Parnell: “For the first time, Alaska has three major producers aligned and working together, with a pipeline company, on an Alaska gasline.

Members of my administration and I have undertaken an aggressive advocacy campaign throughout Asia, where liquefied natural gas demand is expected to soar in the coming years. Our goal was to put Alaska on the map as a liquefied natural gas supplier – and that is exactly what we have done.

We recently welcomed a South Korea delegation representing the largest LNG purchaser in the world. We also held discussions with a consortium of Japanese companies.”

Why are we spending state money setting up infrastructure for Conoco to make more money in Asia?

It they have been selling so much, why haven’t we seen an increase in the state funds, not a decrease. Maybe Parnell is giving too much away in tax credits?

Tuns out they stopped auditing the incoming funds under Parnell. Red Flag anyone?

Parnell then goes on to explain he has no idea what is really going on with the gas line that cost 7 Billion…

“On one path, the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation – better known as AGDC – has pursued a small diameter line. The project has cleared major regulatory hurdles by obtaining a State right of way and completing an environmental impact study – all key steps forward.

As AGDC has moved beyond these regulatory hurdles, it has also moved toward a larger diameter pipe. By switching to a larger pipe concept, AGDC has provided a simple answer to a complex question about how to lower the cost of getting Alaska’s gas to Alaskans: Get more gas in the pipe.”

They were not trying to increase the amount of gas, they said there was an influx of gas so they are increasing the diameter of the pipe because it is cheaper, lower pressure fittings are cheaper, and they don’t need to ship so much gas because the lower 48 is ‘awash with natural gas’ They are still spending the same amount even though the parts and fittings are much cheaper.

“Carrying natural gas liquids such as ethane, propane and butane was previously considered desirable because they could be sold at a premium and used to lower the price of gas to Alaskans, said Frank Richards, the pipeline engineering manager for the Alaska Gasline Development Corp.

“Now we see that the world is awash in natural gas liquids,” he said in a presentation to a legislative committee Dec. 20.

More shale gas has meant a glut of NGLs in the U.S. market, with prices falling by 60 percent.

Eliminating them from an in-state pipeline would allow the project to be built with industry-standard 36-inch pipe rather than 25-inch pipe, Richards said. Pressure could be lowered from 25,000 pound per square inch, which requires premium fittings, pipe and valves, to 1,480 pounds per square inch. Lower pressure means a safer line and more takeout points, Richards said.

The projected cost remains roughly the same — $7.7 billion”

Either Parnell is lying, or really stupid, but either way it is clearly very easy to pull the wool over his eyes. They are saving billions meanwhile telling him they will get more gas through the pipelilne. And his focus is building gas lines everywhere. We better nip this idiocy in the bud before he wastes our entire state treasury.

At the public meeting on east end road drilling, Buccaneer had a map showing they intended on drilling behind everyone’s property all the way to Greer.

Now, it’s important to realize there is no government protection for local homeowners. Buccaneer promised they would truck in their water then went ahead and got water drilling rights from the government, after having lied to us. They will frack, and they will get away with anything they want with this corporate run government so please, look out for your friends and family and get informed and stop this company from infringing on all of our rights.

Please read:

EPA censors damaging fracking study in Texas after oil company protests.

When a man in a Fort Worth suburb reported his family’s drinking water had begun bubbling like champagne, the federal government sounded an alarm: An oil company may have tainted their wells while drilling for natural gas.

At first, the Environmental Protection Agency believed the situation was so serious that it issued a rare emergency order in late 2010 that said at least two homeowners were in immediate danger from a well saturated with flammable methane. More than a year later, the agency rescinded its mandate and refused to explain why.

Now a confidential report obtained by The Associated Press and interviews with company representatives show that the EPA had scientific evidence against the driller, Range Resources, but changed course after the company threatened not to cooperate with a national study into a common form of drilling called hydraulic fracturing. Regulators set aside an analysis that concluded the drilling could have been to blame for the contamination.

The only reason we wanted natural gas was to reduce costs to 1/3, because natural gas is everywhere and dirt cheap.

Now the plan is, we pay for infrastructure, then we will be expected to pay extra high prices because we are ‘running out’

Meanwhile Buccaneer sells their natural gas to an undisclosed buyer at double the cost. Coincidentally Asia pays double the cost for our natural gas. The are clearly selling to Asia while saying we are running out. It’s our natural gas!

Why then, do Alaskans pay through state government for infrastructure so a foreign company like Buccaneer can make double the cost selling our resources to Asia? Then to insult our intelligence and say we are running out and we have to import it?! Or demand our locals put up with incompetents stealing and poisoning their water, possibly contaminating the air and killing livestock, so they can drill baby drill wherever they want. Then they will still turn around and sell it to Asia because they are paying double.

Just how stupid do corporations think we are? I for one am sick of the lies, and tired of them being perpetuated without logic or common sense.

We can all see what is coming, pay for all the infrastructure, then still charge us a fortune. They are already telling us they what they are planning by perpetuating the ‘running out’ false scarcity lie.

Property owners have until 5 p.m. Jan. 25 to voice objections to the SAD. Forms or letters are due at the City Clerk’s office by that time.

Counted objections include 288 parcels. It would take 1,928 to object before the SAD is to be set aside