6-10-20 Is Alaska’s Government Acting In Good Faith?
From the Allliance: "Open for Business? AKDOT takes $49m in CARES relief funds –threatens struggling AK companies with 10.5% interest penalty." The Situation: The Department of Transportation & Public Facilities took money intended to be used for “relief” and responded by threatening a 10.5% interest penalty on late payments from struggling Alaska businesses –on top of already onerous lease increases. 18 [...]
6-13-15 EPA Retreats On Fracking
Petroleum News: EPA: No widespread harm from fracking - 06/14/2015 (Login to read Full story) Hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and natural gas has not caused widespread harm to drinking water in the United States, the Environmental Protection [...]
6-12-15
KTVA VIDEO. Alaska is on track to build the largest natural gas project in the world, according to the Alaska Gasline Development board. They say the U.S. Department of Energy’s license approval is big news — it [...]
6-11-15
Tomorrow.... Commentator Thorpe Watson advises us to get ready for a medieval lifestyle. This morning he emails us that: The G7 countries have declared war on hydrocarbon fuels (aka “fossil fuels”). [...]
6-10-15 EPA’s Latest! – Ohio’s Kasich an Energy Disaster?
Friday We Wonder If Today's EPA Announcement Pleases Our Energy Readers: layer this on top of the WOTUS, Ocean Policy, ESA, CAA, CWA and War on Coal MATRIX! Like the industrious Lilliputians did with Gulliver, [...]
.JPG)
6-9-15 Alaska has a new Arctic oil competitor (i.e. NWT shale plays with estimated gross reserve POTENTIAL of 190 billion barrels of oil in place)
A new competitor for the Alaska oil patch: A Bakken-sized NWT shale play? More.... The Hill's Energy Links NOTE: NEXT WEEK, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will have an [...]
6-8-15
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Committee on Natural Resources has scheduled a markup beginning on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 4:00 PM in 1324 Longworth House Office Building. The Committee will consider the following bill, among others: H.R. 2295 (Rep. Thomas [...]
6-4-15 Perry Announces For President Putting Energy Reform As A Top Priority
Commentary: Today, Governor Rick Perry (NGP Photo) announced his candidacy for president. His message embraced a reversal of most Obama-era policies--especially those involving energy. He said, "There is nothing wrong in America today that a change [...]
6-3-15
TODAY: “The Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of a new rule that will dramatically increase the agency’s power, and will devastate Americans’ ability to use their own property and their own water." Pedro van [...]
5-29-15 Economic Death Spirals and More….
Economic Death Spirals: Part I By Dave Harbour Economic Death Spirals are never pleasant and can vary in impact. As a former utility regulator, I was always on the lookout for potential utility death spirals, [...]
5-28-15 Murkowski Cheers LNG Export Approval … Urges Repeal of Oil Export Ban
Comment: We remind our Canadian and U.S. readers that with so much North American oil and gas existing and potential production and with so many more LNG export projects than the market can accommodate, any major [...]