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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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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We will never forget gas pipeline readers, but… – Will Senate Act on Ocean Treaty? – Doc Hastings Takes On ESA

 ...today we take a break. We are honored to be providing photographic support and sponsorship to the Clare2Clare fashion show and fundraiser again this year.  There are a very few seats left, for interested, local readers.  Here is the program. See a few of our photos from last year, here, and some of our attempts to capture the exceptional qualities of a highly accomplished artist, model and professional administrator, Kodiak born Alaska Native, LaRita Laktonen, here.   House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) released the following statement after [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:24-09:00July 28th, 2011|Personal|0 Comments
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Alaska Gasline Caucus Hears Fauske’s Plan

Alaska Gasline Development Corporation's Alaska Stand Alone Gas Pipeline Project 7-1-11 Report to the Legislature As Required Under Enabling Legislation, HB 369 Report  and observations: Yesterday the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) President and CEO, Dan Fauske (NGP Photo), told legislators that the Alaska Stand Alone Gas Pipeline (ASAP) project would be good for, "...all of Alaska, not just the urban areas," and predicted that with timely legislative funding natural gas could be flowing from Prudhoe Bay through Interior Alaska to the Cook Inlet area by 2019.  AGDC is a public corporation organized [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:24-09:00July 26th, 2011|Commentary|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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Gwozd Says Arctic Gas Needed to Replace Declining Conventional Reserves – Korea To Buy Shell’s Delta Assets?

 The CBC report suggests Korea may purchase Shell's Mackenzie Delta assets! Enjoy the art of our Tundra Comics friend, Chad Carpenter! Ziff Energy's Bill Gwozd responded to our editorial material yesterday:  Ziff Energy still has Alaska and Mackenzie Delta flowing in our models – both are required.  The key point you may wish to share with your readers is these projects have a 25 year life starting 2020/25 and ending 2050 ish.  So the questions the readers may wish to ask the politicians is what gas supply will be flowing in North America [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:26-09:00July 21st, 2011|Reader Comment|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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7-19-2011 Notes From the Road, Los Angeles with Gregory Boyce, Aubrey McClendon and Paul Wenger

  Commissioner Tony Clark, NARUC President NARUC PROGRAM We had the pleasure at noon today of introducing California Farm Bureau Federation President Paul Wenger and think our readers will find his presentation unusual and compelling:    Los Angeles, Ca. -- The NARUC program yesterday kicked off at the J.W. Marriott's Dimond Ballroom here with keynote presentations by Peabody Coal's Chairman and CEO Gregory Boyce (NGP Photo-L) and Chesapeake Energy's Aubrey McClendon (NGP Photo).  The two CEOs exposed the continuing tension between fossil fuel cousins: coal and natural gas. Boyce took the high road, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:26-09:00July 19th, 2011|Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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Fairbanks Consumers Beware of Natural Gas Cost Decisions

Notes From The Road: Los Angeles We see many old friends and energy leaders at the meetings we attend with the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOCC) and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).  Earlier this summer we were with IOGCC in Bismarck, during the "Great 2011 Flood".  This week with NARUC in Los Angeles with "Carmageddon" erroneously predicted, and will hear from Paul Wenger, President of the California Farm Bureau Federation and from Aubrey McClendon, Chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Company and Greg Boyce, Chairman and [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:00:28-09:00July 18th, 2011|Commentary, Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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LA Bound….

Comment:  No sooner are we back from the booming state of North Dakota than we head down to Los Angeles for two purposes: Introducing California Farm Bureau Federation President Paul Wenger to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners for a Consumer Energy Alliance Luncheon Speech; and, photographing Beverly Hills and Santa Monica.  -dh

By |2016-03-13T04:03:42-09:00July 15th, 2011|Commentary, Personal|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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