New Arctic Icebreaker Proposed

Alaska Headlamp comments on the Juneau Empire survey (column left), then goes on to tackle related subjects, like how to control government spending. We're delighted with Alaska Headlamp's contribution to the public dialog, along with that provided by citizen groups and other thinking columnists like those representing the Anchorage Daily Planet. For further reference, we draw reader attention to our earlier commentary dealing with how the parents of this generation should be treating their children, of the next generation.  (We think this will be welcome reading for young people determined to have [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:43-09:00January 18th, 2016|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Arctic Policy, Commentary|0 Comments
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1-14-16 ISIS Needs (FEARLESS) Oil Workers

Please enjoy Larry Persily's (NGP Photo) Alaska gas/LNG related links TODAY! From our anonymous Aussie energy analyst today, several points of interest re: oil and gas prices and the state of LNG..., and, ISIS NEEDS (FEARLESS) OIL AND GAS EMPLOYEES.... ADN by Yereth Rosen.  A coalition of environmental groups filed a motion Wednesday to intervene in support of the Interior Department’s decision to reject Royal Dutch Shell's request to extend its offshore Arctic leases. The groups filed their motion with the Interior Department’s Board of Land Appeals, an agency tasked with reviewing disputed department [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:43-09:00January 14th, 2016|Arctic Policy, Commentary, LNG, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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12-22-15 Wise Counsel from “Keep Alaska Competitive”

Wise Counsel from "Keep Alaska Competitive" (Caelus, et. al.) Low LNG and oil prices threaten LNG projects and Alaska's economy....  dh Petroleum News by Alan Bailey (NGP Photo).   As oil prices tumble and with them the potential solvency of the state of Alaska's finances, a heated debate is emerging over both the extent of the problem and the means of putting the state's fiscal position back onto an even keel. On Dec. 7, during Law Seminars International's Energy in Alaska c.... APRN by Rachael Waldholz.  This month, the state committed [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:45-09:00December 22nd, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Arctic Policy, LNG|0 Comments
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12-21-15 Port for future Arctic OCS efforts?

Fairbanks News Miner.  Tucked away in this year’s Coast Guard Reauthorization Act, a $175 million bill that just passed the Senate by a unanimous vote, is a land transfer that could be consequential for Alaska’s future role in the Arctic. Conveying 2,500 acres of federal land to state control at Point Clarence on the Seward Peninsula, the provision could set the location for a long-sought deepwater port for the northern half of the state. It’s the latest in a slow-moving chain of events coming together into a framework for Alaska’s [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:45-09:00December 21st, 2015|Arctic Policy, OCS|0 Comments
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11-20-15

TODAY, 12 P.M. ALASKA TIME, 2525 C Street, Anchorage.  Our friend, Mike Pawlowski, Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, will brief us on the latest energy legislation in Washington, D.C. Those outside of Anchorage, may teleconference: (907) 276-4900. Calgary Herald by Chris Varcoe and Darcy Henton.  More corporate layoffs, oil prices sinking below $40 and a grim drilling forecast for the battered energy industry sparked a new round of anxiety and finger-pointing at the legislature Wednesday. Two large Calgary-based companies, pipeline giant TransCanada Corp. and city-owned power utility Enmax Corp., confirmed they’re [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:47-09:00November 20th, 2015|Arctic Policy, LNG, OCS|0 Comments
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11-14-15

CBC News.  For the past 25 years, oil and gas exploration in the Beaufort Sea has kept Inuvik on an economic roller coaster. In March 2011, the National Energy Board granted final approval for the Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline after the federal cabinet signed off on the long-delayed $16.2-billion project. Low natural gas prices have kept the project on the drawing board since then, although in August, Imperial Oil asked the National Energy Board to extend the sunset clause on regulatory approval through 2022 in the hopes that gas [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:45:43-09:00November 14th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Interstate Gas|0 Comments
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11-11-15 Veterans Day In The U.S.

Veterans Day 2015 and Hilcorp's Alaska North Slope Liberty Project Yes, there is a link Commentary by Dave Harbour   It was a rainy, windy, cool day, that November 10, 1966. Panmunjom is the well known, Freedom's Frontier guard post -- the most dangerous in the world.   Today, we wore our Panmunjom hat in a Veterans Day ceremony.   Today we remind our readers and ourselves that there is more than one way to serve! Today, we remember with respect two fellow Anchorage, Alaska citizens who served with us on the Korean [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:48-09:00November 11th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Personal|0 Comments
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11-3-15 Alaska’s Senate Approves TransCanada LNG Buyout As the US State Department Ignores TransCanada’s Keystone XL Request

More Critical Alaska LNG hearings TODAY.  Tune in live, here.  Decisions are about to be made! Alert: late this morning the Senate passed CSSB3001 following yesterday's approval by the Senate Finance Committee.  The measure gives Alaska's governor the LNG project appropriations he requested in spite of many legislative concerns about his handling of the project to date. Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux's angry floor speech taking Attorney General to task (We agree with her comments.  -dh)​ Here is our written testimony, provided to the House Finance Committee yesterday evening. From our Consumer Energy Alliance friends [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:48-09:00November 3rd, 2015|Arctic Policy, LNG|0 Comments
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10-31-15 Murkowski sharply criticizes the Obama administration’s actions to block energy

More Critical Alaska LNG hearings today.  Tune in live, here! Sen. Murkowski Draws National Attention to Alaska’s Energy Priorities Energy Committee Chairman Delivers Weekly Republican Address Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today highlighted Alaska’s energy priorities as she delivered the weekly Republican address to the nation. In her remarks, Murkowski sharply criticized the Obama administration’s actions to block energy production in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), the non-wilderness portion of ANWR, and offshore, while bringing attention to the barrage of destructive regulations coming from the EPA. “Since taking [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:49-09:00October 31st, 2015|Arctic Policy, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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10-27-15 TODAY ConocoPhillips Began Producing New Oil On Native Land In the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska

ANCHORAGE – ConocoPhillips Alaska today announced that its CD5 drill site began producing oil. CD5, part of the Alpine Field, is the first commercial oil development on Alaska Native lands within the boundaries of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPRA). CD5 is the second new ConocoPhillips North Slope drill site to come on stream this month. First oil was announced at Kuparuk Drill Site 2S on Oct. 12. “First oil at CD5 is a landmark for our company, Kuukpik Corporation, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and for Alaska. This announcement is the [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:44:45-09:00October 27th, 2015|Arctic Policy, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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10-25-15 Alaska LNG Legislative Hearings

Click here to find today's Alaska LNG project legislative activities and videos, archived and live streaming! (Today's Email Alert Editorial: Link, text) See this excellent comparison of Alaska's 1980s economic recession, compared to the current and projected economy and an ADN story by Jeannette Lee Falsey. Juneau Empire by James Brooks.  Other News RT.  Putin builds large Arctic military base as America fiddles.     Alaska Public Radio Network What is Alaska LNG? Part 2: Meet the liquifaction plant.  Alaska Public Radio Network...Oct. 25, lawmakers will gather in Juneau for the start of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:58-09:00October 25th, 2015|Arctic Policy, LNG, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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10-20-15 Senator Murkowski Rightly Hits Interior Department’s Alaska Policies

THIS MORNING: Senator Murkowski Hit Interior Hard For Opposing Alaska's Survival As An Independent State... (...and we agree with her entire statement!) U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, today convened an Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to consider six nominees for the Department of Energy and Department of the Interior. Murkowski used her opening statement to lay out a litany of anti-Alaska actions by Interior, expressing frustration with those decisions and observing that the department is “destroying the hopes” of countless Alaskans.    Click photo for video “The Interior Department’s record has been [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:58-09:00October 20th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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10-19-15 CLIMATE CHANGE EDITORIAL: KILLING CAPITALISM?

Killing Capitalism?   Have several oil and gas CEOs now joined the enviro-governmental-industrial cabal? Commentary prepared on Friday, October 16, 2015 by Dave Harbour Today, we have what is to us a disturbing announcement by some of the globe's largest oil and gas companies.   They have formed a new consortium.  Not to build a pipeline.  Not to develop an oil and gas reservoir.  Not to permit a new LNG facility.  No, these companies have formed a new consortium to support a conflicting interest, the "Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI)".   We can imagine [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:59-09:00October 19th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Arctic Policy, Commentary, Personal|0 Comments
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10-1-15 Comment TODAY On Hilcorp’s Liberty Prospect Plan

BOEM Seeks Public Comment on Hilcorp's Liberty Prospect Development and Production Plan NGP Readers, please comment on Hilcorp’s Liberty DPP.  The DPP can be viewed at: http://www.boem.gov/Hilcorp-Liberty/.​  -dh ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announcement: A Development and Production Plan (DPP) received from Hilcorp Alaska, LLC (Hilcorp) relating to oil and gas development on the Liberty Prospect was deemed “submitted,” – or deemed complete to move forward in the government’s review process – initiating a 60-day period for the public to review and comment on the DPP. This announcement does not mean that [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:00-09:00October 1st, 2015|Arctic Policy, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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9-30-15 Natural Gas Reserves Tax: Governor Walker’s Brilliant Strategy For Encouraging Industry Investment in Alaska

Natural Gas Reserves Tax: Governor Bill Walker's 'Brilliant Strategy' For Encouraging Industry Investment in Alaska by Dave Harbour Governor Bill Walker (NGP Photo) has spent a career and millions of OPM (i.e. other people's money) dollars on Quixotic wanderings around the world in failed attempts to make his infeasible visions of an Alaska LNG project economically viable. Today, our Aussie oil & gas analyst friend's comments apply to this commentary as he addresses Shell's Alaska OCS exit and LNG competition. See today's comment by our Mid-Atlantic analyst friend on Shell's departure and an earlier, expensive, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:00-09:00September 30th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Arctic Policy, Commentary, OCS|0 Comments
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