Petroleum News. Gov. Bill Walker said June 29 that the state will join North Dakota and 10 other states in a challenge to the recently finalized “waters of the United States” rule. WOTUS, adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, attempts to define what waters are covered....
Friday We Wonder If Today's EPA Announcement Pleases Our Energy Readers: layer this on top of the WOTUS, Ocean Policy, ESA, CAA, CWA and War on Coal MATRIX! Like the industrious Lilliputians did with Gulliver, is EPA -- under White House direction -- strapping the great American economy to the ground, immobilizing it, pretext to total control of the people and their free enterprises? Frankly, the EPA's authoritarian use of rulemaking -- to us -- more resembles a well coordinated attack strategy than simple incompetence. -dh (Ref. 2012 E.O.) RELEASED TODAY: BP's [...]
Commentary: Today, Governor Rick Perry (NGP Photo) announced his candidacy for president. His message embraced a reversal of most Obama-era policies--especially those involving energy. He said, "There is nothing wrong in America today that a change in leadership will not (correct)." (Full Video Below) We hope that is so; if it is to be so, it will take the sort of passion, commitment, experience and determination reflected in his remarks today. Yesterday a dear friend on Facebook posted an editorial about 'unaffordable housing costs and stagnant wages'. It sounded to me like [...]
Point of Personal Privilege: Scroll Down For An Update On, "Alaska's Diplomat", Our Friend, Chuck Becker U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), Friday issued the following statement in response to a letter that 18 Senate Democrats sent to Interior Secretary Jewell, calling on the Obama administration to stop energy production in the Arctic. This comes after the administration approved plans for Shell to drill in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea this summer. “Today’s attempt to block energy production in Alaska ignores the facts. For more than 30 years, Alaska has demonstrated its safe [...]
Many friends of "Alaska's Diplomat", Chuck Becker, have commented on the important life he led, including his energy industry understanding. (Note: we will remove or edit any comments at the request of commenters. -dh) Canada's Fraser Institute analyzes how US loss of freedom affects economic recovery...and wonders how Alberta's new government will affect energy industry vitality. EPA's Pebble Blame Game Wall Street Journal (Write "Pebble" and/or "Federal Overreach" and/or "Rule of Law" in our NGP Google search engine, upper right. You will find our many references, like this one, to the Pebble [...]
Attend the Annual Alaska Oil & Gas Association Luncheon! Show support for a sustainable future! Our Instinct: Conservatives Must Seize Opportunity To Save Alaska's Economy by Dave Harbour Please read news items below We admire Senator Lisa Murkowski's vigilance on Arctic exploration issues -- and the initiative of her committee's Communication Director, Robert Dillon. See TODAY'S COMMUNICATION AND VIDEO HERE. Many moons will come before Shell Oil and other producers, under the most agreeable circumstances, can find and commercially produce oil and natural gas from Alaska's Arctic reservoirs in the [...]
Scroll Down For: "Useful Idiots" Commentary Published this morning: our MASTER RESOURCE Op-ed: "Seattle Hearing on Shell's Arctic Rig Docking: A Clash of Visions" UN Climate Change Chief, Christiana Figueres: Against Capitalism and Against Shell's Arctic Exploration See earlier reports this week on Seattle's port hearing regarding the Staging of Shell's summer exploration in the Arctic KILLING CAPITALISM: UN Climate Change Chief Investors Business Daily. At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not [...]
Will the Seattle Port Authority’s Independence Survive Mayor Murray’s Political Influence? By Dave Harbour On Tuesday and Wednesday we commented on an unbelievable act of the mayor of Seattle, Ed Murray, causing us to think, "Danger Stranger". In other news today: WSJ: Could climate change politics strand energy reserves? (Today's news points in that direction. -dh) Seattle Times Editorial: Murray insists that he’s a strong supporter of the port and maritime industry. But if the city’s move blocks Shell and scuttles the port’s lease with Shell’s partner Foss Maritime, it could permanently tarnish the [...]
The Wall Street Journal Warns: Watch Out For That Puddle; Soon It Could Be Federally Regulated" The EPA wants to redefine ‘the waters of the United States’ to mean virtually any wet spot in the country. By M. REED HOPPER And TODD F. GAZIANO Earlier this year the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers proposed a rule redefining the “waters of the United States” that are subject to regulation under the Clean Water Act. The two agencies recently finished collecting public comments on their draft rule and are [...]
"Never Again" by Dave Harbour Thirty years ago President Ronald Reagan visited the Holocaust Memorial at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany. He spoke (Note: See video, after brief ad) of unspeakable crimes against humanity and asked his audience to resolve, "Never Again". Switch now to a fanciful world that is present day America. Citizens focus on leading normal lives while abnormal world events portend tragedy, including: Rising Islamic terrorism, both domestic and worldwide emasculates the argument that Islam is a religion of peace and specifically targets America North Korean nuclear threats Dangerous disputes [...]
ExxonMobil's Rex Tillerson Compliments Canadian Regulatory System, Chastises U.S. Administration (i.e. ...with good reason, as we have documented herein. We would also observe that many U.S. and many Canadian decisions affect citizens of the other country, their economy and their very lives. Therefore, as each others' largest trading partner, we should always be aware that our decisions encompass much more than simply "our" economy or "our" politics. Tillerson is right. From personal knowledge we are very familiar with NEB and FERC energy regulatory systems along with state and provincial systems. Sometimes the US [...]
Calgary Herald by Stephen Ewart. Record oil production, increasingly complex energy transportation issues and unprecedented public engagement aren’t enough to prevent a nearly 25 per cent cut to the budget and large reduction in staff at the National Energy Board over the next two years. News of the “operational realities” confronting the NEB — which will mean 73 fewer employees — emerged late last week with release of its 2015-16 Report on Plans and Priorities. The reason for the drop-off in funding is easily explained.(More) KTOO. The Senate Finance Committee plans confirmation hearings for Gov. Bill Walker’s appointees to the Alaska [...]
ConocoPhillips Announces Funding Approval for Kuparuk ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. yesterday announced that the Kuparuk viscous oil development 1H NEWS (Northeast West Sak) has been approved for funding by ConocoPhillips and the Kuparuk co-owners. Plans for engineering have been ongoing, and construction will now move forward. This is the largest investment in viscous oil at Kuparuk since 2004, and it is expected to add about 8,000 barrels of oil per day (BOD) gross at peak production. (See the full ConocoPhillips release here.) Whether President Obama is bribing or blackmailing governors, either way, it's [...]
See Alaskanomics Posting of Mike Bradner's Column Re: State Spending. Why do we at Northern Gas Pipelines often focus on the importance of a 'sustainable Alaska budget'? Because if the state cannot control spending and continues deficit spending, no infrastructure project in the future will be safe from sudden, unplanned, predatory taxation to stave off bankruptcy: hence, no gas pipeline. That's why. -dh Apology To Canada And To The World by Dave Harbour Robert O. Anderson, Atlantic Richfield Co. Board Chairman, Board Member: Arctic Gas Consortium, Photo Circa 1975. Spring, 1976 [...]
Landlocked: Murkowski Explains Alaskans’ Access Frustrations The Governor and Entire Congressional Delegation Recently Vowed to Fight the Administration's Overreaching Action to Shut Down Alaska Resource Development and Her Economy. Senator Murkowski Has Acted to Create A YouTube Video to Highlight Growing Federal Restrictions in Alaska. Thank you, Senator Murkowski for Effective Work And Quick Action! We believe that some educational entity could take that map video and expand it into a one hour lesson plan framework for elementary, high school and college students. -dh WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski today released [...]
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