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Northern Gas Pipelines: The Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline Route Please see complete article here.
Introduction:
Current news is perhaps the best source for tracking evolution of the project: See several updates below and the news archives. Also refer to Southern Route proponents' presentations and maps and a year of support efforts by the Governor's Alaska Highway Natural Gas Pipeline Policy Council and the Legislature's Joint Gas Pipeline Committee. 1-10-03. "Arctic Gas Pipeline Construction Impacts On Northern Transportation" was released by Transport Canada, Prairie and Northern Region. The work was completed by PROLOG Canada Inc. in association with The Van Horne Institute. Contacts: Transport Canada - Roy Matson - Regional Mgr Coordination & Policy - 780-495-3814; PROLOG Canada - Don Dean or Kells Boland - 403-294-1200. Readers may download this study by looking under "Canada" in the left margin. 9-8-02. VANCOUVER SUN by Scott Kent-Thousands of B.C. jobs are being put at risk by the actions and words of Herb Dhaliwal, the federal natural resources minister and MP for Vancouver South-Burnaby. As the most vocal federal opponent to the proposed Alaska Highway Natural Gas Pipeline, Dhaliwal is ignoring the benefits this project could bring to B.C., and he's hoping nobody back home will notice. This pipeline would be the largest private sector project ever built, with an estimated cost of $20 billion. Along the way, it would create about 375,000 person years of employment, 67,000 of which would be in B.C., and add about $30 billion to Canada's GDP. That's why Duke Energy, Phillips, TransCanada Pipelines, BP and hundreds of other private sector companies back the idea. As Yukon's energy, mines and resources minister, I have been doing all I can to ensure my constituents benefit from what will be the largest private sector project ever built. But the largest stumbling block to this project in Canada is Dhaliwal. Over the past four months, he has been rumbling about unfair subsidies and market distortions, and just this week proclaimed he's making a pilgrimage to Washington, D.C,. to ensure the Americans don't unfairly support this project. Unfortunately, Dhaliwal doesn't know what he is talking about. And he's risking more than 10,000 B.C. jobs every time he makes an anti-pipeline statement. The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are hammering out the details of proposed energy legislation right now. It is probable that the legislation will include incentives to boost continental oil and gas production, including Alaska gas. Canadian politicians should welcome those incentives. There is no cost to Canadians and no risk to Canadian reserves. If incentives for this project appear in the bill, the project will likely go ahead. If not, the project risks being shelved for another two decades. That's a long time to wait when tens of thousands of Canadian jobs are at stake. Still, Dhaliwal is telling the world that the proposed Senate provisions will distort the market and threaten to leave the Northwest Territory's Mackenzie Valley pipeline in limbo. TransCanada pipelines, a major player in both projects, disagrees. "People think, it seems, the U.S. support for the Alaska Highway project somehow imperils the Mackenzie Valley project," TransCanada CEO Hal Kvisle told a Yukon newspaper last week. "That's not the case, in our view." The Yukon government has always put its trust in private industry, and we continue to do so. So, when a company with a vested interest in the Mackenzie Valley project says there's no problem with the U.S. bill, we tend to agree. Yet, only days later, Dhaliwal was out in public threatening to use political means to block a project that would bring investment, jobs and economic clout to B.C. He is also ignoring Canada's long history of funneling government money into energy development. Hibernia, off the coast of Newfoundland, benefited from nearly $4 billion in subsidies from the Canadian government, nearly $2 billion of which was in straight cash infusions or loan guarantees. Alberta's tar sands project also received royalty relief during its first years of production. Even the Mackenzie Valley exploration that has created so much momentum for that proposed pipeline received help from the federal government through the Petroleum Incentives Program in the early 1980s. We believe that money was well spent. Getting energy products to market, especially clean alternatives like natural gas, is a massive task burdened by momentous risk. Before any company looks at throwing $20 billion down on the table to develop a resource, it needs to be certain no government is going to willfully block its efforts for political reasons. In short, every time Dhaliwal threatens permitting sanctions against this pipeline project, he is slowly burying one of the largest economic opportunities to come British Columbia's way in a long time. I suggest that the senior cabinet minister for British Columbia could do more for his constituents, if not his short-term political future, if he ensured his constituents benefited from this project. Scott Kent is the Yukon's minister of energy, mines and resources. 7-23
Updates: 00:10 ET.
Alaska Highway
Gas Pipeline Project Update. Last week, we alerted readers to the withdrawal by
certain pipeline companies from the memorandum of understanding applying
to the Alaska portion of the Alaska Natural Gas
Transportation System (ANGTS), operated by Foothills Pipe Lines, Ltd. This
Alaska segment is promoted by the Alaska Northwest Natural Gas Transportation
Company component of the project. Please
see our report on Duke Energy Company’s withdrawal here. After questioning
other parties, Peter Thomas (NGP Photo, 2-8-02), who heads up the
Williams Arctic Project Team, was kind enough to respond. “The Williams Arctic
Project Team has been working under a memorandum of understanding ("MOU") with
the other withdrawn partners in ANNGTC to develop the Alaska Natural Gas
Transportation System ("ANGTS") proposal for consideration of the Alaska North
Slope producers”, Thomas said last night. “Due to lack of progress in
discussions with the producers, and toward full resolution of the withdrawn
partners' historical issues, some of the parties to the MOU have provided
notification that they have withdrawn from this agreement.” We asked what
effect this action would have on Williams participation in commercialization of
Alaska North Slope gas. “In our opinion”, Thomas said, “the withdrawal of some
of the major parties to this MOU ends our formal association for the development
of the ANGTS project.” He said the company entered into the MOU
November 15, 2001. “The MOU
established key principles for re-enlisting in the Alaskan partnership to
construct the Alaskan portion of the Alaska Highway natural gas pipeline project
("ANGTS"). A key element of the MOU was that the current and re-enlisting
withdrawn parties were committed to eliminating historic and other commercial
barriers to construct the Alaska Highway pipeline project. Our consortium
immediately went to work updating the ANGTS project and presenting an updated
economic proposal to the producers. However, to date there has not been
sufficient 7-18 Updates: 01:30, 02:43, 11:14, 11:39, 13:09, 13:47, 14:35, 15:27, 16:04 ET. Thursday's breaking news-Northern Gas Pipelines learned this week that the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the "withdrawn partners" and the existing Alaska Northwest Natural Gas Transportation Company (ANNGTC) partnership has possibly been rendered ineffective due to the withdrawal of more than one of the participating parties. (Note: Please see our 11-15-01 report. Also, see related, recent developments.) For any companies withdrawing from the non-binding MOU, the action signals an end to their formal relationship in developing the ANNGTC project under the MOU. ANNGTC is the Alaska portion of the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System (ANGTS). In November 2001, a group of major energy firms - Williams, Duke Energy, Sempra, Enron, PG&E, El Paso, TransCanada Pipelines and Foothills Pipe Lines (at that time jointly owned by Westcoast Energy and TransCanada Pipelines (TCPL), and now Duke Energy and TransCanada Pipelines) signed a non-binding MOU related to the Alaska State portion of the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System. These signatories to the MOU included the current partners as well as the other partners who had previously withdrawn from the Alaskan Northwest Natural Gas Transportation Company, which holds the permits for this Alaskan segment of the system. Permits for the Canadian segment of the system are exclusive to Foothills (again jointly owned by Duke Energy and TransCanada). Duke Energy has notified the MOU parties of its intention to withdraw from the non-binding MOU because it did not achieve the objectives agreed to by the parties within the targeted time frame. "Duke Energy will continue to work with Alaska producers and other stakeholders to develop a successful Alaskan natural gas pipeline project", Wayne Soper, Senior Vice President, Governmental & Public Affairs for Duke Energy Gas Transmission said today in response to a query from Northern Gas Pipelines. Soper emphasized the following "key points" related to Duke's action:
While Northern Gas Pipelines has learned of other potential company withdrawals, no statements have been issued. When more information is made available it will be provided here. -dh |
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