Friday Night Alaska’s Silent Majorty Spoke While An Eco-Freaky Minority Screamed and Complained!

Canada and Lower 48 Take Heart: You Can Do It Too!  (Don't leave the field to the rude, vocal minority; responsible voices can and will overcome when they finally get mobilized!  See background here.   Event photos below.  -dh) Comment:  Your author was privileged to attend the Friday night BOEMRE event and see Alaska's powerful, silent majority wake up and offer its wisdom to Washington decision makers.  We found it ironic that while the Sierra Club's community organizer had urged her allies to 'come early', they actually came late then rudely [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:03-09:00February 28th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Consumers Want Reasonable Energy Policy! – ANWR Report Due: Will It Attack Alaska’s Economy? – White House Continues Alaska Oceans Attack – Will Alaskan Leaders Tackle Oil Tax and Gas Pipeline Issues?

Is The Great Giant, Alaska, Toppling To Obama's Tethering Minions Today, Consumers Petitioned Congress for a Balanced Energy Policy! (PDF here) Comment: For Alaska's economy and national security to be sustained, the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) must continue operating.  At its peak, it provided well over 2 million barrels of oil per day, or 20% of America's domestic production.  America doesn't use less oil now than it did 20 years ago, but Alaska provides less of it while foreign imports grow.  TAPS is now 2/3 empty and without the billions [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:21-09:00January 24th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Bromwich Behavior Unbecoming – Canadian Editor Expects NEB To Make Up For Joint Review Panel Delay and Audacity

recommendations clearly indicates the governments were justified in their responses and the JRP travelled well beyond the scope of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline project.  Many of the recommendations the GNWT turned down had the potential to nullify any bargaining power the government has in its dealing with aboriginal governments for future land claims and land use agreements. For those agreements to be fair the GNWT and First Nations must come to the table on relatively equal ground. During these negotiations the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline already provides many First Nations groups [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:25-09:00December 2nd, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, NEB|0 Comments
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Feds Assault Alaska’s Economy – Canada Moves Closer to Mackenzie Pipeline Approval – Arctic Source for Terrorism? – NARUC Hears Consumer Messages

  Alaska: A Brave New World for Explorers and Producers by Dave Harbour For: Petroleum News Alaska: A review of federal policy assaults on Alaska's economy.... CBC.  The proposed $16.2-billion Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline is a step closer to reality after the federal and Northwest Territories governments agreed Monday with most of the recommendations set out by a review panel last year.  ...  "Should the [project] proceed, it will do so within a responsible environmental stewardship framework," federal Environment Minister John Baird said in a release     *   [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:26-09:00November 16th, 2010|Commentary, NEB|0 Comments
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Commissionners Focus On Consumer Energy Isssues

At 9 a.m. today,  Members of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) will focus on consumer energy issues, hearing from companies and organizations serving virtually all American citizens, companies, governments and utility rate payers.  The forum will occur in NARUC's Gas committee agenda.   While the program today was organized under the leadership of  the Committee's Chairman, Commissioner O'Neal Hamilton of South Carolina.  Yesterday, NARUC honored Hamilton as 'Chairman Emeritus' in conjunction with California Commissioner Timothy Simon's appointment as Gas Committee Chairman during the coming year.  Commissioners Colette Honorable [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:27-09:00November 15th, 2010|Commentary, Notes From the Road, Personal|0 Comments
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Speak Out Alaskans Or Wave Bye-bye to Your Economic Future – Prentice Leaves Pipe Dream Behind

NGP Reader Testimony Here:   To whom it may concern,   It is with great pain that I witness our nation one of the greatest nations in the world being guided by fear and the power of the special interest groups.  We have wrongfully allowed special interest to use our court systems to derail energy development in our great state of Alaska and our nearby federal waters.  It is very unsettling that certain groups can yield so much power over the most powerful nation in the world that reason and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:27-09:00November 8th, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Schwarzenegger Demonizes Big Oil With His Charm

 Schwarzenegger Charms and Demonizes Big Oil -- But Short Changes California's Ratepayers and Economy Commentary by Dave Harbour We urge our NGP readers who have California friends to recommend a 'yes' vote TOMORROW for Proposition 23 that would delay implementation of AB 32.  We offer this advice after listening to others. 1.  First, listen to California's current governor espouse -- in his own words -- a philosophy designed to bring a great state to her knees.  Click here and advance the presentation to minute 16:32.  As I sat in that Sacramento meeting [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:27-09:00November 1st, 2010|Commentary|0 Comments
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Alaska Sues Feds

What Could One Possibly Do to Help Rid Ourselves of Unjustified Moratoria?   One Could Start by Joining Consumer Energy Alliance's Call to Action To Comment Before the September 17 Deadline! Trouble in the Colony by  Dave Harbour    Thursday, Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo-r) and Alaska's Attorney General, Dan Sullivan (NGP Photo-l, with Parnell), announced that the State would resist being treated like a 'second class citizen' by the Federal government--and filed a lawsuit to overturn the 'arbitrary and capricious'  actions of Secretary Ken Salazar to illegally establish oil and gas [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:30-09:00September 10th, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Key OCS Meeting Tonight In Anchorage – BP Reveals Gulf Explosion’s Investigation Results

-  The cement and shoe track barriers – and in particular the cement slurry that was used – at the bottom of the Macondo well failed to contain hydrocarbons within the reservoir, as they were designed to do,  and allowed gas and liquids to flow up the production casing; -  The results of the negative pressure test were incorrectly accepted  by  BP and Transocean, although well integrity had not been established; -  Over a 40-minute period, the Transocean rig crew failed to recognize and act on the influx of hydrocarbons [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:31-09:00September 8th, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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What’s Wrong With Alaska?

Billions of petroleum related investment dollars are flowing from Asia to Canada. Q.  What's wrong with Alaska? A.  It is among the most expensive operating environments in the world (i.e. labor, transportation, climate, transportation, remoteness to the markets).  It is mostly owned by the Federal government, with an Administration openly hostile to natural resource development.  Federal statutory, regulatory, leasing and taxing policies are volatile and threatening.  Alaska state petroleum taxes are the highest in the free world and unpredictable.  Alaska's government spending and income projections are unsustainable, mark of an [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:31-09:00September 7th, 2010|Alaska Taxes, Commentary|0 Comments
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ALERT: SEPTEMBER 7, HOUSTON MORATORIUM MEETING DESERVES EVEN BIGGER TURNOUT THAN ANCHORAGE!

***BREAKING NEWS...SALAZAR MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO BARROW AND ANCHORAGE!*** ***Alaska Dispatch Story***Barrow Details***Anchorage Media Conference Details*** (This Administration Has Treated Alaska Very Poorly.  Activities Affecting Alaska Are Opaque And An Affront to Both Due Process and Common Courtesy.  -dh) We Urge Readers to Follow Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) Coverage CEA Announcement:  On Tuesday, September 7th, The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) Director Michael R. Bromwich (NGP Photo) and other US Dept of Interior officials will be in Houston to hear expert panelists discuss the Obama Administration’s offshore oil [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:34:32-09:00September 1st, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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A Federal Bureaucrat On Thursday Will Determine the Future of Alaska

-30- Dave Harbour is a retired member of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska. He is former Chairman of the Alaska Council on Economic Education and the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. He is publisher of: www.northerngaspipelines.com, the original gas pipeline public service webpage for Alaska and Northern Canada. * * * Reference: Below is Thursday’s schedule: Public Forum on Offshore Drilling Panelists and Elected Officials   Anchorage, Alaska August 26, 2010 8:00 a.m. - Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center.    Panel I   Leslie Pearson Person Consulting   Ron Morris Alaska Clean Seas   Marilyn Heiman Director, [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:56:31-09:00August 24th, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Alaska’s Coastal Leaders Bite the Hand That Feeds Them – Add ANWR To The Obama Administration’s ‘Death to America’s Economy–By A Thousand Cuts’

  Feds, Enviros and Disloyal Alaskans Threaten Alaska’s Economic Future   By   Dave Harbour This week, Erika Bolstad of the Anchorage Daily News wrote that, “The three-decade-long fight over whether oil companies should be allowed inside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is taking on a new wrinkle that could lock up the refuge for good.” The Associated Press’ Dan Joling reported that, “Alaska Native and conservation groups have filed challenges to clean air permits the Environmental Protection Agency granted Shell Oil for drilling exploration wells in the Beaufort and Chukchi [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:57:25-09:00May 5th, 2010|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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