1-30-14 Shell Delays 2014 Arctic Exploration

Alaska Dispatch Commentary by Craig Richards, advisor to Bill Walker (NGP Photo-l), candidate for governor.  Gov. Sean Parnell's (NGP Photo) new gas pipeline approach reminds me of Edmund Burke’s admonishment that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas today released its annual Five-Year Program of Proposed Oil and Gas Lease Sales for the period 2014 to 2018.  Governor proposes royalty oil sale extension for Tesoro. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) today reiterated her call for the Obama administration [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:50-09:00January 30th, 2014|Arctic Policy, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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1-28-14 Marcus K. Singletary, Dearly Departed – State of The Union Is Threatened From Within

As our faithful readers prepare for tonight's State of the Union Speech, we also await rationale justifying the continuing overreaching jurisdiction of the White House.  Please review our editorial written two years ago.  We briefed readers on a big change: this president was altering the authority to take over the economy.  Former administrations planned to exercise broad economic powers only in the face of a national emergency.  The current White House added a provision enabling it to take dictatorial powers in 'peacetime' as well.  Perhaps a reading of our Executive [...]

By |2019-11-19T10:55:03-09:00January 28th, 2014|AGIA, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, Personal|0 Comments
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1-26-14

CBC News.  TransCanada investigating cause of pipeline blast.   Parnell's LNG project challenged by rival Walker and some ...Anchorage Daily News - Sean Parnell's newest proposal for bringing Alaska's North Slope natural gas to commercial markets finds a biting .... Sarah Palin's gas line legislation, ExxonMobil's Marty Massey testified "we are willing to take geologic risks, we are ...   Point of personal privilege: ADN, Now in its 25th season of hosting concerts, plays, musicals and other spectaculars in its three main halls, the PAC has undergone regular renovation and repair over the years, most famously a $5 [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:50-09:00January 26th, 2014|AGIA, Interstate Gas, Personal|0 Comments
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1-25-14 Parnell Introduces Gasline Legislation

ADN.  Gov. Sean Parnell on Friday introduced legislation to move ahead on his proposal to make the state a financial partner with Alaska's oil producers and pipeline company TransCanada in a liquefied natural gas project. The state already has signed commercial agreements with the industry players, and Senate Bill 138 aims to put that framework into law. The 49-page measure calls for a new subsidiary of the public Alaska Gasline Development Corporation to own shares in an LNG plant and marine terminal proposed for Nikiski where the liquefied gas would [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:42:37-09:00January 25th, 2014|AGDC, AGIA, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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1-20-14 – Alaskanomics Presents Alaskan Economic Forecast

Up Here, by Tim Edwards.  A road to Tuktoyaktuk...would open Canada up to its third coast, to the Northwest Passage and to vast stores of oil and gas....   Alaska Dispatch by Yereth Rosen (NGP Photo). Petroleum News by Eric Lidji.  The state is starting negotiations with MWH Americas Inc. to build a liquefied natural gas facility on the North Slope that would serve households across the Interior. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is reviewing Shell’s plans to finish the exploration well it started two years ago and drill [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 20th, 2014|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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1-18-14

Oil & Gas Journal by Christopher Smith.  ExxonMobil Corp., BP PLC, ConocoPhillips, TransCanada Corp., Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC), and Alaska’s commissioners of natural resources and revenue have signed a heads of agreement (HOA) for the Alaska LNG Project, laying the commercial framework for development of an 800-mile natural gas pipeline to transport production from the Alaska North Slope (ANS) to a 15-18 million tonne/year LNG plant on its south-central coast.

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 19th, 2014|AGDC, AGIA, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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1-15-14 BREAKING NEWS TODAY!!!

  The EPA released its final OVERREACHING REPORT today on an Alaska mining project, thumbing its nose at the rule of law.  Here is Senator Lisa Murkowski's response.  -dh   BPs Outlook Released Today: You Read It Here First State and Private Parties Sign LNG Project Commercial Agreements (Anchorage, AK) - Natural Resources Commissioner Joe Balash (NGP Photo), Revenue Commissioner Angela Rodell and Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) President Dan Fauske (NGP Photo) announced today that they have signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhillips, and TransCanada Corp., regarding the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 15th, 2014|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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1-14-14 Meet Alaska Part II

Meet Alaska Part II (Scroll Down For Part I.  Remember that we wish our archives to maintain the highest degree of accuracy.  Accordingly, we solicit reader responses: additions, corrections to anything included herein.) by Dave Harbour THIS MORNING IN WASHINGTON: You Read It Here First! U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) today sent a letter to President Obama urging him to lift the prohibition on exporting crude oil produced in the United States. Doing so, Murkowski wrote, will allow American producers to access global markets, which will boost production, protect jobs, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 14th, 2014|AGDC, AGIA, Alaska Taxes, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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1-13-14 Alliance Is Forum For Energy – Government Communications

Governor's Announcement Underlines The Importance Of The Alliance's "Meet Alaska" and Other Energy Conferences Part I by Dave Harbour ADN by Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo).   For the first time in Alaska's history, we have the framework in place to build the Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) project on Alaska's terms and in Alaskans' interests. We have the necessary parties to make the Alaska LNG project go: three producers, a pre-eminent Arctic pipeline builder, an entity that will carry Alaskans' interests (Alaska Gasline Development Corp.) and state agencies responsible for royalties [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:51-09:00January 13th, 2014|AGIA, Alaska Taxes, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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1-12-14

ADN By Lisa Demer.  Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) on Friday announced that he was prepared to abandon the Palin-era natural gas pipeline law and set the state on a new path as an investor and partner in a long-dreamed-about natural gas project from the North Slope.  (We'll have more report and photos for our readers on Monday.  -dh)  

By |2016-03-13T03:41:25-09:00January 12th, 2014|AGDC, AGIA, Alaska Taxes, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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1-11-14

Juneau Empire.   Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) on Friday announced a new way forward on a long-hoped-for natural gas pipeline that includes scrapping the terms of a 2007 law he says no longer works well for the situation. (We'll have more news links, our own report and commentary for readers on Monday.  -dh)  

By |2016-03-13T03:40:49-09:00January 11th, 2014|AGIA, Alaska Taxes, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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12-29-13 Governor Frank Murkowski Opines On Pipeline

Alaska Dispatch, by Frank Murkowski (NGP Photo).   I urge that we not continue to fund overlapping energy projects. Over the last several years the administration and the Legislature have authorized the following: 1. $557 million has been expended over the last nine years on consultant fees and reports; 2. In the last session the Legislature approved $355 million for the in-state bullet line on top of $72 million from former years; 3. The Legislature committed $332.5 million in grants and loans to truck North Slope gas to Fairbanks; and 4. The Legislature appropriated [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:48:15-09:00December 30th, 2013|Alaska Taxes, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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12-20-13 “Don’t Forget the Mackenzie Delta!”

See Today's Petroleum News Headlines Here. CBC: Joint review panel says Northern Gateway Pipeline project is in best interest of Canadians  -  CALGARY HERALD RELATED STORY TODAY: BY JAMES WOOD AND CHRIS VARCOE Don't Forget the Mackenzie Delta! Will Alaskan and Canadian Investors Merge Their Interests Into the Most Efficient Outcome for Arctic Gas? by Dave Harbour Globe & Mail, TUESDAY by Jeffrey Jones.   Before the end of the year, Imperial Oil Ltd. and its partners must inform the National Energy Board of its intentions with the Mackenzie gas project, the $16.2-billion [...]

By |2018-08-17T11:42:00-09:00December 20th, 2013|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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12-2-13 10:30 AM Washington Meeting: What Good Can Come of EPA – Chinese Environmental Meetings?

Globe & Mail by Shawn McCarthy.  ... {Joe Oliver} returned last week from visits to South Korea and China amid concerns .... We urge our Washington readers to attend an EPA meeting this morning at America's major liberal coordinating center to discuss an upcoming EPA/Chinese summit.  We will be looking to our hundreds of US and Canadian media readers to keep all of us informed of developments.  -dh ChinaFAQs... United States and China account for over 40% of global GHG emmissions. How are these two nations working together to advance climate change [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:54-09:00December 2nd, 2013|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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11-18-13

ADN by Lisa Demer.  The state of Alaska is considering investing billions of public dollars in a natural gas pipeline venture in the hopes that will make the long-sought mega-project happen.  A state-commissioned study released Monday suggests direct state investment -- an ownership share -- as a way to improve the economic footing of a liquefied natural gas project that could cost more than $60 billion. The $424,000, 188-page study was by a team that included Black & Veatch, an employee-owned consulting and engineering firm based in Overland Park, Kan., [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:55-09:00November 18th, 2013|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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