Ring The OCS Alarm Bells … TODAY!

OCS Alarm Bells Are Ringing Today - Please Go To the Library To Support our Nation and to Save Alaska's Economy!  Our Readers Around the Country Should Send Written Comment.  Scroll to the bottom for instructions. Dave Harbour Commentary KTUU Story and Harbour Blog   Today when I read about this little advertised hearing, I began putting together Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) events and circumstances over the last six months and have concluded Alaska could lose OCS.  If so, barring ANWR, gas pipeline or another huge oil strike, Alaska could [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:07:16-09:00September 25th, 2009|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Weekend News Doesn’t Wait Until Monday!

Governor Parnell Meets National People's Congress Chairman Wu Bangguo: Does our Mutual Future Portend More Than Fish and Tourism? (Commentary)     *     More on Enstar Last Chance to Comment on OCS Leasing Before 9-21 Deadline... ...and we prepare for next week's Oil and Gas Congress!   NGP Commentary.  Your author drove to the Hilton Anchorage on Saturday to witness a rare event in the great, second-floor ballroom.  The leader of the People's Republic of China, National People's Congress, Chairman Wu Bangguo (NGP Photo-r), traveling with an entourage of about 120--plus [...]

By |2021-03-18T09:11:34-09:00September 13th, 2009|AGDC, China, Commentary, Interstate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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Regulatory Commission Should Know When to Hold ’em, Know When to Fold ’em, Know When to Walk Away and Know When to Run

In yesterday's blog, we urged the Regulatory Commission of Alaska (RCA) to repudiate its chaos-causing, 2006 rejection of the APL-5 Enstar-Marathon long-term gas supply agreement, to fall back on its 2001 Unocal gas supply agreement approval precedent as an appropriate 'standard of review' and to reasonably and timely approve current and future gas/power supply agreements between utilities and gas/power providers on a case by case basis.  Your author was tied up with conference calls yesterday but a loyal reader briefed us on the RCA public meeting.  To set the stage, readers should know that RCA [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:07:16-09:00July 30th, 2009|Commentary|0 Comments
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Scroll down to interesting commentary on WIND POWER and the Southcentral Alaska energy crisis!

7-13-09 (Weekend and Monday News & Comment).   PNA.  Cook Inlet Region Inc. said June 30 that it has received key permits for a proposed wind farm on Fire Island near Anchorage.  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved permit applications for Wind Energy Alaska’s Fire Island wind farm and related electricity transmission infrastructure and the project is on track for startup in 2011, CIRI said in a statement.  The wind farm will provide commercial-scale renewable power in Southcentral Alaska.  (Comment:  This little wind project will be a historic diversification [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:07:16-09:00July 13th, 2009|Alternate Energy, Commentary|0 Comments
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