Yesterday's Election Results: Scroll down for yesterday's analysis. KTUU. The outcome of Ballot Measure 1 decided whether Alaska should keep changes the Legislature made earlier this year to the state's oil tax structure. Controversy surrounded the divisive issue from the time legislation was proposed through the days leading to the election.
Primary Election Day In Alaska A Historic Day Whereupon Alaskan Voters Will Determine the Future Of Their State and Their Country! by Dave Harbour (Responses to commentary) Alaska: Where A Deal Is A Deal? Last Spring we wrote a four part series, here, on Alaska's oil tax history going back to forty years. We also explored Alaska's current status as a competitive investment climate and coined a phrase: "In Alaska, Is A Deal A Deal?", and variations on that theme. In one column, below, we explored the concept of a competitive investment climate/tax [...]
More than 125,000 US Consumers Say Open Up New Offshore Areas for Energy Production More than 125,000 US consumers support of a robust offshore energy development program. Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) and its partner organizations have submitted these comments to the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) just before the end of the comment period on a new five-year offshore energy leasing plan. American consumers overwhelmingly support a commonsense energy policy that includes expanding access to offshore areas where responsible exploration for oil and natural gas can be [...]
Dear NGP Reader: KTUU. Dillingham is more than 100 miles downstream from where the Pebble Partnership would like to mine copper and gold. It's the biggest city in the Bristol Bay region, a place where many voices can be heard. (See our earlier reports.) We had one of the most important commentaries in our history ready for this morning when the electrical power failed and we lost four hours worth of work. You are, therefore, entitled and encouraged to give us a stern look accompanied by your gentle but firm [...]
Commentary: We can't help wondering about wandering Russian eyes, now turned more than ever toward the Arctic, shared by Canada and U.S., among others. With more incursions of Russian bombers into our airspace, with Russian aggression and energy blackmail occuring in Ukraine, with Russian interest in Exxon's Point Tompson Field, with increasing Russian involvement in North American energy projects, and, now, with Russia lobbying against exports to Europe, we wonder -- as do our good readers -- at how entangling energy alliances involving Russia will affect Alaskan and Canadian energy [...]
Alaska Miners Association Summary of Yesterday's Meetingvideo platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player ADN by Lisa Demer. The fight over the proposed Pebble mine came to the Egan Center on Tuesday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s public hearing before a crowd of hundreds, some holding salmon cutouts or wearing anti-Pebble stickers and others with red stop signs saying “Hands off Alaska.” *** Deantha Crockett, executive director of the Alaska Miners Association (NGP Photo), told EPA that she fields calls regularly from potential financiers wondering whether it’s safe to invest [...]
Wall Street Journal by Cassandra Sweet and Jim Carlton. In U.S. Energy Boom, Alaska Is Unlikely Loser. former Dominant Oil Player Losing Out To Places Like North Dakota. Note: The Resource Development Council for Alaska (RDC) urges our NGP readers in Anchorage to attend and testify at an EPA Public Hearing TOMORROW. We and RDC believe that any project in Alaska should be vetted through existing permitting processes, and be properly evaluated through the National Environmental Policy Act. Public testimony will be limited to two minutes per person, with tribal [...]
See Our Commentary On Federal Government Comment Periods Now Underway Calgary Herald by Dan Healing. Pengrowth Energy Corp. will deliver output from its Lindbergh thermal oilsands project starting next year on a pipeline operated by heavy oil rival Husky Energy Inc., it reported Thursday after markets closed. Homer News by Tim Bradner (NGP Photo, Nikiski, Circa 2002). The Alaska LNG Project LLC has purchased 120.4 acres from private landowners for a large liquefied natural gas plant at Nikiski, has an additional 97 acres under contract for purchase and also is working with [...]
A Fairbanks columnist (i.e. below) admits a conflict of interest -- then opposes a pipeline gravel site possibly needed for a gas pipeline that could lower Fairbanks consumer energy costs. It is a classic example of NIMBY, "Not In My Back Yard". We do not suggest it is improper for a columnist to pen commentary. Neither do we proclaim NIMBY to be a 'bad' thing. We do suggest NIMBY is a reality upon which pipeline 'stakeholder relations' professionals must concentrate. There is a palpable tension among various special interests: affected [...]
Fairbanks News Miner, by Matt Buxton. With less than three weeks before voters decide the fate of an oil tax system the industry has spent millions to defend, ExxonMobil invited a group of reporters to visit North Slope’s Point Thomson gas field. Reporters from the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Anchorage-based media outlets took an ExxonMobil flight on Thursday to tour what is said to be one of the busiest places of development on the North Slope.
ADN OpEd by Jim Jansen (NGP Photo). Alaskans have a choice on August 19. We can retain a competitive tax structure, compete in the market for oil investment and have a vibrant long-term economic future, or we can continue to over-tax the petroleum industry, suck on the oil lollipop until it’s gone and let the future be damned. Dingman Would Sacrifice Short Term Cash Cow For Long Term, "Environment of Economic Stability" ADN Column by Mike Dingman (NGP Photo). After all of the talk of the past oil tax systems, the fluctuating price of oil, the world market, [...]
SB 21 Tax Reform Legislation Prompts ConocoPhillips - Doyon Alaska North Slope Project (Does oil tax reform improve chances for an Alaska North Slope LNG Project? Governor Sean Parnell thinks so.) Canada Also Finds That Oil Incentives Work: Calgary Herald by Dan Healing Rick Rogers Agrees: "No On One" ADN Op-Ed by Rick Rogers (NGP Photo). In reading Bill Walker’s (NGP Photo-below) recent column on why he would be voting yes in the August primary election referendum to repeal oil tax reform, it was hard to understand how he could [...]
ADN Op Ed by Paul Jenkins. While the Environmental Protection Agency pursues its dubious war on the proposed Pebble mine project, and the end-justifies-any-means crowd applauds, we should be asking: Which project is next and how far will we allow this federal agency to exceed its lawful authority?
Alaska Dispatch by Jonathan Katchen. Much of the discussion surrounding our oil taxes is driven by emotion and ideology instead of facts. Most Alaskans want a vibrant oil industry that generates good paying jobs, keeps the oil flowing for years to come and provides Alaskans with a fair share of revenue. Here’s why voting to repeal SB 21 will jeopardize these goals.
Calgary Herald by Stephen Ewart. Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway reported record second quarter financial results in the past week, based in part on strong North American energy markets that included the growing volumes of crude transported by rail as well as increased shipments of frac sand and drill pipe.
(1).jpg)
.jpg)
.JPG)
(1).jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
.JPG){kind=link}