One Federal Comment Period Ends As Others Arise: The Federal-Enviroactivist Strategy To Kill Alaska’s Economy Continues

NGP READERS: PLEASE COMMENT.  This coming Friday, July 15, comes the next deadline for comments about an Environmental Assessment regarding Beaufort Sea OCS development.  Then, lock and load for the next wave of regulatory onslaught: the July 25th deadline public comment on Revised Beaufort Sea Exploration Plan (EP) and associated Oil Discharge Prevention and Contingency Plan (ODPCP).  Please send your comment to the agency, then send us a copy for posting here, where your position becomes Internet searchable.  Here is the brief testimony your author filed today.  -dh Commentary:  Monday was the deadline for commenting on [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:27-09:00July 13th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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Consumers Flood Government With Pro-Chukchi OCS Comments – Mackenzie Pipeline Boosted With New Exploration Licenses

Companies commit millions to secure exploration licenses despite concerns over pipeline prospects Thandiwe Vela Northern News Services Published Friday, July 8, 2011 NWT - The recent call for bids on Northwest Territories land parcels has ended with oil and gas companies committing more than $500 million to secure exploration licenses in the Central Mackenzie Valley.  ... "We are pleased with the bidding results," Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment Bob McLeod (NGP Photo) said, adding the high value of bids shows the industry's renewed confidence in the NWT oil and gas reserves. "These [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:27-09:00July 12th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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The Battle Continues And We Cannot Grow Weary

The Battle Continues And We Cannot Grow Weary El Paso's Ruby Enriches Nevada Alberta Tory leadership candidate Gary Mar, wants to bog down Canada's natural resources prosperity with environmental obstruction.   -dh New gas pipeline for Kenai Peninsula?   Today's top Priority: Today is the deadline for Chukchi SEIS Comment.  Here is how to comment.  Then send us your comment to post here, tomorrow.  It can be as simple as: "Please allow Alaska OCS development to proceed quickly; domestic energy is essential to America's economic recovery."  Note: since today is the deadline, either [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:27-09:00July 11th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Joe Henri Adds Statehood Perspective – Marilyn Crockett to Retire – Rachael Petro Hits Investment Climate

  Next Monday, July 11 is the deadline for comment on Chukchi OCS development.  Here's a website for easy, automated comment.  -dh Calgary Herald by Rebecca Penty.  An article in the Wall Street Journal championing TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL pipeline as an economic driver for a country hurting for jobs is evidence of support south of the border, president and CEO Russ Girling said Thursday.  The TransCanada executive said the opinion piece suggested the last phase of a $13-billion pipeline project would offer economic stimulus to a country facing a high unemployment rate [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:28-09:00July 8th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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Alaska Statehood Act Passed 53 Years Ago TODAY; Sadly, Alaska is among the “worst of the worst”

July 11 is the deadline for comment on Chukchi OCS development.  Here's a website for easy, automated comment.  -dh Alaska's Statehood Act is 53 years old today.   (Below is an email alert we issued on the subject and reader Joe Henri's first hand perspective.)  Today your author addresses the South Anchorage Rotary Club, suggesting that, "Alaska's Constitution Could Guide Us Through Alaska's Greatest Challenge: Breathing Life Back Into the Trans Alaska Pipeline"   -dh CNBC completed a ranking of state business climates and found  Alaska to be among the bottom [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:28-09:00July 7th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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Notes From the Road, Day Eight In North Dakota: Admiring North And South Dakota Governors and Alaska Citizens Who Defended Alaska Last Night!

Governor Sean Parnell Tells Washington Journalists of Plan to Boost Alaska Oil Production To 1 Million Barrels/day. Julie Hasquet of Senator Mark Begich's Office and Megan Hermann of Senator Lisa Murkowski's Energy Committee office Provided This Link To Pipeline Throughput Study Shell's Marvin Odum Optimistic About Arctic, reports AP's Dan Joling USGS Boosts Estimate of Cook Inlet Oil and Gas, reports ADN's Erika Bolstadt (Written en route from Bismarck to Anchorage...IOGCC stories and photos will appear here.  -dh) Alaskans Turned Out Last Night To Defend Alaska's Future!  Soldiers From International Environmental [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:43-09:00June 30th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Notes From the Road, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT! – Notes From the Road, Day Eight In North Dakota: Oil and Gas Commissioners Hear From Four Governors

Come EAT, DRINK and TESTIFY at the Chukchi hearing today, June 29th at 5:30 p.m. at the Loussac Library. Fill out a comment card and enjoy a hot dog and drink before the hearing. The hearing itself will begin at 7 p.m.  If you can't attend the Anchorage event today, you can EASILY file an electronic comment here! We have been very respectful of the commitment by some elected officials to fight for Alaska's future by participating in these hearings.  This particular one could establish a record for federal decision making that will result [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:43-09:00June 29th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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Notes From the Road, Day Seven In North Dakota: Visiting the Antelope Valley Power Plant and Dakota Gasification Plant, A Powerful Combination!

 ...more 'Notes from the road' and photos coming.  Today we are attending meetings in Bismarck with the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. Yesterday, we urged all readers, including elected officials, to become actively involved in tomorrow night's BOEMRE hearing that could well determine Alaska's future.  It is of such importance, I sense that any other legislative activity is virtually moot or meaningless next to the priority of attending a hearing whose record could result in a sustained, Alaskan economy.  Today, we are delighted to provide readers with the copy of [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:43-09:00June 28th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Notes From the Road|0 Comments
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Hastings Wants Access For NPR-A

 WASHINGTON, D.C. –House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo-top) delivered the following opening statement at today’s Energy and Minerals Subcommittee legislative hearing on H.R. 2150, the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Access Act:  “Chairman Lamborn, thank you for holding this hearing on my bill, H.R. 2150, the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Access Act.  Just last week, I had the privilege of traveling to Alaska and touring, among other areas, the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.  I was fortunate to have Don Young (NGP photo-middle) and Alaska Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) accompany me [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:02:12-09:00June 16th, 2011|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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EPA Organizes Barrow-Kaktovik Meetings With Less Than A Week’s Notice!

NGP Readers: If you can attend these EPA meetings in Kaktovik and Barrow, please do! ADN.  The federal Environmental Protection Agency is holding two public hearings in Barrow this week over air and water permits the agency is preparing to propose for oil and gas exploration in Alaska's Arctic.  (Actually there are three meetings, characterized as information 'sharing' meetings -- not public hearings -- and are scheduled for Barrow and Kaktovik today, tomorrow and Friday.  -dh) EPA officials say the goal of the meetings is to present information about the permits [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:45-09:00June 15th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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The Ocean Policy Meeting Exemplified America’s Leadership

Today, we continue to mourn our loss of Bill Noll (Story Below) and take strength from his soldier training to, "Never Give Up".  In his case, he applied that credo to mostly energy activity in later years, wanting to help his fellow Alaskans continue to  survive and prosper in a challenging climate.  Adieu, friend; see you soon.  -dh We recall last Friday night's Ocean Policy meeting reluctantly, because it so symbolized the state of leadership in America today.  Your author testified as a former regulator and, as a service to [...]

By |2016-03-13T04:08:15-09:00June 14th, 2011|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Doc Hastings Visits Alaska Today & Unveils NPR-A Legislation! – US Red Tape Affects Canadian Producers – White House To Use About 30 Federal Agencies To Zone Oceans Without Congressional Approval

Call to Action.  Citizens, let's please prepare to give the White House our Input FRIDAY NIGHT on the combined effort of over two-dozen Federal Agencies to 'Zone' the oceans surrounding America (Alaska has about 3/4 of the US coastline).   This Federal control extends to the Great Lakes and throughout the watershed feeding the oceans.  Imagine the thousands of jobs this 'ocean zoning' will create for environmental activists and lawyers in almost every state!   Control the oceans and watersheds and you truly control the entire 'means of production' in this [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:46-09:00June 9th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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Feds Should Stay With API Standards

Comment on the White House's unprecedented and overreaching Ocean Policy initiative and on the Interior Department's open comment period on Chukchi Sea SEIS.  Wall Street Journal by Joseph B. White.  In a letter Tuesday to President Barack Obama, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue called on the administration to speed up issuing new offshore drilling permits, offer more offshore areas for oil and gas exploration, open new areas for drilling in the Western U.S., and approve permits for the Keystone XL pipeline proposed to bring oil from Canadian tar sands [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:46-09:00June 8th, 2011|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Ever Consider Going To A Federal “Listening Session” On Date Night? – Reuters Says Denali Partner Freedom Is Silver Lining

Reuters.  While we dislike seeing the demise of any gas pipeline project before a gas line is under way, the silver lining here is that Denali's announcement frees ConocoPhillips and BP to independently become partners in another Alaska gas line project.   Canada.com by Mike De Souza.  Canada's federal energy regulator is defending its decision to keep Canadians in the dark about safety concerns with two major oil and gas pipelines. The concerns prompted the regulator to order pressure reductions on both lines last October, which are still in effect today. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:46-09:00June 7th, 2011|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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Alberta Celebrates Its Investment Climate While Alaska Is Creating Its Own Bear Market!

...just had to share our weekend black Bear encounter (NGP Photo) with my reader/friends!   We were closer to this back yard bruin than we were a weekend earlier to the Brown Bears of the Alaska Peninsula!  (ADN Story and Photo) Comment on Chukchi Sea Exploration Program Today! -Federal Register Notice- -Background From Consumer Energy Alliance- Readers: Check out this Calgary Herald article by Rebecca Penty outlining the celebration of Alberta's investment climate.  Then, compare that to Deborah Brollini's article, below, portraying how the greed of certain Alaska lawmakers is destroying Alaska's [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:33:47-09:00June 6th, 2011|Alaska Taxes, Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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