Alaskan Advocate - Where to From Here?

Over the last year I have maintained a this blog as a commitment to Alaskans to provide them with a view that may be different than what they are hearing from the industry or government. My goal was to comment primarily on Alaska energy issues. The focus of the blog has been on oil and gas taxes, short and long-term fiscal responsibility, and gas pipeline issues. Because of personal obligations I may not be able to contine to comment on Alaskan issues, but I will attempt at least one additional article that will propose a more comprehensive plan on how to move the State of Alaska forward. It will include a discussion of a  short and long-term fiscal plan, fiscal certainty, oil and gas taxes, a large diameter gas pipeline, in-state gas needs and Point Thomson. Some of the proposal will not be as specific as I would like because detailed information is lacking; other proposals will be quite specific. Regardless, I will recommend sufficient direction in each area to enable the state to move forward.

I am also not arrogant enough to assume my recommendations will be followed just because I made them. But I hope the article will at least move the debate forward in each of the areas I discuss.

Below is a list of the articles I have written over the last year. My next article will incorporate much of what I have already written below.


12/30/2009 - The Sovereign’s Responsibility

12/30/2009 - Fiscal Certainty and a Fair Gas Tax

12/30/2009 - Fiscal Certainty and a Stable Tax Environment

01/02/2010 - Timing of the Legislative Debate

01/02/2010 - Restructure Alaska’s Revenue System

01/05/2010 - Bob Swenson – Instate Gas Czar

01/06/2010 - PFD – To Enshrine or Not To Enshrine

01/13/2010 - Point Thomson – Where to From Here?

01/19/2010 - Do Oil Taxes Need Revision

01/27/2010 - Two Important Pipeline Variables

02/20/2010 - DNR Point Thomson Study Evaluated by Feds

02/21/2010 - Resource Potential of the Alaska North Slope

02/23/2010 - Geology is King

03/13/2010 - Which Pipeline Project is Best

03/14/2010 - Boring

03/21/2010 - In-State Gas Line

04/05/2010 - The Point Thomson Unit – The Next Step in the Process

04/28/2010 – A System Failure and An Idea

05/03/2010 – The Red Pen Challenge Update

05/27/2010 – Evaluation of Exploration in the Arctic OCS

06/14/2010 – BP Gulf Oil Spill Response Plan Review

07/30/2010 – Alaska Gasline Port Authority Proposal to Purchase Fairbanks Natural Gas LLC

09/06/2010 – Energy Issues in the Alaska Gubernatorial Race

09/08/2010 – Own a Piece of the Pipe – Part 1

09/09/2010 – Own a Piece of the Pipe – Part 2

09/11/2010 - Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA)

09/15/2010 - Analysis of the Twenty “Must Haves” of AGIA

09/16/2010 - Berkowitz Oil Revenue Proposal

09/21/2010 - Berkowitz Revenue Proposal Analysis

09/23/2010 - Political Posturing

09/26/2010 - State Ownership of the Pipeline

10/07/2010 - Clarification of the MidAmerican Deal

10/15/2010 - Natural Gas Pipeline Options

10/17/2010 - Equal Time for Parnell

10/19/2010 - Security Guards Need Education on Private Rights

10/26/2010 - Repost – Resource Potential of the Alaska North Slope

10/27/2010 - NPRA Oil and Gas Reserves History

11/01/2010 – Consider the Candidate

11/02/2010 – Legislative Agenda Proposal

11/15/2010 – Roadmap to a Fair Tax

01/26/2010 – The Real Cost of the Governor’s Proposed Oil Tax Change

02/10/2010 – An Either/Or World

03/14/2010 – The Specious Argument

03/17/2010 – Just the FACTS

03/24/2010 – Who to believe? Does it matter?