Monday We Will Announce Results Of A 2-year-long Study from Washington: Developing Reliable Research Regarding the Social, Economic and Environmental Effects of Maintaining Domestic Energy Exploration and Production Moratoria On and Beneath Federal Lands.

CBC News.  The lead proponent of the Mackenzie Gas Project says it should not have to provide an update on the economic feasibility of the proposed Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline in the Northwest Territories.  Imperial Oil, which heads the consortium of companies behind the pipeline proposal, responded on Wednesday to a request from Alternatives North to release updated data on the natural gas market and the economic feasibility of the pipeline.  Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/02/11/mgp-neb-imperial.html#ixzz0fI40bCuV

Calgary Herald by Dan Healing.  New Alberta Energy Minister Ron Liepert is one of the most watched politicians in the province these days as he puts the finishing touches on the competitiveness review and tries  to gets himself up to speed in a complicated new portfolio.  Still, he found time to talk to the Herald late Wednesday after the province reported its biggest February land sale in 14 years, a sale that raised a sixth of the $630 million the energy department is budgetting for in 2010-11.  …   Word on what the province is actually going to do to try to bring Alberta’s oil and gas sector back to health won’t really be known until early March, the latest deadline for the oft-delayed exercise.  (Alaska leaders should be watching this.  -dh)