7-18-14 Fairbanks LNG Project Briefing Last Night

AP by Becky Bohrer.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ... proposing restrictions that would essentially block development of a massive gold-and-copper prospect ... ADN by Sean Cockerham.  Supporters of the embattled Pebble Mine project in Alaska are making a desperate effort in Congress and the courts to keep it alive ...         Below is last night's report on the Fairbanks LNG project briefing and here is the link to Tuesday's meeting in Anchorage.  -dh Fairbanks News Miner by Matt Buxton.  The man in charge of the Alaska [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:17-09:00July 18th, 2014|Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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7-15-14 LNG Forum In Anchorage Tonight

Today's LNG Community Meeting In Anchorage EPA Land Grab By Bill White   It’s been clear that the executive branch of the federal government is working overtime to extend its authority. This started long before Obama became president, but it has accelerated at an alarming rate since he took office. Obama’s administration has put out more regulations per week than any before, each of which extends EPA's authority to reach into people’s lives and control them and their businesses. While the IRS has the reputation of being the most insidious of all government [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:18-09:00July 15th, 2014|Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas, LNG|0 Comments
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7-14-14 Consumer Energy Alliance Looks Out For Us All

As longtime supporters of Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), we appreciate this week's notes below from Natalie Joubert (NGP Photo), of the organization's Washington Office.  CEA works to make sure energy consumer interests are served and their projects include support for the Keystone XL pipeline, many Alaska energy positions endorsed by Alaska leaders and Lower 48 energy issues also affecting both Alaska and Canada.  -dh Calls to Action: CEA is seeking our readers' support on initiatives this month, including: Comments on the OCS Five-Year Offshore Oil & Gas Leasing Program; Comments and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:18-09:00July 14th, 2014|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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7-10-14 Respecting The Duty To Consult

See the LNG Project's Public Meeting Schedule here.  News Miner Story: Gasline Advisory Board          See Senator Cathy Giessel's 5-year OCS Lease Sale Comment Letter, here. Here is how our readers can comment. Respecting both "Due Process" and the “Duty to Consult" by Dave Harbour Canada's "Duty to Consult" (1,2) and America's similar concept are not and should not be just legal requirements for natural resource companies.  Consultation is a basic principle of good communications, responsible corporate citizenship, or, at the least, enlightened self interest. Bill Gallagher We have [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:18-09:00July 10th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Rule Of Law, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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7-9-14

Globe & Mail by Jeffery Jones.  A big supporter of oil sands industry expansion, as well as export pipelines such as Keystone XL, Jeff Immelt said he wants to share his company’s environmental technology as a way to win over critics concerned about the climate impact of the oil sands. Respecting the "Duty to Consult" by Dave Harbour Canada's "Duty to Consult" (1,2) is not and should not be just a legal requirement for natural resource companies -- it is a basic principle of good communications, responsible corporate citizenship, or, at [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:55:06-09:00July 9th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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7-7-14 Feds Not Credited For Energy Surge (EIA)

  Comment by Robert Dillon (NGP Photo), Senator Lisa Murkowski's Senate Energy Committee Staff   We’ve known for some time that the majority of new oil and natural gas production in the United States was occurring on private and state lands. Fairbanks News Miner by Jim Dodson. Develop Alaska’s human resources. Increase its standard of living. Diversify its economy. Strengthen free competition in its private sector economy. Here at Fairbanks Economic Development, we are in favor of “Vote No on 1.” Our reasons are simple: we believe the description of “maximum benefit,” [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:19-09:00July 7th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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7-1-14 Russian Arctic Aggression Targets Alaska and Canada

NGP Readers Connect The Dots To Anticipate the Future: We Note US Financial Misstep Yesterday (scroll down) and Defense Vulnerabilities Today...With A Little Help From CBC.  -dh CBC by Brian Steward.  ...     Putin even seems determined to test spots along the vast North American Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), which stretches out 200 miles, or 321 kilometres, beyond Canadian and U.S. continental borders.   U.S. jets intercepted Russian long-range bombers off Alaska and California this month, just the latest in an increasing number of confrontations off the Pacific coast. [...]

By |2016-03-13T03:54:43-09:00July 1st, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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6-20-14 Happy Birthday To Prudhoe Bay!

AJC by Tim Bradner: Gov. Sean Parnell terminated TransCanada AGIA pipeline contract.  (Also see our report two days ago.  -dh) From Mail Online: Russian agents are secretly working with environmental campaigners to halt fracking operations in the UK and the rest of Europe, the head of Nato warned yesterday.  (Do we believe this effort does not extend to Canada and the Unites States?  -dh) Refer to the Federal Coordinator's new webpage for public information on the Alaska LNG Project.  -dh Prudhoe Bay and TAPS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! EPA WARNING!!! Commentary by Dave Harbour [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:21-09:00June 20th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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6-17-14 Alaska Is Dead Last In Gross Domestic Product Gain In 2013 – Obama Moves To Zone Oceans

Today, Congressman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) said, "...the Obama Administration has threatened to impose ocean zoning to shut down our oceans, and today the President is making good on that threat."  (We began updating readers on this threat of Executive Overreach years ago.  Scroll down to 'Current Event #4' , on this page.   Also see Washington Post News Alert which mentions involvement of White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, a leading player in the Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal.  -dh) Globe & Mail by Peter Tertzakian.  Rising instability may make $100-a-barrel oil seem [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:21-09:00June 17th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Arctic Policy, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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6-12-14

Natural Gas Roundtable and Senate Natural Gas Caucus Luncheon Today, June 12th at the Hart Senate Office Building, Room SH-902. The invited speakers are: U.S. Sens. Mary L. Landrieu (D-La.), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and John Barrasso (R-WY).  The Hill.  Chairwoman of the committee, Mary Landrieu, and her ranking member, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), are discussing ways they might be able to swap President Obama's nominees to the nation's top energy regulatory commission.   Global Post/Canadian Press.  Alberta Tory leadership candidate Jim Prentice (NGP Photo) says he's the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:22-09:00June 12th, 2014|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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6-10-14 Alaska Natives Support Oil Tax Reform

2:24 PM, ADT: You Read It Here First.  From Julie Hasquet at BP comes this breaking news:   "BP and AeroVironment are deploying an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS, BP Photo) technology at Prudhoe Bay, marking the first time (i.e. our emphasis added) the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted permission for UAS routine commercial services over land in the United States. "The UAS technology has potential to improve safety, efficiency and the reliability of BP’s Alaska North Slope infrastructure and maintenance programs. "BP’s vendor, AeroVironment, is performing high-accuracy land surveying and [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:22-09:00June 10th, 2014|Alaska Taxes, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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6-6-14 Alaska D-Day Energy Speech and CBC 70th Normandy Rememberance – Pedro van Meurs On Mexican Constitutional Amendments

Pedro van Meurs On Mexican Constitutional Amendments 70th Annual Remembrance Of The Normandy Invasion: D-Day by Dave Harbour We're now watching the Canadian Broadcast Corporation's 70th D-Day Anniversary remembrance online, here. Earlier this morning in Alaska, we heard former Anchorage Mayor George Wuerch (NGP Photo), a Marine veteran himself, give a moving address to the Alaska Miners Association in his role as Chairman of Veterans For Energy Security (Alaska Chapter). His speech title could, indeed, have been, "National Security Depends On Energy Security". Wuerch reminded the audience that the attack on Pearl Harbor (Your [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:29:23-09:00June 6th, 2014|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|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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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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