9-18-15 “Who’s On First?”

Petroleum News.  With Premier Christy Clark at the helm, the British Columbia government entered a two-day summit on Sept. 9 with about 500 First Nations leaders hoping to bridge the chasm on future economic, social and legal relations. Walker Returns to Japan To Market Gas He Does Not Control (But Japanese hospitality is so impressive!) Alert: Alaskans Concerned about a nearly 50% gap between state income and spending should attend Tomorrow's Forum On Alaska's Fiscal and Economic Future!  Here's the program and here's how to watch live. For additional reference, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:01-09:00September 18th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy, Commentary|0 Comments
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9-15-15 “Tell It Like It Is”

Yesterday: LNG Prospects Lower.  Now: Hawaii, NOT a Prospective Customer For BC and Alaska Yes, Low Oil Prices Also Affect Service Industries and Their Thousands of Employees and Sub Contractors! EPA Alert Calgary's New "Tell It Like It Is Leader" Big OCS News Today: New Moratorium! Reader Commentary, Below, and Our Reaction Commentary, "Telling it like it is" carries with it a responsibility for diligence and judgment: We are honored to receive so many calls and emails every week, over many years, from readers throughout the world.  We hardly ever make [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:01-09:00September 15th, 2015|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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9-10-15 Once again–you read it here first!

We love the Energy Producing States Coalition's advocacy for domestic energy and join the group in welcoming a new legislative member, Pennsylvania's Representative Pam Snyder (Photo).  -dh Calgary Herald, by Geoffrey Morgan.Suncor Energy Inc.’s Steve Williams blasted the “stupidity” of pipeline politics in the U.S. and Canada.... Our Readers will be interested in Tom Brennan's (NGP Photo) Sunday, Anchorage Daily Planet review of the role Exxon, ARCO, Tom, Hank Rosenthal and others -- including your author -- played in Alaska Waterfowl enhancement policies of the 1970s and 80s.  -dh Exxon CEO Rex [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:02-09:00September 10th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, LNG, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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9-8-15 ConocoPhillips Plans New NPR Well Sites

Important Tax Credit Hearing Occuring Today In Alaska: Details Here Larry Persily's relevant energy links Juneau Empire Op-Ed by Caroline Higgins (NGP Photo).   Last week, Alaskans welcomed President Obama to our state.   ...opportunity to let the world know how we Alaskans feel about developing our plentiful natural resources.... Here is the perspective we Alaskans need to remember and share: Alaskans support resource development in huge numbers. Just last year, Consumer Energy Alliance surveyed Alaskans for their views on offshore oil and gas drilling in the Arctic. They found that [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:02-09:00September 8th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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9-1-15 President Obama Visits Alaska

See a broad array of Presidental visit news and feature items in today's (9-1-15) Alaska Dispatch News Comment: President Barack Obama dined last night at the Anchorage home of Alaska Dispatch Publisher Alice Rogoff (NGP Photo).  We hope that in addition to climate change issues, Alaska's major publisher was able to also discuss other matters.  Read other national and international news accounts of President Obama's Alaska visit, here.   We provided additional links, yesterday, here. Alaska's dependence and constitutional reliance on natural resources largely rest upon Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) sustainability. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:02-09:00September 1st, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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8-26-15 Alaska AGAIN prepares olive branch for visiting federal delegation

Calgary Herald by James Wood: The president of the country’s major oilpatch lobbying group says the energy industry doesn’t want government to put its planned review of Alberta’s energy royalties on hold. Alaskans Prepare For President Visit "We don’t have a lot of presidents who stop here unless they’re low of fuel,” Gov. Bill Walker (NGP Photo) said...." White House Video/Alaska Public Television: "...the president says he’s coming to Alaska because it’s on the front lines of climate change, with lives and communities already being disrupted. “What’s happening in Alaska isn’t just [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:02-09:00August 26th, 2015|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal|0 Comments
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8-20-15

Please note our June 25 commentary on competitiveness.   Then, bookmark our April 17 commentary.  -dh Comment: Critical reading of today's events below demonstrates some good news in the form of COP's new drilling at its CD5 property on the Alaska North Slope (ANS).  Then, we note from our Australian and Ohio analysts the increased difficulty faced by an ANS gas transportation project in a low energy price, high production environment.   ALASKA DECISION MAKERS: Does this not mean Alaska must become even more competitive to market its natural resources, not [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:03-09:00August 20th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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8-17-15 Feds Permit Half A Loaf (adding many conditions) For Shell’s Arctic Program

Breaking News: Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Director Brian Salerno today announced that Shell has received approval of one Application for Permit to Modify (APM) to conduct exploratory drilling activities into potential oil-bearing zones offshore Alaska at one of the wells at the Burger Prospect, Burger J.  Read More.... OUTRAGEOUS: Alaska's "Socialist Governor In Sheep's Clothing" Begins To Bear All.  See Tim Bradner's piece in the Alaska Journal of Commerce.  We will have plenty of comment tomorrow.  -dh "Gov. Bill Walker is still pushing North Slope producers for [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:03-09:00August 17th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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8-6-15

  Comment: Alaskans beware.   To the extent that the Walker administration socializes industry in Alaska, to that extent will free enterprise forces be replaced with political forces.   With a Municipally regulated (i.e. political appointees, Mayor and Assembly become regulators) natural gas utility supported by a subsidized state agency controlled by the Governor corruption of public utility regulation in Fairbanks is inevitable.   -Dave Harbour, former Chairman, Regulatory Commission of Alaska. ADN by Alex DeMarban.  The state attorney general has rejected an effort by a Hilcorp subsidiary to acquire an LNG [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:03-09:00August 6th, 2015|Commentary, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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7-28-15 Is Climate Change Science Settled?

See our Facebook commentary this morning re: Climate Change  -dh From the Senate Energy Committee: See How Envronmental Extremism is Destroying California Lives Aussie Oil and Gas Observer: The smashing of the Shanghai stock market yesterday – an 8.5% fall (the biggest one day decline in eight years) – has reverberated around the world in both stock markets and commodity markets, and oil was not left out of the carnage.    ***    Japan’s average LNG price (per mmbtu) for June was down again – at US$8.65.  Volumetrically this figure is [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 28th, 2015|Commentary, LNG, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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7-24-15 Northern Pipelines, Economies, Alaska Native and Canadian Aboriginal People Are Interdependent

Write us here to request a free, email alert subscription Northern Pipelines, Economies, Alaska Native and Canadian Aboriginal People Are Interdependent Our Comment: Alaska Natives, Canadian Aboriginals and Northern economies depend on oil and gas development and the transportation systems moving the resources to market. Transportation systems like pipelines require rights of way.  Rights of way and subsistence hunting and fishing and agricultural areas very often overlap proposed pipeline routes. All stakeholders care about the safety of pipeline operations.  For sure, all stakeholders wish to maximize their own income streams.   [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 24th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal|0 Comments
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7-21-15 Presidential Candidate Kasich Wants High Oil Taxes To Cover Ohio Overspending

Calgary Herald by Alicjaa Siekierska.  Carbon & dust emissions from oil sands activity stimulates forest growth.  “...a pillar in President Obama's energy legacy of failure.”   -Congressman Rob  Bishop    *     *     * BP Hires Vets   Consumer Energy Alliance Relevant Energy Links   Commentary: Today, 2-term Ohio Governor John Kasich announced his presidential bid (Photo credit: LA Times).  He began his term with a multi-billion dollar deficit and now enjoys a $2 billion surplus.   But Kasich's embrace of Medicaid could put more pressure on the budget every [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:13-09:00July 21st, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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7-20-15 BC LNG Moves Forward

Vancouver Sun by Dirk Meissner.   Commentary: Could the Alaska gas pipeline/LNG project's need for fiscal certainty be modeled after BC's attempt to provide a 25 year window of certainty for investors? Alaska Governor Bill Walker (NGP Photo) has pledged to seek a fiscal certainty for Alaska's gas.  But we have observed that since the major producers own both oil and gas facilities in the state, providing certainty for only the gas still leaves investors vulnerable to predatory taxation. Unfortunately Alaska has a long history of increasing or enacting oil taxes [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:14-09:00July 20th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, LNG|0 Comments
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7-12-15 Our Iranian Nuclear Negotiations: Hopelessly Incompetent, Naive, Pro-American Or Pro-Enemy?

Our Iranian Nuclear Negotiations: Hopelessly Incompetent, Naive, Pro-American or Pro-Enemy?  You Be The Judge. by Dave Harbour Today and perhaps tomorrow comes another deadline extension in, and maybe an ending of, the Iranian nuclear negotiation.  It is one of the most important -- and dangerous -- energy and world security issues in history. Why? The current process is alienating the United States from all of our 'former' Middle Eastern allies who, together, have helped provide significant security to the region.  Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries in the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:14-09:00July 12th, 2015|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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7-1-15 Alaska Governor Reneges On Oil Tax Credit

Our Commentary ADN by Pat Forgey.   Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (NGP Photo) announced Tuesday that he had signed state operating and capital budgets, approving $9.8 billion in spending sought by the Legislature but vetoing a possible $200 million worth of controversial oil tax credits.      ... RELATED:  Dispute over oil tax credits plays out in shadow of Alaska's budget deadlock "It is apparent the current oil and gas production tax credit system is unsustainable," Walker said in a letter Monday to Senate President Kevin Meyer, (NGP Photo), telling him of [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:54:43-09:00July 1st, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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