11/9/19 Fairbanks Utility Wants To Buy LNG Facility But Is The Whole Deal Financially Feasible? We’ve Never Thought So.
Credit: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/the-west-is-on-the-wrong-path_082014 Commentary: With fuel oil prices low and the true cost of serving too few natural gas customers being high -- would enough oil-heated homes convert to gas to make the Interior Energy Project feasible? Gas rates to customers are subsidized, and artificially low. How can the repayment of loans to AIDEA be guaranteed? Meanwhile, the cash-strapped [...]
6-20-14 Happy Birthday To Prudhoe Bay!
AJC by Tim Bradner: Gov. Sean Parnell terminated TransCanada AGIA pipeline contract. (Also see our report two days ago. -dh) From Mail Online: Russian agents are secretly working with environmental campaigners to halt fracking operations in the UK and [...]
6-18-14 – Alaskan & Canadian Pipeline Projects Move Foreward
The Republic — Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) announced Tuesday that the state and TransCanada Corp. have formally ended their relationship under terms of the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, clearing the way for a new [...]
6-12-14
Natural Gas Roundtable and Senate Natural Gas Caucus Luncheon Today, June 12th at the Hart Senate Office Building, Room SH-902. The invited speakers are: U.S. Sens. Mary L. Landrieu (D-La.), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Heidi Heitkamp [...]
6-11-14 LNG Exports Are In America’s National Interest
ADN -- A 13-pound, battery-powered drone catapulted from a Prudhoe Bay gravel pit on Sunday has become the first authorized commercial operation by an unmanned aircraft over land in the United States. (See our breaking [...]
6-9-14 Polar Bears Are Cuddly and ‘Political Shenanigans’ Abound!
World Energy, by George Backwell. ...a fraction of natural gas projects ... will become reality as high costs and weakening gas prices.... Alaska Dispatch, by Brigham McCown. As political shenanigans continue to delay approval [...]
6-6-14 Alaska D-Day Energy Speech and CBC 70th Normandy Rememberance – Pedro van Meurs On Mexican Constitutional Amendments
Pedro van Meurs On Mexican Constitutional Amendments 70th Annual Remembrance Of The Normandy Invasion: D-Day by Dave Harbour We're now watching the Canadian Broadcast Corporation's 70th D-Day Anniversary remembrance online, here. Earlier this morning in Alaska, we [...]
6-5-14 Alaska North Slope Gas Conditioning Plant Challenges
Comment: We associate a current Governing Magazine article by Liz Farmer, below, with Matt Buxton's excellent News Miner review of Alaska gas pipeline project funding. We have long alerted readers that with government participation [...]
6-4-14 PLF Is An Important Ally Also Fighting Federal Government Overreach
Globe & Mail by CP. TransCanada Corp. says it plans to build a $1.9-billion pipeline to help feed Chevron Corp. and Apache Corp.’s proposed liquefied natural gas facility near Kitimat, B.C. Yesterday ExxonMobil's [...]