Digital Journal: NextGen Climate Action Announces Summit: Can Keystone Pass The President's Climate Test? - On Monday, December 2nd, U.S. and Canadian experts will convene to explore the pivotal question President Obama posed during his June 25th speech at Georgetown University: Would Keystone XL "significantly exacerbate" carbon pollution? KRMS Radio: https://app.box.com/files/0/f/212843728/1/f_11591508363 ALWAYS WORTH LISTENING TO: David Holt radio nterview (NGP Photo) The Hill: States file brief against EPA rules - Nine states are lining up against the Obama administration in an upcoming Supreme Court case over contentious environmental regulations.  The states filed a friend of the court brief with the high court on Thursday to oppose the [...]

Comment: for those consumed in metrics, we recall the bad news that Alaska is now the 4th largest oil producing state in the Nation, behind North Dakota, Texas and California--and production continues to decline.   Today, our good friend and natural resource guru Steve Borell (NGP Photo) reminds us of the good news that Alaska -- according to some standards -- is the Nation's second richest state, according to Mining, behind our Texas cousins.   Borell, along with other readers and I, remain alert to Alaska's massive per capita spending and [...]

Celebrating The Life Of Rod Bradley (Point of Personal Privilege) Bradley Reid + Associates founder Rod Bradley (NGP Photo) passed away Oct. 24 after a valiant battle against cancer. Rod was 67 years old. This week I celebrate many warm memories of our 40 year friendship, from those early days with the Alaska Visitors Association and State Tourism Account to Anchorage Chamber leadership positions.  Murray, Kraft and Rocky was the original firm from which Bradley Reid descended.  In 1972, the firm's leader, Conn Murray, hired me to be public relations director.  Rod [...]

Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) will deliver remarks to the Fairbanks Chapter of the Alaska Support Industry Alliance and the Mat-Su Business Alliance Forum today.  Y'all come! 1.  Fairbanks.  Alaska Support Industry Alliance, 9 a.m., Westmark Hotel Financial Post by Diane Francis.  A major discovery of oil in shale deposits was made this year near Norman Wells (1,700 km north of Edmonton and 500 km south of Inuvik) and a bidding and drilling frenzy is underway.  ...   Vast portions of Canada’s North are unexplored and unmapped, making Canada itself a laggard in [...]

Sun Herald by Mary Margaret Halford.  To former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott (John Fitzhugh-Sun Herald Photo; Lott with Mississippi Energy Institute p​resident Patrick Sullivan), when it comes to discussing everything from jobs to national security in America, energy is a topic worth mentioning.  "The great news story in America today is energy," Lott said Tuesday morning at the 53rd annual meeting of the Southern States Energy Board. "Even while our economy has been struggling along, there have been great things happening with energy."  (Also, scroll down for yesterday's report.  Alaska [...]

Alaska Support Industry Alliance Annual Meeting Keynote Speech: Helvi Sandvik (coming on 10-16-13....) Alaska Dispatch by Alex DeMarban.  An impoverished group of Northwest Alaska villages whose residents hunt walrus and seals to survive have banded together to form a corporation to capitalize on an economic boom on the U.S. side of the Arctic, should that day ever come. ... The group's efforts will bear their first fruit early next week. Royal Dutch Shell agreed to sponsor a hazardous materials training workshop in Wales for 12 to 24 residents living in that village at [...]

Winter Energy Outlook EIA's Winter Fuels Outlook will be included in the October 2013 Short-Term Energy Outlook which will be released at 10:00 a.m. on October 8, 2013 on the EIA website at:  http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/  Alaska Dispatch by Suzanna Caldwell.   ... For the last decade, utilities and producers have warned of possible natural gas shortages in Southcentral Alaska. Aging wells in Cook Inlet have steadily waned in production. Despite the possibility of trillions of cubic feet of gas remaining undeveloped in the region, new wells haven't come online fast enough to keep up with [...]

Compass: Alaskans need to let permitting process work in Pebble application By SEN. MIKE DUNLEAVY (NGP Photo) Most Alaskans strive to grow and prosper and welcome those willing and able to invest their expertise and resources towards development of our state resources. Over the years, Alaska has developed permitting requirements that must be met before any project is allowed to proceed. Those decisions are based upon the data and science submitted to the state that allow it to then judge whether the project meets the predetermined standards. This protects the [...]

ADN/AP, by Matthew Daly.  President Barack Obama's nominee to be the nation's top energy regulator withdrew Tuesday, conceding he did not have enough support for confirmation.  Ron Binz, a former Colorado energy regulator who strongly backs renewable energy, was opposed by at least half of the 22-member Senate Energy Committee, including all 10 Republicans and at least one Democrat.  Opponents said they considered Binz's views to be outside the mainstream and were troubled by his comment that natural gas may be a "dead end" fuel. RigZone by Robin Dupre.  Janet Weiss (NGP Photo), [...]

Petroleum News by Alan Bailey.  James Watt (NGP Photo), president and COO of Buccaneer Alaska, told the Alaska Oil and Gas Congress on Sept. 18 that new exploration and development in the Cook Inlet basin are solving the local utility gas supply problems and that the time has come to focus on expanding the gas market beyond the Southcentral region.  Market growth  “We need growth in the market to really allow that additional activity to move forward,” Watt said. “Just meeting local demand should not be the goal of development for our [...]

  Earlier, we commented on the unfortunate withdrawal of Anglo from the Pebble Partnership and provided the Partnership's response from John Shively.  Today, we hear from  Northern Dynasty's CEO Ron Thiessen, that his company, "...will again own 100 percent of one of the world's most important copper & gold resources and will have the benefit of $541 million worth of expenditures, which opens the door to a number of exciting possibilities for Northern Dynasty and its shareholders and the Pebble Project and its stakeholders. Northern Dynasty and the Pebble Partnership [...]