2-20-2020 “Alberta’s Lost Tax Advantage….” Beware Alaska, Texas and other oil producing areas….
Dear Dave, Today, the Fraser Institute released a new study, Alberta’s Lost Advantage on Personal Income Tax Rates. This study finds that the province’s top combined personal income tax rate is now more than 10 percentage points higher than the top rate in several other energy-producing jurisdictions. (More here....) Best, Niels Niels Veldhuis | President The Fraser Institute Why [...]
9-10-14 The Day Before 9-11, “Lest We Forget”
Hastings: Admin’s Response to Oversight Requests Shameful . “Either the Administration is incompetent or it is going out of its way to expend time and money to withhold information from Congress” WASHINGTON, D.C., September 10, 2014 - House [...]
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9-9-14 Begich – Sullivan Senate Race Makes National Headlines
Found! Lost ship from Sir John Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition near King William Island.... (Stan Rogers Audio-Ballad) This Senate Race Is All About Energy! by Dave Harbour (See Epilog Added 9-10-14, One Day Before 9-11 Anniversary) [...]
9-8-14 – ALASKA-JAPAN Memorandum Of Cooperation Is A Giant Step Forward For LNG Project
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell (NGP Photo) reacts to FERC progress toward Alaska LNG export project and TODAY'S Japan-Alaska Memorandum of Cooperation (i.e. two-year, renewable, non-binding understanding between governments ... Read full statement, with link to actual Memorandum). Business [...]
9-6-14 Jim Prentice Rises….
We first met Jim Prentice (NGP Photo) in Calgary while chairing the Arctic Gas Symposium several years ago. We visited together over lunch and then came the presentations. After following his career for nearly a [...]
9-4-14 Mining and Oil & Gas Have Much In Common: Sustaining Canadian & American Lifestyles
Mining.com. Here, "Visual Capitalist" helps us to grasp the enormous breadth, depth and wealth of Canada's Oil Sands, which makes a conduit (or, pipeline conduits) through the United States and other Canadian provinces even more [...]
9-3-14 Top Energy Summits Coming
While we draw special attention to the following, upcoming meetings, we also urge readers to explore links to resource development, chamber of commerce and other similar groups in the U.S. and Canada which are linked [...]
9-2-14 Remember When The Alaska Gas Project Would Be ‘Largest Construction Project’?
Remember When Alaska Considered 'Gas To Liquids'? By Frank DiCesare / American Press A main component of Sasol’s final regulatory hurdle has been cleared. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday approved Sasol [...]
9-1-14
Since it is a holiday and since most vital northern energy issues are taking another day of rest, we bring you links to issues directly and indirectly related to energy...that we normally wouldn't feature due to [...]
8-30-14 Another Labor Day Without Job Producing Keystone XL Pipeline
This weekend's Consumer Energy Alliance Energy Links: BuildKXLNow.org: Another Labor Day without Keystone XL This coming Labor Day Weekend marks the fourth year Union construction workers will not be taking a day off from building the [...]
8-28-14 President Set To Sidestep Congress Again. Where Is The Congressional Outrage?
New York Times by Coral Davenport. The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress. [...]