1-2-14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Natural Resources Committee will hold an oversight hearing next Thursday, January 9th entitled, “Obama Administration’s War on Coal: The Recent Report by the Office of the Inspector General.”  This hearing will examine the new Inspector General Report on the Obama Administration’s unorthodox rulemaking process surrounding the rewrite of the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule.    Today's American Energy Alliance Headlines & Comment: This is the real objective of the anti-Keystone crowd (besides raising money, of course). The Nation (1/6/14) reports: “By the end of the summer, distressed [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:52-09:00January 2nd, 2014|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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12-29-13 Governor Frank Murkowski Opines On Pipeline

Alaska Dispatch, by Frank Murkowski (NGP Photo).   I urge that we not continue to fund overlapping energy projects. Over the last several years the administration and the Legislature have authorized the following: 1. $557 million has been expended over the last nine years on consultant fees and reports; 2. In the last session the Legislature approved $355 million for the in-state bullet line on top of $72 million from former years; 3. The Legislature committed $332.5 million in grants and loans to truck North Slope gas to Fairbanks; and 4. The Legislature appropriated [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:48:15-09:00December 30th, 2013|Alaska Taxes, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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12-25-2013 “ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS”

"All I Want For Christmas!" Or, "The Loss of Self Reliance" On December 24, 2001 we wrote an editorial satirizing the human greed and mismanagement that was interfering with gas pipeline project advancement. In those days, Alaskan leaders and their supporters were engaged in the beginning of a decade-long fest of spending gluttony and tax increases to support self gratification of one generation at the expense of those to follow.   -dh 12-24-09 (Christmas Eve):  Gas pipeline news this week is light as all gas pipeline stakeholder thoughts turn to home.  [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:52-09:00December 26th, 2013|Commentary|0 Comments
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12-24-13 Remembering Bill Tobin and The Anchorage Times At Christmas

Globe & Mail by Jeffrey Jones.  Imperial Oil Ltd. told regulators the estimated cost of its long-delayed Mackenzie Valley Project has surged more than 40 per cent to at least $20-billion since its last tally almost seven years ago, and that it has no idea when North American gas markets might turn around to rescue the project from limbo.  (See our related commentary) In Tomorrow's Commentary, We will Bring Readers Our Historic Gas Pipeline Christmas Commentary: "All I Want For Christmas" Remembering Bill Tobin and The Anchorage Times At Christmas [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:52-09:00December 24th, 2013|Intrastate Gas, Personal|0 Comments
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12-20-13 “Don’t Forget the Mackenzie Delta!”

See Today's Petroleum News Headlines Here. CBC: Joint review panel says Northern Gateway Pipeline project is in best interest of Canadians  -  CALGARY HERALD RELATED STORY TODAY: BY JAMES WOOD AND CHRIS VARCOE Don't Forget the Mackenzie Delta! Will Alaskan and Canadian Investors Merge Their Interests Into the Most Efficient Outcome for Arctic Gas? by Dave Harbour Globe & Mail, TUESDAY by Jeffrey Jones.   Before the end of the year, Imperial Oil Ltd. and its partners must inform the National Energy Board of its intentions with the Mackenzie gas project, the $16.2-billion [...]

By |2018-08-17T11:42:00-09:00December 20th, 2013|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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12-17-13

Video: Paul Gigot, Wall Street Journal.  Is the Administration rethinking the ban on oil exports? Calgary Herald.  Mexico's state-run oil company is battling a fire at a pipeline north of Mexico City.... Will John Podesta and a Left Wing Billionaire Control White House Energy Policy From Now On? (See our earlier, related essays, editorials and reports: "Enviro - Industrial - Governmental Cabal")  The Senate Energy and Natural Res. Committee today favorably reported two nominees to fill positions at the Department of Energy and one nominee to the Department of the Interior. Chairman Ron Wyden (NGP Photo), D-Ore., [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:53-09:00December 17th, 2013|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal|0 Comments
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12-13-13

Petroleum News North of 60 Mining News Yesterday, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) unveiled his FY 2015 budget, proposing $1.3 billion less in general fund spending than the current year and 150 fewer positions.  This FY 2015 budget proposes 18.4 percent less in general fund spending than the current year.   IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: - Nuke industry to Obama: You need us    - Vehicle fuel economy hits record high - House Dems press Obama to halt Keystone XL review - Bipartisan push imperils ethanol mandate - GOP [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:53-09:00December 13th, 2013|Alaska Taxes, What The Other Side Is Up To|0 Comments
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12-12-13 “Foxes in the Arctic Hen House”

Upon inquiry, ConocoPhillips provides us with the latest status on its Kenai Peninsula LNG export facility, below.  We regard this as very good news because it helps assure Cook Inlet explorers that they might have both domestic and foreign markets for their gas discoveries.  Absent foreign markets, the domestic market alone could be insufficient to provide adequate, long term gas exploration incentives.  -dh  With support from many local stakeholders, and in consideration of a request from the State of Alaska, ConocoPhillips Alaska (COPA) has submitted an application to the U.S. Department of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:53-09:00December 12th, 2013|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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12-11-13

Associated Press by VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV.  Expanding Russia's military presence in the Arctic region is among the top priorities for the nation's armed forces, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday....  Vancouver Sun.  Russian President Vladimir Putin is pawing the snow over Canada's claim to the North Pole.  A day after Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird confirmed Canada is extending its Arctic territorial claim beyond the area mapped by federal scientists, Putin responded with a highly visible message to the Russian military. Podesta's arrival shouldn't equate to Keystone's death knell, said Michael Whatley (NGP Photo), executive vice president of the Consumer Energy Alliance, a collection of oil [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:53-09:00December 11th, 2013|Arctic Policy, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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12-10-13 Michael and Chantell Sackett’s Victory Over An Overreaching EPA

ADN/AP — ConocoPhillips is budgeting $1.7 billion for 2014 capital costs in Alaska, twice what it says it spent in 2012 and $600 million more than was budgeted for 2013.  The company in a release says the larger budget reflects increased spending on the long-planned CD-5 development within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and increased activity due to the oil tax cut passed by the Legislature earlier this year. Spokeswoman Natalie Lowman says funding also is included for exploration, including two wells in the Greater Moose's Tooth unit, and major maintenance. So compelling was [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:53-09:00December 10th, 2013|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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12-8-13

ADN Guest Editorial by Lynn Johnson (NGP Photo).  A state that is 90 percent dependent on oil revenues cannot afford to lose 200,000 barrels of daily oil production -- and continue to prosper.  Yet that has been the state's fate under the ill-advised oil tax policy known as ACES.  Since ACES passed in 2007, North Slope production has fallen almost 31 percent while production is up everywhere else in the nation. ACES caused Alaska to miss out on the oil boom brought about by high oil prices.  That should concern [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:48:49-09:00December 8th, 2013|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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12-7-13

December 6, 2013, Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell has ordered all state flags to be lowered to half-staff on Saturday in commemoration of Pearl Harbor Day.  (Here is the personal tribute we wrote a year ago.)  -dh

By |2016-12-22T22:29:53-09:00December 8th, 2013|Personal|0 Comments
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12-2-13 10:30 AM Washington Meeting: What Good Can Come of EPA – Chinese Environmental Meetings?

Globe & Mail by Shawn McCarthy.  ... {Joe Oliver} returned last week from visits to South Korea and China amid concerns .... We urge our Washington readers to attend an EPA meeting this morning at America's major liberal coordinating center to discuss an upcoming EPA/Chinese summit.  We will be looking to our hundreds of US and Canadian media readers to keep all of us informed of developments.  -dh ChinaFAQs... United States and China account for over 40% of global GHG emmissions. How are these two nations working together to advance climate change [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:54-09:00December 2nd, 2013|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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12-1-13 Notes from the road….

Early Sunday Notes from the road: We hope readers have not sensed our skipping a beat in posting northern energy reports, though we are on a two week trip to Texas and Ecuador.  Cuenca is known as the 'world retirement capital', though we like it for other reasons and are certainly not retired.  We pursue our client work, web page, writing and photo assignments from this location a few weeks a year.  When not here, we rent our home (Casa San Sebastian) in the Andes to friends.  One of Cuenca's major [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:54-09:00December 1st, 2013|Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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11-28-13, Thanksgiving: “Thank You, Father”

Thanksgiving, 2013, "Thank You, Father" by Dave Harbour   Many of our readers know of the Pilgrims' first celebration of Thanksgiving.  Some have also toured Mount Vernon and Monticello, General Lee's home in Arlington National Cemetery and the Ronald Regan Presidential Library in Simi Valley and consider Abraham Lincoln the acknowledged father of America's Thanksgiving Day.  One is amazed at how much these leaders accomplished, and how much hey had in common--a deep faith in their Creator.   Your author and many readers believe America today requires valiant and inspired leadership to [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:54-09:00November 28th, 2013|Personal|0 Comments
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