Alaksa Natural Gas

DanHolohan

WAUGH!!!!

Greg Swob

Alaksa Natural Gas

Anyone catch 6o Minutes yesterday evening? An interesting
story of a major NG field in Prudoe (sp?) Bay area in which the NG is being forced back into the ground via compressor stations. Contoversy over alternate routes to pipe the gas to the Lower 48. One option was to tie into an existing field and pipe network in Northern Canada and join into existing and proposed pipelines to So. Canada and then to US. Alaska petitioned Congress to pass legislation to only look at a route paralleling the Alaska Pipeline at a much greater proposed cost to taxpayers (US, not just Alaskan). Anyone know other views of this issue to enlighten what gets misconstrued by the media? Thanks - Greg

Oh, yeah... almost forgot "WAUGH!"

Thanks for all who helped put on Wetstock III - it was my first and a most informative and enjoyable time. Greg

hot_rod

Try the Rocky Mountain Institute

www.rmi.org They watch subjects like this. Also www.solartoday.org has commented on this.

Search their archives.

hot rod

agodin

Alaska gas

Greg,
I think you have it backwards. We are asking to run the gas pipeline by the Alaska highway (Alcan) through Canada to the lower 48 (you guys). The cost of this route is more expensive than the route along the existing oil pipeline but will make the gas more competitivly priced.
We have allot of gas and oil here. The existing hole has been running down a 4 foot diamiter pipe 24/7 since 1977 and is still going. It has however been slowing down. We have so much gas that they have been using it to pump down in the ground to push more oil out. Imagine how big that hole is? There is also belived to be another big oil deposite in ANWAR but the seatate has kept voting no to drilling there. The environmentalist think it is a great wilderness area. The fact is there is no trees. If it is so great why isn't there a national park there? The fact is that there are so mant mosquetos there that you must and I mean must have a net over you. Call your seanator today and tell them to open it up to drilling or put a national park there so the mosquetos can enjoy you guys.

34 year Alaska resident.
Art

Greg Swob

The story I have is...

how 60 Minutes reported it, that is why I asked if anyone had a view not twisted by media. The 60 Minute report stated one proposal was to pipe NG parallel to the infamous Alaska Pipeline with a private group proposing to run a shorter distance across the Prudhoe Bay fields to a similar Canadian field (Mackenzie Bay?) via pipeline beneath the sea bed. This second and reportedly less costly proposal is being blackballed by Congress. The parallel route is espoused by your current governor "for the benefit of my constituents...". It is always to ask for more information, since the media has a tendency to twist issues. I plan to visit RMI site for more information and form my own opinion. Large NG fields have been discovered in a 'crystalline' crust layer of the Gulf of Mexico. A very high Btu methane bed is reportedly at hand there, but I am not aware of collection/ distribution difficulties. This could be a nice find, as there are major gas pipelines running from Texas to Chicago already and a vast network beyond them. Our older Kansas fields are in various stages of dwindling, yet other large NG finds remain presently untapped with reportedly higher Btu and less collection/ processing costs. Thanks - Greg