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6-18-16 PLF: Our Unsung (Enough) Heroes

In Praise Of The Pacific Legal Foundation We deeply appreciate the work of the Pacific Legal Foundation. The precedents for which it is responsible are not restricted to the adjudicated case in question, but, rather apply to the improved environment in which all natural resource industries operate. So on this day, we celebrate the PLF heroes whose praises are not enough sung. Scroll down for the latest PLF report. Dave Harbour Publisher, Northern Gas Pipelines On June 15, PLF D.C. Center Executive Director Todd Gaziano joined Paul J. Larkin Jr. [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:11-09:00June 18th, 2016|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress, Ocean Policy|0 Comments

5-17-16 Daunting Federal OCS and Oil State Budget Challenges

From Dan Kish at the Institute for Energy Research comes this comment (i.e. below left) on the federal government's consideration of its 2017-2022 5-year leasing plan. The IER analysis carefully addresses nationwide concerns about access to federal lands/waters for energy exploration and production. Since Alaska is such a huge component of federally managed OCS resources, IER correctly recognizes Alaska's potential: ...there has been far greater leasing in the Gulf of Mexico than the Alaska OCS and as a result the reserve estimates have nearly sextupled in the Gulf of Mexico while remaining [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:11-09:00June 17th, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy, Canadian Energy Policy, Commentary, Competition, Federal Obstruction, Interior Energy Project (IEP), LNG, OCS|0 Comments

6-16-16 Canadian Community Fights For LNG/Pipeline Project

ACTION ALERT Five-Year OCS Lease Sale Plan, deadline today! PLEASE RESPOND TODAY: HERE’S HOW Here's the pat on the back you'll receive when you submit your comment: "Your comment was submitted successfully!" Mining by Dean Pelkey. Canadians Stand In Support Of Pipeline/LNG Project! Platts. Alaska and North Slope producers are discussing possible new ownership structures for the large Alaska LNG project.... We always value the wisdom and information transmitted by our Ak-Headlamp friends and today is another illustration of why this is so: Alex Epstein, a recent speaker at [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:11-09:00June 16th, 2016|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy, Canadian Energy Policy, Commentary, Global Warming, LNG|0 Comments

6-15-16 BP’s Statistical Review Of World Energy Continues to Impact Energy Dialogue

ACTION ALERT Five-Year OCS Lease Sale Plan, deadline tomorrow! PLEASE RESPOND TODAY: HERE'S HOW BP's Annual Statistical Review of World Energy. A week ago, we drew a number of conclusions from BP's annual statistical energy review, linked here if readers missed it. Below are other perspectives our readers will appreciate, though the writers didn't focus as much attention on the serious financial impact alternative energy subsidies pile onto family and business consumers worldwide. The BP report paints a realistic world portrait of energy price and demand volatility: the enormous energy supply [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:12-09:00June 15th, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Alternate Energy, Commentary, Competition|0 Comments

6-13-16 Citizens Shouldn’t Let Government Invest In And Manage Private Industry Projects

Dear Readers: Here is an article about LNG risk investment that every citizen who supports government ownership of energy projects should read. (Our friend, Dan Kish, Senior Vice President for Policy at the Institute for Energy Research reminds us that, "the Spot price for LNG in Singapore last week was $4.62.") Our commentary on the above, Bloomfield article: We have made the case for a long time here that the State of Alaska has no business using precious public dollars now during a fiscal crisis -- or any other time -- to acquire equity [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:12-09:00June 13th, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Commentary|0 Comments

6-10-16 New Worldwide Energy Report Highlights Need For Competitive — Not Predatory — Government Policies

Keith Meyer, President, Alaska Gasline Development Corporation Alaska must not be facing a 'fiscal crisis' after all. With HH gas less than $3 and some renegotiated Asian LNG gas deals in the $5 range and Alaska LNG sold in Asia needing 100-150% higher landed prices than that, here is the latest headline from the Alaska, government-owned LNG project company, AGDC: "New AGDC president to make half million dollars a year...." Socialism may not yet be in full bloom on the Last Frontier...but its Alaska spring sprouts now range from pipeline/tanker [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:12-09:00June 10th, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Canadian Energy Policy, Commentary, Competition, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments

6-8-16 Repsol Left Argentina For Alaska — Now Closes Alaska Office!

Another Supreme Court victory by our Pacific Legal Foundation friends -- for private landowners and natural resource developers everywhere. Congratulations! -dh An oil and gas tax credit report from Alaska State Senate Natural Resources Committee Chairman, Senator Cathy Giessel June 7, 2016 June 6, 1944 was the turning point in World War II - the D Day offensive, on the beaches of Normandy, against Hitler's German forces in Europe. Alaska State Senate Resources Committee Chairman, Cathy Giessel. NGP file photo by Dave Harbour. Yesterday, June [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:12-09:00June 8th, 2016|ACES, Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments

6-6-16 An Alberta Energy Editorial Tailor Made For Alaska

From one of our heros: Chris Nelson, a writer who provided this commentary to the Calgary Herald. With a few word changes, we could produce a commentary just like this for Alaska...or, North Dakota or California or Texas or Pennsylvania or New York or Colorado, etc. -dh According to a respected federal think-tank, Alberta’s on a slippery slope to having little energy industry left as the world turns instead to renewable sources of power. The scenario sounds like David Bowie’s epic Five Years, except we apparently have three times [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:13-09:00June 6th, 2016|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy, Canadian Energy Policy, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Global Warming|0 Comments

6-4-16 Alaska’s Fiscal Crisis: Problems With Kicking the Can Down the Road

Socialism for the uninformed, by Thomas Sowell. Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster. More.... Brad Keithley, NGP Photo by Dave Harbour This morning our friend, Brad Keithley quotes a member of the Finance Committee in an exchange we also witnessed recently: Brad Keithley. Lynn Gattis, NGP Photo [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:13-09:00June 4th, 2016|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Commentary|0 Comments

6-3-16 NEB Breathes Life Into Mackenzie Project – Alaska’s Fiscal Crisis Unresolved

One of Earle Gray's books.... CBC News. The National Energy Board is giving Imperial Oil until the end of 2022 to start building the Mackenzie Gas Project. ... Previously, Imperial Oil and its partners had until the end of 2015 to begin building the 1,196-kilometre, $16.2-billion pipeline. ... Lisa Schmidt, a spokesperson for Imperial Oil, said in an email ... the project participants "remain hopeful that they can assist in the development of Canada's significant northern gas resources. This extension will allow time to assess whether changes in the North American natural gas [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:13-09:00June 3rd, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Commentary, Competition, Reader Comment|0 Comments

6-2-16 Will free market compromisers become free market defenders … or not?

Sowell: Socialism for the uninformed Added by Thomas Sowell on June 2, 2016. Saved under News & Commentary By Thomas Sowell Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster. More... To Elected Officials In Times Of Shortage, Increasing Taxes On The Few Is Easier Than Cutting Benefits Of The Many Commentary [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:13-09:00June 2nd, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Commentary, Competition, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, NEB|0 Comments

5-31-16 Another SCOTUS Win: Private Property Rights Over Corps of Engineers Overreach

Today we are pleased to celebrate the latest Supreme Court victory by one of our public service sponsors over the federal government's overreaching authority under the Clean Water Act. Please review the details below. -dh Statement on PLF’s Supreme Court victory in Hawkes Washington, D.C.; May 31, 2016: Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) won a precedent-setting victory for property owners’ rights today when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in our favor in the PLF case of United States Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes. The groundbreaking decision accepted PLF’s arguments that [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:14-09:00May 31st, 2016|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress, Rule Of Law, You Read It Here First|0 Comments

5-27-16 Trump On Energy: A Work In Progress We Can Support!

Headlines For Our Special Interest Readers: Alaska Oil Producers Respond To Low Oil Prices; Yedlin: PwC energy forum renews need for urgency on energy exports; EDITORIAL: Lack of leadership on display from Gov, Legislature; Braid: A Trump welcome for a Notley ally; Legacy wells need full clean-up: Government wells still polluting Alaska, funding running short; Walker's repackaged tax proposals land with thud in the Legislature Trump In N.D. Yesterday Addressed Fracking, Keystone XL and Alaska The man is a work in progress that the energy industries can support by Dave Harbour [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:14-09:00May 27th, 2016|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alternate Energy, ANWR, Arctic Policy, Canadian Energy Policy, Commentary, Fracking, Keystone XL|0 Comments

5-26-16 Oil Prices Have Been Inching Up: Should Alaska & Alberta Rejoice?

Read today's Ak-Headlamp for the latest on Alaska Gasline Development Corporation management waste; no fiscal crisis solution as legislative spending continues; and, a promising Alaska North Slope shale discovery -dh Crude Oil Price Commentary by Dave Harbour Our Mid Atlantic energy analyst today points out to us that -- in just comparing crude oil prices to U.S. stock prices -- black gold could be headed a third or more higher. (Scroll down for his analysis) Rejoice! Maybe lawmakers won't have to cut government spending programs after all! "On the other hand", as my old, [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:14-09:00May 26th, 2016|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Canadian Energy Policy, Commentary, Government Waste|0 Comments

5-23-16 By Increments We Can Lose A Nation’s Liberty

Energy Is The Very Foundation Of North American Freedom Eco-socialist Strategists Know That The Means, Transportation and Distribution of Energy Production Can Come Under Their Control Via Government Expropriation And/Or Regulatory Power by Dave Harbour Today we ask our readers to recognize the dots that connect socialism and eco-activism to the undoing of free energy markets and freedom itself. We will demonstrate why this transformation is not merely the natural swing, back and forth, of a political pendulum. Our readers can surely agree that: Freedom can be eliminated by eliminating free enterprise. [...]

By wpnorthern|2016-12-22T22:27:15-09:00May 23rd, 2016|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Alternate Energy, Canadian Energy Policy, Commentary, Competition, Energy East Pipeline, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Global Warming, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, Keystone XL, LNG, NEB, NPR-A, Ocean Policy, OCS, You Read It Here First|0 Comments

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