CBC.  Oil prices may be at a two-year low, but that doesn’t seem to be dampening the spirits at the International Pipeline Exposition in Calgary. Cryopolitics by Mike Bennett.  On September 26, ConocoPhillips‘ Polar Discovery departed the Valdez Marine Terminal in Alaska for Yeosu, South Korea.    ...     The 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act, passed during the oil embargo to protect American consumers from price shocks and volatility, generally prohibits U.S. oil from export. Debate over the practicality of the law has grown in recent years, especially thanks to the hydraulic fracking boom in North Dakota. [...]

Parnell, Walker clash on spending, gas line Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Sean Parnell clashed with his major rival, independent Bill Walker, on state spending ... Parnell also sniped at Walker teaming up with Byron Mallott, who ... Under the plan, the state's interest in the pipeline and gas-treatment plan ...   Financial Post Enbridge eyes growth opportunities outside of North American home base Calgary Herald CALGARY - Enbridge Inc. is eyeing new opportunities outside of its home base of North America, including early-stage plans to build a ...  

Consumer Energy Alliance Energy Links: Radio America: Neal Asbury’s Made in America *Michael Whatley Interview (NGP Photo)   Pipeline International: The Gulf Coast Pipeline System: a catalyst for American jobs and energy security *CEA Mention In just the past decade, the North American energy industry has undergone a rapid transformation. Thanks to technological advances in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, oil and gas production has surged from previously untapped US shale rock formations, with the International Energy Agency predicting that the US will overtake Saudi Arabia to become the world’s top producer of oil [...]

Daily Courier.  Several months after the town of Inuvik, N.W.T., began trucking in liquefied natural gas to generate some of its power, the territorial government wants to do the same in smaller communities that continue to rely on dirtier and costlier diesel. But David Ramsay (NGP Photo), whose cabinet responsibilities in the Northwest Territories government include investment Eye On The Arctic by Ellis Quinn.  Premier Harper will visit Canada’s northwestern Yukon territory, the Northwest Territories and the eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut from August 21 -26. “Our Government is working [...]

Under Construction.... Enjoy these Amazingly Timed Photos!  1.  Ecuador.  Some of our reader friends know of our long time interest in Latin cultures, generally, and particularly in the Ecuadorian lifestyle. Here is a link to our home/rental unit in Cuenca, world retirement capital where life is analog slow: we walk on cobblestone streets; consume the freshest fruits,  vegetables, seafood, poultry and farm animals; pay $17 a year in property tax; walk everywhere in a city (or, take a $2 cab) with a little bigger population than Anchorage; and have many Ecuadorian friends.   We have [...]

ADN by Alex DeMarban.  On Thursday, as part of an effort to increase transparency, Exxon flew journalists to see the largest development underway on the North Slope: the $4 billion Point Thomson gas field near the fiercely protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  ...   The Exxon official who has managed the project the last five years, Sofia Wong (NGP Photo), told reporters on the media tour why Exxon was investing so much in what she considers “the middle of nowhere.  “The answer is we have a world-class reservoir right under our feet.”   [...]

In this interview piece, PNA's Steve Quinn asks Alaska Gas Pipeline Federal Coordinator, Larry Persily (NGP Photo), about chances for the current Alaska LNG project. A mid-august primary election ballot question asks voters whether to repeal tax reform (SB 21).  Oil tax reform attracted approval of the Governor and a majority of the legislature over a year ago after over two years of intense study, public meetings and hearings.   Yet, soon after it passed, an interesting coalition of some legislators who voted against tax reform--along with various environmental activists and several union [...]