5-23-12

We joined Dan Fagan (NGP Photo-r) today on his radio show.  Our segment, shared with guest, Andrew Halcro (NGP Photo-L), followed an appearance by Governor Sean Parnell.  View the Parnell segment here by using the fast forward button to navigate to Hour: 1:36:11.  Our segment starts at: 2:07:45.  An earlier segment featured Jeff Jones, Governor Parnell's special assistant for natural resources.  -dh House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) yesterday sent a letter to the Department of the Interior’s Acting Inspector General (IG) Mary Kendall to question her about discrepancies [...]

By |2020-06-28T17:08:33-09:00May 23rd, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-22-12

Last week we "Counted the ways Alaska is being assaulted by the Federal government".  Today, the CEA Alaska President Steve Pratt (NGP Photo) tells us that, "This Thursday, May 24th, starting at 7 PM (doors open at 6 PM) at the Campbell Creek Science Center in Anchorage the Bureau of Land Management will be taking testimony on a management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska.  Despite the fact that federal law forbids the federal government from even studying setting aside additional areas as wilderness or special conservation areas, two of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:13-09:00May 22nd, 2012|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-21-12 – Intergenerational Inequity, Continued….

ADN Editorial: ... That's what was most frustrating about the state Senate refusing to even hold hearings on House Bill 9, which would have empowered the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. to pursue an in-state "bullet" line with a target of a 2013 open season and given AGDC a seat at the table for discussions on the LNG export project where it could leverage its work and the 417 miles of right of way it possesses.  If Alaska's state senators have an alternative way to get gas to state residents and relieve [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:13-09:00May 21st, 2012|Commentary, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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5-17-12 We Detest Intergenerational Inequity — So Rampant Nationally and Throughout Alaska

Calgary Herald, by Dina O'Meara.  Enbridge Embarks on $3.2 Billion Expansion of Pipeline System Bloomberg by Ramsey Al-Rikabi.   Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., operator of the 800-mile Trans-Alaska crude system, will close for work (today), the first of as many as five shutdowns scheduled until Aug. 5. Intergenerational Inequity by Dave Harbour (Read the full article in this month's Alaska Business Monthly: Page 1 and Page 2) Author's note: Intergenerational inequity is a fancy term for spending money we don't have and letting our kids pay our debt, with interest.  Politicians love [...]

By |2021-01-16T07:13:25-09:00May 17th, 2012|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Commentary|0 Comments
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5-16-12

Washington Times Op-Ed Today: Senators Lisa Murkowski and David Vitter.  TransCanada’s decision to reapply for a federal permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline across the U.S.-Canadian border offers President Obama something that rarely comes around - a second chance to do the right thing. Calgary Herald by Dina O'Meara.  Oil and Gas Producers Keep Eye On Wildfires AP/ADN by Becky Bohrer.  Marc Langland (NGP Photo-R) and Jim Jansen (NGP Photo-L), co-chairs of the Make Alaska Competitive Coalition, in an email Tuesday, said they are not giving up on pressing for what they call meaningful [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:14-09:00May 16th, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-14-12 – The Obama Administration Could Shut In The Nation’s Petroleum Reserve in Alaska

Alaska Under Assault The Alaska Mining Industry Is Honored -- Along with Bob Hoekzema, One Of Mining's StalwartSupporters (NGP Photo: Weekly AMA Meeting, 5-11-12.)  Paul Jenkins says in his OP-Ed today that, "Without sensible oil tax reform, without more production, Alaskans will have to live with one eye on Alaska North Slope crude oil prices day to day and worry about the national and international vagaries and happenstance that drive them." See the Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Inspector News Briefs for Today! Should Canada be less dependent on foreign oil? Dan [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:15-09:00May 14th, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-9-12

Could Feds Slow Energy Development With A Dune Lizard? Fox News by Joshua Rhett Miller.  Deep-pocketed environmental groups are collecting millions of dollars from the federal agencies they regularly sue under a little-known federal law, and the government is not even keeping track of the payouts, according to two new studies.   Under the Equal Access to Justice Act, or EAJA — which was signed into law by President Carter in 1980 to help the little guy stand up to federal agencies — litigants with modest means who successfully show [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:16-09:00May 9th, 2012|Reader Comment|0 Comments
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5-3-12 – Alaska Gas Pipeline Shifts Focus

Personal note of welcome. to our Texas friends! With our next email alert we will welcome several hundred new subscribers, mostly owners and executives associated with the thriving Texas Oil and Gas Industry.  Last Wednesday, your author had the pleasure of addressing the annual meeting of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers in Wichita Falls, thanks to a thoughtful invitation from TAEP President, Alex Mills (NGP Photo-L).  Today, in response to several requests, we reluctantly provide the notes we used in preparing for that presentation, here.  We say, 'reluctantly', because the speech [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:18-09:00May 3rd, 2012|Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas|0 Comments
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5-1-12

  Calgary Herald by Rebecca Penty.  Canada’s largest pipeline company based in Calgary is set to re-apply for U.S. federal approval to build its proposed Alberta-to-Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline while it also examines reconfiguring part of its Canadian mainline gas line into a conduit for oil. A repurposed mainline could deliver up to 800,000 barrels per day, according to the proposal, to eastern Canadian refineries eyeing western crude that’s selling at a bargain to world prices. Special session ends after House adjourns Anchorage Daily News Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) to lower oil [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:18-09:00May 1st, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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4-26-12 – Dave Harbour Says Texas and Alaska Can Lead In Economic Recovery

Times Record News by Lee Anderson. native Texan Dave Harbour, encouraged members of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers on Wednesday to continue challenging federal mandates imposed on the oil and gas industry and insisted that Texas and Alaska can lead the nation from "the brink of economic crisis back to prosperity."The former chairman of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, said "We can do it by controlling spending and developing domestic natural resources in time to save our children's generation from what could be a time of great adversity," Harbour told the crowd of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:19-09:00April 26th, 2012|Personal|0 Comments
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4-25-12 – Texas Alliance of Energy Producers

Commentary:  Our friend, Consultant Paul Ziff (NGP Photo), sent us his new paper yesterday, “Natural Gas Under Siege”.  He says that in today’s price environment, every MCF of gas produced increases a producer’s financial loss.  If one adds to that scenario, desire of the Feds to overregulate shale, the loss to producers and production decline will be exacerbated.  -dh Today, your author has the pleasure of addressing the annual meeting of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.     -dh  Membership Breakfast Speaker: Dave Harbour, Commissioner Emeritus, Author, Regulator, Lobbyist Membership [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:20-09:00April 25th, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Personal|0 Comments
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4-22-12

Scroll down to yesterday's post, "Is Alaska's Legislature Making A Big Mistake?" The Export Council for Alaska -- with support from Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska -- has endorsed improvement by the obama Administration and the Alaska Legislature of the Alaska investment climate. Calgary Herald.  Encana Corp said Japan’s Toyota Tsusho Corp will buy a royalty interest in its southern Alberta natural gas field for C$602 million ($606.2 million) as depressed dry gas prices force the company to cut spending or look for partners.  (We ask, "Could Toyota have bargained for Alaska [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:20-09:00April 23rd, 2012|Personal|0 Comments
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4-22-12 – Is Alaska’s Legislature Making A Big Mistake?

Today, we are pleased to provide you with a link to Tom Brennan's important commentary... embellished a bit with our own.  -dh Commentary: Tom Brennan's (NGP Photo) commentary below, notes that the Alaska Legislature seems enamored with providing tax credits to companies that explore new, potential petroleum reservoirs on Alaska state lands (i.e. most 'explorers' are relatively new to Alaska and have expressed publicly or privately a concern that if they do discover anything, production in this tax climate will be difficult or impossible).  State law provides subsidies for explorers by over taxing [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:52:55-09:00April 22nd, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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4-18-12

  We remind fellow citizens to not underestimate the internal threat to our American freedoms.  We remind ourselves to not be complacent, thinking "It could never happen here".   -dh    Harbour and Hofmeister to Address Texas Alliance of Energy Producers Next Week   TransCanada’s Summer 2012 Western Canada Gas Supply Update is out… Read More… ___________________________ CBC North.  The federal government is reducing the number of departments and agencies that can do environmental reviews from 40 to just three to speed up approvals for projects that will bolster Canada's economy, Natural [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:21-09:00April 18th, 2012|Commentary|0 Comments
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