The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy

Author: Peter A. Coates

Publisher: Lehigh University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780934223102

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In 1977 oil began to flow south from the Arctic through the controversial Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). This study considers the TAPS proposal and controversy as an extension (even a culmination) of established processes, policies, and attitudes within Alaska history, American environmental history, and the history of conservation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Walking My Dog Jane

Walking My Dog Jane

Author: Ned Rozell

Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 8

ISBN-13: 0882405942

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WALKING MY DOG, JANE is Rozell's tribute to his adopted state and to the travel partner who carried Rozell's heart, and her own backpack, during a summer spent outdoors walking the 800-mile length of the trans-Alaska pipeline.


800 Miles to Valdez

800 Miles to Valdez

Author: James P. Roscow

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13:

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The actual building of the line is described and the controversial issues of environmental impact, timing, planning and accountability are discussed.


Amazing Pipeline Stories

Amazing Pipeline Stories

Author: Dermot Cole

Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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In the 1970s, the world's largest construction companies invaded Alaska in a wild rush to build the 800-mile $8 billion trans-Alaska pipeline. Workers by the tens of thousands headed north, hoping to make their fortunes working on the pipeline, in a stampede that dramatically affected Alaska. With the avalanche of big money and new arrivals came new problems: drugs, prostitution, gambling, and violent crime. Rapid economic and social changes ultimately touched the lives of virtually every Alaskan. Journalist Dermot Cole, dean of the Alaska press corps, recalls the best of the pipeline stories with humor, authenticity, and drama.


The Alaska Pipeline

The Alaska Pipeline

Author: Mary Clay Berry

Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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A comprehensive history of the native claims settlement act and the legislation that authorized the trans-Alaska pipeline.


Faith and Oil

Faith and Oil

Author: K. L. Marshall

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-04-24

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1725256681

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Faith and Oil tells the story of conservative Christianity's relationship with America's oil industry. It shows how the libertarian values of big oil companies--such as government deregulation of business practices and curbing laws that protect the environment--became embedded within the theologies of the Religious Right. These theologies of oil later found their being in the public consciousness through the rise of Sarah Palin and led to the election of Donald Trump.


Little Did We Know

Little Did We Know

Author: John R. Miller

Publisher: Arbordale LLC

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780988548701

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Little Did We Know tells the remarkable story of the Trans Alaska Pipeline through the eyes of John Miller, who shouldered responsibility for financing Sohio’s portion of the Alaskan venture that transformed the company from a small, regional oil refiner and marketer into the fifteenth largest US industrial corporation. TAPS, as the pipeline is known, carries crude oil 800 miles from the Prudhoe Bay field on the North Slope of Alaska to the ice-free port of Valdez on the state’s southern coast. Building the pipeline—one of the largest private industrial projects ever undertaken—was an incredible feat of engineering, and for Sohio, of financing. This is a saga about an engineer with no formal training in finance surmounting an onslaught of financial challenges, raising more than $6 billion over a decade—something many thought was well beyond Sohio’s capabilities.


Cinch Knot

Cinch Knot

Author: Ron Walden

Publisher: Publication Consultants

Published: 2015-01-05

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 159433532X

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Pipeline security guard, Dan Webster, and pump station technician, Gwen Stevens, discover a nuclear device inside an ultrasonic inspection pig, and are convinced it is a part of a sinister conspiracy involving the pipeline. They discover a multinational plot, Cinch Knot, masterminded by influential oil and shipping leaders to restrict the flow of oil by nuking the pipeline and driving the price of oil upward. Thus, the fate of the Alaska oil pipeline, Valdez, pristine, Prince William sound, and economic stability of the world, as well as the lives of thousands of people are threatened unless the bomb is disarmed and the schemers are stopped. Fast moving -- Cinch Knot's 200 pages takes the reader on an intriguing international chase to stop the scheme, and to the story's surprise ending.