Campaign

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has picked five new members for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC), fulfilling a campaign promise to increase and broaden the representation and pool of experience of the panel that oversees the state’s energy development.

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has picked five new members for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC), fulfilling a campaign promise to increase and broaden the representation and pool of experience of the panel that oversees the state’s energy development.

Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon — whose company recently helped bankroll a controversial anti-coal advertising campaign — has only nice things to say about natural gas. And he’s formed a new foundation and hired Denise Bode away from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) to help spread the gospel that North American gas is the answer to carbon dioxide-intensive power generation.

Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon — whose company recently helped bankroll a controversial anti-coal advertising campaign — has only nice things to say about natural gas. And he’s formed a new foundation and hired Denise Bode away from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) to help spread the gospel that North American gas is the answer to carbon dioxide-intensive power generation.

Scrambling to make up ground in opinion polls showing his gubernatorial campaign trailing the incumbent, California State Treasurer Phil Angelides Friday stood on a bluff in Malibu overlooking the Pacific Ocean and declared he is opposed to BHP Billiton’s proposal to build an offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal about a dozen miles out to sea.

A new Canadian subarctic exploration campaign is developing — closer to market than the contested Mackenzie Gas Project — after a group led by Husky Energy Inc. chalked up its second drilling success in the central Northwest Territories.

A new Canadian subarctic exploration campaign is developing — closer to market than the contested Mackenzie Gas Project — after a group led by Husky Energy Inc. chalked up its second drilling success in the central Northwest Territories.

Following up on the state Senate’s passage (14-6) of a 22.5% tax on oil and natural gas profits, Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski launched a campaign Tuesday to influence the state House to roll back the tax to his “20-20” plan or risk jeopardizing the deal he has made with major producers to build a $25 billion natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to the Lower 48.

ConocoPhillips has begun a television and print advertising campaign in Alaska that opposes the state’s plan to revise oil and natural gas taxes — less than a month after the oil major appeared to endorse the proposed legislation. The tax revision plan, proposed by Gov. Frank Murkowski, are part of a two-prong strategy to develop the long-awaited natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to the Lower 48 (see Daily GPI, Feb. 23).