...today we take a break. We are honored to be providing photographic support and sponsorship to the Clare2Clare fashion show and fundraiser again this year.  There are a very few seats left, for interested, local readers.  Here is the program. See a few of our photos from last year, here, and some of our attempts to capture the exceptional qualities of a highly accomplished artist, model and professional administrator, Kodiak born Alaska Native, LaRita Laktonen, here.   House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) released the following statement after [...]

TODAY:  Reminder for US Readers to Protect America's Economy and Alaska's Future: Please Comment Today On The Chukchi Sea Exploration Program That Will Prevent Importation of Billions of Barrels of Foreign Oil and Create Tens of Thousands Of American Jobs.  -dh YESTERDAY: We admire the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission -- representing all of America's oil and gas producing states -- and a majority of the country's governors, for supporting a robust and safe Alaska OCS development program!  -dh THURSDAY: Larry Persily (NGP Photo-l) and Northwest Territories Minister Bob McLeod (NGP   Photo) will [...]

Reminder for US Readers to Protect America's Economy and Alaska's Future: Please Comment Today On The Chukchi Sea Exploration Program That Will Prevent Importation of Billions of Barrels of Foreign Oil and Create Tens of Thousands Of American Jobs. Tune in TODAY for a webcast of the Arctic Imperative Conference organized by Alaska Dispatch Publisher Alice Rogoff (Photo), featuring Arctic political and thought leaders including: Iceland's President Ólafur Ragnar GrÍmsson, Alaska Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell, former governors Frank Murkowski, and Bill Sheffield, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich, and many other [...]

Bill Noll A Great American - A Dedicated Alaskan  (Please join us as we celebrate and remember the life of William C. Noll Monday, June 20, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. at the Alyeska Resort, Girdwood, Alaska. A formal church service will be held on Friday, June 24, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, 3900 Wisconsin Street, Anchorage, Alaska Reception to follow the church service at the Parish Hall.)  Point of Personal Privilege.  We are deeply saddened this weekend to hear of the passing of our old and [...]

The life of our longtime friend, Larry Crawford (NGP Photo with Susan Lindemuth), will be celebrated at his funeral service on Sunday, 1:30 p.m. at the Anchorage Municipal Cemetery.  A Chief of Staff to Governors and Mayors and a former President of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation, Larry always conducted business selflessly, with the public interest in mind.  Here was a true public servant and faithful friend.  Here was a man whose life was valuable and relevant and contributed to a better world.  -dh  

Personal:  Last night we returned from a wonderful meeting with Kentucky Colonels in the Churchill Downs Museum during the Kentucky Derby (NGP Photos above) and continued our Derby photography project for the second year running.  We were disappointed, however, to return and find little written yet about the forum Alaska gas pipeline Federal Coordinator Larry Persily (NGP Photo-L) had organized in Anchorage last night.  The program contained a cast of excellent speakers and we certainly would have been there to report on the highlights had we not been on an airplane at the time. [...]

PNA via ADN by Alan Bailey (NGP Photo).  With an increasing air of pessimism around the prospects for a pipeline to export natural gas from the North Slope, there is talk of alternatives for monetizing the vast quantities of gas stranded in Arctic Alaska. Point of Personal Privilege.  In order to keep up with northern energy news and our zippy readers, we, of course, need to remain on this side of the grass and reasonably fit.  To that end, l exercise almost every day and try while failing almost daily to eat [...]

In Memoriam: Ted Stevens by Dave Harbour, Northern Gas Pipelines and Dr. John Crossett, Virgil Press   Last night I laid me      down to sleep, And prayed the Lord      my soul to keep; Then slept protected      at His feet. *   *   * In the morning      I went forth, To my life's work      in His far North; I sought to labor without rest, without remorse. *   *   * So, if it be your will, I pray: *   [...]

 Marian Call (NGP Photo) sang like an Alaska nightingale last night, her last Alaska performance before launching a year-long tour of the Lower 48.  Enjoy a few of the photos below and check out her Website, here.  Sometimes--as a point of personal privilege on this gas pipeline webpage--we make note of personal things that mean much. Marian Call should mean much to all Alaskans.  Join me in wishing her well as she takes her remarkable talent on the road for a year...like a Northern artist breaking trail in the Lower 48 to become [...]

We again exercise our point of personal privilege by noting with sadness the passing of our long-time friend, Chuck Webber.  Chuck was always an advocate of free enterprise as we shared leadership with the Anchorage Chamber and he went on to become Commissioner of Commerce for Alaska.  Needless to say, we spend many pleasant hours over many cups of coffee and meals discussing economic development philosophies in general and gas pipeline mode and routing alternatives in particular.  ADN did a good job summarizing his history and accomplishments here.  One Chamber [...]