Comments on: Frozen Out of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline http://consumerenergyalliance.org/2010/01/frozen-out-of-the-trans-alaska-pipeline/ Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization created to help expand the dialogue between the energy and consuming sectors to improve understanding of energy security, more effectively develop and use both renewable and oil & gas energy resources in an environmentally conscious manner, create sound energy policy and maintain stable energy prices for consumers. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:55:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kathleen Koehler http://consumerenergyalliance.org/2010/01/frozen-out-of-the-trans-alaska-pipeline/comment-page-1/#comment-1724 Kathleen Koehler Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:31:45 +0000 http://consumerenergyalliance.org/?p=5912#comment-1724 Thank you for your comment on CEA’s blog. Please sign up as a CEA member here: http://campaign.consumerenergyalliance.org/forms/subscribe.html You’ll receive all of our latest press releases and our monthly newsletter. Thanks Thank you for your comment on CEA’s blog.

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]]> By: Wes Nason http://consumerenergyalliance.org/2010/01/frozen-out-of-the-trans-alaska-pipeline/comment-page-1/#comment-1680 Wes Nason Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:18:58 +0000 http://consumerenergyalliance.org/?p=5912#comment-1680 The TAPS throughput is dropping inexorably and if not supplemented, will one day reach a point where sustained operation of the pipeline is not viable. Environmental groups and their political allies in Washington, DC are doing all they can to ignore the promise made during the ANILCA compromise that Alaska's ANWR coastal plain would be opened to oil and gas exploration. The coastal plain is flat, windswept tundra similar to that in the Prudhoe Bay area and is about the size of the State of Connecticut. Despite the clean development of the Prudhoe, Kuparuk, and Alpine fields on the North Slope, the green lobby and their allies will never give up their hope to reneg on the ANILCA promise and to lock up the coastal plain forever. However if exploration were allowed and if oil reserves which are thought to exist were found, developed, and brought to market, the TAPS pipeline could have another 50 years of life and the economic activity created would provide a boon to Alaska and also provide much demand for supplies including pipe, equipment, and structural steel that would help the entire country's economy. The TAPS throughput is dropping inexorably and if not supplemented, will one day reach a point where sustained operation of the pipeline is not viable.

Environmental groups and their political allies in Washington, DC are doing all they can to ignore the promise made during the ANILCA compromise that Alaska’s ANWR coastal plain would be opened to oil and gas exploration. The coastal plain is flat, windswept tundra similar to that in the Prudhoe Bay area and is about the size of the State of Connecticut. Despite the clean development of the Prudhoe, Kuparuk, and Alpine fields on the North Slope, the green lobby and their allies will never give up their hope to reneg on the ANILCA promise and to lock up the coastal plain forever.

However if exploration were allowed and if oil reserves which are thought to exist were found, developed, and brought to market, the TAPS pipeline could have another 50 years of life and the economic activity created would provide a boon to Alaska and also provide much demand for supplies including pipe, equipment, and structural steel that would help the entire country’s economy.

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