2-23-15 We continue to wish Alaska’s new governor well, but hope there’s not a screw loose somewhere….

In tomorrow's posting, we'll explain why we struggle with the logic of recent public statements.  -dh Meanwhile, we urge our readers to carefully listen to Governor Bill Walker's words from his news conference last week. Then, we suggest that our discerning readers fill in any blank spaces by absorbing Walker's message in his Saturday, Mat-Su Frontiersman Op-ed piece: From Sunday's Fairbanks News Miner comes this related Op-ed by Senate Resources Committee Chairman, Cathy Giessel (NGP Photo):  See Harold Heinze's 2-21-15 letter to Senator Giessel, here. Walker sincerely shares the same goals as myself, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:34-09:00February 23rd, 2015|Commentary, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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2-20-15 Alaska Gasline Board Appointees AND More On Fairbanks Gas LNG/Transportation/Distrbution Project

Yesterday, Alaska Governor Bill Walker appointed three new board members to the AGDC (Alaska Gasline Development Corporation, aka. "ASAP"). Video: note sound volume low in beginning, becomes normal after a few minutes. STATUS: Interior Energy Project (Government project to establish a new, natural gas LNG / transmission / distribution system for Fairbanks Alaska.) Here is our "links page" to the IAP for quick reference. COMMENTARY: IEP On February 12 we had become confused about status of the multi-hundred million dollar government program to provide one Alaskan community with low cost energy. Since a [...]

By |2018-03-07T10:59:15-09:00February 20th, 2015|Commentary, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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2-19-15 Interior Energy Project Suggestion….

BP and Commonwealth North: Two economic reports offer "Good News for Alaska" Commonwealth North hosted its 9th annual Alaska Assets Review on February 18. The program recognizes that as shareholders of “Alaska Inc.” the citizens of Alaska need to be informed about how the assets of their company are performing. This year Northrim Bank President and CEO Joe Beedle (NGP Photo-L) and former Lt. Governor Mead Treadwell (NGP Photo) presented the performance review.  Read full report....  BP’s Annual Energy Outlook also appeared this week; it has become one of the most reliable sources on the topic of the future of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:35-09:00February 19th, 2015|Commentary, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Reader Comment|0 Comments
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2-18-15 Open Letter To Interior Secretary Sally Jewell

Open Letter To Honorable Sally Jewell, Secretary Of Interior On Occasion Of Her Visit To Alaska Useful video references: 1) "Broken Promises" by Former Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel (NGP Photo-L) and, 2) "Alaska Under Siege" by Dan Fagan (NGP Photo) by Dave Harbour ​We keep hoping that the current Administration's agency appointees will place loyalty to the one appointing them secondary to the public interest and fidelity to the Constitution. Secretary Jewell:  We especially commend for your reading the wise counsel Alaska North Slope Borough Mayor Charlotte Brower has offered to you and the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:35-09:00February 18th, 2015|ANWR, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Rule Of Law|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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2-11-15 Energy Projects Cry Out For Market Freedom

TODAY: Chairman Upton & Chairman Murkowski to Join House and Senate Leaders At Keystone XL Press Rally The Alaska LNG Project provided draft environmental and socioeconomic reports to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which is responsible for conducting the environmental review of the project. www.ferc.gov.  US/Canadian Pipelines And A Call For Market Freedom by Dave Harbour Free enterprise, like water, always seeks a way out of containment in a natural quest for liberation. In recent months, we have reported extensively on President Obama's improper (i.e. and totally rational, if [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:36-09:00February 11th, 2015|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Keystone XL|0 Comments
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2-4-14 Interior Energy Project Follow Up

Alaska's Challenge of Cash & Energy Shortage: FOLLOW UP NEWS AND REPORTS See our earlier reports: New IEP Announcement; Series: Part I, Part II and Part III   Useful Links, Interior Energy Project (IEP): 2-20-15. Commentary, AIDEA questions asked and answered and Harvest Alaska's letter. 2-2-15. Spectrum LNG letter to Governor Bill Walker 2-2-15.    Ray  Latchem email to NGP 2-2-15 KTOO on IEP 1-28-15. ADN on IEP 1-28-15.  ​AIDEA's IEP News Announcement 1-8-15. AJC On Old IEP Failure 10-25-14.  News Miner, IEP Permitting Complete 9-19-14. AIDEA-MWH Sign Agreement 7-3-14.  MWH  Announcement 1-1-14.  ABM on Flint Hills Closing RCA's Docket Link re: FNG, Harvest Alaska RCA's [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:36-09:00February 4th, 2015|Commentary, Interior Energy Project (IEP), Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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2-4-15 Alaska’s Challenge of Cash & Energy Shortage: Part III

  Alaska's Challenge of Cash & Energy Shortage: Part III (Reference: Part I, Part II) Here, we'll track future follow-up Are we for an agreeably priced, desirable and stable source of home heating fuel for Fairbanks?  Absolutely.  The question is whether a state-of-the-art LNG transportation/gas distribution system is better done: 1.  by a state government agency owned and operated/or supervised city gas utility, or 2.  by an open process which invites competitive, private sector proposals from qualified proposers in order to achieve the most cost effective possible project? In this series, we [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:36-09:00February 4th, 2015|Commentary, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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2-3-15 Alaska’s Challenge of Cash & Energy Shortage: Part II

CEA President David Holt (NGP Photo) was the guest on several radio interviews discussing the Arctic for All campaign, America's energy revolution, Alaska's role in domestic energy production and the importance of offshore energy resources.  Anchorage's KBYR featured Holt on the Mornings with Michael Dukes Show. He was also a guest on the nationally syndicated Radio America: Neal Asbury’s Made in America Show.   Hear the interviews here! The Hill Op-ed by Mead Treadwell (NGP Photo). ...the Obama administration is in a tizzy to solidify its Arctic strategy. January in particular has been quite busy for the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:36-09:00February 3rd, 2015|ANWR, Arctic Policy, Coastal Management, Commentary, Federal Obstruction, NPR-A, OCS, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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2-2-15 “Alaska’s Challenge of Cash & Energy Shortage: Part I”

 “Alaska’s Challenge of Cash & Energy Shortage: Part I” See Part II and Part III Additional references and historical background In “Alaska LNG Challenges” by Dave Harbour First, there is the Challenge of Cash Shortage. […]

By |2017-08-29T12:48:25-09:00February 2nd, 2015|AGDC, Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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1-30-15 NWT Reviews Another Mackenzie Pipeline Option As Financially Strapped Alaska Moves To Purchase A City Utility

Commentary: In conspicuous contrast to President Obama and environmental extremists on both sides of the border, Northwest Territories Premier Bob Mcleod (NGP Photo) joins Alberta Premier Jim Prentice, as a longtime proponent of prudently constructed and managed pipelines.   In fact, McLeod sees pipelines for oil and gas as being one way of increasing the wealth and stature of his people as well as the NWT's economic independence from Ottawa.  See story below.  -dh Toronto Sun by DAVID AKIN, The Northwest Territories announced Thursday it will begin a feasibility study that could [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:36-09:00January 30th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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1-28-15 Is The White House Intentionally Killing Alaska’s Economy and America’s Future?

NPR TODAY & Our Commentary WSJ YESTERDAY: Obama’s Trans-Alaska Oil Assault He’s slowly starving the current pipeline so it will have to shut down. Washington’s energy debate has been focused on President Obama’s endless opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, but maybe that was only a warm-up. His new fossil fuel shutdown target is Alaska. Refer also to Monday's editorial re: A Good Father Figure and Sunday's reports on: 1-25-2015 REPORT ALERT: Federal Government Makes Economic War On Alaska and All American Consumers and another layer of anti-development complexity courtesy of a new [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:37-09:00January 28th, 2015|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Arctic Policy, Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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1-27-15 Supporting a job creating mine and associated gas pipeline

Urgent note from our friends at the Alaska Support Industry Alliance. Our emailed submission:  Please register this as a voice in support of the proposed Donlin Mine and its associated gas pipeline.   The pipeline enables the favorable economics developed by Donlin management and serves the public interest.     A critical advantage is that rural residents will be given a new energy lifeline at the most reasonable possible price for fuel.  Furthermore, provision of numerous well paying, local jobs is a project component desperately needed in the proximity of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:37-09:00January 27th, 2015|Commentary, Intrastate Gas, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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1-26-15 New Week, New Challenges

NORTH DAKOTA RIG COUNT POINTS TO U.S. OUTPUT DECLINE The decline in oil drilling that has occurred so far across the United States is probably enough to ensure U.S. production peaks by April or May, though that might not be evident until June or July given delays in publishing production records. If the number of active rigs continues to decline in... A Good Father Figure by Dave Harbour ​Please refer to our Sunday review, yesterday, of the President's executive action against Alaska and consumers throughout America WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:37-09:00January 26th, 2015|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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1-20-15 Highlights

Today we focus on northern energy highlights so that readers can join us in appreciating the bigger picture and how each of our own special interests is framed within it.  (Send us your comments and go here for yesterday's related commentary.   -dh  Today, we would add these comments to the observations in yesterday's essay: Thanks to Dr. Scott Goldsmith (NGP Photo) and the diligent professionals at the institute of Social and Economic Research, we present this simple economic model/game.​  Our readers can change the assumptions to derive their own results and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:37-09:00January 20th, 2015|Commentary|0 Comments
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