10-6-15 Alaska Project Targeted By Rogue EPA

Here is a piece we have posted in the last 24 hours on our NGP Facebook and Twitter pages re: Alaska's economic future. Today's Wall Street Journal Editorial: "A new report takes apart the EPA’s veto of a mining project" (Thanks for the tip, Dan Kish.)     In an accompanying piece the WSJ notes: Our columnist Bret Stephens writes that at the President’s Friday press conference, Mr. Obama described alternatives to his Syria policy as “mumbo-jumbo,” “half-baked ideas,” and “as-if” solutions. “So it is with this president. It’s not enough for him to stake and defend his [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:00-09:00October 6th, 2015|Commentary, Enviro-Industrial-Governmental Cabal, Federal Obstruction, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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9-29-15 More Fallout Follows Shell’s Withdrawal From Alaska’s OCS Potential

See more of yesterday's reports and reactions from U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), various news sources yesterday, more sources today, and our commentary. Here is Tuesday's Early Report... ...in wake of Shell's announcement yesterday that after $7 billion invested and over a half decade of delay and disruption mostly caused by America's government, it is withdrawing from Arctic OCS exploration.  See statements (below) by Governor Walker, Alaska Oil and Gas Association, Consumer Energy Alliance, Congressman Don Young (NGP Photo) and American Energy Alliance.  (Search our archives for many other Shell Oil [...]

By |2017-10-10T15:20:33-09:00September 29th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, ANWR, Arctic Policy, Coastal Management, Commentary, Federal Obstruction, LNG, Notes From the Road, Ocean Policy, OCS, Rule Of Law, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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9-28-15 Shell Abandons Alaska Arctic Exploration

See Our Aussie Energy Expert's Current View On Alaska's Energy 'Leadership' See Senator Lisa Murkowski's Reaction To Shell's Announcement ADN/AP Shell Announcement by Dan Joling/Yereth Rosen Our Commentary On Shell's Alaskan Arctic OCS Exit With Alaska's "Plan B" failing what's wrong with relying again on "Plan A"? by Dave Harbour Alaskans will be seriously questioning the future of their state when they wake up and read the news this morning. This is because Alaska is more than any other North American state or province dependent on oil production and production is down, down, down.   Alaska [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:00-09:00September 28th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Arctic Policy, Federal Obstruction, Interstate Gas, OCS, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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9-15-15 “Tell It Like It Is”

Yesterday: LNG Prospects Lower.  Now: Hawaii, NOT a Prospective Customer For BC and Alaska Yes, Low Oil Prices Also Affect Service Industries and Their Thousands of Employees and Sub Contractors! EPA Alert Calgary's New "Tell It Like It Is Leader" Big OCS News Today: New Moratorium! Reader Commentary, Below, and Our Reaction Commentary, "Telling it like it is" carries with it a responsibility for diligence and judgment: We are honored to receive so many calls and emails every week, over many years, from readers throughout the world.  We hardly ever make [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:01-09:00September 15th, 2015|Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment, You Read It Here First|0 Comments
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9-7-15 BLM Cleanup Progress: Thanks to an Alaska Senator and Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission

BLM completes Cape Simpson cleanup work - 09/06/2015 (Login to read Full story) The federal Bureau of Land Management said Sept. 1 that it has completed cleanup of Cape Simpson legacy well sites in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. BLM said it facilitated removal of surface debris through an inter-agency agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The corps contracte.... Read the 'rest of the story', beginning in 2012 and long before....  -dh

By |2016-03-13T03:56:31-09:00September 8th, 2015|Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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9-1-15 President Obama Visits Alaska

See a broad array of Presidental visit news and feature items in today's (9-1-15) Alaska Dispatch News Comment: President Barack Obama dined last night at the Anchorage home of Alaska Dispatch Publisher Alice Rogoff (NGP Photo).  We hope that in addition to climate change issues, Alaska's major publisher was able to also discuss other matters.  Read other national and international news accounts of President Obama's Alaska visit, here.   We provided additional links, yesterday, here. Alaska's dependence and constitutional reliance on natural resources largely rest upon Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) sustainability. [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:02-09:00September 1st, 2015|Arctic Policy, Commentary, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress|0 Comments
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8-31-15

As President Barak Obama begins his Alaska visit today, we bring readers these observations from our energy consultant friends...and others (i.e. ADN, NYT, CNN, NPR, CBS, Reuters, USA Today (Note: "Climate Change" overtakes energy as focus of trip...consistent with the Obama policy of elevating climate change as top 'national security' priority.  -dh) Our great Aussie energy consultant friend begins the week with this observation, beginning with news of an ENI natural gas discovery in Egyptian waters, almost equal to the 35 TCF of stranded Alaska North Slope gas. Italian oil and gas giant ENI [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:02-09:00August 31st, 2015|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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8-18-15 Outrageous Decisions

Governor Bill Walker's Outrageous Decisions by Dave Harbour RATING AGENCY WARNS ALASKA: A VERY SIGNIFICANT AND VERY BAD OMEN. THIS ACTION WILL AFFECT THE COST OF MONEY AND, THUS, INCREASE ALASKA'S DEFICIT.  WARNING OF A RATING DOWNGRADE PORTENDS MORE BAD NEWS TO COME ABSENT A SIGNIFICANT TURNAROUND IN STATE POLICY.  -DH STORY BY ANDREW JENSEN, JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services lowered the outlook on the State of Alaska’s credit rating from “stable” to “negative” on Aug. 18, and gave politicians one year to reorganize the fiscal house before the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:03-09:00August 18th, 2015|Alaska Taxes, Arctic Policy, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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7-29-15 EPA Continues To Amass Federal Power At Expense of Citizen Freedom

Crude Oil Exports Would Benefit Great Lakes States: Murkowski   From our friend, Rebecca Logan (NGP Photo), General Manager, Alaska Support Industry Alliance:     The new EPA rule on Waters of the United States (WOTUS) is perhaps the most critical issuing facing us today.  The article below gives a great perspective on why so many are concerned about the rule, and the rule-making process.  Rebecca Logan General Manager Alaska Support Industry Alliance  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, (NGP Photo), today convened the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to continue consideration [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 29th, 2015|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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7-27-15

Petroleum News by Alan Bailey (NGP Photo).  On July 22 the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued permits allowing Shell to drill the top hole sections of two wells in the Burger prospect in the Chukchi Sea. Shell now has all of the permits that it needs to start drilling.  However, BSEE is prohibiting Shell from drilling into hydrocarbon bearing zones until....

By |2016-03-13T03:54:46-09:00July 27th, 2015|Arctic Policy, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress, OCS|0 Comments
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7-25-15 Raiding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Communications Director Robert Dillon writes us that, "Reuters senior energy market analyst John Kemp today weighed in against a plan to raid the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to pay for three years of a six–year highway bill."  Following is the article: SPR oil sales would be a mistake before strategy review is concluded: John Kemp “The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is not an ATM,” Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo), chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee warned the Senate this week. “It is certainly not the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:04-09:00July 25th, 2015|Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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7-22-15 Arrogant EPA Refuses To Testify On ESA

"Investment In Arctic Is Paramount", by Anne Seneca, President, Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska Politico: House GOP launches fresh salvo at EPA on endangered species By Elana Schor House Natural Resources Committee Republicans say EPA is snubbing their request to testify next week on whether it abided by Endangered Species Act rules that the GOP hopes will provide a new weapon against the Obama administration’s power plant emissions rules. The House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop’s species protection probe began in the spring, when Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe admitted that EPA [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:13-09:00July 22nd, 2015|Arctic Policy, Federal Obstruction, Reader Comment|0 Comments
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7-16-15 PLF Takes On WOTUS, Thank Goodness!

After filing objections to the EPA and Corps of Engineers' proposed "waters of the United States" rule in 2014, Pacific Legal Foundation attorneys have fulfilled their pledge to challenge the rule in court. Yesterday, PLF filed a lawsuit on behalf of several agricultural organizations and property owners because the regulation expands the scope of the Clean Water Act to an unprecedented extent, violating the terms of the Act and the Constitution's limits on federal authority.  In this new Courting Liberty podcast, PLF Principal Attorney M. Reed Hopper discusses this new [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:14-09:00July 16th, 2015|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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7-12-15 Our Iranian Nuclear Negotiations: Hopelessly Incompetent, Naive, Pro-American Or Pro-Enemy?

Our Iranian Nuclear Negotiations: Hopelessly Incompetent, Naive, Pro-American or Pro-Enemy?  You Be The Judge. by Dave Harbour Today and perhaps tomorrow comes another deadline extension in, and maybe an ending of, the Iranian nuclear negotiation.  It is one of the most important -- and dangerous -- energy and world security issues in history. Why? The current process is alienating the United States from all of our 'former' Middle Eastern allies who, together, have helped provide significant security to the region.  Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries in the [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:14-09:00July 12th, 2015|Commentary, Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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7-6-15 Read and Weep!

Bloomberg story and video on oil price trends, by Asjylyn Loder and Bradley Olson  READ AND WEEP.  The insurance protecting shale drillers against plummeting prices has become so crucial that for one company, SandRidge Energy Inc., payments from the hedges accounted for a stunning 64 percent of first-quarter revenue. Now the safety net is going away. The insurance that producers bought before the collapse in oil -- much of which guaranteed minimum prices of $90 a barrel or more -- is expiring. As they do, investors are left to wonder how these companies will [...]

By |2016-12-22T22:28:15-09:00July 6th, 2015|Federal Obstruction|0 Comments
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