-22T22:29:18-09:00July 14th, 2014|Federal Obstruction|

As longtime supporters of Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), we appreciate this week's notes below from Natalie Joubert (NGP Photo), of the organization's Washington Office.  CEA works to make sure energy consumer interests are served and their projects include support for the Keystone XL pipeline, many Alaska energy positions endorsed by Alaska leaders and Lower 48 energy issues also affecting both Alaska and Canada.  -dh Calls to Action: CEA is seeking our readers' support on initiatives this month, including: Comments on the OCS Five-Year Offshore Oil & Gas Leasing Program; Comments and [...]

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7-11-14 Native Leaders Support SB 21 – Is Enbridge Alaska’s Newest Pipeline Sweetheart?

By |2016-12-22T22:29:18-09:00July 11th, 2014|AGDC, Alaska Taxes, Intrastate Gas, You Read It Here First|

Did You Read It Here First?  Last Night The Globe & Mail Posted News Involving A Relationship Between One of Canada's Greatest Pipeline Companies And The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation. Globe & Mail by Shawn McCarthy.   Enbridge Inc. is turning its eyes north to Alaska, entering talks with the state to build an $8-billion (U.S.) natural gas pipeline there if a competing project falters. The Calgary energy company and the state-owned Alaska Gas Development Corp. (AGDC) “are undertaking substantive and exclusive discussion” which would see Enbridge become the builder and [...]

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7-10-14 Respecting The Duty To Consult

By |2016-12-22T22:29:18-09:00July 10th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Rule Of Law, You Read It Here First|

See the LNG Project's Public Meeting Schedule here.  News Miner Story: Gasline Advisory Board          See Senator Cathy Giessel's 5-year OCS Lease Sale Comment Letter, here. Here is how our readers can comment. Respecting both "Due Process" and the “Duty to Consult" by Dave Harbour Canada's "Duty to Consult" (1,2) and America's similar concept are not and should not be just legal requirements for natural resource companies.  Consultation is a basic principle of good communications, responsible corporate citizenship, or, at the least, enlightened self interest. Bill Gallagher We have [...]

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7-9-14

By |2016-03-13T03:55:06-09:00July 9th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|

Globe & Mail by Jeffery Jones.  A big supporter of oil sands industry expansion, as well as export pipelines such as Keystone XL, Jeff Immelt said he wants to share his company’s environmental technology as a way to win over critics concerned about the climate impact of the oil sands. Respecting the "Duty to Consult" by Dave Harbour Canada's "Duty to Consult" (1,2) is not and should not be just a legal requirement for natural resource companies -- it is a basic principle of good communications, responsible corporate citizenship, or, at [...]

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7-8-14 Fairbanks is ‘gearing up’ for a ‘deluge of affordable, clean-burning natural gas’.

By |2016-03-13T03:55:06-09:00July 8th, 2014|AGDC, Intrastate Gas|

1350+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic Arguments Against ACC/AGW Alarmism Fairbanks News Miner by Matt Buxton.  Utilities, state agencies and local leaders are gearing up for what they say will be a great deluge of affordable, clean-burning natural gas into the Fairbanks area.  Crews are busily installing service lines, utilities are boasting of grand plans for expansion, there are town halls on the subject and local politicians are patting themselves on the back.

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7-7-14 Feds Not Credited For Energy Surge (EIA)

By |2016-12-22T22:29:19-09:00July 7th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Federal Obstruction|

  Comment by Robert Dillon (NGP Photo), Senator Lisa Murkowski's Senate Energy Committee Staff   We’ve known for some time that the majority of new oil and natural gas production in the United States was occurring on private and state lands. Fairbanks News Miner by Jim Dodson. Develop Alaska’s human resources. Increase its standard of living. Diversify its economy. Strengthen free competition in its private sector economy. Here at Fairbanks Economic Development, we are in favor of “Vote No on 1.” Our reasons are simple: we believe the description of “maximum benefit,” [...]

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7-5-14 Alaska Gasline Agreement Signed

By |2016-12-22T22:29:19-09:00July 7th, 2014|AGDC, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|

Governor's Website – Citing significant progress on an Alaska gasline that gets Alaska’s gas to Alaskans and markets beyond, Governor Sean Parnell welcomed news that a formal commercial agreement has been signed between the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC), BP, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and TransCanada to advance the Alaska LNG Project. “Environmental and pipeline engineering fieldwork has officially begun,” Governor Parnell said. “I am pleased all parties continue to make progress on building an Alaska gasline project that will create thousands of Alaska jobs and fuel Alaska homes and businesses. This milestone [...]

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7-3-14

By |2016-12-22T22:29:19-09:00July 4th, 2014|Uncategorized|

TODAY'S Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator Office Energy Links: Indonesia signs new LNG pricing deal with China at $8 per million Btu Indonesia sells 18 LNG cargoes to BP at $14.80 per million Btu BP signs 20-year LNG supply deal with Chinese company Korean shipyard waits for Yamal LNG to complete tanker orders Rosneft says it will go to court to gain access to Gazprom pipeline Gazprom names new head of gas export division New French pipeline could move imported LNG to Germany Contract dispute between Bechtel, unions threatens Australia [...]

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7-2-14: Fairbanks Natural Gas Wants Rate Increase

By |2016-12-22T22:29:19-09:00July 2nd, 2014|Uncategorized|

ADN by Dermot Cole.  Fairbanks Natural Gas said Monday it wants a 6.92 percent rate increase, filing a cost study and other documents with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska in which it makes the case that it should be allowed to collect $1.4 million more from its customers under standard utility practice. Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2014/07/01/3543284/fairbanks-natural-gas-seeks-rate.html?sp=/99/171/#storylink=cpy   TODAY'S Consumer Energy Alliance Energy Links: NBC News: Main Street, Montana: Small Towns Pray for Keystone XL Pipeline The town hangs like a charm on the proposed route of the Keystone XL, a pipeline that [...]

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7-1-14 Russian Arctic Aggression Targets Alaska and Canada

By |2016-03-13T03:54:43-09:00July 1st, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|

NGP Readers Connect The Dots To Anticipate the Future: We Note US Financial Misstep Yesterday (scroll down) and Defense Vulnerabilities Today...With A Little Help From CBC.  -dh CBC by Brian Steward.  ...     Putin even seems determined to test spots along the vast North American Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), which stretches out 200 miles, or 321 kilometres, beyond Canadian and U.S. continental borders.   U.S. jets intercepted Russian long-range bombers off Alaska and California this month, just the latest in an increasing number of confrontations off the Pacific coast. [...]

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6-30-14 FACHA’s Chances

By |2016-12-22T22:29:19-09:00June 30th, 2014|Commentary|

Fairbanks News Miner, by Matt Buxton.  Things were quiet out at Flint Hills Resources’s North Pole refinery on Friday. There were crews cleaning and dismantling Crude Unit 2, the last refining unit to close in May, but gone is the loud buzz of crude being refined into gasoline and jet fuel. Commentary: FACTA and Energy (We invite readers to correct any misunderstanding we may have and offer additions/corrections.  We particularly invite comments regarding the effect of FACTA on energy companies/employees.  Comment here.) It isn't an energy issue, but, yet it [...]

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6-27-14 Walt Parker

By |2016-03-13T03:54:16-09:00June 27th, 2014|Personal|

Point of Personal Privilege.  Upon arriving at my first Alaskan Job with Alaska Methodist University in 1971 (i.e. now, APU), I was greeted warmly by a number of new friends.   One of those, was Walt Parker (NGP Photo, Circa. 2007), in whose company I spent hours discussing the future of Alaska, the relationship of Alaska's Constitutional principles to the state's prosperity, local land use planning in Anchorage, Alaska Native land claims and the importance of properly developing Alaska's natural resources. It is, therefore, with sadness for loss of his [...]

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6-26-14 Senator Murkowski Fights Oil Export Ban – Premier Mcleod Fights For Northern Gateway

By |2016-12-22T22:29:20-09:00June 26th, 2014|Uncategorized|

Bloomberg.  Michael Whatley (NGP Photo) called the Keystone XL pipeline a "vitally important" project that could bring discounted oil to U.S. refineries. ... Mark Rodriguez, president of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, also endorsed the project.... This morning, Chester Carson of Senator Lisa Murkowski's staff announced her release of this report that finds that the United States is the only advanced nation in the world with a ban on oil exports. The report – A Ban for One: The Outdated Prohibition on U.S. Oil Exports in Global Context – shows that of [...]

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6-25-14 “This is Alaska’s time — and it feels like we’re back in the game” – ConocoPhillips Alaska President Trond-Erik Johansen

By |2016-12-22T22:29:20-09:00June 25th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Progress, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, Reader Comment|

Resource Development Council for Alaska Report Below Publisher's Note: Our friend, Alaska Salmon Alliance Executive Director Arni Thomson (NGP Photo) provides us with this link to the Seattle Times: "North Dakota is booming, and its largest city has reinvented itself, attracting creative types and energetic entrepreneurs."   Recently, we pointed out that Alaska had the lowest domestic product gain of any state, during 2013...in sharp contrast to other oil producing states that are moving ahead of Alaska, including North Dakota, Texas and even California. Our friend from Senator Lisa Murkowski's Energy Committee Staff, Robert Dillon (NGP Photo), today [...]

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