4-4-14

By |2016-03-13T03:52:56-09:00April 5th, 2014|Uncategorized|

Roll Call (4/3/14) reports: The wind industry may be feeling butterflies as the sector’s Production Tax Credit (PTC) is up for renewal again. But Washington’s usual handout to keep the turbines spinning may be harder to win this time round because of a new twist: experts are warning a renewal will lead to increased carbon emissions. According to said experts, PTC subsidies for wind are incentives for turbine operators to sell energy at negative prices or a loss. That’s because wind producers still receive positive margins during negative price hours due [...]

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4-3-14

By |2016-12-22T22:29:39-09:00April 3rd, 2014|Uncategorized|

We're en route from Ecuador to Alaska.  Here are relevant Consumer Energy Alliance clips Townhall: The Russian Bear and the American Pipeline *Michael Whatley Op-Ed If there were any doubt about the importance of pipelines to national security, it ought to have been erased by recent events in Crimea and Ukraine as the Russian Bear has pawed away the former from the latter. Europe is vulnerable because 16% of its natural gas comes through Ukraine. It is a powerful reminder of why the Keystone XL Pipeline is critical to our own national security. [...]

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4-2-14

By |2016-12-22T22:29:39-09:00April 2nd, 2014|Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, Notes From the Road|

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released a report demonstrating that the Department of Commerce retains the power to modernize its regulations and allow condensate exports.   The report contains more than 40 pages of Commerce Department decisions from the 1970s and 1980s on expanded exports of residual fuel oil, petroleum coke, butane, specialty naphtha, and other petroleum-related products. Fairbanks News Miner by Matt Buxton.  Mayors from communities along the route of a proposed natural gas pipeline still are wary about the project’s impacts despite Gov. Sean Parnell’s creation of a project [...]

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4-1-14

By |2016-12-22T22:29:39-09:00April 1st, 2014|ANWR, Intrastate Gas, Keystone XL, LNG|

Fairbanks News Miner.  House Speaker Mike Chenault on Monday said he plans to propose allowing out-of-state residents to serve on the board of directors of a corporation that could play a key role in a major liquefied natural gas project in Alaska. In a memo to lawmakers, Chenault, R-Nikiski, said he will offer the amendment to SB124, a bill to extend the sunset date of the Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, during a House Rules Committee hearing Thursday. Chenault said he would have preferred to find another bill [...]

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3-31-14

By |2016-12-22T22:29:39-09:00March 31st, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Intrastate Gas, Notes From the Road|

Kenai Peninsula Clarion Editorial.  Last week, Gov. Sean Parnell created a municipal advisory board to weigh in on issues surrounding a natural gas pipeline project that could eventually tie communities together from Prudhoe Bay to Nikiski (i.e. See News Miner Story).​  While it’s laudable that the governor chose to allow several of those communities to weigh in — representatives from North Slope, Fairbanks North Star, Denali, Matanuska-Susitna, and the Kenai Peninsula Borough will be able to weigh in — we find other parts of the pipeline development process to be troubling.   More.... Latest On the Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal Powerline Blog, 2-27-14. [...]

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3-30-14 Dr. Milton Byrd

By |2017-06-04T12:22:15-09:00March 30th, 2014|Personal|

Point of personal privilege.  Last week I spoke of the passing of a dear friend, Dr. Milton Byrd (NGP Photo). Today I was moved by a greater fullness of his life than I had been aware, thanks to an obituary provided by his loving family. For example, I knew of only one of Milton's educational positions and accomplishments before his move to Alaska. Yet, in my defense, how would I know of every accomplishment of a truly private and serious man who seemed always engaged, not with the past, but on the next [...]

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3-28-14

By |2016-03-13T03:51:55-09:00March 28th, 2014|Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas|

Juneau Empire.  Roger Marks (NGP Photo), a petroleum economist in private practice, gives the House Resources Committee his evaluation of Senate Bill 138 and the associated proposed North Slope natural gas commercialization proposals at the Capitol on Thursday. National Journal.  Two facts should keep Interior Secretary Sally Jewell awake at night. First, if Republicans win the Senate, Alaska's Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) will wield tremendous leverage over Jewell's department. She would lead both the Energy and Natural Resources Committee that oversees the department and the Appropriations subcommittee that controls its [...]

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3-27-14 “‘S.V.’ of Alaska Proposing Annexation to Russia”

By |2016-03-13T03:51:54-09:00March 27th, 2014|Uncategorized|

Fox News.  A petition on the White House website created by “S.V.” of Anchorage is calling on Alaskans and others to "vote" for Alaska to secede from the U.S. and become a part of Russia.  (Comment: In the wake of federal government overreach, we can understand a certain logic in advocating secession but not in affiliation with Putin's homeland.  -dh)

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3-26-14 Parnell Creates LNG Project Municipal Advisory Board

By |2016-12-22T22:29:39-09:00March 26th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Intrastate Gas, LNG, Notes From the Road|

Fairbanks News Miner by Matt Buxton.   After local mayors raised concerns over how the state’s natural gas pipeline deal could deprive communities of millions in property taxes, Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) established a board tasked with reviewing the pipeline. Parnell signed an order creating the Municipal Advisory Gas Project Review Board, which will “develop a framework for assessing the impact and benefits, especially on communities, of a future Alaska natural gas line,” according to a press release Tuesday.

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3-25-14 A Frontal Attack On States’ Rights

By |2016-12-22T22:29:39-09:00March 26th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|

OP-Ed by Joseph Cafariello.  The EU’s 28 member states have mandated that the European Commission come up with a plan within three months to outline ways in which Europe can satisfy its energy needs without continued reliance on Russia.  (Energy Nation says, "Tell Congress To Increase LNG Exports"; Photo: Map of Ukraine gas pipelines bringing gas from Russia to the EU states.) U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, yesterday called the proposed EPA wetlands rule unfair, unwise and unnecessary.’  (Murkowski also opposes EPA rule.) U.S. [...]

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3-25-14

By |2016-03-13T03:51:54-09:00March 25th, 2014|Intrastate Gas|

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, will hold a hearing at 10 a.m. EDT today on how the United States can responsibly export natural gas to create high-paying jobs and turn the United States into an energy superpower. WATCH LIVE: http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/live-webcast Last week, the Russian government sanctioned Sen. Landrieu from entering Russia.The Senator vowed that the sanction would not stop her pushing to expand domestic energy production, responsibly increase energy exports around the world and continue supporting our allies and lovers of democracy.

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3-24-14

By |2016-12-22T22:29:40-09:00March 24th, 2014|Arctic Policy, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Interstate Gas|

Washington Post Editorial.  DEBATE HAS raged over whether the United States can fight Vladimir Putin on the Russian president’s most favorable ground: energy politics. It can, and it should, particularly because there’s an obvious path forward that coincides with the United States’ — indeed, the world’s — economic interests. That path is lifting irrational restrictions on exports and making it easier to build natural gas export terminals. Comment:  This comment and our archives will supplement the adjacent story.   Late last year we began documenting with more and more detail the relationship of socialist [...]

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3-22-14 “We can’t always judge a book by its cover.”

By |2016-12-22T22:29:40-09:00March 22nd, 2014|Commentary, Notes From the Road, Personal|

Governor's Prayer Breakfast In Anchorage This Morning   While the live event is sold out, NGP readers can attend the virtual event on line by going here.  The Prayer Breakfast coverage begins at 8 this morning, which is noon EDT. We have attended and covered these events in the past. Question.  Why would we do that?  Answer.  We make occasional reference to the omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent creator of the Universe here because we are lost in the chaos of temporal issues without Him.   American and Canadian energy projects, family plans, [...]

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3-21-14 Court Weighs In On Pebble Referendum

By |2016-12-22T22:29:40-09:00March 21st, 2014|Commentary, Notes From the Road, Rule Of Law|

Some Dear Readers have inquired about our travels.  While we always devote hours keeping NGP current -- no matter where we are --- we do not deny opportunities for consulting, photography, general writing projects and a little personal enjoyment.  Last Friday, here in Cuenca, Ecuador, we went to a nearby 'volcanic spa' after updating our pipeline projects and wrote about it on Facebook last Saturday.  Here is a glimpse.  Enjoy your weekend!  -dh Calgary Herald by Mario Toneguzzi.  A bright outlook for Alberta’s economy is being haunted by pipeline risks, [...]

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