11-5-16 Government Sponsored Fairbanks Utility Flounders Like Government Sponsored LNG Project
AIDEA quietly parts way with Salix for work on Interior Energy Project, READ STORY Yesterday's related report: Progress Slow For IEP, READ STORY
11-4-16 Alaska Headlamp, Craig Medred, & Must Read Blogs Also Shed Light On Energy Issues
Stark warning for Canada - TransCanada sells U.S. assets to pay for Columbia Pipeline - A transition ahead for US Arctic - Progress slow for IEP - When it comes to Alaska LNG project, the big elephant in the room is cost - Inter Pipeline expects decision on petrochemical plants Medrid Today: It’s hard to make multi-million dollar business decisions in an unstable economic environment, and there is no doubt that Alaska’s constantly shifting tax structure – particularly its desire to squeeze another dollar out of the golden goose of oil any time a budget problem arises – makes [...]
11-3-16 Critical Readers Consider Both Sides of the Dakota Access Pipeline Project
If Dakota Access pipeline were to move, where could it go? CBC.ca The Dakota Access pipeline uses a nearly identical route as the natural gas pipeline to cross Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock reservation. Privately Owned Pipelines = GOOD Publicaly Owned Pipelines = BAD ... LIKE VENEZUELA (Read below) AK LNG transitions to state leadership. Kenai Peninsula Online. The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation is finishing up its negotiations to take over the leadership role on the gasline megaproject, negotiating ... The truth about the Dakota [...]
11-1-16 The Truth About The So Called Peaceful North Dakota Pipeline Protesters
Dear Friends Despite being held hostage by protesters amid threats of violence - we didn't let their threats and intimidation stop us from practicing real journalism and finding out the truth about the Dakota Access Pipeline. You can watch our interview with a local farmer here. His neighbors have lost scores of cattle and horses and they have reported incidents of trespassing and intimidation. Those protesting the development of the pipeline claim to be peaceful but up close it is clear they are the very opposite when challenged [...]
10-31-16 Can Oil Rebound Save Alberta? An Alaska Lesson. Energy and the Impact of Illegal Immigration.
Today: Alberta - Alaska - US Elections - An Illegal Alien Organizer -It's all related and we'll show why- -We hope you'll submit a thoughtful comment at the bottom of this page- Please review our commentary, column left. Then skim the email sent today by an illegal alien on SEIU letterhead, in the right column. The illegal immigration warriors are out of the closet and active. What about those supporting lawful immigration, logical policies and the rule of law: are we as willing to be heard? This whole complex [...]
10-28-16 Why Clinton chopped a Keystone XL reference from her book
CALGARY HERALD BY ALEXANDER PANETTA, CP — A reference to the Keystone XL pipeline was chopped from Hillary Clinton’s memoir due to political considerations, according to the latest batch of stolen emails posted Thursday on Wikileaks. While writing the book Hard Choices, Clinton initially included a reference to the pipeline at the urging of her daughter, Chelsea, according to a 2014 email purportedly sent to her current campaign chair John Podesta. “She decided to write about Keystone because her daughter suggested that it would be a glaring omission and look [...]
10-27-16 Economist Roger Marks Fact Checks Lawyer’s “Fair Share” Cliché
Beware of False Oil Tax Prophets by Dave Harbour Roger Marks, Senior Oil & Gas Economist. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour (Scroll down to Ak-Headlamp report for Marks' reference.) Regarding our piece yesterday about one lawyer's advocacy for higher oil industry taxes, we provide (BELOW) Ak-headlamp's comment today. We would only add that the lawyer proposes a "fair share" oil tax policy without definition or rational. He simply opines an assumption that a "fair share" of oil wealth for the bureaucracy should be "one-third of gross"... not one-third [...]
10-26-16 ALASKA’S PLACE IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE: GAS PIPELINE/LNG POLICY, NORTH KOREA TRADE THREAT, DEFENSE OF ALASKA
(We urge readers to 'like' our Northern Gas Pipelines Facebook page and 'follow' our Twitter feeds. For, while we do issue periodic 'email alerts' to our thousands of subscribers, we do not intrude on their days except when we believe we offer them extraordinary developments or commentary. More often, we alert readers to subjects of somewhat less importance via our Facebook and Twitter feeds. Thank you for being our NGP reader. -dh) International Trade Implications of US-Korean Policy and North Slope Gas Monetization Presentation notes: The World Affairs [...]
10-25-16 Attorney Joins Lawyer/Governor Bill Walker In Advocating Oil Tax Increase. Fair Or Hypocritical?
Calling for a "fair share" could be -- and in Alaska usually is -- a sign of political hypocrisy This morning's Alaska Dispatch News features another clever Opinion-Editorial by an Alaska lawyer (i.e. for more, see Ak-Headlamp analysis, column right.) who has become one of the largest individual contributors to democrat tax & spend candidates for the Alaska state legislature this election cycle. Recently, in a Neil Cavuto interview, Las Vegas developer Steve Wynn provided an articulate response to the wealth distribution crowd (See video) using the term "fair share" to [...]
10-22-16 Governor Walker Feels The Pain
Anchorage Daily Planet Editorial: "He Feels Your Pain" Bill Walker, Governor of Alaska. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour. Gov. Bill Walker addressed the Alaska Federation of Natives convention and zeroed in on Alaska’s budget deficit and his decision to cut this year’s dividend by more than half. He said Alaska is drawing down its reserves at about $12 million daily. “I cannot tell you, I cannot describe to you adequately how difficult of time this has been to be serving as governor,” APRN reports [...]
10-21-16 Alaska Support Industry Alliance Annual Meeting Honors Jim Udelhoven and Maynard Tapp / ALBERTANS WISELY REJECT CARBON TAX
Alliance Story Coming.... Irving Oil chairman confident Energy East pipeline 'will happen' - Calgary Herald - Calgary misses the pipeline now,” he said. The 4,500-kilometre ... About two-thirds is already in place as a natural gas pipeline. Following Irving's ... Albertans give NDP carbon tax thumbs down in new poll - Calgary Herald - The tax, which is aimed at lowering Alberta's Canada-leading greenhouse gas emissions and helping to win support nationally for new pipeline ... From Ak-Headlamp: Down under up North. According to the Alaska Journal of Commerce, Australia-based 88 Energy Ltd. said in an Oct. 18 release that it has identified five [...]
10-20-16 Kenai Citizen Laments Ak-LNG Slowdown
"Experience is a dear teacher...." B. Franklin/W. Shakespeare (See Alaska Public Media story, right column.) We would only point out that certain longtime advocates of strong state participation in an Alaska LNG project have experienced a personal reality lesson. The lesson is that oil and gas investment is risky. When government and citizens become involved in energy projects, they subject themselves to risk. This is why we have consistently counseled public officials to avoid equity investment in private projects. The private sector is ready, willing [...]
10-18-16 As Alaska’s Governor Chases A 40-year Uneconomic Pipedream, His Economy Falters
Breakenridge: NDP's bid to diversify oil and gas industry doesn't make sense, Calgary Herald Alaska's Governor Goes "Bulworth"? Opinion by Andrew Jensen, Alaska Journal of Commerce “Going Bulworth,” if you don’t know, is an expression for politicians who say what they actually think. It comes from the 1998 movie starring Warren Bill Walker, Governor of Alaska. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour. Beatty about a disillusioned U.S. senator who starts drinking at campaign events and rapping about single-payer healthcare. Gov. Bill Walker went Bulworth in [...]
10-17-16 Alaska LNG: Among World’s Least Competitive
Click edit button to change this text. Andrew Browning. Northern Gas Pipeline file photo by Dave Harbour A panel of experts gave their views on the shifting supply-demand balance, which is bolstered by more takeaway capacity to Mexico and via newly opened terminals on the Gulf Coast. Four panelists, including one from Canada, expressed different views about what was unfolding, but all agreed that the supply-demand picture will be quite different by the end of next year, not to mention the next 10 years, during the [...]
10-16-16 Point of Personal Privilege
Point of Personal Privilege Today is the 27th birthday of a great, young Alaskan. -dh