Our Own Worst Enemy

This morning in Anchorage, Shell's Alaska Vice President for Exploration and Production, Pete Slaiby (NGP Photo), will discuss prospects for a 2012 exploration program in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.  See below for Federal comment period opportunities.  -dh   Vancouver Observer.  Canadian and American Enviros Attack Canadian and American Energy Production Doig's Digest: TransCanada's Challenges ADN-AP.  Decades after construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, state lawmakers are again hearing from Alaskans concerned about the number of out-of-state hires in good-paying jobs on the North Slope.  ... The Senate Labor and Commerce [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:19-09:00September 8th, 2011|Alaska Taxes, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Senator Giessel Sets the Example!

       NPG Readers: Please Comment on ANWR  Comment Against Federal Government Lockup of ANWR’s 1002 Area Testify: Fairbanks 10-19-11, Anchorage 10-20-11 Written testimony due: 11-15-11 Governor Sean Parnell Rebukes Federal Government Petroleum News Alaska Story       Senator Cathy Giessel (NGP Photo) wrote the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on their upcoming decision to recommend wilderness designations for ANWR's 1002 area--or not.  (See above notice and her letter, below.)  Then, following her example, let's all take a few minutes to comment on all three of these federal comment [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:19-09:00September 6th, 2011|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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8-29-11 Feds At Work Against Alaska Economy Again

Check out today's ADN, polar bear story by AP reporter, Dan Joling.  (Polar Bear Paw, NGP Photo) Polar Bear Comment By Dave Harbour With the Polar Bear population not decreasing, the Feds have established nearly 187,000 square miles as "critical habitat" to protect them.  Doug Vincent-Lang (NGP Photo), endangered species coordinator for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, diplomatically says, "We simply do not believe that the existing science justifies this expansive proposal."  Establishing a critical habitat designation means the Feds could take action to further control or stop human [...]

By |2019-02-10T14:49:58-09:00August 29th, 2011|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Hastings Warns America Obama Is Hurting TAPS

 The Daily Caller by Joe Rossamondo.  The Obama administration is setting the stage for the dismantling of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and poses the greatest threat to its existence today, according to House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo).  The 800-mile pipeline cost $8 billion to construct in the 1970s, and has moved more than 18 billion barrels of crude oil. Three oil companies constructed it, in the face of significant opposition from environmentalists, in response to the 1973 Arab oil embargo.  (Note: we commend Chairman Hastings for his [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:20-09:00August 25th, 2011|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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8-23-11 NOAA Chief Visits Alaska “Colony”

BING Definition of Colony: "country ruled by another: a country or area that is ruled by another country".  Alaska has 20% of America's land mass and 3/4 of her coastline.  Most of it is under federal government control.  Alaska has most of America's federally restricted lands.  Less than 2% of Alaska is owned privately, other than by Alaska Native Regional Corporations.  Yet, federal policies also impose restrictions on activity within state, private and Native lands.  Most of America's future domestic energy and strategic minerals could come from Alaska rather than from [...]

By |2021-03-18T09:24:35-09:00August 24th, 2011|AGDC, Alaskanomics, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, ANWR, Arctic Policy, Commentary, ConocoPhillips, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Foreign/Domestic Enviro Conspiracy, Global Warming, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, Ocean Policy, Pebble Project & Rule of Law, Rule Of Law, Sue & Settle|0 Comments
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The “Me” Generation?

The Feds today released approval of a final supplemental environmental impact statement for Shell's OCS exploration  that, if finally approved following one last comment period, could result in mobilization of hundreds of workers next year.  Yesterday, a former 'unbiased' Obama appointee to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission, Frances Beinecke, wrote an Op-Ed for the New York Times criticizing this Alaska exploration.  Beinecke is also President of the Natural Resources Defense Council.  Like Deputy Interior Department Secretary David Hayes, Beinecke has equally strong connections to the enviro-extremist [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:21-09:00August 18th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Coordinator, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Alaskans Welcome Salazar But The Jury Is Still Out On the Federal Landlord’s Motives

Edmonton Journal: Enbridge, announcing increased profits over the past three months, is also expanding its plans to move oil to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Comment on Secretary Ken Salazar's Latest Alaska Visit by  Dave Harbour Today, the Associated Press' Becky Bohrer in the Seattle Times noted... ... that, "The Obama administration is interested in seeing more oil and gas development in Alaska, both onshore and off, but it wants to make sure that any drilling is done responsibly, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (NGP Photo) said Monday."   In virtually all of his [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:23-09:00August 9th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Salazar’s BOEMRE Grants Shell Exploration Permit, Conditionally – Inuvik Pushes For Gas Pipe and Economic Development – Mark Hamilton Levels the Guns of Logic On Anti-development Liberals

A few minutes ago, NGP received the copy of a "Make Alaska Competitive Coalition" statement by former University of Alaska President Mark Hamilton (NGP Photo) smashing a specious contention by Senator Hollis French and Representative Les Gara (i.e. both downtown Anchorage attorneys are schooled in the art of rhetoric) that Alaska's predatory taxes are good for Alaska.   Here is the document for your weekend study.    Between Obama anti-development regulators in the Federal arena and the same mentality hindering development on Alaska lands, the state has a dismal economic [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:07:16-09:00August 5th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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Biting the hand that feeds us….

 Ramblings.  Yesterday in the Anchorage Daily News a longtime environmental gadfly wrote an opinion piece proposing additional obstruction to OCS development in Alaska.  A former professor employed by the University of Alaska, here's another hypocrite who takes a paycheck provided by natural resource revenues and for an entire career has little or nothing good to say about natural resource development.  God have pity on and provide insight to his students over the years who may have thought to disagree. Then there is Mayor Edward Itta (NGP Photo) of the North Slope Borough.  One has [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:23-09:00August 4th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Premier Roland Seeks Gasline & Bridge – Governor Parnell Seeks Gasline & Hydro – EPA Advocates Fracking Rules & More Federal Overreach Could Destroy Millions of Jobs

About Shell In Alaska: A Great Record, Great Potential Latest Statistic Yearbook of Upstream, Downstream and Midstream Operations In Former Soviet Union Countries! Globe & Mail.  Floyd Roland (NGP Photo) is running out of time.  Come fall, the Premier of the Northwest Territories will be looking for work after just a single term in the big chair. It’s a ticking clock at odds with his ambitious agenda as he scrambles to push several high-stakes projects to completion, each unfinished by premiers past. They include a new deal on resource rights, [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:11:16-09:00August 2nd, 2011|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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OCS Comment Deadline Today – Legislative Gasline Caucus Meets Today – Canada’s Stockwell Day Weighs In – Fairbanks Natural Gas Op-Ed

 TIME TO TAKE ALASKA OUT OF THE ICEBOX - Wall Street Journal TODAY: Another Important Deadline; here is how to easily comment!  Your OCS comment by TODAY'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!  Meanwhile, here are comments from Jason Brune (NGP Photo),Bob Hoffman, Kaye Laughlin and myself.  Others who submitted [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:24-09:00July 25th, 2011|Federal Obstruction, Intrastate Gas, LNG, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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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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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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