5-23-20 China Is A Growing Threat to North and South America…and to the World

Northern Gas Pipelines Published by Dave Harbour · 32 mins ·  Here is a highly articulate Chinese woman’s summary of the Chinese Communist Party’s destructive threat to the free world. It seems the CCPVirus is but the tip of the iceberg. National defense considerations include the Chinese Communist interest in acquiring energy properties throughout North and South America in addition to other "belt and highway" targets world-wide. -dh https://tinyurl.com/y7bo4kbj Saturday We Said, “Canada’s Pipe Policy Pursues Perplexity“ (Today, 8-20-18, it’s Alaska’s Turn) We say Alaska pursues perfidy because it does.  Everyone [...]

4-18-20 Not All Energy News Is Negative

Petroleum News Alaska News Wrap: Alaska lucks out with ConocoPhillips; ExxonMobil’s Point Thomson production rising; HEX inks KLU deal; Alaska North Slope oil price disconnects Petroleum News The April 19 issue of Petroleum News includes coverage of ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil. Furie, HEX, XCD Energy, Oil Search, Cook Inlet Energy, Glacier Oil and Gas and Hilcorp, all active in Alaska’s oil and gas industry. Petroleum News Alaska Gasline Development Corp. “AGDC: goal private sponsor by year-end” reports that the state entity which is the project sponsor for the Alaska LNG Project, got [...]

4-15-20 Alaska Joins Other States/Canadian Provinces In Shouldering Double Whammy: CCPVirus + Oil Price Collapse

Please find this MOST INFORMATIVE oil and gas presentation on current status of the industry by Canary, LLC CEO Dan K. Eberhart (@dankeberhart), delivered to members of the Alaska Support Industry Alliance on April 9. Double bonus: Here's Dan's current take on the Texas RRC consideration of ordering production cuts vs. free market forces...followed by this Yahoo report on the result of the hearing (i.e. a difficult decision for the 3 commissioners). -dh Must Read Alaska: Fradulent Oil Tax Initiative Signatures?! Has it ever been tougher for the state's [...]

4-9-20 A Revealing Look At The Status Of TODAY’S Oil & Gas Industry!

Below are the speaker's notes from an online presentation delivered today to members of the Alaska Support Industry Alliance.  Their thousands of employees of some 400 employers provide the muscle enabling the enormous oil, gas and mining production in America's largest -- and sole -- Arctic state. Alaska Support Industry Alliance Webinar Briefing For Members By Dan K. Eberhart, Canary LLC (Photo) (Twitter account contact: @dankeberhart) Whatever happened to “In like a lion, out like a lamb?” March has been a month many of us would rather forget. The twin [...]

3-28-20 Two of Alaska’s Great Thinkers Opine On Coronavirus

Note: All over the world, the U.S. state department is undertaking these types of operations on behalf of citizens.  It's too bad that our major television networks do not more reasonably cover worldwide events affecting our country.  -dh Excerpts from yesterday's State Department Email: Location: Ecuador (country-wide).  Today, four more U.S. State Department-sponsored flights departed Ecuador, two each from Guayaquil and Quito, returning 403 Americans home.  To date, a total of six U.S. State Department-sponsored flights have taken 631 Americans home.  Meanwhile, the U.S. Embassy in Ecuador has worked closely with commercial [...]

3-27-20 Corona Virus Continues To Hog Center Stage For Energy and All Other North American Communities

Canada COVID-19: Don't Create New Subsidy Program, National Post Fort McMurray mayor says 'time to act decisively' on keeping COVID-19 away Alaska: Corona Virus In this Alaska state senator Cathy Giessel's newsletter this week, you'll find: Oil Prices Senate Finance Major Economic Relief Package Passes Senate Real ID Deadline Extended Federal SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans Keeping American Workers Paid and Employed Act This week's Natural Resource Related highlights and updates From the Alaska Miners Association: Mineral tenure legislation passes the Legislature!!  SB155, Exploration & Mining Rights, [...]

3-24-20 Coronavirus and Saudi-Russia tiff effects continue to affect North American energy price/supply/demand

Canada Oil production cuts in Western Canada are imminent ,  Western Canada’s oil production will need to be cut by about 11% from April, or 440,000 b/d, due to the global oversupply created by the Covid-19 virus and ongoing oil price, said Rystad Energy. Suncor Energy cuts 2020 capital by $1.5 billion  Suncor has cut its 2020 capital program by $1.5 billion (Can.), or 26% compared to the original guidance midpoint, to $3.9-4.5 billion (Can.), in response to the decline in the crude oil price and uncertainty of the economic [...]

3-12-20 Energy State Alaska Faces CoronaVirus Head-on!

To Customers: From Our Very Responsible Friends At NorthRim Bank Update to Our Customers: COVID-19 Dear Valued Customer, As we all monitor developments surrounding COVID-19, we understand the concern and uncertainty you may be experiencing and wanted to share updates on what Northrim Bank is doing in response to the virus. The health and safety of our customers, employees and community is a top concern and our thoughts are with those Alaskans who may be impacted. Our branches are cleaned daily as part of normal business and we have [...]

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3-10-20 Obesity A National Security Threat?

The good General says obesity was a national security problem in this 2012 video. His words undoubtedly apply to first responders and new energy industry employees as well.  Note: imagine the challenge today's employers have when faced with a MAJORITY of young applicants handicapped by both obesity and/or substance abuse!  Can you find fault in his report, below?  If not, we have work to do with school boards and parenting, no? -dh    

By |2020-03-09T22:57:03-09:00March 9th, 2020|Commentary|0 Comments

3-5-20 PEBBLE PROJECT MOVES FORWARD!

Breakfast Meeting: March 5, 2020 Progress on Pebble’s Permitting Featuring: Tom Collier, CEO, Pebble Partnership Breakfast Meeting: March 5, 2020 Progress on Pebble’s Permitting Featuring: Tom Collier, CEO, Pebble Partnership Slide Pack Presentation RDC Breakfast 3/5/2020 featuring: Tom Collier from Resource Development Council on Vimeo. Presentation

By |2020-03-14T16:50:04-09:00March 5th, 2020|Alaskanomics, Pebble Project & Rule of Law|0 Comments

2-27-20 What Do Extremist Activists Want: More.

"Pity Canada's Bottomless Pit Of Extremist Wants" (Our Simple Commentary-dh) Arrests, travel disruptions as Wet'suwet'en solidarity protests spread across Canada.  CBC.ca.  ... continued to protest in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs who oppose a $6-billion natural gas pipeline project in northern B.C.. Protesters end Hamilton rail blockade; highway 6 blockade at Caledonia continues.  CBC.ca.  The protest is in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs who oppose the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline project in B.C. (Evan Mitsui/CBC) Ignoring concerns of energy-producing provinces could break democratic politics, Michael Ignatieff ... Calgary Herald.  ... including railroad blockades, protesting a B.C. [...]

2-26-20 Oregon LNG Down For The Count?

Oregon LNG export permit stymied again, Alaskajournal.com.  Demonstrators against a proposed liquid-natural gas pipeline and export ... Lacking any firm customers for the LNG, Veresen had failed to convince ... Larry Persily (NGO Photo)  is a former Alaska journalist, state and federal official who has long . Japan Will Remain A Key Market For US Liquefied Natural Gas.  Forbes.  U.S. LNG from Alaska to Japan though stretches back to 1969. The U.S. is set to become the world's largest LNG seller within four years. From LNG World News: Polish LNG terminal receives 85th cargo Polish sole liquefied natural gas (LNG) [...]

By |2020-02-26T20:09:11-09:00February 26th, 2020|Japan|0 Comments

2-22-2020 Alaska Gasline Development Corporation’s Joe Dubler Retires

Here's A CEO Job Opening For The Alaska Government's Gas Pipeline Scheme Alaska Journal of Commeerce Exerpt.  The temporary head of the state’s gasline agency announced his resignation Thursday morning. Interim Alaska Gasline Development Corp. President Joe Dubler (NGP Photo) made his retirement plans public at the corporation’s board meeting in Anchorage. He will remain at AGDC through May 2, he said. Dubler stepped into the lead role at the state-owned corporation in January 2019 after Gov. Mike Dunleavy made sweeping changes to the AGDC board of directors, which [...]

2-20-2020 “Alberta’s Lost Tax Advantage….” Beware Alaska, Texas and other oil producing areas….

Dear Dave, Today, the Fraser Institute released a new study, Alberta’s Lost Advantage on Personal Income Tax Rates. This study finds that the province’s top combined personal income tax rate is now more than 10 percentage points higher than the top rate in several other energy-producing jurisdictions. (More here....) Best, Niels Niels Veldhuis | President The Fraser Institute Why Does Our Headline Address Oil Taxes When The Fraser Study Regards Personal Income Tax (PIT)? ...because Alaska and Alberta alike have learned over the years that higher personal, sales, property [...]

By |2020-02-20T04:17:01-09:00February 20th, 2020|ACES, Alaska Taxes, Canadian Energy Policy|0 Comments

2-13-2020 Pebble Area Native Leaders Push Back Against Tribal Critics

Thanks to Must Read Alaska for this important Pebble Mine perspective! ...“The fact that our colleagues in the indigenous community would take an action against us without consultation is particularly disappointing. We have been engaged in the Pebble issue for nearly fifteen years. We have concerns about a mine near our communities, yet we also have concerns about the significant lack of economic opportunity for our people. We have put up with so-called regional and tribal organizations that tell the world that they speak with a united voice on [...]

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