6-1-11 Bill Walker Wants His Way And Others To Pay – Trans Canada Project Could Use Existing Pipes

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Enforcement, and Regulation (BOEMRE) is accepting comments on the development of offshore oil and natural gas in Alaska's Chukchi Sea.  With years of studying the potential impacts of production and ensuring all safety precautions have exceeded standards; and, with the country's need for domestic energy and jobs, we can make our views known today, here.  The Chukchi is one source for replenishment of declining volumes of oil traversing the 2/3 empty Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline System (TAPS).  A gas pipeline is important.  But keeping [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:54:14-09:00June 1st, 2011|Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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12-28-09 All I Wanted For Christmas…. All I Want For This New Year….

On December 24, 2001 we wrote an editorial satirizing the human greed and mismanagement that was interfering with gas pipeline project advancement. In those days, Alaskan leaders and their supporters were engaged in the beginning of a decade-long fest of spending gluttony and tax increases to support self gratification of one generation at the expense of those to follow.     Leaders professed that because of the natural resource blessings graced on the state, those resources had almost mystical value on the world market, unaffected by a growing burden of [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:48:14-09:00December 28th, 2009|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Interstate Gas|0 Comments
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Are Alaskans “Citizens” or “Sovereigns”?

                                    Bill Walker is the sort of man I would like to have as a next door neighbor: kindly, thoughtful, a good listener, slow to anger, and, he loves Alaska.  Just because a person has attractive personal qualities, does not qualify him to dictate Alaska state policies.  If Bill were elected, be sure that he would do all within Alaska's "sovereign" power to dictate gas pipeline policy to the free market.  And, if [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:57:26-09:00October 26th, 2009|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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Weekend News Doesn’t Wait Until Monday!

Governor Parnell Meets National People's Congress Chairman Wu Bangguo: Does our Mutual Future Portend More Than Fish and Tourism? (Commentary)     *     More on Enstar Last Chance to Comment on OCS Leasing Before 9-21 Deadline... ...and we prepare for next week's Oil and Gas Congress!   NGP Commentary.  Your author drove to the Hilton Anchorage on Saturday to witness a rare event in the great, second-floor ballroom.  The leader of the People's Republic of China, National People's Congress, Chairman Wu Bangguo (NGP Photo-r), traveling with an entourage of about 120--plus [...]

By |2021-03-18T09:11:34-09:00September 13th, 2009|AGDC, China, Commentary, Interstate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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