6-29-20 Letter to the “Father Of The Ill-Begotten Fair Share Oil Tax Proposal”
(A letter from an unemployed oil industry employee to Robin Brena, the lawyer who created a voters initiative to increase oil industry taxes. The letter was printed by the Alaska Support Industry Alliance.) Dear Mr. Brena: I just lost my job on the Slope, and don’t know when or if I’ll get back on. I used to feel lucky [...]
1-17-16 Alaska As A World LNG Competitor
Governments better wake up and believe they are competing for investment...and prosperity! Petroleum News by Kristen Nelson. The Alaska Support Industry Alliance’s “Meet Alaska” conference heard a ConocoPhillips perspective on the Alaska LNG Project Jan. 8 [...]
1-15-16 Canada and Alaska Struggle With Conflicting Forces: Prosperity and Jobs vs. Nothing
Commentary by Dave Harbour on the eternal struggle between wealth producers and wealth takers. Canada struggles with the need for oil revenue countered by the political pressure to subjugate everything, and everyone, to the concept [...]
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1-14-16 ISIS Needs (FEARLESS) Oil Workers
Please enjoy Larry Persily's (NGP Photo) Alaska gas/LNG related links TODAY! From our anonymous Aussie energy analyst today, several points of interest re: oil and gas prices and the state of LNG..., and, ISIS NEEDS (FEARLESS) [...]
1-12-16 Weak Energy, Etc. Policies = Lackluster Last State Of The Union Speech
Calgary Herald by Dan Healing. ... Seven Generations Energy Ltd., considered one of the bright lights of the Calgary oilpatch, announced it would postpone about $200 million of planned capital investment in 2016.... David Holt [...]
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1-9-16 Government Gasline Ownership Based On Greed Not Need?
SUBSCRIBE TO PETROLEUM NEWS. Gara: AKLNG needs to stay the course. House Rep. Les Gara (NGP Photo) has been around for several plans to advance a natural gas pipeline and believes the state is on [...]
12-29-15 Wilson Condon Passes
Our friend, former Alaska Attorney General Wilson Condon Passes: Anchorage Daily Planet. NGP Photo. Wilson and I became closely acquainted during his service with the Hammond administration. In subsequent years, as he served in [...]
12-21-15 Port for future Arctic OCS efforts?
Fairbanks News Miner. Tucked away in this year’s Coast Guard Reauthorization Act, a $175 million bill that just passed the Senate by a unanimous vote, is a land transfer that could be consequential for Alaska’s [...]
12-19-15 TransCanada’s Energy East Project Cost Grows
Mining, by Cecilia Jamasmie. TransCanada Corp (TSX, NYSE:TRP), the company behind the rejected Keystone XL pipeline, filed Thursday a revised application for its Energy East pipeline that includes route changes, and pegs the total cost of the [...]