6-25-13 President Acts To Circumvent Congress Again

We're All In the Oil Business - Alaska State Chamber of Commerce CP via Huff Post by Robin Roland.  The proposed Northern Gateway project (Map here) reached a major milestone on Monday with the end of public hearings on the pipeline, and now the company will focus on resolving lingering questions, says president John Carruthers (NGP Photo, 11-02). Today's theme (below): The Federal Government Threatens Our Natural Resources Industry, the Foundation of Prosperity. Americans for Prosperity alerts us to a Federal government overreach that immediately threatens all economic land use in [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:41-09:00June 25th, 2013|Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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6-13-13 Hypocrisy

Huffpost Alberta.  Hold on to your hats, Alberta, the Kennedy stampede is headed for the oil sands as a rich kid with few skills and nothing else to do heads north to criticize the very wealth production that has made North America great. This video won't thrill our NGP readers but it is enlightening.  -dh Wilderness Society Doesn't Support Federal Cleanup Of Federal Drilling Messes In Alaska - New Interior Secretary Opposes Responsible Nearby Exploration.  (NGP headline)   APRN Story and Audio.   Our Comment: In recent Congressional testimony, Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Jewell [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:42-09:00June 13th, 2013|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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6-7-13 Notes From The Road – A ‘Well Intentioned’ But Dangerous Federal Process

For those aspiring to direct activities of an instate gas pipeline, here is a link to follow: The State of Alaska, Office of the Governor seeks qualified individuals to serve on the inaugural governing board of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation, a state corporation responsible for advancing a large-scale natural gas pipeline project.  -dh When A New DOI Acting Assistant Secretary Came To Alaska To "Listen" by Dave Harbour (For background.  In early September 2010 Alaska experienced the second "listening session" during the course of the Deepwater Horizon investigation.) Sample of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:43-09:00June 7th, 2013|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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6-5-13 Notes From the Road, Houston

ALERT: On Friday we editorialized about a little advertised 'listening session' planned by Federal officials tomorrow in Anchorage regarding Arctic offshore oil and gas exploration and development.  In the Friday piece, we asked questions that our readers may well want to explore tomorrow.   We have located this note that the agencies are 'reaching out to stakeholders'.  We believe readers can be sure the Feds are talking with NGOs and groups opposed to energy developmen (i.e. Here is an example).  We therefore encourage our readers to attend tomorrow's 'listening session'. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:43-09:00June 5th, 2013|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Notes From the Road, Rule Of Law|0 Comments
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6-4-13

           Last Saturday, Governor Sean Parnell delivered the GOP radio response to the President's message.  He emphasized Alaska's potential to heal the nation's economy and efforts of various coastal governors to work together in meeting the challenge of Federal government efforts to make OCS resources unavailable.  Here is the link to that address. Here is a link to The Hill's story.   -dh Today, we confirmed BOEM's somewhat mysterious 'Listening Session' scheduled for Thursday, in Anchorage.  Scroll down for our Friday commentary and details.  -dh ------------------------ Fairbanks Chamber Event.  On [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:43-09:00June 4th, 2013|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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6-3-13

Commentary:  In an Anchorage Daily News Op-Ed this last weekend, columnist Tim Bradner (NGP Photo) provided a current shapshot of gas pipeline projects.   Clearly, the gasline momentum today flows from government investment and incentive whereas the projects of the past were privately rooted.   He concluded the column with a concern as to what would happen were Cook Inlet explorers to discover significant new gas reserves that could be less costly for consumers than LNG hauled down from the Alaska North Slope (ANS), or gas molecules transported nearly 800 [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:43-09:00June 3rd, 2013|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-31-13 Feds Will Listen Then Do What They Wanted To Anyway

In Dan Healing's Calgary Herald story yesterday... ...he noted that, "Saving the oil and gas industry's market access woes would add 20,000 extra direct jobs over the next 10 years, according to a report by an industry group."   Market access is another current challenge Canada and Alaska share--including the environmental and political roadblocks which constantly delay and threaten defeat of otherwise prospective projects that could sustain quality of life for this and future generations.  -dh Homer News by Molly Dischner.  Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) left the Legislature's budget largely intact when he signed off on $6.8 [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:44-09:00May 31st, 2013|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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5-30-13

Moving oil and gas: Pipe dreams turn into a money ... - Calgary Herald - Since 2007, Canadian pipelines have delivered more than $100 billion worth of energy to Canadian consumers. For our readers who will be in Washington next week or monitoring our issues, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation will hold a legislative hearing on Thursday, June 6th on seven public lands bills.  Some of these directly or indirectly impact northern energy projects, particularly the ones dealing with Anchorage land transfers, monument designations, wild and scenic rivers and uses of the Antiquities Act.  -dh [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:44-09:00May 30th, 2013|Federal Obstruction, Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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5-23-13 Notes from the road: Cuenca

Earlier this week Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) proposed state assistance to the federal government in support of developing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  Here is the letter to the Secretary of the Interior which containes the state offer.  -dh Yesterday, U.S. House of Representatives Resources Committee Chairman, Doc Hastings (NGP Photo), participated in an interview on the Keystone XL Pipeline-here.   Yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives  Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held hearings critical to Alaska's energy future: H.R. 1964 (Hastings of WA), To amend the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:45-09:00May 23rd, 2013|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-22-13 Notes From the Road (Quito)

Support Tax Reform Law!   From our friends at the Resource Development Council for Alaska (RDC).   "...there is currently a signature gathering referendum effort taking place to repeal SB21, the oil tax reform bill signed in to law by Governor Parnell.   In an effort to give the thoroughly vetted new tax structure time to work, the Alaska Support Industry Alliance is using its independent expenditure group, "We Are Alaska," to run a campaign educating Alaskans on what SB21 has accomplished and explaining why signing the referendum could be [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:45-09:00May 22nd, 2013|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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5-16-13

Fairbanks News Miner.  Congressman Don Young  (NGP Photo) has filed legislation that would toss out the recently completed management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.    ...   The bill, HR1964, would nullify a plan adopted by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management in February, Young said. The plan administratively withdrew about half the reserve from oil and gas leasing.  (See more on this story below.) Alaska Dispatch by Pat Forgey.  "We're in a process of evaluating how we want to adjust the capital program," says Matt Fox, ConocoPhillip's executive [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:46-09:00May 16th, 2013|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-15-13

The public service goal of Northern Gas Pipeline is to educate.  Will you join us as a Public Service Sponsor or Stakeholder?  -dh ELECTED OFFICIALS EVERYWHERE, LISTEN!   Calgary Herald by Eric Pedersen.  The hard lesson of "be careful what you wish for, as you may just get it," has been learned by all the First Nations people along the route of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline. More than 20 years later, it is still not built, and now, with low gas prices, it will never be built. All the economic benefits have been lost forever. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:46-09:00May 15th, 2013|Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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5-14-13

Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming supports free trade and freedom to export LNG, an issue critical to the future of Alaska gas pipelines.  -dh Ocean Policy: Obama's End Run Around Congress and The Constitution.  We began alerting readers to the White House move to zone the oceans and further restrict freedom of citizens four years ago and have added more details since then.  We applaud Representative Millett's current observations, expressed here.   When our readers click to the actual article and scroll down to the comment section they will be [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:46-09:00May 14th, 2013|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, LNG|0 Comments
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5-8-13

Today in Washington, House Natural Resources Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) called the “DOI Hydraulic Fracturing Rule: A Recipe for Government Waste, Duplication and Delay.”  See full text here. APRN, by  Alexandra Gutierrez.  If this legislative session was all about oil, the next one could be more focused on natural gas. The end goal is a pipeline capable of moving the massive supply of gas on North Slope to market. APRN’s Alexandra Gutierrez reports that the state is looking at the issue of getting a project online from multiple angles. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:47-09:00May 8th, 2013|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-7-13 Offshore Technology Conference Features Coastal Governors Supporting Energy Development

Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) today criticized the Interior Department’s budget proposal for attempting to make Alaska pay for the decades-old broken promises of the federal government. Alberta Oil: Could the N.W.T.’s Canol shale be the next Bakken? Two former Democratic senators say Congress and the Obama administration should not stand in the way of natural gas exports.   CBC News: Enbridge Gas New Brunswick has won its legal challenge of provincial regulations that stipulate how the Energy and Utilities Board sets distribution rates. Yesterday, at Houston's Offshore Technology Conference, Alaska was [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:48-09:00May 7th, 2013|Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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