7-15-19 A Tale of Two Teachers
"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times... Alaska Budget Graph "...it was the age of wealth, it was the epoch of waste," we paraphrase with apologies to Charles Dickens. For over four decades Alaska's great Prudhoe Bay wealth elevated the sparsely populated, largest state in the U.S. to the biggest per capita [...]
7-11-12 – Congress Reschedules Markup to Revise Obama’s Offshore Leasing Plan
In this Calgary Herald story by Jim Wood, Canadian Ambassador to the US, Gary Doer, says American support for the Keystone XL Pipeline is strong. -dh Yesterday, as part of a more than year long [...]
7-10-12 – Administration Violates Alaska’s Environmental Rules While Advocating “Environmental Cooperation”
Commentary: Alaska Legislator, Representative Charisse Millett (NGP Photo-r), will testify Thursday that the Bureau of Land Management fails to meet environmental standards required of private industry and citizens. She will be joined by Alaska Oil [...]
7-9-12 Oppose Ballot Measure #2 at Noon Today and At Tonight’s Hearing!
The Washington Post: Keystone oil pipeline finds champions in Montana Democrats eyeing local benefits Comment: The Alaska State Chamber of Commerce and other responsible organizations throughout Alaska oppose the new Ballot Measure #2 which they say [...]
6-29-12 OCS: A Difference of Opinion
OCS Maps OCS: A Difference of Opinion (Commentary). Yesterday, the Department of Interior boasted of its "...Plan to Make All Highest-Resource Areas in the US Offshore Available for Oil and Gas Leasing." However, in the [...]
6-28-12
Globe and Mail by Josh Wingrove. With high energy royalties and soaring land lease sales, Alberta inched closer to a balanced budget last year.The province’s fourth-quarter report for the 2011-2012 fiscal year, released Thursday, shows [...]
6-27-12 – Arctic Drilling Ships Depart Seattle for Alaska
Calgary Herald by Steve Ewart. David Collyer, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, met the Herald's editorial board Monday and was called upon to defend "the industry" after three oil leaks in a [...]
6-25-12 – Does this B.C. gas discovery drive another nail into the coffin of Alaska – Lower 48 gas delivery?
PNA by Shane Lasley. When Steve Borell (NGP Photo-R) announced that he was retiring as the executive director of the Alaska Miners Association — a post he held for 22 years — the group’s board [...]
6-19-12
Comment: We are pleased to note that our friend, Tony Clark (NGP Photo-R), an eminently fair and balanced regulator from North Dakota, was sworn in Friday to his new seat on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). [...]
6-13-12 REGULATION KILLING GOLDEN GOOSE OF CONSUMER UTILITY RATES?
On Killing Golden Egg Laying Geese Published: June 13, 2012: ALASKA BUSINESS MONTHLY Can Well Intended Regulation and Lawmaking Kill Golden Egg Laying Geese? Meeting Report and Commentary by Dave Harbour Report: Oregon [...]
6-9-12
Toronto Star: Keystone XL pipeline: How Canada's pipeline splits the US. The Toronto Star's Mitch Potter and Lucas Oleniuk drove 4,000 kilometres through Keystone country, from Montana to Texas, finding that the Canadian project has morphed [...]