See This Yukon Government Gas Pipeline Reference Library!  *   Mackenzie Pipe Supporters Still Dreaming  Call To Action, Alaskans!  Public Hearing TONIGHT, November 9th at 7 p.m. (BACKGROUND HERE AND HERE) Centerpoint Building, 3801 Centerpoint Drive, 1st floor conference room Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM)   Today's New York Times reveals part of environmentalists' strategy for tonight's hearing in Anchorage: Ted Danson and Oceana (Photo credit: Treehugger and Oceana) will team up to use star power and environmental rhetoric to attract attention to the "Everybody Loves Whales" movie and incite more [...]

CBC.  New federal Environment Minister John Baird will take over the Mackenzie Valley pipeline file from Jim Prentice, CBC News has learned.  Our Jobs and Kids’ Futures May Depend On Federal Bureaucrats’ Chukchi Sea Decisions Information and comment by Dave Harbour     Meet at the Chukchi public hearing and testify: Tuesday, November 9, 7 p.m. Anchorage, 3801 Centerpoint Drive Send Us Your Comment and We’ll Print It!   Many of us -- all our lives -- have revered the many symbols of America: including the Uncle Sam character.  We [...]

Hans Christian Fluehler Obituary Guest Book 4 entries "Toutes mes sympathies à toi et ta famille. Malheureusement,..." - Michelle Casgrain The Guest Book is expired. OBITUARY HANS CHRISTIAN FLUEHLER 1942 - 2007 On September 18, 2007, Hans Fluehler, beloved husband of Suzanne Brillant, passed away after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Hans, a lover of Alaska, from Montreal, co-founded the American Bald Eagle Foundation with his close friend, Dave Olerud of Haines.  With Fluehler's support and that of Georgia businessman Edward Shirley, Olerud created the Foundation's office and Bald Eagle diorama [...]

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  Alaska House of Representatives Speaker Mike Chenault (NGP Photo).  "Today's U.S. DoE announcement is good and welcome news not only for my district, but for the state as a whole. The LNG plant has been a significant part of our economic base on the Peninsula for the past four decades, and remains a driver for high-paying jobs at the plant and in supporting industries. The export renewal also helps Southcentral gas stability until the proposed Kenai CINGSA gas storage project comes on line, since the plant serves as a [...]

Deadline for commenting on The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) intent to create an Integrated Activity Plan and an Environmental Impact Statement for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) was last Friday.  We are astounded at how few of Alaska's public officials and companies and organizations commented.  If you know of other comments, please email us.  Otherwise, we recognize the following for having taken the time: Senator Lesil McGuire (NGP Photo), Mayor Dan Sullivan (NGP Photo), Our Own Comment,  Resource Development Council for Alaska.    On Today's Denali Open Season Deadline for [...]

Action Alert: National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Planning Comment deadline is TODAY, October 1, 2010 We earlier analyzed and then editorialized on this new administrative agency created -- not within the state Administration -- but improperly under the aegis of the State Legislature.    -dh The Northern Waters Task Force will hold its first hearing TODAY, Friday, October 1, in Anchorage. The task force was created this summer after House Concurrent Resolution 22 was signed into law by the governor.   The task force appointed Rep. Reggie Joule, D-Kotzebue, as Chair, and Sen. [...]

ADN by Elizabeth Bluemink: Conoco Phillips said Tuesday it hasn't backed away from its efforts with BP to develop a North Slope gas pipeline. Monday.  Canadian Institute/American Conference Institute's Sixth Annual Oil and Gas Congress.  Cook Inlet Regional Corporation Chair Margaret Brown (CIRI Photo) and Northern Gas Pipelines Publisher Dave Harbour (NGP Photo) are Co-Chairs of this year's event --this week-- featuring leaders in U.S., Alaskan and Canadian governments, industry, media and indigenous organizations. ADN by Tim Bradner.  Oil is vital to Alaska. Royalties and oil taxes pay for 90 percent of the state budget, the Department [...]

Last night (9-22-10) the Alaska Chapter of the International Association of Energy Economists sponsored a forum at the University of Alaska-Anchorage to weigh the risks against the benefits of Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) development in the Arctic.  (More coming  next week....)  Comments from: Roger Marks, Michael Carey, Pete Slaiby (NGP Photo-l), John Schoen, Harold Curran (NGP Photo-r), David Ramseur  KFQD by Billy Hackett.  Republican Gov. Sean Parnell and Democrat Ethan Berkowitz debated Wednesday at an Alaska State Chamber of Commerce event. Parnell says he has demonstrated he is a man of action [...]