WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski on Friday met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (AH-bey) and other top Japanese officials to discuss opportunities to send Alaskan natural gas to his country to meet Japan’s growing energy needs.
U.S. Sen. Mark Begich criticized Republican and Democratic leaders as well as President Obama last night for a lack of leadership and failure to produce a balanced deficit reduction plan that would prevent the ‘sequestration’, or automatic budget cuts, that are set to go into effect this Friday.
Washington, DC – Alaska Governor Sean Parnell, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, and Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources Doug Domenech, on behalf of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, met on Friday to discuss progress being made on a revenue sharing proposal for energy development in the outer continental shelf (OCS), and other […]
While pleased with the clear confirmation to allow pipeline construction to safely and economically carry offshore oil and gas from the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, U.S. Sen. Mark Begich today remained disappointed with the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) final decision on a development plan for the National Petroleum Reserve (NPR-A), citing dismissal of local […]