11-25-15 In Memorium: Dave Gransbury

  November 25, 2015 Dear Dave: In the early 1970s my family moved next door to you on the shore of Cheney Lake.  You were, first, a friendly neighbor and friend.  When I came to know you better, I grew deeply respectful of your entrepreneurial dedication toward creating an ULU manufacturing business in your garage. There, with the garage door open in summer and on darker and frosty winter afternoons, we had many pleasant conversations -- as we endeavored to solve the world's problems.  All this you did on your [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:47-09:00November 26th, 2015|Personal|0 Comments
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11-11-15 Veterans Day In The U.S.

Veterans Day 2015 and Hilcorp's Alaska North Slope Liberty Project Yes, there is a link Commentary by Dave Harbour   It was a rainy, windy, cool day, that November 10, 1966. Panmunjom is the well known, Freedom's Frontier guard post -- the most dangerous in the world.   Today, we wore our Panmunjom hat in a Veterans Day ceremony.   Today we remind our readers and ourselves that there is more than one way to serve! Today, we remember with respect two fellow Anchorage, Alaska citizens who served with us on the Korean [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:48-09:00November 11th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Personal|0 Comments
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11-6-15 End of a historic week in Alaska

Our Alaska BP friend, Julie Hasquet, notes the launching this week of, "BP's inaugural, Technology Outlook.  Readers may obtain a copy here.  -dh Our Washington D.C. friend with IER, Dan Kish, notes that House democrats have filed this bill targeting an Alaska oil  & gas prohibition in Cook Inlet and the Arctic -- not to mention coal.   Founded on the religious belief in a concept called, Global Warming, the bill (i.e. called the "Keep It In The Ground Act Of 2015") is being filed as in concert with other Paris [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:48-09:00November 6th, 2015|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, LNG, Personal|0 Comments
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10-19-15 CLIMATE CHANGE EDITORIAL: KILLING CAPITALISM?

Killing Capitalism?   Have several oil and gas CEOs now joined the enviro-governmental-industrial cabal? Commentary prepared on Friday, October 16, 2015 by Dave Harbour Today, we have what is to us a disturbing announcement by some of the globe's largest oil and gas companies.   They have formed a new consortium.  Not to build a pipeline.  Not to develop an oil and gas reservoir.  Not to permit a new LNG facility.  No, these companies have formed a new consortium to support a conflicting interest, the "Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI)".   We can imagine [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:27:59-09:00October 19th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Arctic Policy, Commentary, Personal|0 Comments
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10-7-15 Natural Gas Prices Likely To Remain Depressed Through Q2, 2016

Juneau Empire by Elwood Brehmer.  Gov. Bill Walker’s proposal to increase the state’s share in the Alaska LNG Project could put Alaska on the hook for more than $14 billion....   Alaska Natural Resources Department Reserves Stream Water For Environmental Activists -- For The First Time!     Is EPA A Lawless Agency? We are sorry to hear today that our friend and former Alaskan, FERC Commissioner Phil Moeller, will be leaving the agency at the end of this month.  However, FERC's loss, in our opinion, will be another organization's gain. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:00-09:00October 7th, 2015|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Intrastate Gas, LNG, Personal, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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9-23-15 Day of the Papal visit in Washington D.C.

Earlier this week, we received this kind note from a retired industry colleague (NGP Photo) now living in the Austin area.       -dh Hey Dave, Bill Brackin here. Just thought I would drop you a line just to check in. Though I don't say thanks nearly often enough, I really appreciate your continuing and steadfast coverage of the last frontier's last frontier. Though living in Austin, and traveling about this old globe (in Asheville NC as I write), your editorial line-of-sight keeps me connected to Alaska. Deep thanks, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:01-09:00September 23rd, 2015|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Personal|0 Comments
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8-10-15

Point of personal privilege: We pause to remember our late friend, Frank Gifford, also a friend of Alaska.    (Photo with Kathy Lee Gifford, by Bruce Glikas / FilmMagic).  See "Today News". Rick Mystrom and Rick Nerland had kindly asked me to join the non profit board of our Anchorage Organizing Committee (AOC) for the Winter Olympics in the late 1980s.  In my volunteer board role, I served a 'Television Commissioner', charged with developing relationships with and support from American television and radio networks who could someday compete for Anchorage Olympic broadcast rights. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:03-09:00August 10th, 2015|Personal|0 Comments
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6-15-15

Petroleum News.  Oil Patch Bits: Bell acquires operations manager - 06/14/2015 (Login to read Full story) F. Robert Bell and Associates announced that Frank Thomas “FT” Bell has returned to the firm and will fill the new position of operations manager to further develop company goals. He will help Bell and Associates run more efficiently and grow as much as possible. In addition, he hopes Bell and Assoc....

By |2016-03-13T03:54:15-09:00June 15th, 2015|Personal|0 Comments
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5-27-15 Meetings For Our Readers

Alaska LNG Reviews Pipeline Route With Government Agencies, by Larry Persily (NGP Photo) on behalf of the Kenai Peninsula Borough   Petroleum News: Canada's Mackenzie Gas Project Still Breathing!   Today: funeral services for our longtime friend, energy advocate and "Alaska's Diplomat", Chuck Becker (NGP Photo). Tomorrow: the big LNG meeting in Anchorage, open to media and the public. Next Week:  The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) will hold its 2015 EIA Energy Conference on June 15 and 16 at the Renaissance Downtown Hotel in Washington, DC. The EIA Energy Conference has become a premier forum [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:18-09:00May 27th, 2015|LNG, Personal|0 Comments
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5-26-15 With Approval Of So Many At Home And Abroad, We Name Chuck Becker: “Alaska’s Diplomat”

Point of Personal Privilege: Scroll Down For An Update On, "Alaska's Diplomat", Our Friend, Chuck Becker  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), Friday issued the following statement in response to a letter that 18 Senate Democrats sent to Interior Secretary Jewell, calling on the Obama administration to stop energy production in the Arctic. This comes after the administration approved plans for Shell to drill in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea this summer. “Today’s attempt to block energy production in Alaska ignores the facts. For more than 30 years, Alaska has demonstrated its safe [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:19-09:00May 25th, 2015|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Personal|0 Comments
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5-21-15 In Memoriam: Chuck Becker; Our Recent Commentary Reverberates

Today's News and Commentary In Memoriam Point of personal privilege: Our great friend, Chuck Becker, passed away this morning (Photos).  Today, family and countless friends are mourning his passing.  We will attempt to provide more official information as the family makes it available. Chuck and I met in the mid-1970s in Washington D.C.  Another dear friend, the late Anchorage Mayor George Sullivan was his client and I was representing the first North Slope gas project, the Arctic Gas Consortium, with Washington and Anchorage offices. After Chuck had moved to Anchorage and completed his [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:20-09:00May 21st, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Personal, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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3-19-15 Lessons For Alaska From Canada

  Lessons For Alaska From Canada: Investors Can Go Anywhere.  Get "your act together".  You're not the "only game in town!"      -dh CBC News.  ConocoPhillips says it doesn't plan to do any more exploration work on its parcel in the N.W.T.'s Canol shale oil play for the foreseeable future. ... "Although a significant discovery declaration and subsequent significant discovery licence is a positive indication for a play, it does not indicate commercial viability," said Kristen Ashcroft, a spokesperson for ConocoPhillips. The company says it will return to the site next winter, but only to suspend a well — "a [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:32-09:00March 19th, 2015|Personal|0 Comments
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3-16-15 The Future of Oil Prices According to An Astute Reader – Senators Sullivan’s Reputation Spreads

Our friend, Rob Bradley (File Photo-R) of the Master Resource Blog, saw U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan's (NGP Photo) Maiden Senate Speech on this website and has further promoted it to his large international audience (here).  (Our original coverage and speech text)  -dh Halloran Opines On Proposed Ohio Severance Tax and Future of Oil Prices Republican Governor Proposes Ohio Severance Tax?  Our friend, Independent Energy Analyst James R. Halloran (File Photo) just returned from the Ohio Oil and Gas Association Winter Meeting where he reported that, "the big issue is Governor Kasich’s proposal for a (completely [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:33-09:00March 16th, 2015|Personal, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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2-17-15 “Here’s What I Would Do If I Were President”

Personal: We join our Fairbanks friends in lamenting the passing of our dear friend, Bob Bettisworth.  -dh As Interior Secretary Sally Jewell arrives in Alaska, North Slope Borough Mayor Charlotte Brower (NGP Photo) writes that ANWR, "...wilderness proponents ... completely ignore the plight of my people, the Iñupiat."   Read more here. What Would You Do If You Were President? By Dave Harbour On Sunday, Fox News interviewed one of the wisest combat leaders of the modern era, Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney, USAF-Retired (NGP Photo), co-author of Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:35-09:00February 17th, 2015|ANWR, Arctic Policy, Coastal Management, Commentary, Federal Obstruction, NPR-A, Personal|0 Comments
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