{"id":437,"date":"2010-03-08T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=437"},"modified":"2010-11-17T16:27:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T01:27:32","slug":"energy-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Energy Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I attended the Energy Council\u2019s annual meeting in Washington D.C.\u00a0 The meetings were a great forum for discussing energy policy with some of the most knowledgeable people in the world on these issues.\u00a0 The Energy Council is a legislative organization with representatives from 12 states, 6 provinces, and the country of Venezuela.\u00a0 The conference provides an opportunity to introduce policy-makers to issues important to Alaska.\u00a0 While in Washington, I discussed construction of a Natural Gas Pipeline and the <a href=\"http:\/\/kcaw.org\/modules\/local_news\/media\/pictures\/97intertiesystemplan.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Southeast Alaska Intertie<\/a> with federal energy regulators at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ferc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">FERC<\/a>.\u00a0 I also met with Alaska\u2019s Congressional Delegation to get their perspective on federal policy with regard to Alaska.\u00a0 The conference featured several presentations that offer insight for Alaska such as Shale Gas development, Clean Coal technology, and <a href=\"http:\/\/fossil.energy.gov\/programs\/reserves\/npr\/Heavy_Oil_Fact_Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Heavy Oil<\/a> production.\u00a0 I\u2019ve served on the Energy Council\u2019s executive committee for four years and consider legislators\u2019 work on the conference a key part of our efforts to develop Alaska\u2019s energy resources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Click <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Stedman_Energy-Council.mp3\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em> to\u00a0listen to\u00a0Senator Stedman&#8217;s statement on Energy Council<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I attended the Energy Council\u2019s annual meeting in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,20,18,9],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bert-stedman","tag-energy-council","tag-gas-pipeline","tag-southeast-intertie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}