TransCanada Briefs Alaska Black Chamber of Commerce

Special Report. Yesterday, the Alaska Black Chamber of Commerce met at the Westmark Anchorage Hotel to hear TransCanada spokesman Tony Palmer (NGP Photo) brief guests on the new partnership with ExxonMobil. Palmer also announced the addition of a Point Thomson pipeline to the project and verification that the ‘open season’ process for filling pipeline capacity would begin next January and finish in July 2010. Palmer said today that following ExxonMobil’s addition, spending through next July would be increased to $150 million. He then described long term employment and contracting opportunities for Alaska businesses. ABCC President, Marilyn Stewart – Richardson (NGP Photo) closed with an observation that, “We will be watching progress of the project closely.” * ADN by Erika Bolstad. There are market forces, state and national politics and a host of environmental and regulatory hurdles — some 22 federal agencies in the United States alone must sign off on an environmental impact statement before the project can move forward. One small federal agency, the Office of the Federal Coordinator, is overseeing the effort. The office, headed by Drue Pearce (NGP Photo), an Alaskan who is based in Washington, D.C., has nine employees. * Solve Climate by Abby Schultz. Where the natural gas from the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline will end up is a murky question tied up in a 30-year-old treaty, expansion of Canadian tar sands operations, and trends in natural gas supplies both in the United States and in Canada. Environmentalists fear at least half of the relatively clean-burning Alaskan North Slope gas will end up fueling tar sands operations in Alberta, where the pipeline will end, instead of coming to the lower 48 states to replace carbon-intensive coal in power plants. The tar sands operations already consume about 20 percent of Canada’s natural gas, and they are expected to need as much as twice that by 2035. Michael Brune of the Rainforest Action Network calls the pipeline "a stealth dirty oil mega-project … conceived by Big Oil.” (add more……………………. * Texas for Sarah Palin Blog re: Drue Pearce Story.

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Dave Harbour, publisher of Northern Gas Pipelines, is a former Chairman of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, a Commissioner Emeritus of NARUC, NARUC's Official Representative to IOGCC and Vice Chairman of NARUC's Gas Committee. He served as Gas Committee Chairman of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners. He also served as commissioner of the Anchorage Bicentennial Commission and the Anchorage Heritage Land Bank Commission. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree: English, at Colorado State University, a Master of Science Degree: Communications-Journalism at Murray State University and graduated from Utility Regulatory School for Commissioners at Michigan State University. He served as a Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at Alaska Pacific University, taught bank marketing classes at the University of Alaska and was an English teacher at Los Alamos High School. Harbour served in ranks of Private - Captain during a 4-year assignment with the Army in Korea, Idaho, Georgia and Fort Meade and received the Meritorious Service Medal among other commendations. Harbour is also a past Chairman of the Alaska Council on Economic Education, the Alaska Oil & Gas Association Government Affairs Committee, the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, the Export Council of Alaska and the Department of Commerce's District Export Council. He is a past President of the Alaska Press Club, American Bald Eagle Foundation, Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska and Common Sense for Alaska. Harbour was instrumental in founding the American Bald Eagle Research Institute (UAS), the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, the Downtown Anchorage Business Partnership, and Arctic Power. He also served as CEO of several small Alaska organizations, including the Anchorage Parking Authority and Action Security, Inc. Harbour is also Chairman Emeritus of the Alaska Oil & Gas Congress. Harbour's wife, Nancy, is a professional, performing arts administrator and his three boys, Todd, Benjamin and William work in the fields of environmental management, energy marketing and medicine.