6-5-14 Alaska North Slope Gas Conditioning Plant Challenges

Comment: We associate a current Governing Magazine article by Liz Farmer, below, with Matt Buxton's excellent News Miner review of Alaska gas pipeline project funding.   We have long alerted readers that with government participation in the traditional, private market comes an unintended list of future consequences to be faced by not only this, but future generations of public officials who had little or nothing to do with the original public funding decisions.   Current and future citizens, in these circumstances, should be prepared to absorb the same risks taken by [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 5th, 2014|Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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6-4-14 PLF Is An Important Ally Also Fighting Federal Government Overreach

    Globe & Mail by CP.  TransCanada Corp. says it plans to build a $1.9-billion pipeline to help feed Chevron Corp. and Apache Corp.’s proposed liquefied natural gas facility near Kitimat, B.C. Yesterday ExxonMobil's Karen Hagedorn briefed the Fairbanks community on Point Thomson project status.  Read Dermot Cole's ADN story here and see our report of Sofia Wong's Friday Point Thomson briefing in Anchorage, here.  Last night, Alaska Public Media aired this audio of a recent Commonwealth North panel discussing Alaska state investment in an ANS gas pipeline/LNG project that includes Alaska producers, [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 4th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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6-3-14

Wall Street Journal TODAY re: Yesterday's Climate War Beginning: EPA War on Coal (Dan Kish Video), Coal Cutting Cuts Jobs, Carbon-Income Inequality. Globe & Mail by Peter Tertzakian.  Last week Total SA and their consortium partners shelved the $11-billion Joslyn oil sands project. Predictably, the belt-tightening announcement triggered the usual self-flagellating notions like, “Canadian oil and gas isn’t competitive,” and “The future of the oil sands is dim.” But .... Tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission will hold its monthly public meeting at 333 W. 7th Avenue [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 3rd, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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6-2-14 – Point Thomson On Schedule – Obama Exercises Climate Power – World LNG Supply Explodes!

Alaskan and Canadian Producers And Governments Are Sure To Keep Alert To Changing Conditions In The World LNG Market  (Read More) Michael Whatley (NGP Photo), former staff director and chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Energy Public Works Clean Air and Climate Change Subcommittee, raised a warning flag that EPA regulations will disproportionately affect energy consumers in states in the Midwest and Southeast that are heavily reliant on coal to generate electricity. Here is more Consumer Energy Alliance analysis. Today at 10:30 a.m. EDT, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy delivered [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 2nd, 2014|Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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5-30-14 EPA Action Could “Annihilate” Business Investment

EPA Action Could "Annihilate" Business Investment Alaska Senator Cathy Giessel (NGP Photo) responded this week to a California-based environmental activist who told the Wall Street Journal Alaskans favor more EPA controls in the state.   "The NRDC is urging EPA to issue the first pre-emptive veto in the 43-year history of the Clean Water Act," Giessel wrote. "If successful, this veto will annihilate business investment in my state and throughout our country. EPA is being litigated for its actions and rightly so. We can only hope our courts stop EPA’s usurping of power [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:24-09:00May 30th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, LNG|0 Comments
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5-29-14 RDC Alert: Help Senator Murkowski Fight EPA Overreach !!! – Murkowski Promotes Yergin Oil Export Ban Study

Alaska Mining Guru Steve Borell (NGP Photo) tips us that, "Sea NG Corporation is a Canadian company engaged in the development and commercialization of technology for marine transportation of compressed natural gas (CNG).  Sea NG offers its customers a safe, economic and reliable method of transporting natural gas by ship."  (We wouldn't be a bit surprised to see this company become more involved with Alaskan and Canadian coastal villages and rural construction and natural resource projects -- assuming its net, delivered BTU value meets or reduces prices paid for heating oil.  -dh) [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:24-09:00May 29th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-28-14 Playing By The Rules

  Information on today's Anchorage meeting with Commonwealth North on Government equity interest in an Alaska gas pipeline. Politico by Tal Kopan.  “I would be warning against using a chess analogy because in chess we have rules, and clearly Putin doesn’t care about rules because what he’s been doing now in Ukraine, it violates international law and international treaties Russia has signed before,” Kasparov said on CNN’s “The Lead.” Comment: The rule of law is all about citizens living within the law.   When a president like Putin cheats in chess or sends a disguised [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:35-09:00May 28th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-27-14 The Russians Are Coming. No, The Russians Have Come!

The Russians Have Come by Dave Harbour ​Dear Reader: we always solicit new content, comment and facts from our highly knowledgeable and experienced readers -- along with additions/corrections to our commentary.   Maintaining accuracy, with your help, is critical to the usefulness of our hundreds of thousands of pages of Northern energy archives spanning over 4 decades (See our internal 'search bar', upper right).  -dh In yesterday's Memorial Day commentary, amid unhappiness in Ukraine, we again reminded ourselves that the former owners of Alaska have returned as Alaska North Slope (ANS) [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:35-09:00May 27th, 2014|Commentary, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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5-26-14 Memorial Day – As Russia Threatens Ukraine Will Alaska Invite Russian Support of Gas Pipeline/LNG Project?

Point of Personal Privilege: On this Memorial Day I honor the memory of Dad (Col. Dave Harbour) and Mom (Bobbie) who were married in Honolulu a few days after the Japanese attack in 1941...and fellow veterans and supportive families, past and present, who defended America's constitutional principles through the country's majestic history of freedom and prosperity.  -dh Russian Company Involvement In Alaska Gas Pipeline Project? (Refer to our 2-14-13 related posting.) One of our Pacific Rim readers writes over the weekend, "that Rosneft was granted by Exxon to come into [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:35-09:00May 26th, 2014|Commentary, Interstate Gas, LNG, Personal, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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5-25-14 Government Decisions Matter

Sunday, Post Church Service Commentary: Dr. Charles Stanley (www.intouch.org, NGP Photo) gently reminds us that our actions have consequences and that we reap, "what we sow, more than we sow and later than we sow."  We include this reference not to suggest that decision makers are bad or good people, but to emphasize the principle that actions have consequences. Today's posting is for the benefit of Alaskan and Canadian decision makers who have said, "This is where the oil is; a tax or regulatory increase won't stop those oil companies. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:35-09:00May 25th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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5-23-14 Russia-China Gas Sale Impact On Alaska – Lower 48 – Canadian Exporters

CBC North.  The Town of Inuvik (NGP Photo, Inuvik Russian Orthodox Dome Church, Circa. 2003, and author) has announced it will renew its agreement with Inuvik Gas to distribute fuel to the town, but residents shouldn't expect lower gas bills, says the senior administrative officer. The Pebble Partnership (PLP) filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for Alaska. PLP asked the District Court to stop the EPA's move to pre-emptively veto the Pebble Project under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act.   As we [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:35-09:00May 23rd, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-20-14 – Gas Pipelines And State Revenue

Our faithful readers will remember the tributes offered them last week on behalf of retiring National Energy Board Chairman and CEO, Gaétan Caron.  Today, we provide our Canadian readers with the link to apply for a significant, temporary appointment as an NEB Board Member. Energy Questions For Voters To Ask Candidates What do daisies and dandelions have to do with energy and voting? by Dave Harbour Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs held an oversight hearing entitled “Oil and Gas Activities within Our [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:36-09:00May 20th, 2014|Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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5-19-14 Public – Private Gas Pipelines

Calgary Herald by Dan Healing.   It’s a classic case of too much of a good thing.  Burgeoning liquids-rich gas production in west central Alberta has overwhelmed the ability of gas plants to process the growing stream, Calgary producers warn, leading to lower production forecasts.   Brief Commentary, "Public - Private Gas Pipelines": We contrast three public-private gas pipeline projects, two of which are linked below, from weekend news reports/commentary.  As time goes on, we'll hear much more about these and other projects.  They cannot be precisely compared, in part [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:53:34-09:00May 19th, 2014|Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas|0 Comments
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5-16-14 More Accolades Flow To Retiring National Energy Board Chairman Gaétan Caron

Mike Smith, Executive Director of the Interstate  Oil and Gas Compact Commission, also weighed in today with his best wishes to Caron for "Life after the NEB". Early today, Chuck Gray, Executive Director of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners commented on National Energy Board Chairman Gaé​tan Caron's impending departure from his 35-year assignment.  Here is Gray's testimonial.  Yesterday, we acknowledged the outstanding service National Energy Board Chairman Gaétan Caron (NGP Photo) has provided to Canada over a long and distinguished career. Last evening, former Chairman of the Alaska Oil and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:36-09:00May 16th, 2014|Commentary, Personal|0 Comments
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5-15-14 Gaétan Caron To Retire

Canada Revamps Pipeline Safety Rules Ahead Of New Projects  (Also see testimony) Reflections On 35 Years With The National Energy Board Gaétan Caron (NGP Photo), Chair and CEO, National Energy Board (NEB) Alberta Energy Regulator’s Forum 14 May 2014  (See more accolades to departing Chairman Caron in tomorrow's posting, here, or scroll down.) Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. Slide 1.  I will start my presentation with a brief overview of the National Energy Board so that you can better understand the perspective that I am bringing [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:36-09:00May 15th, 2014|Commentary, Personal|0 Comments
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