7-9-12 Oppose Ballot Measure #2 at Noon Today and At Tonight’s Hearing!

The Washington Post: Keystone oil pipeline finds champions in Montana Democrats eyeing local benefits Comment:  The Alaska State Chamber of Commerce and other responsible organizations throughout Alaska oppose the new Ballot Measure #2 which they say could cripple economic development and the future economic security of Alaska.  We agree (See our earlier editorial on related issues), and encourage responsible Alaskans to become involved in the following ways: 1.  Attend today's Anchorage Chamber of Commerce debate on Ballot measure #2 today, if you are in the Anchorage area.  Here's the information. 2. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:31:52-09:00July 9th, 2012|Commentary|0 Comments
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6-29-12 OCS: A Difference of Opinion

OCS Maps  OCS: A Difference of Opinion (Commentary).  Yesterday, the Department of Interior boasted of its "...Plan to Make All Highest-Resource Areas in the US Offshore Available for Oil and Gas Leasing."  However, in the Obama Administration's unique, passive-aggressive way, it smiles and offers development while withdrawing many of the best areas for development.  Is this another sleight of hand designed to "fool most of the people all the time", or "all of the people some of the time?"  After reading the side-by-side notes below, our readers can draw their [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:06-09:00June 29th, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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6-25-12 – Does this B.C. gas discovery drive another nail into the coffin of Alaska – Lower 48 gas delivery?

    PNA by Shane Lasley.  When Steve Borell (NGP Photo-R) announced that he was retiring as the executive director of the Alaska Miners Association — a post he held for 22 years — the group’s board of directors was charged with the daunting task of filling the void left by the association’s highly regarded and beloved leader. Unbeknownst to the board members, or Borell himself, the outgoing executive director had been grooming his replacement, Deantha Crockett (NGP Photo), for nearly a decade.  ...  the board found Crockett, a lifelong Alaskan with a [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:07-09:00June 25th, 2012|Commentary|0 Comments
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6-21-12 “Welcome to Alaska, John Hofmeister!”

Calgary Herald/CP.  Encana Corp. (TSX:ECA) will invest an additional $600 million this year to significantly increase production of valuable liquids-rich natural gas amid a prolonged downturn in the price of so-called dry gas. Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) delivered the following statement on the House floor, in support of H.R. 2578, The Conservation and Economic Growth Act – a package of 14 public lands bills that will cut federal red tape, boost economic development, protect the environment, and create American jobs.   Commentary: Yesterday at [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:07-09:00June 21st, 2012|Commentary, Interstate Gas, Intrastate Gas, LNG, Propane|0 Comments
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6-13-12 REGULATION KILLING GOLDEN GOOSE OF CONSUMER UTILITY RATES?

On Killing Golden Egg Laying Geese Published: June 13, 2012: ALASKA BUSINESS MONTHLY   Can Well Intended Regulation and Lawmaking Kill Golden Egg Laying Geese?   Meeting Report and Commentary by Dave Harbour   Report: Oregon Congressman Greg Walden(NGP Photo) told members of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners(WCPSC), meeting yesterday at Sunriver Resort, that the House is, "...committed to not having everything pile up like a train wreck at the end of the year."   Walden is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.  His committee's Senior [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:09-09:00June 13th, 2012|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal|0 Comments
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5-25-12 – Alaskans ‘Rocked’ At Last Night’s BLM Hearing!

Alaskans Rocked At Last Night's BLM Hearing! Commentary by Dave Harbour Last night, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) held a hearing in Anchorage to gather comment on its Draft Integrated Activity Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (IAP/EIS) for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).  The Interior Department agency proposed four alternative approaches to managing NPR-A.  As many as a hundred had gathered in the Science Center of the BLM's Campbell Creek facility to listen or testify.  Twenty-one Alaskans enthusiastically supported oil and gas leasing of the nation's oil and gas [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:12-09:00May 25th, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-23-12

We joined Dan Fagan (NGP Photo-r) today on his radio show.  Our segment, shared with guest, Andrew Halcro (NGP Photo-L), followed an appearance by Governor Sean Parnell.  View the Parnell segment here by using the fast forward button to navigate to Hour: 1:36:11.  Our segment starts at: 2:07:45.  An earlier segment featured Jeff Jones, Governor Parnell's special assistant for natural resources.  -dh House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) yesterday sent a letter to the Department of the Interior’s Acting Inspector General (IG) Mary Kendall to question her about discrepancies [...]

By |2020-06-28T17:08:33-09:00May 23rd, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-21-12 – Intergenerational Inequity, Continued….

ADN Editorial: ... That's what was most frustrating about the state Senate refusing to even hold hearings on House Bill 9, which would have empowered the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. to pursue an in-state "bullet" line with a target of a 2013 open season and given AGDC a seat at the table for discussions on the LNG export project where it could leverage its work and the 417 miles of right of way it possesses.  If Alaska's state senators have an alternative way to get gas to state residents and relieve [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:13-09:00May 21st, 2012|Commentary, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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5-17-12 We Detest Intergenerational Inequity — So Rampant Nationally and Throughout Alaska

Calgary Herald, by Dina O'Meara.  Enbridge Embarks on $3.2 Billion Expansion of Pipeline System Bloomberg by Ramsey Al-Rikabi.   Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., operator of the 800-mile Trans-Alaska crude system, will close for work (today), the first of as many as five shutdowns scheduled until Aug. 5. Intergenerational Inequity by Dave Harbour (Read the full article in this month's Alaska Business Monthly: Page 1 and Page 2) Author's note: Intergenerational inequity is a fancy term for spending money we don't have and letting our kids pay our debt, with interest.  Politicians love [...]

By |2021-01-16T07:13:25-09:00May 17th, 2012|Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Commentary|0 Comments
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5-16-12

Washington Times Op-Ed Today: Senators Lisa Murkowski and David Vitter.  TransCanada’s decision to reapply for a federal permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline across the U.S.-Canadian border offers President Obama something that rarely comes around - a second chance to do the right thing. Calgary Herald by Dina O'Meara.  Oil and Gas Producers Keep Eye On Wildfires AP/ADN by Becky Bohrer.  Marc Langland (NGP Photo-R) and Jim Jansen (NGP Photo-L), co-chairs of the Make Alaska Competitive Coalition, in an email Tuesday, said they are not giving up on pressing for what they call meaningful [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:14-09:00May 16th, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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5-14-12 – The Obama Administration Could Shut In The Nation’s Petroleum Reserve in Alaska

Alaska Under Assault The Alaska Mining Industry Is Honored -- Along with Bob Hoekzema, One Of Mining's StalwartSupporters (NGP Photo: Weekly AMA Meeting, 5-11-12.)  Paul Jenkins says in his OP-Ed today that, "Without sensible oil tax reform, without more production, Alaskans will have to live with one eye on Alaska North Slope crude oil prices day to day and worry about the national and international vagaries and happenstance that drive them." See the Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Inspector News Briefs for Today! Should Canada be less dependent on foreign oil? Dan [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:15-09:00May 14th, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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4-25-12 – Texas Alliance of Energy Producers

Commentary:  Our friend, Consultant Paul Ziff (NGP Photo), sent us his new paper yesterday, “Natural Gas Under Siege”.  He says that in today’s price environment, every MCF of gas produced increases a producer’s financial loss.  If one adds to that scenario, desire of the Feds to overregulate shale, the loss to producers and production decline will be exacerbated.  -dh Today, your author has the pleasure of addressing the annual meeting of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.     -dh  Membership Breakfast Speaker: Dave Harbour, Commissioner Emeritus, Author, Regulator, Lobbyist Membership [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:20-09:00April 25th, 2012|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Personal|0 Comments
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4-22-12 – Is Alaska’s Legislature Making A Big Mistake?

Today, we are pleased to provide you with a link to Tom Brennan's important commentary... embellished a bit with our own.  -dh Commentary: Tom Brennan's (NGP Photo) commentary below, notes that the Alaska Legislature seems enamored with providing tax credits to companies that explore new, potential petroleum reservoirs on Alaska state lands (i.e. most 'explorers' are relatively new to Alaska and have expressed publicly or privately a concern that if they do discover anything, production in this tax climate will be difficult or impossible).  State law provides subsidies for explorers by over taxing [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:52:55-09:00April 22nd, 2012|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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4-18-12

  We remind fellow citizens to not underestimate the internal threat to our American freedoms.  We remind ourselves to not be complacent, thinking "It could never happen here".   -dh    Harbour and Hofmeister to Address Texas Alliance of Energy Producers Next Week   TransCanada’s Summer 2012 Western Canada Gas Supply Update is out… Read More… ___________________________ CBC North.  The federal government is reducing the number of departments and agencies that can do environmental reviews from 40 to just three to speed up approvals for projects that will bolster Canada's economy, Natural [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:32:21-09:00April 18th, 2012|Commentary|0 Comments
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