9-10-14 The Day Before 9-11, “Lest We Forget”

Hastings: Admin’s Response to Oversight Requests Shameful .  “Either the  Administration is incompetent or it is going out of its way to expend time and money to withhold information from Congress” ​ WASHINGTON, D.C., September 10, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) delivered the following opening statement at today’s Full Committee oversight hearing entitled “The Status of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Responses to Committee Subpoenas and the Continued Lack of Transparency about Its Implementation and Enforcement of American Wildlife Laws, and Oversight of the Department of the Interior’s Solicitor’s [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:10-09:00September 10th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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9-9-14 Begich – Sullivan Senate Race Makes National Headlines

Found!  Lost ship from Sir John Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition near King William Island.... (Stan Rogers Audio-Ballad) This Senate Race Is All About Energy! by Dave Harbour ​(See Epilog Added 9-10-14, One Day Before 9-11 Anniversary) Yesterday, we found where the Wall Street Journal recently focused on the Mark Begich (NGP Photo-L) - Dan Sullivan ​(NGP Photo-R) U.S. Senate race.  We mention that race here, because its outcome will affect energy policy in Alaska--and elsewhere.  In recent years, the U.S. Senate has consistently failed to improve federal energy policies affecting Alaska, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:10-09:00September 9th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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9-8-14 – ALASKA-JAPAN Memorandum Of Cooperation Is A Giant Step Forward For LNG Project

Alaska Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) reacts to FERC progress toward Alaska LNG export project and TODAY'S Japan-Alaska Memorandum of Cooperation (i.e. two-year, renewable, non-binding understanding between governments ... Read full statement, with link to actual Memorandum). Business News Network.  Are Canadian LNG Export Projects Facing An Uphill Battle With Competition? (Reuters) - Japan's trade ministry and Alaska's Department of Natural Resources on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding to help Japan procure low-cost and stable supplies of liquefied natural gas(LNG), a government official said.  (Other links: Platts, O&G Journal, US Energy Information Administration) As Energy [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:10-09:00September 8th, 2014|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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9-6-14 Jim Prentice Rises….

We first met Jim Prentice (NGP Photo) in Calgary while chairing the Arctic Gas Symposium several years ago.  We visited together over lunch and then came the presentations.  After following his career for nearly a decade we believe that as Premier of Alberta, his service would continue to reflect well on the citizens and his own considerable abilities.  We further believe that he has the experience and judgment required for a future Prime Minister.  Following is today's CBC story by Michelle Bellefontaine & Caitlin Hanson.  -dh CBC.  Jim Prentice has [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:56:31-09:00September 7th, 2014|Commentary, Personal|0 Comments
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9-4-14 Mining and Oil & Gas Have Much In Common: Sustaining Canadian & American Lifestyles

Mining.com.  Here, "Visual Capitalist" helps us to grasp the enormous breadth, depth and wealth of Canada's Oil Sands, which makes a conduit (or, pipeline conduits) through the United States and other Canadian provinces even more valuable to those areas due to associated jobs and property tax benefits.   Citizens of both states and provinces should not be fooled by environmental activist tomfoolery which seeks to isolate and lock up that wealth for both current and future generations.  Demonizing and then snapping a ball and chain around the legs of reasonable natural resource [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:10-09:00September 4th, 2014|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas|0 Comments
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9-3-14 Top Energy Summits Coming

While we draw special attention to the following, upcoming meetings, we also urge readers to explore links to resource development, chamber of commerce and other similar groups in the U.S. and Canada which are linked above, and in the right-hand column.  -dh "A Plethora of Organizations?" I've heard some say, "These organizations are duplicative!  I can't support them all!" But this mindset ignores that free enterprise is under attack from a massive and well-organized ​Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal.   The foundations, political activists and Soros-supported 'not-for-profit' organizations do not suffer from stingy donors.  As [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:11-09:00September 3rd, 2014|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal|0 Comments
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9-2-14 Remember When The Alaska Gas Project Would Be ‘Largest Construction Project’?

Remember When Alaska Considered 'Gas To Liquids'?   By Frank DiCesare / American Press A main component of Sasol’s final regulatory hurdle has been cleared. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday approved Sasol wetlands modification permit, allowing the company to disrupt -- and later replace -- wetlands during construction. Mike Hayes, Sasol’s public affairs manager for U.S. megaprojects, told the American Press on Friday that the permit will also allow Sasol to move ahead with the project's financing. "This means we can start planning to ask management for our Final Investment [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:11-09:00September 2nd, 2014|Interstate Gas|0 Comments
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9-1-14

Since it is a holiday and since most vital northern energy issues are taking another day of rest, we bring you links to issues directly and indirectly related to energy...that we normally wouldn't feature due to other priority stories, issues and editorials.  -dh Public Employee Union Day A lot has changed for organized labor since Labor Day was federally recognized 120 years ago. Obama's low-income, community lending shakedown reaches $128 billion  Bank of America and other institutions get busted for engaging in risky low-income lending, and naturally, their penalty is to [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:11-09:00September 1st, 2014|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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8-30-14 Another Labor Day Without Job Producing Keystone XL Pipeline

This weekend's Consumer Energy Alliance Energy Links: BuildKXLNow.org: Another Labor Day without Keystone XL This coming Labor Day Weekend marks the fourth year Union construction workers will not be taking a day off from building the Keystone XL Pipeline to enjoy an end to the summer BBQ. Six years of delays are hurting, not helping, the thousands of people who will see benefits from pipeline construction. Independent and government reviews have exhaustively documented how construction would affect the U.S. economy, especially Union workers in the construction and manufacturing sectors.   The [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:11-09:00August 30th, 2014|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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8-29-14 NYT Reports On Alaska Tax Referendum

NYT by Kirk Johnson.  SEATTLE — A hard-fought ballot referendum that would have overturned Alaska’s system of taxing oil industry profits, put to voters last week but until now considered too close to call, has failed by a narrow margin, with absentee ballots counted this week nailing down the outcome.

By |2016-03-13T03:55:23-09:00August 29th, 2014|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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8-28-14 President Set To Sidestep Congress Again. Where Is The Congressional Outrage?

New York Times by Coral Davenport.  The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress.   In preparation for this agreement, to be signed at a United Nations summit meeting in 2015 in Paris, the negotiators are meeting with diplomats from other countries to broker a deal to commit some of the world’s largest economies to enact laws to reduce their carbon pollution. But under the Constitution, a president may enter [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:12-09:00August 28th, 2014|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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8-26-14 New App Tracks Canadian Drilling Rigs! An Alaska Business Opportunity?

Calgary Herald, by Dan Healing.  A six-month-old app developed to track and identify drilling rigs in Western Canada has been burning up the rankings for free business downloads lately.  And the nine staff at Calgary-based startup software developer PetroFeed Inc. couldn’t be happier.  “It’s gotten some exposure and things are working out pretty well for us,” said founder and chief executive Ashley Dunfield. “We’ve gotten crazy explosive growth in the ’patch.” OPINION: The burden of proof that SB21 is the right plan for Alaska is on the oil industry now, [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:55:08-09:00August 26th, 2014|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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8-23-14

Fuel Fix by Colin Eaton.   By a slim margin, Alaska’s new business-friendly oil tax regime has survived an effort to overturn it and  revert to a previous tax structure that cost companies more. A measure on the state’s primary ballot Tuesday would have reinstated Alaska’s progressive oil taxes, originally installed in 2007 under former Gov. Sarah Palin and dismantled last year in an effort to lure oil companies to the state. The old taxes were tied to crude prices, and oil companies say they would have hampered the industry’s [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:12-09:00August 23rd, 2014|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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8-22-14 Alaska Gas Project: Permits Galore!

ADN Op-Ed by Nils Andeassen.  America’s increasing attention on the Arctic is timely and well-deserved but it’s important to recognize that there have been many individuals and organizations whose focus on the Arctic over the years we are now building on. Office of the Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator, by Bill White.   Keystone XL CBC by Sophia Harris.  America and Canada are friends. That’s the main message Americans got from phase one of the federal government's multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to promote Canadian oil in Washington and drum up support [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:13-09:00August 22nd, 2014|Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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8-21-14 LNG Competition: What We Can Do To Help!

Is The Alaska LNG Project In A Race With Canada's Painted Pony? Commentary on, "A Brave New World of LNG Export Competition", by Dave Harbour Our friend, James Halloran (below, right) advises his newsletter recipients this morning that LNG Project competition is intense.  This is why Alaska cannot take its resources for granted--cannot just assume that they will be both marketable and marketed.  And, we can help!  In a Brave New World of LNG export competition, Alaska's government and people need to work with and support reasonable natural resource development in the State. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:13-09:00August 21st, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, LNG|0 Comments
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