It Was a Big Oil and Gas Week for Alaska and Northern Canada: Oil & Gas Congress, Mr. Parnell Goes to Washington,

ADN editorializes in support of AGIA process and TransCanada progress. * WSJ. Governor Sean Parnell ( NGP Photo) wants gas projects to merge. * ADN, by Erika Boldtad. In his first trip out of state since he replaced Sarah Palin as Alaska’s governor, Sean Parnell urged the Obama administration to consider the state’s perspective as it weighs whether to allow oil exploration to go forward in Arctic waters. The Alaska Standard reviews Exxon’s gas pipeline position. * Yesterday, the Northwest Territories’ Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment, Bob McLeod (NGP Photo) told the Canada Day Summit in Anchorage that the Alaskan and Mackenzie Gas Projects involve several common factors: “…U.S. gas supply and demand, climate change policy and politics, ‘consultation’, and a new way of doing business….” (Please check later today and this weekend for coming story, also featuring photos and stories on Paul Wilson, Barrie Robb, and Richard Nerysoo…and more Oil and Gas Congress reports about Kevin Banks, Mark Slaughter, Harold Heinze, Margie Brown, Marie Greene, Jerry Isaac, Roger Marks and Ryan Steen.)