ADN by Steve Haycox (NGP Photo).  2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the establishing of the Alaska Territorial Legislature.   AP by Becky Bohrer.  The state of Alaska may decide this week to give TransCanada Corp. permission to shift its attention to a building liquefied natural gas pipeline, capable of facilitiating overseas exports. AP by Becky Bohrer.   A Senate plan representing a structural shift in Alaska's oil tax system wouldn't effect the kind of meaningful change....  

On Tuesday, Alaska Commissioner of Natural Resources Dan Sullivan(NGP Photo) addressed a group sponsored by Northrim Bank.  Yesterday morning, Sullivan spoke to the Resource Development Council for Alaska.  Since the messages are similar, we will provide readers with a brief report of the Tuesday presentation later this morning.... Bloomberg  by Gene Laverty.  Canadian natural gas fell amid expectations that U.S. inventories of the fuel rose for a third straight week.  Alberta gas declined 2.3 percent. Stockpiles probably rose 33 billion cubic feet last week, the median of 31 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg (DOENUSCH). The increase [...]

Readers living in Anchorage should put tomorrow, April 4, 5 p.m. on their calendars for  a, "Public Rally For Fair Trials and Justice for Senator Ted Stevens(NGP Photo), at the PenAir Hangar, 6100 Boeing Avenue.  Enjoy the Rally, BBQ, good times.  Sign an open letter calling for government accountability and reform at www.alaskansforjustice.com.

Alaska Dispatch/YLE News.  Oil giant Shell is planning to start charting the seas for oil drilling in the Arctic, and Finnish icebreakers are coming along on the test drillings, even as Greenpeace says oil drilling in the Arctic is dangerous in the extreme. Yedlin: Alison Redford's energy message has big impact - Calgary Herald - As Royal Dutch Shell chief executive Peter Voser said in a speech in Houston, the world needs everything - tight oil, heavy oil, oilsands, natural gas and renewables. Diversity of supply, as IHS chairman Daniel Yergin (NGP Photo) has noted in his [...]

Calgary Herald by Rebecca Penty.  National Chief Shawn Atleo said Thursday that oil and gas pipelines and other projects would have a better chance of garnering aboriginal support, and ending "conflict-filled" exchanges, if communities were involved in planning and not seen simply as stake-holders. LA Times by Kim Murphy.  Amid the tangle of towering steel, heavy cranes and overcast skies of Seattle's busy commercial shipyards, Shell Oil's massive Kulluk drilling rig is preparing to push off for the Arctic Ocean. Report: This week your publisher personally spoke with three of [...]

Alaska Dispatch by Alex DeMarban.  In an argument on his "Restoring Liberty" blog, Joe Miller (NGP Photo)  claims President Obama's opposition to oil development is so deep he's refusing to reclaim several islands from Russia and the oil-rich seabed around them.  Some of the islands off the Kamchatka Peninsula and Russia's northern coast are hundreds of miles from Alaska, so they wouldn't be easy to maintain. They include Wrangel Island, where American naturalist John Muir once landed as part of an expedition that claimed the island for the U.S.   Oil tax debate [...]

The American Energy Alliance says, "If the President's allies would stop suing, we could double U.S. proven reserves he refers to as "only 2% of the world's oil" right away."   Bloomberg (2/22/12) reports: Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s air pollution permits for offshore oil drilling in Alaska were challenged by environmental groups who said the permits violate the U.S. Clean Air Act…The Alaska Wilderness League and eight other organizations filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Feb. 17, asking it to review two permits the U.S. [...]

Here is how to order Cindy Roberts' (NGP Photo) new gas pipeline book, Cracking the Code 2012: A Citizen's Guide to the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Discussion. HOUSE MAJORITY.  Yesterday the Full House of Representatives passed H.R. 3408, with a bipartisan vote of 237-187.  The legislation is a bipartisan plan to expand offshore energy production, open less than three percent of ANWR for oil and natural gas production, encourage the development of 1.5 trillion barrels of oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West, and approve the Keystone XL pipeline.  The plan will [...]

 Calgary Herald by Dan Healing.  Oilsands producer Cenovus Energy Inc. has sent its first shipment of crude oil to China, beating the opening of the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline by about five years.  *   Duluth News Tribune.  New pipeline from North Dakota's booming oil patch to Minnesota.... Yesterday, the Subcommittee on Indians and Alaska Native Affairs held a legislative hearing on H.R. 3973, the Native American Energy Act that promotes and encourages increased energy production on tribal lands by reducing government barriers and streamlining burdensome procedures.  “For too long, [...]