Much Gas Talk In Juneau This Week - The Bill Streever Story (BP) - We'll Report Next Monday From Washington D.C. (We'll tell you tomorrow what big oil and gas news is coming!)

Rena Delbridge Stories (NGP Photo):

Alaska Dispatch, re: Cook Inlet Gas Storage. The Cook Inlet Recovery Act, designed to boost natural gas storage in Cook Inlet, had its first hearing in the House.  Absent a severe cold spell this winter in Southcentral, the availability of natural gas to meet peak demands for home heating and electricity may be far from consumers' minds.

Alaska Dispatch, re: Alaska Permanent Fund to bankroll a gas pipeline?  One of the most influential legislators in the state House says he's sick and tired of plans, studies, and spending, and wants some action on natural gas for in-state use -- and moreover, he thinks plenty of Alaskans feel the same way and wants those voters to have a say.

ADN (AP).  Point Thomson drilling begins (i.e. and could access up to a third of the gas required for a 48" Alaska North Slope gas transmission system.  -dh)

The Greening of Oil, by Kay Cashman.  — Why is ecologist Bill Streever, author of the New York Times bestseller “Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places,” working for Big Oil?  Because he is making a difference.  “You can … influence company policy from within an oil company, more so than working from the outside,” he told Greening of Oil, a new online magazine.  Streever, who works in Alaska’s Arctic for London-based BP, wants to see more biologists working for industry.  Check out his story, a young man’s adventure come true, in Greening of Oil.