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Hilcorp Alaska, LLC is currently pursuing the necessary permits and authorizations to develop the Liberty reservoir several miles offshore the central North Slope.  The first major step in this process is the approval of the Development and Production Plan (DPP), which Hilcorp recently filed with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). BOEM has extended the public comment period on the preparation of a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) to Monday, March 28, 2016.    Click here to provide comments. Then click on the "Comment Now" button. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:31-09:00March 28th, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, ANWR, Arctic Policy, Competition, Federal Obstruction, Fracking, Global Warming, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, Uncategorized|0 Comments
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3-2-16 Don’t Blame “Global Warming/Climate Change” On Alaska Or TransCanada Pipelines!!!

CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT ALASKA'S FAULT Premature Alaska Pipeline/LNG Funding DON'T BLAME PIPELINES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE!!! To Russ Girling, the chief executive of TransCanada, the relationship between pipelines and climate change is clear....  (CBC by Tracy Johnson.) TODAY'S Call To Action: OCS! Today's Consumer Energy Alliance Relevant Energy Links! Juneau Empire Op-Ed, By STEVE BOWHAY Alaskans face some serious challenges that are being overlooked, as we witness the demise of the oil industry. Some of the people who are part of the consensus on climate change want to completely ban the use of fossil fuels because of climate change. If [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:32-09:00March 2nd, 2016|Alaska Taxes, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Arctic Policy, Global Warming|0 Comments
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1-15-16 Canada and Alaska Struggle With Conflicting Forces: Prosperity and Jobs vs. Nothing

Commentary by Dave Harbour on the eternal struggle between wealth producers and wealth takers. Canada struggles with the need for oil revenue countered by the political pressure to subjugate everything, and everyone, to the concept of global warming (excuse us....  "climate change").  See the articles below. Alaska struggles are also between those supporting jobs, good faith and fair dealing with antagonists like a state senator who believes that in a low crude oil price environment gasoline prices should be lower in Alaska than they are.   (See today's robust, Alaska Headlamp [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:43-09:00January 15th, 2016|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Global Warming|0 Comments
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1-12-16 Weak Energy, Etc. Policies = Lackluster Last State Of The Union Speech

Calgary Herald by Dan Healing.  ... Seven Generations Energy Ltd., considered one of the bright lights of the Calgary oilpatch, announced it would postpone about $200 million of planned capital investment in 2016.... David Holt Commentary, FuelFix.  ...a second major oil company was forced to abandon plans to drill in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Alaska...for those who live close by..., the news is devastating. ON EVE OF AMERICA'S "STATE OF THE UNION" SPEECH, WE SEE A WEAKER NATION BECAUSE OF WHITE HOUSE ENERGY POLICIES After rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:44-09:00January 12th, 2016|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Global Warming, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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12-7-15 Pearl Harbor Day: A Personal Story

Remembering Pearl Harbor Commentary by Dave Harbour EIA's Alaska production revision.... Calgary Herald.  The province faces strong opposition to its climate change (i.e. Alberta) plan — fuelled by distaste for the carbon tax — according to a new poll that also suggests many Albertans doubt the NDP’s claim the plan will lead to pipeline approvals. News-Miner opinion: The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation board of directors’ vote to push forward with work on the Alaska LNG pipeline project is a good sign, giving hope that the state’s current oil slump may one day be eased by natural [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:46-09:00December 7th, 2015|Commentary, Global Warming, Personal|0 Comments
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12-1-15

President's Paris Speech Yesterday President's Paris Press Conference Today See Opposing PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE: "Endorsed by 161 science and technology experts well qualified in climate science, the challenge was presented as an open letter submitted to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and reported on by prominent media across the world," explained Harris. Most significant among the challenges was for proponents of dangerous anthropogenic climate change theory to substantiate claims that: Recent climate change is unusual in comparison with historical records; Human emissions of carbon dioxide and other 'greenhouse gases' are [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:46-09:00December 1st, 2015|Global Warming|0 Comments
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11-19-15 He who owns the gold makes the rules!

As we warned, Government ownership is a liability for Ak-LNG; "Gas line team reshuffle puts scrutiny on high salaries", APM, by Rachel Waldholz; Also see KTOO ​He who owns the gold makes the rules: see how the Feds can now make "all" the rules! The Morning Headlamp: 60 days until Regular Session begins; Schedule issues slow AKLNG progress; more urgency for Walker's fiscal plan; $1 billion for Arctic investment (A Bright Spot for Alaska!) EPA Chief: It’s Not ‘Extreme’ To Ban Coal, Oil, Gas Production On Federal Lands OTHER Today's Oil and Gas News Briefs, Courtesy: [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:47-09:00November 19th, 2015|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Global Warming|0 Comments
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10-23-15 Crony Capitalism

New global climate deal could hit Alaska drilling Millions of eyes, billions of dollars focused on Paris! Note the dedication and focus represented by this video statement, then see the Crony Capitalism background, current status and conclusion commentary we have prepared for you. See major UN Climate Change Organizer: Christiana Figueres Is Global Warming A Hoax: IPCC Credibility Deconstructing GW: Richard Lindzen, Ph.D. Dr. Benny Peiser Testimony Dr. Christopher Essex: GW Science Nobel Laureate NASA Scientist Climate Science History 97% Consensus = Science? Greenpeace Founder re: Fraud Scientists Cheat on Data Debate Climate [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:58-09:00October 23rd, 2015|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Global Warming, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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5-14-15 UN Climate Chief Against Oil, Against Capitalism

Scroll Down For: "Useful Idiots" Commentary Published this morning: our MASTER RESOURCE Op-ed: "Seattle Hearing on Shell's Arctic Rig Docking: A Clash of Visions" UN Climate Change Chief, Christiana Figueres: Against Capitalism and Against Shell's Arctic Exploration  See earlier reports this week on Seattle's port hearing regarding the Staging of Shell's summer exploration in the Arctic   KILLING CAPITALISM: UN Climate Change Chief Investors Business Daily.  At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not [...]

By |2019-12-13T04:27:23-09:00May 13th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Global Warming, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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12-30-14 Oil Price Results: Alaska Governor Walker and Alberta Premier Prentice Plan Spending Cuts

Our Commentary: "Enlightened Self Interest vs. the Public Interest: Is Global Warming and Ocean Acidification Science Reliable" is being rescheduled. -dh Juneau Empire Editorial: Thumbs up to fulfilling promises. On Friday, Gov. Bill Walker (NGP Photo) issued an administrative order to halt work on six of Alaska’s biggest construction projects. During his campaign for governor, Walker promised to cut “unnecessary” studies as a way to reduce the state’s expenses. As most of those six projects are still in the study phase, we shouldn’t be surprised that Walker is considering them for the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:39-09:00December 30th, 2014|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Global Warming|0 Comments
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6-9-14 Polar Bears Are Cuddly and ‘Political Shenanigans’ Abound!

World Energy, by George Backwell.  ...a fraction of natural gas projects ... will become reality as high costs and weakening gas prices.... Alaska Dispatch, by Brigham McCown.   As political shenanigans continue to delay approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, Alaska voters hold the key to avoiding a similar fate for what could be North America’s largest pipeline project (i.e. Natural gas pipeline).   Washington Examiner by Mark Tapscott.  Another scientist has more bad news for global warming advocates who claim that Americans are killing Arctic Polar Bears....  *** Professor Matthew Cronin [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:22-09:00June 9th, 2014|Arctic Policy, Coastal Management, Global Warming, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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3-2-14 Is Global Cooling About To Overrun Global Warming? What Would Aristotle Say?

From Forbes Opinion by Peter Ferrara​ Dear Readers:  We have documented excesses in policy and deficiencies in decision making owing to the 'global warming' faith crowd.   Still, we must prize facts and science over politics in our search for 'Endless Progress'.  In this spirit, we ask our more knowledgeable friends to help us with a response or rebuttal to this reaction to Ferrara's commentary.    -dh (Our Comment: The Obama Administration departments -- including DOD -- base many changing policies on a bureaucratic faith in the siren calls of global warming.   [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:41-09:00March 2nd, 2014|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Global Warming, Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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7-5-13 The White House Fatāwā On Energy Consumers and Taxpayers

President Obama's Climate Action Plan by Dave Harbour There is nothing significantly "good" about Obama's simultaneous attack on American taxpayers, energy consumers and the free market.     His "Climate Action Plan" will lead America away from energy Report and Commentary: CANADA.  (Draft, subject to edits) In Canada, the environmental community continues a more than 40 year strategy for opposing development.  It flowered in the 1970s as various environmental activists, church activists and other liberal allies created a 'moratorium' strategy for blocking construction of the original Alaska/Canada natural gas pipeline.  [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:30:27-09:00July 4th, 2013|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Fracking, Global Warming|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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Global ‘Warming’ Cons From Alaska Feds?

(You probably read it here first; the next day the AP reported it locally.  We are often first to report breaking energy news of interest to our readers--in these pages and via more immediate email alerts for the more relevant items.  More than half the time, the tip comes from an observent reader.  We lament just beginning the category "You Read It Here First", today, since these pages are filled with at least scores of such breaking news reports to our readers.  But, better late than not at all.   [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:23-09:00July 29th, 2011|Global Warming, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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