WSJ: Alaska's Lessons For The Keystone XL Pipeline
| IOGCC's Gerry Baker reminds readers to register for the Columbus, Ohio meeting just weeks away.
Sister organization, NARUC, reminds us of its 126th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, coming in November. Resolutions of both organizations go to State and DC Policy makers so energy company participation is mission essential. -dh |
TODAY'S GASLINE MEETING IN FAIRBANKS: The Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline (ASAP) Community Advisory Council will hold its monthly meeting on September 25, 2014 from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm in Fairbanks. The meeting will be held at the Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center located at 3600 Cartwright Court. The meeting is open to the public.
Our readers may teleconference via this toll-free number 855-212-0212, meeting ID #:450-839-914. Find more information on the ASAP project webpage.
Globe & Mail Editorial Support For Jim Prentice (NGP Photo). When your predecessor lost her job by getting a lot of small things wrong in the most counterproductive way possible, it’s easy to engineer a change in direction. That fleet of private government planes whose flights of fancy grounded Alison Redford? Announce you’re selling them. The big cabinet that bugged voters? Cut its size. That partisan, paranoid plan to change the province’s license plates by removing the long-standing tag line “Wild Rose Country”? Ditch it. Jim Prentice did all of the above in his first days as Alberta’s new Progressive Conservative Premier. Not bad.
TODAY'S CONSUMER ENERGY ALLIANCE ENERGY NEWS LINKS:
Alaska Dispatch News: Shell, ConocoPhillips plead with White House for flexibility in Arctic drilling safety measures
Oil companies hoping to find crude under Arctic waters north of Alaska are imploring the Obama administration to ensure new rules governing drilling in the region don’t force them to stash emergency equipment nearby or block them from using chemical dispersants to clean up any spills.
BuildKXLNow.org: Railing Against Keystone XL is Running Over Midwestern Farmers
Willie Nelson and Neil Young, boosters of America’s farmer, will take the stage on Saturday in Nebraska to oppose a pipeline that would help solve a major problem for farmers. A rail-jam caused by a spike in oil by rail shipments is delaying midwestern farmers from moving their harvest to market.
Sioux City Journal: More tickets available for anti-pipeline concert
Several hundred additional tickets are available for this weekend's Willie Nelson and Neil Young concert organized by opponents of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
Yahoo Finance: Why Canadian crude exports to the US are on a high
According to Statistics Canada, energy product shipments—including bitumen from Alberta’s oil sands, the world’s third-largest oil reserve—are the largest component of Canada’s exports. Canada’s largest pipeline company—Enbridge Inc.—is also undertaking a multi billion-dollar expansion program across all of its export network. The program will boost capacity.
Reuters: Harper says U.S. will approve Keystone XL pipeline eventually
Logic dictates that the United States will one day approve the northern leg of TransCanada Corp's controversial Keystone XL crude oil pipeline, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told an audience of executives in New York on Wednesday.
TD Waterhouse- Market & Research: Philadelphia energy firms seek rail line changes to boost Bakken crude
Philadelphia-area energy officials are in talks with the local commuter rail agency to increase access to a three-mile stretch of rail near the city's airport to allow for greater shipments of Bakken crude oil, people familiar with the talks told Reuters.
Dallas Business Journal: Why stagnant oil and gas prices don't worry T. Boone Pickens
U.S. oil and gas prices are lower than shale producers would like right now, but famed Dallas energy financier T. Boone Pickens told a Houston audience that he sees the American energy boom continuing for many years to come and maybe another three decades or so.
Houston Chronicle: Pickens expects cheap natural gas for the foreseeable future
Texas energy financier T. Boone Pickens, an advocate for natural gas as a transportation fuel, says he expects it to stay cheap – good news for drivers who adopt it as an alternative to gasoline and diesel but not necessarily for producers. "I don't think I'll ever see $10 gas," said Pickens, 86, during a Houston panel discussion this week hosted by the law firm Winston & Strawn.
Associated Press: GE to give Penn State $10 million for gas drilling center
Penn State University said Wednesday that General Electric Co. will give the school up to $10 million to create a new center for natural gas industry research. Penn State President Eric Barron said in a statement that the center will produce tangible benefits to the industry, to communities that are affected by drilling or related activity, and to consumers.
Reuters: Henry Hub, king of U.S. natural gas trade, losing crown to Marcellus
For nearly a quarter-century, traders around the world have looked to a spot in Louisiana for the best price of U.S. natural gas. Now they're looking east. The Henry Hub in southern Louisiana, which connects to more than a dozen on- and offshore pipelines from Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, has been surpassed as the most active place for trading physical U.S. natural gas by hubs in shale-rich Pennsylvania.
ABC Denver: Shale panel begins study on land-use issues
A commission assembled by Gov. John Hickenlooper to study land-use clashes between Colorado's energy industry and homeowners will meet for the first time. The 21-member panel is charged with issuing recommendations to lawmakers next year on how to deal with conflicts arising from hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking.
The Times: Senate candidate makes pitch to LSUS students
This state should be teeming with dollars,” Maness said. “The oil and gas industry has been so restricted at the federal level that it can’t get the job done because it’s too expensive in a lot of cases, especially up here with Haynesville Shale operations. It’s because of over regulation.”
Capital New York: If Democrats take majority, Senate would take up HF bills
A number of bills to restrict fracking in New York State could make their way to the Senate floor if Democrats win control of the upper chamber in November. The state has had a moratorium on fracking for six years. At the same time, Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered the state health department to study the health risks of fracking but has not said when, or if, the study would be released.
Albany Times Union: Propane storage urged in caverns
The state's propane industry is pushing Gov. Andrew Cuomo to clear the way for a long-planned underground natural gas and propane storage facility in the Finger Lakes region near Watkins Glen. Speaking at the annual conference of the New York Propane Gas Association in that city, President Rick Cummings said safety concerns, voiced by the region's wine and tourism industry, are unfounded and urged the state Department of Environmental Conservation to issue permits.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Gas industry wants final word on word
The Marcellus Shale industry is trying to reclaim a word that has become one of the most effective weapons of natural gas foes: Fracking. The Marcellus Shale Coalition, which opened its annual conference Wednesday in Pittsburgh, is launching a campaign aimed at countering the negative connotations associated with fracking, the term derived from the gas-extraction technique of hydraulic fracturing. NOTE: The Tribune-Review and the Pittsburg Business Times also report.
Associated Press: Gas drilling public health risks get an airing
Garrett County residents are getting a chance to hear about the potential public health risks of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in their region. The local health department is hosting a presentation Thursday night on a study conducted by the University of Maryland School of Public Health.
Columbus Business First: ‘Crippling penalties’ urged for drillers not disclosing chemicals
Commissioners in Portage County, which is just west of some of the big Utica shale counties in eastern Ohio, say they’re concerned about nondisclosure. The county has 18 active underground injection wells and eight more permitted. Ohio hosts 205 injection wells, where drillers in the Utica and Marcellus shale plays dispose fracking-related waste.
Valley Biz: Eagle Ford Shale Business Boom
The Eagle Ford Shale oil boom is bringing a lot of new jobs and businesses to deep South Texas. New hotels, restaurants, stores and big city chains are coming to small towns on rural highways.
Times Online: Speakers: Shale support could decide White House, Congress
Attendees of the first full day of the annual Shale Insight conference at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center found themselves treated to a gas and oil industry pep rallyWednesday, coupled with predictions of who will be elected the next president of the United States.
National Geographic: The U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard: It’s Not Just for Ethanol Anymore
The debate surrounding ethanol and federally mandated targets for its production tends to dominate the conversation about the United States’ Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). But the Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a tweak to the RFS that also deserves attention.
Journal Advocate: EPA power plant rule a bad deal for everyone
It is virtually impossible to overstate the importance of readily available access to safe, affordable and reliable energy to individual prosperity and economic well-being. Energy impacts nearly all aspects of life, from the gasoline pumped into cars to the electricity needed to power factories and industries.
Smart Grid News: Up or down? The impact of EPA’s Clean Power Plan on electric rates
Last week we pointed you to an article by the Environmental Defense Fund suggesting that the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan could lead to lower electric bills. So it's only fair that we point you to an article by a respected energy management expert that reaches a different conclusion. Quick summary below, but click through to the full post for the nuances.
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