ALERT: SEPTEMBER 7, HOUSTON MORATORIUM MEETING DESERVES EVEN BIGGER TURNOUT THAN ANCHORAGE!

***BREAKING NEWS...SALAZAR MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO BARROW AND ANCHORAGE!*** ***Alaska Dispatch Story***Barrow Details***Anchorage Media Conference Details*** (This Administration Has Treated Alaska Very Poorly.  Activities Affecting Alaska Are Opaque And An Affront to Both Due Process and Common Courtesy.  -dh) We Urge Readers to Follow Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) Coverage CEA Announcement:  On Tuesday, September 7th, The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) Director Michael R. Bromwich (NGP Photo) and other US Dept of Interior officials will be in Houston to hear expert panelists discuss the Obama Administration’s offshore oil [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:32-09:00September 1st, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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A Federal Bureaucrat On Thursday Will Determine the Future of Alaska

-30- Dave Harbour is a retired member of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska. He is former Chairman of the Alaska Council on Economic Education and the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. He is publisher of: www.northerngaspipelines.com, the original gas pipeline public service webpage for Alaska and Northern Canada. * * * Reference: Below is Thursday’s schedule: Public Forum on Offshore Drilling Panelists and Elected Officials   Anchorage, Alaska August 26, 2010 8:00 a.m. - Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center.    Panel I   Leslie Pearson Person Consulting   Ron Morris Alaska Clean Seas   Marilyn Heiman Director, [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:56:31-09:00August 24th, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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We Continue to Honor Alaska’s Great Senator and Our True Friend – Accolades From Hawaii and the U.S. Senate

In Memoriam: Ted Stevens by Dave Harbour, Northern Gas Pipelines and Dr. John Crossett, Virgil Press   Last night I laid me      down to sleep, And prayed the Lord      my soul to keep; Then slept protected      at His feet. *   *   * In the morning      I went forth, To my life's work      in His far North; I sought to labor without rest, without remorse. *   *   * So, if it be your will, I pray: *   [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:09:16-09:00August 12th, 2010|Personal|0 Comments
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Global Realism-Not Warming * Gas Pipeline Fuels Political Policies * BP’s Gas Pipeline Plans?

The American Culture.  [T]he Anthropogenic Global Warming scare is not about science and never was. As Climategate proved (but as some of us suspected long before), AGW is the invention of a cabal of activists, all working towards more or less the same ecofascist agenda: Mother Gaia is suffering; it’s mostly our fault; the only way to atone for our sins is to destroy Western industrial civilisation and shackle ourselves with a form of One World government run by ‘experts’ and bureaucrats over whom we have no democratic control. It [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:02:11-09:00July 26th, 2010|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal|0 Comments
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IOGCC Supports Safe Development of ANWR – Senator Lesil McGuire Weighs In On ANWR

In revising the Comprehensive Conservation Plan and balancing competing visions for the future of the refuge, I ask that you give substantial weight to the energy needs of Alaskans and the United States in your review and planning process. First, I am encouraged at the recognition of the role of Congress in designating wilderness areas and determining the future of the 10-02 area in the planning documents provided. However I am concerned that focusing solely on issues related to oil and gas development in the planning process may undermine other [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:02:12-09:00June 9th, 2010|ANWR|0 Comments
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AOGA Reviews Alaska’s Investment Climate – Dr. Scott Goldsmith Adds Investment Climate Perspective

May 19, 2010 AOGA Luncheon Event Photos (More coming):   John Zager       Laurie Fagnani         Marilyn Crockett and Ken Sheffield       John Norman and Kevin Banks            Kara Moriarty and Bob Lynn Tanguy Libbrecht Lindsey Holmes   Jay Ramras               Drue Pearce     Tamara Sheffield

By |2016-03-13T03:57:26-09:00May 20th, 2010|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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Alaska’s Coastal Leaders Bite the Hand That Feeds Them – Add ANWR To The Obama Administration’s ‘Death to America’s Economy–By A Thousand Cuts’

  Feds, Enviros and Disloyal Alaskans Threaten Alaska’s Economic Future   By   Dave Harbour This week, Erika Bolstad of the Anchorage Daily News wrote that, “The three-decade-long fight over whether oil companies should be allowed inside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is taking on a new wrinkle that could lock up the refuge for good.” The Associated Press’ Dan Joling reported that, “Alaska Native and conservation groups have filed challenges to clean air permits the Environmental Protection Agency granted Shell Oil for drilling exploration wells in the Beaufort and Chukchi [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:57:25-09:00May 5th, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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4-26-10 Yogi Berra, the Pipeliner, Might Say, “It’s like deja vu all over again” – Another MMS Deadline Looms Next Week

The Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) is taking comment on the current revised 2007-12 lease sale program which contains a strong Alaska component.  Here is a web portal you may use to electronically transmit comment to the MMS .  From this site you can modify an existing letter to send your own letter in your own words, scroll to the bottom of the site. MMS is using a very brief period to build a record to help determine the fate of Alaska and other lease sale areas.  The comment deadline is [...]

By |2016-07-12T16:30:42-09:00April 26th, 2010|NEB|0 Comments
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Nellie Cournoyea Says Move Mackenzie Pipe Ahead, With or Without Settled Claims – NEB To Decide By September – Senator Mark Begich Pushes OCS Revenue Sharing

Weigh In On OCS Today! World News.  If approved, the 1,200-kilometre pipeline would run from the Beaufort Sea and through the N.W.T.'s Mackenzie Valley to northern Alberta, where it would connect with existing gas networks. (CBC) The Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline should go ahead, whether the last holdout First Nation has a settled land claim or not, says Inuvialuit leader and former N.W.T. premier Nellie Cournoyea (NGP Photo)....  (Comment:  For the sake of the people of the Territories, the health of oil sands production, the throughput of the TransCanada system, the sustainability of Northern cultures and [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:05:06-09:00April 23rd, 2010|Commentary, NEB|0 Comments
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Marian Call Entertains Us….

 Marian Call (NGP Photo) sang like an Alaska nightingale last night, her last Alaska performance before launching a year-long tour of the Lower 48.  Enjoy a few of the photos below and check out her Website, here.  Sometimes--as a point of personal privilege on this gas pipeline webpage--we make note of personal things that mean much. Marian Call should mean much to all Alaskans.  Join me in wishing her well as she takes her remarkable talent on the road for a year...like a Northern artist breaking trail in the Lower 48 to become [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:03:43-09:00April 12th, 2010|Personal|0 Comments
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See Our Monday Washington Times Op-Ed

  National Energy Policy Commentary.  See the full, correct copy below, of today's Barack Obama - Ken Salazar Op-Ed we provided the Washington Times late last week.  Or, see the edited, online Washington Times version.  (Other reactions: 1)   State Policy Commentary.  (Note: As we discuss sensitive state policy issues, we do not challenge that state officials are pledged to act with the best of intent, in the public interest.  In these notes, we do our best, however, to follow strings of logic based on history and verifiable facts.  At the end of the process, we hope [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:07:16-09:00April 5th, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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3-18-2010 TODAY IS AN IMPORTANT ANNIVERSARY: 29 YEARS AGO TODAY, ALASKA’S LEADERS DEFINED FAIR SHARE OF OIL AND GAS REVENUES!

(Note: ADN's Richard Mauer reviews current oil/gas tax complexity while ADN's Rindi White reveals crippling tourism tax details and Alaska Dispatch's Rena Delbridge reports on tough going for tax policy.)  On This Day in 1981 Alaska Defined 'Fair Share' Commentary by Dave Harbour On March 18, 1981 the most unique gathering in Alaska's political history may have occurred when Republican Governor  Jay Hammond (NGP Photo with author, 6-2001) met with Senate President Jay Kerttula and House Speaker Jim Duncan (both democrats) along with a large array of other Republican and Democrat leaders, in [...]

By |2018-03-18T06:24:46-09:00March 18th, 2010|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. -B. Franklin

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." G. Santayana (Photo) If you tax something, you get less of it. Alaska: "Essentially a third world government." -Frasier Institute Global Petroleum Survey Globe and Mail (3/12) reports, “The Alberta government is rolling back a royalty regime loathed by the province's all-important energy industry, in a bid to revive its political fortunes and lure oil and gas investment back into the province. After months of feeling the wrath of an industry chafing under a year-old royalty hike intended to give [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:00:28-09:00March 12th, 2010|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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03-08-2010 Energy Council Hears Moratoria Study Report

See Our Original Moratoria Story With Many National Media Links Here is audio of the Alaska Legislators' report on the Energy Council Meeting Washington, D.C., by NGP Staff.  On Saturday, March 6, public officials from throughout the U.S. heard a report from the NARUC-administered Study Group on findings of its almost 2-year-long, $300 thousand study to determine the social, economic and environmental costs of continuing a national policy that restricts access to energy resources on Federal lands. The Energy Council was convened at its 2010 Federal Energy & Environmental Matters Conference [...]

By |2016-09-23T17:32:49-09:00March 8th, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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