1-4-13 Alaska’s Budget Policy Is Unsustainable But Fixable

From Ziff Energy: North American gas resource has the capability to deliver over 90Bcf/d by 2020.  Western Canada will provide 15% over which the Montney Tight Gas region is a third.  While Western Canada full cycle costs are slowly being ground down to $5.15/Mcf in 2011 from a high of $8.70/Mcf in 2007, the economic uplift of LNG is boosting the net gas price for the producer.   Alaska's State Budget: The Good News and the Bad News Commentary by Dave Harbour Yesterday, the University of Alaska's Institute of Social [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:19-09:00January 4th, 2013|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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1-3-13 – Northern Gas Pipelines: “Canadian Policy Making At Its Worst”

Globe and Mail, by Brian Lee Crowley and Ken Coates, re: Northern Gas Pipelines's Difficult History.  The bitter debate over the Northern Gateway oil pipeline project shows Canadian policy-making at its worst. A piece of nationally significant infrastructure, the project is currently mired in a toxic mess, assailed by environmentalists, targeted by vote-hungry B.C. politicians and publicly challenged by many first nations. You could be forgiven for feeling a dreadful sense of déjà vu. MORE RELATED TO THIS STORY INTERVIEW Canada’s pipeline squeeze Joe Oliver’s biggest challenge ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE Stalled pipelines cast shadow over [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:19-09:00January 3rd, 2013|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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12-31-12 – Alaska Intrastate Gas Project To Be Separated From Alaska Housing Finance Corporation

Alaska Journal of Commerce by Tim Bradner.  ... 2013 could be pivotal for Alaska’s oil and gas industry. Comment.  We cannot maintain our lifelong tradition of proclaiming, "Happy New Year", today.  This is because we have seen and delivered to faithful readers convincing proof that in these last four years America has become a different country and will never again be what our parents and forefathers envisioned.  On a brighter note, we can earnestly celebrate the hope and everlasting peace that may come from being personally prepared for the 'new [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:19-09:00December 31st, 2012|Commentary, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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12-28-12

Fairbanks News Miner by Jeff Richardson.  Golden Valley Electric Association has applied for a lease with the Alaska Department of Natural Resources to build a half-mile-long natural gas pipeline on the North Slope.

By |2016-03-13T03:48:14-09:00December 28th, 2012|Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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12-27-12

Environmental Protection Agency: "Lisa Jackson Leaving EPA In January."  (Commentary on Government Waste, By Dave Harbour) We received an email about Jackson's upcoming departure with this message: "This service is provided to you at no charge by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."   We boldfaced two words above to demonstrate the abysmal lack of business and economics knowledge possessed by this federal agency and Administration.  Of course, our readers know that the Taxpayers paid for the agency to spread its propaganda throughout the country via a sophisticated mass delivery program known as, "GovDelivery". [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:19-09:00December 28th, 2012|Commentary, Government Waste|0 Comments
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12-24-12 All I Want For Christmas

All I Want For Christmas A Christmas Eve Editorial Written 13 Years Ago Today! by Dave Harbour 12-24-2001 (Christmas Eve):  Gas pipeline news this week is light as all gas pipeline stakeholder thoughts turn to home.  Before news afresh begins breaking after the holidays, perhaps it would be well to spend a quality moment or two reflecting on where we've been this year and where we wish to be in 2002.  After all, our millions of individual decisions in the coming year will produce some grand, cosmic formula revealing the future of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:20-09:00December 24th, 2012|Commentary|0 Comments
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12-21-12

Some Projects Seem More Lively Than Others As This Year Ends Fairbanks News Miner by Matt Buxton.  The Alaska Gasline Development Corp. on Thursday unveiled a reworked version of its in-state natural gas pipeline that provides lower prices for Fairbanks and communities along the proposed route from Prudhoe Bay to Southcentral. An earlier version of the project faltered during the 2012 legislative session. The revised proposal drops costly processing facilities for natural gas liquids. The liquids are no longer as profitable because the market is awash, thanks to the Lower 48 oil boom.  *** [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:20-09:00December 21st, 2012|AGDC, AGIA, Intrastate Gas, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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12-19-12

Daily Caller by David Holt (NGP Photo).  Over the past year, energy has moved from newspapers’ business and science sections to their front pages. From the president’s highly controversial decision on the Keystone XL pipeline to new assessments of prolific U.S. oil and natural gas reserves, American energy dominated the headlines this year — and for good reason. High gasoline anddiesel prices threaten to curtail the economic recovery and ongoing turmoil overseas has refocused the country’s attention on the importance of energy security.

By |2016-12-22T22:31:20-09:00December 19th, 2012|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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2-18-12 Sell Alaska?

  Calgary Herald by Dan Healing. Athabasca Oil Corp. said Monday it plans to invest $798 million overall in capital spending in 2013, with most of that going to its thermal oilsands projects.  “With the Duvernay results coming in, with the industry interest in the Duvernay increasing a lot lately, it’s a place with our 350,000 net acres (140,000 hectares), we will have to take partners in the future, just too much cost,” said chief executive Sveinung Svarte...."   We are delighted to note that the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:20-09:00December 18th, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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12-12-12 – What A Date!

Call to Action: We thank the Alaska Miners Association for this alert.  PLEASE COMMENT ON THE CANYON CREEK COAL LEASE SALE TODAY (EXPLORATION), OR BEFORE DECEMBER 21!  -DH CBC News Alert:  TONIGHT Edmontonians will be able to inspect ATCO Pipelines' plan for a new network of high pressure natural gas pipelines in the city.... Tomorrow, CEA Alaska's Steve Pratt (NGP Photo) will appear on the Dan Fagan Show, 7-8 a.m., KTBY/Fox Channel 4/654, to discuss energy production and consumption from a consumer perspective....  -dh  WE ARE AMAZED that this item, posted [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:21-09:00December 12th, 2012|You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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12-10-12

Read the Examiner's thoughtful essay on how the 'Fiscal Cliff' could affect Alaska. Alaska Revenue Forecast Commentary By Dave Harbour Today, we link to the Alaska Department of Revenue's 2012 Revenue Forecast.   We begin by praising the cover photos provided by Rick Boots and John Tichotsky.   Comment: Today at the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, Meera Kohler, CEO of Alaska Village Electric Cooperative (NGP Photo), and Rob Jacobsen, vice president of science and technology with Marsh Creek, will discuss, "generating power with North Slope natural gas and delivering it via [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:21-09:00December 10th, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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12-7-12 – Remembering Pearl Harbor

 Today's Alert and Call to Action: Last Chance To Comment On Keystone XL! Senator Cathy Giessel Responds to Yesterday's Call to Action, Supporting Senator Mark Begich's Efforts to Reduce Impact of EPA Ruling! See Our Comment Today On, "Growing Aggression In The Environmental Movement" We Present a Personal Perspective: Harbour's Pearl Harbor Connection Yesterday in Washington, D.C., Minority Staff Director of the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee, McKie Campbell (NGP Photo coming) told us Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) would be releasing in January a, "20-20 Vision for America's Energy Future", [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:22-09:00December 7th, 2012|Federal Progress, Personal|0 Comments
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12-6-12

New Alaska Energy Job (We believe the new incumbent will be capable of unwraping a Gordian Knot, have the grace of Walter Cronkite, the determination of Clint Eastwood,  the wisdom of Peter Drucker, the inventiveness of MacGyver and possibly the simple decisiveness of that great warrier, Alexander.  Time permitting, we'll explain later for those who do not fully grasp the multiple energy enigmas awaiting this new executive.  Greeting him/her will be the challenges of gas supply deficiency for power generation, high voltage transmission infrastructure deficiency, constituent demands for energy subsidies from rural [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:48:48-09:00December 6th, 2012|Alaska Taxes|0 Comments
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12-5-12 – “Call to Action”

Our friends at the Resource Development Council for Alaska write this morning: Congress is currently considering the Coast Guard reauthorization bill.  Passage of this legislation presents an opportunity to achieve a short to mid-term solution to Alaska¹s concern with the Emission Control Area (ECA).  Your help is needed immediately, as there is a small window of opportunity. The U.S. House of Representatives will likely pass a Coast Guard authorization bill soon. At this  point, the best hope is to get language inserted into the Senate version. Action requested: RDC encourages its members to thank [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:22-09:00December 5th, 2012|Federal Obstruction, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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12-3-12

CBC/AP.  It's a decision U.S. President Barack Obama put off during this year's election campaign, but now that he's won a second term, his next move on the proposed oil pipeline between Alberta and Texas may signal how he will deal with climate and energy issues in the four years ahead.  (Comment: Note the stacked, unused TransCanada pipe on the right, as Obama appeared in Cushing, Ok., during the campaign.  In the early 1970s Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) pipe rested for several years, stacked and waiting for Congressional authorization.  That [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:22-09:00December 3rd, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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