5-24-12 Tonight’s The (NPR-A) Night!

The Straight Good News, by Gillian Steward.  NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair might as well have declared war on the West. Gov. Parnell says energy relief on its way to Fairbanks, but not right away, The Republic Tonight, BLM Officials Will Be Taking Testimony On A Ridiculous Question: "Shall bureaucrats diminish or stop resource development In America's National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska at a time when gas prices are high, employment is low, TAPS is 2/3 empty, the national and state treasuries need more revenue, and when America has already designated NPR-A to be a National Petroleum [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:12-09:00May 24th, 2012|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-23-12

We joined Dan Fagan (NGP Photo-r) today on his radio show.  Our segment, shared with guest, Andrew Halcro (NGP Photo-L), followed an appearance by Governor Sean Parnell.  View the Parnell segment here by using the fast forward button to navigate to Hour: 1:36:11.  Our segment starts at: 2:07:45.  An earlier segment featured Jeff Jones, Governor Parnell's special assistant for natural resources.  -dh House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) yesterday sent a letter to the Department of the Interior’s Acting Inspector General (IG) Mary Kendall to question her about discrepancies [...]

By |2020-06-28T17:08:33-09:00May 23rd, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-22-12

Last week we "Counted the ways Alaska is being assaulted by the Federal government".  Today, the CEA Alaska President Steve Pratt (NGP Photo) tells us that, "This Thursday, May 24th, starting at 7 PM (doors open at 6 PM) at the Campbell Creek Science Center in Anchorage the Bureau of Land Management will be taking testimony on a management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska.  Despite the fact that federal law forbids the federal government from even studying setting aside additional areas as wilderness or special conservation areas, two of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:13-09:00May 22nd, 2012|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-16-12

Washington Times Op-Ed Today: Senators Lisa Murkowski and David Vitter.  TransCanada’s decision to reapply for a federal permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline across the U.S.-Canadian border offers President Obama something that rarely comes around - a second chance to do the right thing. Calgary Herald by Dina O'Meara.  Oil and Gas Producers Keep Eye On Wildfires AP/ADN by Becky Bohrer.  Marc Langland (NGP Photo-R) and Jim Jansen (NGP Photo-L), co-chairs of the Make Alaska Competitive Coalition, in an email Tuesday, said they are not giving up on pressing for what they call meaningful [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:14-09:00May 16th, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-14-12 – The Obama Administration Could Shut In The Nation’s Petroleum Reserve in Alaska

Alaska Under Assault The Alaska Mining Industry Is Honored -- Along with Bob Hoekzema, One Of Mining's StalwartSupporters (NGP Photo: Weekly AMA Meeting, 5-11-12.)  Paul Jenkins says in his OP-Ed today that, "Without sensible oil tax reform, without more production, Alaskans will have to live with one eye on Alaska North Slope crude oil prices day to day and worry about the national and international vagaries and happenstance that drive them." See the Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Inspector News Briefs for Today! Should Canada be less dependent on foreign oil? Dan [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:15-09:00May 14th, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-3-12 – Alaska Gas Pipeline Shifts Focus

Personal note of welcome. to our Texas friends! With our next email alert we will welcome several hundred new subscribers, mostly owners and executives associated with the thriving Texas Oil and Gas Industry.  Last Wednesday, your author had the pleasure of addressing the annual meeting of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers in Wichita Falls, thanks to a thoughtful invitation from TAEP President, Alex Mills (NGP Photo-L).  Today, in response to several requests, we reluctantly provide the notes we used in preparing for that presentation, here.  We say, 'reluctantly', because the speech [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:18-09:00May 3rd, 2012|Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas|0 Comments
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4-25-12 – Texas Alliance of Energy Producers

Commentary:  Our friend, Consultant Paul Ziff (NGP Photo), sent us his new paper yesterday, “Natural Gas Under Siege”.  He says that in today’s price environment, every MCF of gas produced increases a producer’s financial loss.  If one adds to that scenario, desire of the Feds to overregulate shale, the loss to producers and production decline will be exacerbated.  -dh Today, your author has the pleasure of addressing the annual meeting of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.     -dh  Membership Breakfast Speaker: Dave Harbour, Commissioner Emeritus, Author, Regulator, Lobbyist Membership [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:20-09:00April 25th, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Personal|0 Comments
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4-22-12 – Is Alaska’s Legislature Making A Big Mistake?

Today, we are pleased to provide you with a link to Tom Brennan's important commentary... embellished a bit with our own.  -dh Commentary: Tom Brennan's (NGP Photo) commentary below, notes that the Alaska Legislature seems enamored with providing tax credits to companies that explore new, potential petroleum reservoirs on Alaska state lands (i.e. most 'explorers' are relatively new to Alaska and have expressed publicly or privately a concern that if they do discover anything, production in this tax climate will be difficult or impossible).  State law provides subsidies for explorers by over taxing [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:52:55-09:00April 22nd, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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4-17-12 Could America Experience Dictatorship This Summer

The US Coast Guard definitely recognizes that the Arctic presents a daunting challenge and the Canadian military of course sees the Arctic as a core concern.  Obama’s Quiet Executive Order: Reaffirming and Expanding Presidential Powers See Similar, Shorter Master Resource Version Here Commentary by Dave Harbour We wonder how many of our readers knew that one month ago, the President signed an updated Executive Order (E.O.) -- giving himself access to dictatorial powers -- under the guise of 'national defense' and under authority of the Defense Production Act of 1950.  Upon activation, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:21-09:00April 17th, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Personal|0 Comments
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3-29-12

Tomorrow we hope to present more thorough comment on an extraordinary community turn out of citizens in Anchorage, following a similar event in Fairbanks, supporting tax reform.  Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo), Governor Tony Knowles, Teamster Barbara Huff Tuckness and representatives of Native and small Alaska businesses united to offer one message to legislators: Don't come home without meaningful tax reform.  We are most disappointed in the uncharacteristically misleading and acidic report on that event appearing in today's Alaska Dispatch and will have more to say about that tomorrow.  -dh  (ADN [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:28-09:00March 29th, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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3-22-12 Are Sociopaths Taking Control?

Researching oil, gas, flora, fin, fauna and fine Southern culture in Houston, but not so intently that we don't think constantly of our Arctic energy brothers and sisters...and the frigid, local and federal regulatory and statutory challenges they daily face.  Is it true we have allowed at least some sociopaths to take control of government?  (Of course, we can't speak for Canada.)  -dh ADN by Richard Mauer.  The Senate bill's "minimal decrease" from the current tax program on oil and gas, known as ACES, "has an immaterial impact" for industry, said [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:29-09:00March 23rd, 2012|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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3-15-12

  A READER WRITES REGARDING YESTERDAY'S "DISCOVERY DAY" CELEBRATION:  Thank you Dave,  this is a great reminder of that great time made possible by many Alaskans and those from Government and from many states, who finally saw the beginning of a new era for the State and the world, and also ended the tough times in getting the TAPS line started and constructed.  I was hired by Alyeska as an HR Operations Supervisor line wide and had the opportunity to drive the road from Pump Station #1 on the North [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:43-09:00March 15th, 2012|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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3-8-12

 Fairbanks News Miner Editorial.  the head of the American Petroleum Institute says oil production on federal lands, where the president has authority, has actually fallen. Jack Gerard, the group’s president, says production in the Gulf Mexico is down 30 percent, though that may be because of fallout from the BP spill, and lease sales in the Rocky Mountains are down 70 percent. He says, pointing to federal Energy Information Administration material for support, the president is only making 3 percent of the lands and waters under his control available for [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:52:20-09:00March 8th, 2012|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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3-7-12 “J’Accuse”

Scroll Down For Commentary: "J'Accuse" Calgary Herald by Deborah Yedlin.  One year ago, at the annual IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates' CERA Week conference here, talk was infused with concerns of the Arab Spring, rising oil prices and whether releasing barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would be a good idea. ... As this year's event kicked off Monday, oil prices are rising and instead of the focus being on Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, the conversation has turned toward the uncertainty presented by Iran. Yesterday we had the pleasure of joining Dan Fagan and Elizabeth Giardina (NGP [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:45-09:00March 7th, 2012|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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2-26-12 Brennan on Keystone

 Anchorage Daily Planet by Tom Brennan (NGP Photo).  President Barack Obama is pushing for serious damage to the world environment — and the greenies are cheering.  When Obama moved to block the Keystone XL Pipeline project he was virtually assuring that oil from the Athabasca tar sands will be consumed in China under Chinese standards, with a devastating net impact on the atmosphere. The alternative would have been to process in Texas the heavy oil from the tar sands, distributing much of it to American markets, all done under American [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:50:05-09:00February 26th, 2012|Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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