ADN/AP by Dan Joling. Royal Dutch Shell halted drilling in the Chukchi Sea on Monday — one day after it began — because of sea ice moving toward the company’s drill ship off Alaska. Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith (NPG Photo) said drilling was stopped as a precautionary measure in accordance with its ice management plan.
Vancouver Sun by Gordon Hamilton. Pipeline operator Spectra Energy is teaming up with British natural gas giant BG Group to build an 850-kilometre natural gas pipeline from northeastern B.C. to Prince Rupert that will be one of the largest in North America. At a cost of $6 billion to $8 billion for the pipeline alone, the Spectra project is the largest such proposal aimed at delivering B.C. energy resources to Asia and breaking Canada’s dependence on the U.S. market. “It’s a very large pipeline. To get to volumes of this size, you are in the big-inch category,” said Doug Bloom president of Spectra Energy’s western Canadian transmission operations. “We are proposing a very large project.” Spectra and the BG Group, the world’s leading operator of liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers, are proposing a 48-inch pipeline, the largest size currently in use in North America. It is capable of delivering 4.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day to Prince Rupert, more than all the gas currently being produced in B.C.
Governor to Sign Legacy Well Resolution Wednesday. Governor Sean Parnell is scheduled to sign House Joint Resolution 29, the NPR-A Legacy Wells resolution this Wednesday morning in Anchorage. HJR 29 urges the federal Bureau of Land Management to live up to its mission statement and clean up more than a hundred petroleum wells drilled by the federal government in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Some wells are actually leaking natural gas and the drill sites are covered with trash that can damage the arctic environment. The resolution was sponsored by Rep. Charisse Millett during the 2012 legislative session and was passed unanimously by the house and senate. Millett also testified to the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this summer to try and bring national attention to the problem and to get BLM to finally put an aggressive remediation plan in place.
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 10, 2012 – For the third time during the Obama Administration, gasoline prices are closing in on a national average of $4.00 per gallon, although many across the country are already paying much more. Since President Obama took office, gasoline prices have more than doubled from $1.84 per gallon to a painful $3.90 per gallon as of September 10, 2012.
Source: Energy Information Administration – With 23 million Americans looking for work, rising gasoline prices are continuing to hurt American families. Unfortunately many Americans will struggle to afford to drive to work or take their kids to school and be forced to forgo trips to see friends and family or go on vacations as rising gasoline prices not only make travel more expensive but also groceries and other everyday necessities. The best way to decrease gasoline prices is to lessen America’s dangerous dependence on foreign countries for oil. Since taking office President Obama has repeatedly blocked efforts to increase American oil production by issuing a moratorium in the Gulf a Mexico, imposing a subsequent de facto moratorium, blocking 85% of America’s offshore from oil and natural gas production, canceling lease sales in the West, and delaying offshore permits. House Republicans have offered a long list of bipartisan legislation to increase American energy production, create over a million new jobs, lower gasoline prices and grow the economy. Unfortunately, President Obama has opposed these bipartisan solutions and the Democrat controlled Senate has refused to act on these bills to create jobs, lower gasoline prices and increase America’s energy security.
the Chukchi Sea on Monday — one day after it began — because of sea ice moving toward the company’s drill ship off Alaska. Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith (NPG Photo) said drilling was stopped as a precautionary measure in accordance with its ice management plan.
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