Access Important Industry Presentations and Videos of  RDC’s Annual Conference Last Week In Anchorage.     *     Edmonton Journal/CH, by Dave Cooper.  Atco Pipelines announced Wednesday it is proposing to spend up to $700 million to replace 260 kilometres of high-pressure natural gas pipelines in Calgary and Edmonton, with the cost to homeowners spread over five years.

CEA President David Holt Describes Next Steps Consumer Group Anticipates for The Keystone XL Pipeline:

Cook Inlet Gas Supply: From Whence Does It Come?  Utilities Work the Realities.  Political Leaders Opine.   (See your author’s commentary here which involved his 2006 Dissents (1) and (2) that predict and describe the regulatory origin of current natural gas supply and deliverability challenges)  -dh

 Alaska Journal of Commerce by Molly Dischner.  Where Southcentral will get its Anchorage, Mayor, Dan Sullivan, Cook Inlet Gas Shortage, Energy, IncentivesSean Parnell, Alaska Governor, Cook Inlet gas supply, Enstar, exploration incentives, bullet line, ASAP, AGDC, north slope gasenergy in the near future was up for debate between the Anchorage mayor and the governor at the Resource Development Council’s annual conference.


“Everyone needs affordable energy,” said Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan (NGP Archive Photo-R) during his opening remarks November 14, and added it was almost a given that Southcentral would be importing natural gas in the near future to bridge supply shortages projected for the 2014-15 winter.


Speaking a few minutes later during the same opening session, Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Archive Photo-L) disagreed.  “Mayor Sullivan, importing gas, I don’t think so,” Parnell said. “We have got to do better than that. And I will work my tail off, to make sure that we don’t have to do that. My hope is that these incentives will work in Cook Inlet so that’s not necessary. Not when our resources here are so vast.  “Importing has got to be a last option, or a last resort.”


Southcentral utilities told the Regulatory Commission of Alaska in October that they’ve reached the time to explore the last resort option of importing either liquefied natural gas or compressed natural gas. Natural gas heats many Southcentral homes, and fuels power plants throughout the region. But a shortfall is predicted for 2014 without a major new source of gas coming online before then. And such a source is unlikely, given lead times for development and the fact that any in-state pipeline project would not be finished by then.