Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline, Sarah Palin, and John McCain

Various | August 29, 2008 | vanity

[topher]

https://uascentral.uas.alaska.edu/onlinelib/Spring-2008/ALST600-JD1/Menge_GasPresentation_May10.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Natural_Gas_Pipeline

http://www.ferc.gov/industries/gas/indus-act/angtp.asp

Basically, the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline has been fumbled about for a few years now.

Work is finally started on it, and legislation appears to be passed on it. It is a coup for the state of Alaska, but it is also a coup for the Western United States as well the Plains states and Northern Midwest (Minnesota and Wisconsin).

If one can imagine getting 45 billion cubic feet of natural gas to the lower 48 each day, one has an idea of the benefit of this project.

Because of our dependence on foreign oil, I would have promoted the idea of the Federal Government helping with the funding (which it may or may not of).

I would be interested what role Sarah Palin played and how this might play out for the campaign of John McCain.

45 BCF is no small amount of natural gas to be produced daily -- that addes up to: 45 x 365 = 16.425 TCF a year (or trillion cubic feet).

Currently the same energy potential of Natural Gas is 1/2 the cost of oil. Gasoline cars can become hybrid cars that run on both gasoline and natural gas (Toyota markets such a car).

Electric power generation can be done cleaner with natural gas over coal, though coal is cheaper and there is significant work to make coal cleaner.

It is even possible to run diesels on natural gas, but there is a problem of soot generation from natural gas (can that be overcame?)

There are a number of large fields in Alaska that natural gas production can be linked to besides the North Slope and ANWR...

[topher]

Seems that discussion about this will be a plus for the McCain-Palin ticket. I imagine that Sarah is a Domestic Energy champion -- an image that will appeal to many Americans...

[topher]

Do you have more recent info on the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline. It appears to finally be moving forward...

[topher]

The Wikipedia link I someone broke:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Natural_Gas_Pipeline

[Salvation]

 

 

Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.

U. S. Senate

U. S. House of Representatives

Send Nancy’s email to:

http://www.speaker.gov/contact/

[Smokin' Joe]

This makes the use of Natural Gas as a motor fuel a very real possibility, without causing an economically lethal price rise due to added demand on current supplies, one of the biggest problems. here

[topher]

I misquoted in the article. It should be a processing plant that handles 4.5 bcf a day, not 45 bcf.

Corrected, the article should read:

If one can imagine getting 4.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas to the lower 48 each day, one has an idea of the benefit of this project.

...

45 BCF is no small amount of natural gas to be produced daily -- that addes up to: 45 x 365 = 1.6425 TCF a year (or trillion cubic feet).

The US currently uses 22 tcf (trillion cubic feet) a year).

But this pipeline would provide for an additional facility for LNG (liquifying the Natural Gas for transport).

The project is important as it would deliver Natural Gas to the Northern part of the West Coast and to the Chicago, Illinois Natural Gas hub...

[thackney]

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/news-63797.html

August 27, 2008, Anchorage, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin today signed House Bill 3001, authorizing the state to award an AGIA license allowing TransCanada Alaska to start developing a 1,715-mile natural gas pipeline from a treatment plant at Prudhoe Bay to the Alberta Hub in Canada. The Governor signed the bill at the Alaska AFL-CIO’s biennial convention.

For project info, see: http://www.transcanada.com/company/alaska_pipeline_project.html