6-1-17 Commentary: Yesterday Was A Historical Milepost In Alaska’s History!

Here's Why Yesterday Was A Historical Milepost For Alaska by Dave Harbour Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke with U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski and Governor Bill Walker. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour. Anchorage press conference, 5-31-17. Yesterday,  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wrapped up a trip to study Arctic resources with a historical speech in Anchorage delivered at the 40th Anniversary conference of the Alaska Oil & Gas Association.  Zinke had been touring Norway, Greenland and Alaska with U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, and Senators John Barrasso, John Cornyn, Steve [...]

5-30-17 Interior Secretary Addresses AOGA Tomorrow

    AOGA Conference and Exhibit Hall WHEN: Wednesday, May 31, 2017, from 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM WHERE: Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center COST: $300 PLEASE NOTE: AOGA will not offer partial registrations, and the event is expected to sell out. To avoid disappointment, register today. To view more information, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aoga-conference-exhibit-hall-registration-32170388498?ref=estw The event features top-tier speakers -- including the United States Secretary of the Interior -- who will share new information about the state of the industry in Alaska and worldwide.

By |2017-05-30T07:05:09-09:00May 30th, 2017|Federal Progress|0 Comments

5-27-17 Secretary Zinke To Visit Alaska Next Week

Congressional Delegation Ready to Welcome Secretary Zinke To Alaska Interior Secretary to Visit Alaska During Memorial Day Work Period Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, and U.S. Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today announced that Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke will travel to Alaska during the Memorial Day state work period. The trip will be Zinke’s first to the state since his bipartisan confirmation by the Senate in early March.   “We’re excited to announce that Secretary Zinke will visit Alaska next week,” the [...]

By |2017-05-27T20:29:12-09:00May 27th, 2017|Arctic Policy, Federal Progress|0 Comments

5-26-17 Climate Change Hoax Should Be Obvious Now

The Climate Change Hoax Should Now Be Obvious To President Trump And His Family Advisors!  Kill Obama's Paris Transfer Of Wealth! THE UTTER COMPLETE TOTAL FRAUD OF WIND POWER Matt Ridley To The Point 17 May 2017 The Global Wind Energy Council recently released its latest report, excitedly boasting that ‘the proliferation of wind energy into the global power market continues at a furious pace, after it was revealed that more than 54 gigawatts of clean renewable wind power was installed across the global market [...]

5-25-17 Korea Conflict Continues: Is Alaska In The Gun Sights?

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing for President Trump’s nominees for key positions at two federal agencies: Dan Brouillette to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE), and Neil Chatterjee and Robert Powelson to be members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).  Full story here.  (U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski. Northern Gas Pipelines photo by Dave Harbour.) Courtesy, Washington Times Should the U.S. enter conflict with North Korea, Alaska at center of response.   Alaska will be at the center [...]

5-24-17 Congress Takes On Misused Antiquities Act

“Consider how far the Antiquities Act has strayed from its original intent: The act states that monument designations should be limited to “the smallest area compatible with proper care and management of the objects to be protected.” In recent years, however, it has been used as a large-scale conservation policy, dictated by presidential decree. Many recent monuments have comprised more than one million acres each. “[A]n act that grants presidents such authority without Congress’ approval or local input should be viewed for what it truly is: an antiquated law.” [...]

5-23-17 BP Jobs Endure Through Tough Times

Late yesterday, the CEO of BP's Alaska operation wrote an open letter to Alaskans outlining the company's commitment to the state, even during this period of low oil prices.  The letter below responds to recent news reports.   -dh Janet Weiss. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour To Alaskans: As you may have seen in the news recently, BP awarded a competitively bid contract for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services to Wood Group and its Alaska sub-contractor Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) Energy Services, [...]

By |2017-05-23T10:07:11-09:00May 23rd, 2017|Commentary, NARUC|0 Comments

5-22-17 NARUC’S Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners Begins Meetings In Anchorage

Utility, Pipeline Regulators Meet In Anchorage This Week: NARUC’S Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners Commentary by Dave Harbour In an earlier life, your publisher served as Chairman and then member of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.  In that capacity, we served as Vice Chairman, Gas Committee, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and as Chairman of the Western Conference Gas Committee.   In the course of that work, we arranged for Governor Frank Murkowski and U.S. Senator Ted Stevens to address NARUC.  We [...]

By |2017-05-22T06:34:47-09:00May 22nd, 2017|Commentary|0 Comments

5-20-17

Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sales set for June The federal government this week announced it’s holding an oil and gas lease sale for over a million acres in Cook Inlet this June.

By |2017-05-20T17:53:57-09:00May 20th, 2017|OCS|0 Comments

5-17-17 Alaska LNG Project: Not Now Says Expert

From Suzanne Downing's Must Read Alaska: Larry Persily to Alliance: Skeptical on Gasline Larry Persily, chief of staff to Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Mike Navarre, spoke to the Alaska Support Industry Alliance on May 11. Persily is a former deputy commissioner of the Department of Revenue and was the coordinator for the Federal Office for Alaska Gas Line Projects. Must Read Alaska asked him for a copy of his speech, which those pondering our state’s massive proposed gasline project may find insightful: Larry Persily. Northern Gas Pipeline file photo by Dave Harbour It’s [...]

By |2017-05-17T14:05:10-09:00May 17th, 2017|AGDC, FERC, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments

5-16-17 MOVING NEB TO OTTAWA “DUMB” – Congress Wants Your Input On Bad Natural Resource Policy!

Moving the NEB from Calgary to Ottawa Hurts Consumers, Taxpayers and Also Moves Canada Closer to Socialism by Dave Harbour Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism. “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally…to change the economic development model that has been reigning…since the Industrial Revolution,” she said. Moving the [...]

5-15-17 WORLD FISCAL SYSTEMS FOR OIL AND GAS

  FREE DOC: ENTIRELY NEW UPSTREAM FISCAL MODEL – FLEXIBLE GROSS SPLIT SHARING     London, July 3-6, 2017 - World Fiscal Systems For Oil & Gas                   Our friend, Pedro van Meurs writes today: Pedro van Meurs. Northern Gas Pipelines files by Dave Harbour Please find attached my report on an entirely new fiscal upstream model which is now being introduced and considered: Flexible Gross Split Sharing. Please click here for this free document.  This is one of [...]

5-12-17 Pebble Finally Earns Freedom To Exercise Its Constitutional Guarantee of Due Process

Bishop Statement on EPA’s Pebble Mine Announcement RELEASE DATE: May 12, 2017 Washington, D.C. – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an agreement to allow the Pebble Mine project in southwest Alaska to proceed to regular permitting under the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The proposed mineral development project was preemptively denied by the Obama administration outside of the traditional NEPA process. John Shively. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour (We note that this was one of many instances wherein [...]

5/11/17

Is Green BC Wealth Producer or Wealth Rejector? Razor-thin margins in B.C. vote give Greens sway on pipeline, LNG projects, Calgary Herald.  B.C. Green party leader Andrew Weaver is flanked by his wife Helen and son David as he speaks to supporters in Victoria, B.C. Wednesday. From: the Alaska Support Industry Alliance Last weekend, the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation announced that it had opened a new office in Japan. But, it only made the announcement in Japan. Now, one lawmaker is questioning how the agency is spending its [...]

By |2017-05-10T19:52:13-09:00May 11th, 2017|AGDC|0 Comments
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