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Oct 27
2011
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Alaska Gov. Parnell Wants his PipelinePosted by: joe joe in Fossil Fuels |
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell proposed a new way forward on a natural gas pipeline Thursday, saying if demand for gas has shifted from the Lower 48 to Pacific Rim markets, the state must be willing to move with it.
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Oct 11
2011
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Alaska has given up local input on federal projects off state shores, according to a coalition of lawmakers from coastal boroughs. And absent leadership from the Alaska Legislature, they're determined they have a say on development that's proposed -- or planned.
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Aug 24
2011
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The Problem with the PipelinePosted by: Grant Barbeito in Fossil Fuels Tagged in: White House , south dakota , pipeline , oil pipeline , oil drilling , oil , North Dakota , Alaska
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The proposed Keystone XL Pipeline would start in the town of Hardisty, which about a hundred and twenty-eight miles southeast of Edmonton. It would cross the Canadian-U.S. border in Montana, jog through western South Dakota, then head down through Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma all the way to refiners on the Gulf Coast. The pipeline, a thousand seven hundred and two miles long, would carry crude from what supporters call the oil sands and critics the tar sands—a huge deposit of very heavy hydrocarbons in central Alberta. (I wrote about the Alberta tar sands for The New Yorker in 2007.)
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May 13
2010
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Gulf oil spill: Alaska senator blocks move to raise oil spill liabilityPosted by: joe joe in Oil Spill Tagged in: Alaska
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May 13, 2010 | 4:34 pm
A week ago, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) teamed up with her Democratic senatorial counterpart, Mark Begich, to introduce a bill that would raise the [Correction: liability trust fund for] economic damages from oil spills to $10 billion.
