By Roger Maynard, on February 4th, 2012 By Andrew Halcro
One of the bedrock arguments proffered by critics who oppose reforming oil taxes is that compared to other oil producing regions, Alaska is right in the middle. This is false.
Read full opinion at andyhalcro.com.
By Editor, on January 25th, 2012 By Becky Bohrer | AP
JUNEAU–Some Alaska lawmakers, hoping to make a point about federal encroachment on state rights, are urging the federal government take over New York City’s Central Park and designate it as a wilderness area.
Read more in the Anchorage Daily News.
By Editor, on January 4th, 2012 by Jeff Richardson | FAIRBANKS DAILY NEWS-MINER
FAIRBANKS—Gasoline prices in the $4-per-gallon range may be uncomfortably high for many Fairbanks residents, but Doug Reynolds believes prices in the years ahead could make these seem like the good old days.
Reynolds, a professor of oil and energy economics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said he sees oil prices soaring in the next five to 10 years, “easily” reaching $200 per barrel or more.
That increase, roughly double the current price of oil, would translate into gasoline in the $5 to $10 range at the pump, he said.
Read full story in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
By Editor, on December 29th, 2011 By Diane Cardwell and Rick Gladstone | NY TIMES
The United States economy managed to cope this year despite triple-digit prices for barrels of oil. The lessons may come in handy, economists say, because those prices will probably be sticking around.
With Iran threatening to cut off about a fifth of the world’s oil supply by closing the Strait of Hormuz and unrest in Iraq endangering the ability to increase production there, financial analysts say prices for two important oil benchmarks will average from $100 a barrel to $120 a barrel in 2012.
Read full article in the New York Times.
By Editor, on November 11th, 2011 Press release
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) and Rep. Don Young (AK-at large) announced plans to introduce the Alaskan Energy for American Jobs Act to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for future energy production and job creation. Read more->
By Editor, on August 15th, 2011 By Jonathan Grass | JUNEAU EMPIRE
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service releases its revised draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge today.
Bruce Woods, the Service’s chief of media relations for the Alaska Region, said this is the regularly scheduled review process for refuges within the state. He said this revision was announced during the first public comment period in April 2010.
Read full article in the Juneau Empire.
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By Roger Maynard, on August 3rd, 2011  The Fourth Southeast Alaska Integrated Resource Plan (SE IRP) Advisory Work Group met in Haines on Tuesday, July 26, 2011. The group, working under the authority of the Alaska Energy Authority (AEA), is focused on development of a 50-year Regional Integrated Resource Plan (RIRP) for Southeast Alaska from Yakutat to Metlakatla. Read more->
By Editor, on July 26th, 2011  Governor Sean Parnell was joined by lawmakers, stakeholders and project leaders to provide an update on the Susitna-Watana hydro project. State of Alaska press release:
July 25, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska – Two weeks after signing legislation necessary to move the Susitna-Watana hydroelectric project forward, Governor Sean Parnell today said the state is recruiting its Susitna-Watana hydro project team and he expects first power from the major hydropower system on the Susitna River by 2023. Licensing the project is expected to take six years and construction will take five years. Read more->
By Editor, on July 13th, 2011 By Jonathan Grass | JUNEAU EMPIRE
With Alaska’s oil reserves on the decline the question many face is how to prepare for lower levels of product flowing through the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). Alyeska’s comprehensive Low Flow Impact Study report concludes that the line can be safely operated at levels down to 350,000 barrels per day. This limit could only be a decade or so away.
Read full story in the Juneau Empire.
By Editor, on July 6th, 2011 by Frank Murkowski
Today, poll after poll shows Americans supporting the opening of ANWR. Yet, at a time when our national energy security is at risk, the cost of imported oil is around $100 a barrel, and TAPS is running at only one-third capacity, the national environmental groups have managed to prevent even the minor amount of development in ANWR proposed by Sen. Murkowski.
As a result of national environmental group pressure the current administration has failed to take the actions necessary to develop oil resources in Alaska and has the wrong attitude regarding oil development in ANWR.
Read full article in the Alaska Dispatch.
By Editor, on July 5th, 2011 By Becky Bohrer | AP
JUNEAU — There’s been no reportable progress toward reaching agreements in the year since TransCanada Corp. announced that it had received bids from “major industry players and others” interested in using its proposed pipeline to transport natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope to market.
Read more in the Anchorage Daily News.
By Editor, on April 26th, 2011 by Dan Springer | FOXNEWS.com
WASHINGTON D.C.–Shell Oil Company has announced it must scrap efforts to drill for oil this summer in the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of Alaska. The decision comes following a ruling by the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board to withhold critical air permits. The move has angered some in Congress and triggered a flurry of legislation aimed at stripping the EPA of its oil drilling oversight. Read more->
By Editor, on April 26th, 2011 JUNEAU–Governor Sean Parnell today welcomed the news that legislation necessary for the proposed Susitna Hydroelectric Power Project has passed the Legislature. Senate Bill 42, introduced by Governor Parnell, authorizes the Alaska Energy Authority (AEA) to move forward on pursuing this important hydroelectric project. Read more->
By Editor, on March 24th, 2011  Gov. Sean Parnell Press release
JUNEAU–Governor Sean Parnell today issued the following statement on the importance of American energy development, in response to comments President Obama made while traveling in Brazil:
“The federal government should be focusing on increasing responsible energy development in America, not in Brazil. When President Obama said the U.S. stands ready to be ‘one of Brazil’s best customers’ when its new oil resources are developed, he demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding of the critical importance of American energy security and the availability of existing domestic resources, including in Alaska.”
Read more->
By Editor, on March 24th, 2011 Deanna Garrison | KRBD
KETCHIKAN–Congressman Don Young says this month’s ruling by a federal judge reinstating the roadless rule in the Tongass would most likely prevent the development of future hydro-electric projects in much of Southeast. Young made the statement during a community roundtable in Ketchikan today.
Listen to KRBD report.
By Editor, on March 18th, 2011  Dr. Jeff Masters | WEATHER UNDERGROUND
“Traces of radioactive substances emitted by Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant will likely arrive over the Western U.S. today, carried by the prevailing west to east winds that have blown over the Pacific Ocean during the past week. Rainfall is expected over California this weekend, and it is likely that the rain will wash radioactive particles out of the air to the surface in quantities that will be detectable at several locations. I want to strongly emphasize that the radioactivity from Japan arriving over the U.S. over the next few days poses absolutely no threat to human health, and is present in only miniscule quantities.”
Read more at the Weather Underground blog.
By Roger Maynard, on March 15th, 2011 ANCHORAGE–With all of the news media attention on Japan’s tragic earthquake, tsunami, and damaged nuclear reactors, it’s hard to get a clear understanding of the dangers that are real, and those that are not.
According to the Alaska Division of Health and Social Services,
“We don’t expect significant levels of radioactivity in our state, and there’s no health risk. Japan is thousands of miles from our state, and if radioactivity from the reactors there is released it would be thinned-out by the winds before it could reach us. We could see a very small increase in radiation levels — well below levels that would be a health concern. Read more->
By Editor, on March 8th, 2011 Patti Eppler | ALASKA DISPATCH
ANCHORAGE–A federal judge says it’s not really his place — at least not yet — to make the government or Exxon take further action regarding ecological harm in Prince William Sound resulting from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
The judge said that it is up to the state and federal governments, not Steiner, to seek a court ruling on whether Exxon should pay $92 million as part of a “reopener” provision stemming from the 1991 settlement of a damages case against Exxon. The oil company paid $1 billion to settle the case but the reopener provision allowed the governments to seek up to $100 million later if unexpected problems were found.
Read more at Alaska Dispatch.com.
By Editor, on March 3rd, 2011 JUNEAU–As the state legislature reaches the halfway point of the ninety day legislative session, the legislature for the most part has shut down for the week to allow 28 of the 60 members to attend an Energy Council meeting in Washington D.C. A call to a Fairbanks legislator’s office seeking information on a budget matter was met with the response, “It’s energy week so everyone is gone.”
Read more at Andrewhalcro.com.
By Editor, on March 2nd, 2011  Rolls Royce The 102EX is also known by the name Phantom Experimental Electric and is intended to test the opinion and reaction to alternative power configurations with stakeholders, enthusiasts and the media. The vehicle is a pure test bed at this time and there are no plans for a production version of the vehicle.
Read more at DailyTech.com.
By Editor, on January 12th, 2011 by Lisa Demer, ADN
As temperatures dropped at Prudhoe Bay and the shutdown of the 800-mile pipeline continued Tuesday, federal and state regulators agreed to allow Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. to temporarily restart the flow of oil even though some will ooze out of a leaking secondary pipe.
The flow of oil back into the pipeline was to resume Tuesday night, said Alyeska spokeswoman Michelle Egan.
Read more in the Anchorage Daily News.
By Editor, on January 11th, 2011 The shutdown of the trans-Alaska pipeline is likely to extend into a fourth day, making it the third-longest closure in the line’s 33-year history. Officials haven’t yet announced how or when they intend to restart it, which is challenging in the dead of winter.
Read more in the Anchorage Daily News.
By Editor, on January 9th, 2011 by Casey Grove, ADN
NORTH SLOPE–A station line — not the main pipeline — encased in concrete leaked an unknown quantity of crude oil just outside a booster pump building, according to Alyeska spokeswoman Michelle Egan.
Read more in the Anchorage Daily News.
By Editor, on January 7th, 2011  Press Release
ANCHORAGE–The Alaska Energy Authority (AEA) is soliciting competitive grant applications from qualified applicants for emerging energy technology projects to be funded by the Alaska State Legislature and the Denali Commission. AEA must receive completed applications by 5:00 PM Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Read more->
By Editor, on January 7th, 2011 by Mary Pemberton, Associated Press
WASHINGTON D.C–Rep. Edward Markey D-Mass., on Wednesday reintroduced a bill to designate the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a wilderness area. If successful, the move would put the refuge — and its estimated 11 billion barrels of recoverable oil — beyond the reach of oil companies perhaps forever.
Read more in the Anchorage Daily News
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