Do We Exaggerate That Your Action Today Action Could ‘Save the Country? ‘ – Do We Exaggerate That Obama’s Environmental Extremism Is Killing the Economy?

Monday: Another Important Deadline; here is how to easily comment!  Your OCS comment by Monday's deadline makes the legal record more supportive of reasonable OCS exploration for Alaska and the benefit of all Americans. A reasonable OCS program will help save Alaska's economy and protect America's economic recovery and national security.  Send us your comment and we will post it to make it Internet searchable!  -dh Commentary:  Last week, the Obama Administration released its quarterly BOEMRE Ocean Science magazine (.pdf here - NGP Photo, BOEMRE Director Michael Bromwich).  It describes how it [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:25-09:00July 23rd, 2011|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Obama’s OCS Moratoria Devastating – OCS Comment Deadlines Continue – Governors Support OCS Revenue Sharing – Shell Describes Its Alaska OCS Plans

Monday: Another Important Deadline!  OCS Comment Deadlines Continue Like Endless Ocean Waves (NGP Photo-below) Determined To Erode Our Shores.  But we cannot give up.  Send us your comment and we will post it to make it Internet searchable!  We have just intercepted this comment from Kaye Laughlin, a great American! Commentary: Stop....please take 3 minutes now to send in a comment on the revised exploration plan (EP) for the the Beaufort Sea leases.  Shell's EP has already gone through an extensive review and approval process back in 2009.  BOEMRE is again asking [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:25-09:00July 22nd, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Notes From the Road: The Alaska-Canadian North Is A Tough Place To Do Business…

Geek note:  We lament your opinion of us when--as in this morning's alert email (subscribe above right)--the automatic editing program substitutes an "it's" when we actually typed "its".  This is not to say we don't make mistakes, but we prefer to take blame for our own mistakes and not for our robot's.  Actually, we shouldn't blame our robot either, since it's our responsibility to proof read, not its.  -dh Larry Persily's NARUC Impressions When we encountered the Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator, Larry Persily (NGP stock photo), in Los Angeles [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:26-09:00July 20th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Notes From the Road, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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Fairbanks Consumers Beware of Natural Gas Cost Decisions

Notes From The Road: Los Angeles We see many old friends and energy leaders at the meetings we attend with the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOCC) and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).  Earlier this summer we were with IOGCC in Bismarck, during the "Great 2011 Flood".  This week with NARUC in Los Angeles with "Carmageddon" erroneously predicted, and will hear from Paul Wenger, President of the California Farm Bureau Federation and from Aubrey McClendon, Chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Company and Greg Boyce, Chairman and [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:00:28-09:00July 18th, 2011|Commentary, Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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LA Bound….

Comment:  No sooner are we back from the booming state of North Dakota than we head down to Los Angeles for two purposes: Introducing California Farm Bureau Federation President Paul Wenger to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners for a Consumer Energy Alliance Luncheon Speech; and, photographing Beverly Hills and Santa Monica.  -dh

By |2016-03-13T04:03:42-09:00July 15th, 2011|Commentary, Personal|0 Comments
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Energy Issues Keep Erupting Here

Comment.  Governor Sean Parnell is understandably concerned about Barak Obama's new executive order directed at Alaska.  The action purports to improve coordination among Federal agencies responsible for permitting energy projects by establishing an, "Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Domestic Energy Development and Permitting in Alaska (Working Group)."  If Obama had any management background, he would know that this effort just creates more opportunity for talk and confusion and delay.  Just one more meeting of over a dozen high level officials and a thousand more telephone calls and emails to [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:27-09:00July 15th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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One Federal Comment Period Ends As Others Arise: The Federal-Enviroactivist Strategy To Kill Alaska’s Economy Continues

NGP READERS: PLEASE COMMENT.  This coming Friday, July 15, comes the next deadline for comments about an Environmental Assessment regarding Beaufort Sea OCS development.  Then, lock and load for the next wave of regulatory onslaught: the July 25th deadline public comment on Revised Beaufort Sea Exploration Plan (EP) and associated Oil Discharge Prevention and Contingency Plan (ODPCP).  Please send your comment to the agency, then send us a copy for posting here, where your position becomes Internet searchable.  Here is the brief testimony your author filed today.  -dh Commentary:  Monday was the deadline for commenting on [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:27-09:00July 13th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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Consumers Flood Government With Pro-Chukchi OCS Comments – Mackenzie Pipeline Boosted With New Exploration Licenses

Companies commit millions to secure exploration licenses despite concerns over pipeline prospects Thandiwe Vela Northern News Services Published Friday, July 8, 2011 NWT - The recent call for bids on Northwest Territories land parcels has ended with oil and gas companies committing more than $500 million to secure exploration licenses in the Central Mackenzie Valley.  ... "We are pleased with the bidding results," Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment Bob McLeod (NGP Photo) said, adding the high value of bids shows the industry's renewed confidence in the NWT oil and gas reserves. "These [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:27-09:00July 12th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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The Battle Continues And We Cannot Grow Weary

The Battle Continues And We Cannot Grow Weary El Paso's Ruby Enriches Nevada Alberta Tory leadership candidate Gary Mar, wants to bog down Canada's natural resources prosperity with environmental obstruction.   -dh New gas pipeline for Kenai Peninsula?   Today's top Priority: Today is the deadline for Chukchi SEIS Comment.  Here is how to comment.  Then send us your comment to post here, tomorrow.  It can be as simple as: "Please allow Alaska OCS development to proceed quickly; domestic energy is essential to America's economic recovery."  Note: since today is the deadline, either [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:27-09:00July 11th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Joe Henri Adds Statehood Perspective – Marilyn Crockett to Retire – Rachael Petro Hits Investment Climate

  Next Monday, July 11 is the deadline for comment on Chukchi OCS development.  Here's a website for easy, automated comment.  -dh Calgary Herald by Rebecca Penty.  An article in the Wall Street Journal championing TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL pipeline as an economic driver for a country hurting for jobs is evidence of support south of the border, president and CEO Russ Girling said Thursday.  The TransCanada executive said the opinion piece suggested the last phase of a $13-billion pipeline project would offer economic stimulus to a country facing a high unemployment rate [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:28-09:00July 8th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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Alaska Statehood Act Passed 53 Years Ago TODAY; Sadly, Alaska is among the “worst of the worst”

July 11 is the deadline for comment on Chukchi OCS development.  Here's a website for easy, automated comment.  -dh Alaska's Statehood Act is 53 years old today.   (Below is an email alert we issued on the subject and reader Joe Henri's first hand perspective.)  Today your author addresses the South Anchorage Rotary Club, suggesting that, "Alaska's Constitution Could Guide Us Through Alaska's Greatest Challenge: Breathing Life Back Into the Trans Alaska Pipeline"   -dh CNBC completed a ranking of state business climates and found  Alaska to be among the bottom [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:28-09:00July 7th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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Remembering North Dakota

Yesterday, ADN's Becky Bohrer reported that lack of progress on AGIA pipeline is making lawmakers "Antsy". Remembering North Dakota by Dave Harbour While the main purpose for my trip to North Dakota was to attend the annual meeting of the Interstate Oil and Gas Association (IOGCC), I returned home with a nostalgic impression of how today's North Dakota represented yesterday's Alaska.  North Dakota is confident.  Alaska, as noted in the story link above, is 'antsy'. more coming....

By |2016-12-22T22:33:29-09:00July 4th, 2011|AGIA, Commentary, Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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7-1-11 Margy Johnson Comments On NGO Responsibility – We Celebrate Canada Day Going Into The Independence Day Weekend

"Let Freedom Ring" Today is Canada Day and Monday is America's Independence Day.   We are aware that these celebrations are partly a celebration of our two counties' independence, partly a commitment to defend freedom for future generations. Meanwhile, here's an editorial comment from a community leader and NGP reader, Margy Johnson (NGP Photo) as she reflects on events of the last few days.  -dh Margy Johnson file photo by Dave Harbour. Today she counsels Alaska's beneficiaries of oil wealth to support an investment climate attractive to oil investment. [...]

By |2017-07-04T13:10:58-09:00July 1st, 2011|Commentary, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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Notes From the Road, Day Eight In North Dakota: Admiring North And South Dakota Governors and Alaska Citizens Who Defended Alaska Last Night!

Governor Sean Parnell Tells Washington Journalists of Plan to Boost Alaska Oil Production To 1 Million Barrels/day. Julie Hasquet of Senator Mark Begich's Office and Megan Hermann of Senator Lisa Murkowski's Energy Committee office Provided This Link To Pipeline Throughput Study Shell's Marvin Odum Optimistic About Arctic, reports AP's Dan Joling USGS Boosts Estimate of Cook Inlet Oil and Gas, reports ADN's Erika Bolstadt (Written en route from Bismarck to Anchorage...IOGCC stories and photos will appear here.  -dh) Alaskans Turned Out Last Night To Defend Alaska's Future!  Soldiers From International Environmental [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:43-09:00June 30th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Notes From the Road, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT! – Notes From the Road, Day Eight In North Dakota: Oil and Gas Commissioners Hear From Four Governors

Come EAT, DRINK and TESTIFY at the Chukchi hearing today, June 29th at 5:30 p.m. at the Loussac Library. Fill out a comment card and enjoy a hot dog and drink before the hearing. The hearing itself will begin at 7 p.m.  If you can't attend the Anchorage event today, you can EASILY file an electronic comment here! We have been very respectful of the commitment by some elected officials to fight for Alaska's future by participating in these hearings.  This particular one could establish a record for federal decision making that will result [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:43-09:00June 29th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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