The Great Alaska Pipeline
Author: Stan Cohen
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780933126718
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The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy
Author: Peter A. Coates
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780934223102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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
Author: Ned Rozell
Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 8
ISBN-13: 0882405942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWALKING 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.
Amazing Pipeline Stories
Author: Dermot Cole
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
800 Miles to Valdez
Author: James P. Roscow
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe actual building of the line is described and the controversial issues of environmental impact, timing, planning and accountability are discussed.
Extreme Conditions
Author: John Strohmeyer
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781888125207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Nothing has changed Alaska as swiftly or as traumatically as the discovery of oil. In Extreme Conditions: Big Oil and the Transformation of Alaska, Pulitzer Prize-winner John Strohmeyer writes a riveting account of how it all happened. From the icy North waters, Strohmeyer takes the reader to the inside world of post-oil Alaska and shows what tumultuous changes--for good and bad--this gusher of money and influx of people have had upon America's last great frontier. The enduring relevance of this work makes it indispensable reading in understanding the current tensions among environmentalists, businesses, and Natives that characterize Alaska today."--Back Cover.
Little Did We Know
Author: John R. Miller
Publisher: Arbordale LLC
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780988548701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLittle 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.
Faith and Oil
Author: K. L. Marshall
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2020-04-24
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1725256681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFaith 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.
Breaking Ice for Arctic Oil
Author: Ross Coen
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2012-04-15
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1602231702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1969, an icebreaking tanker, the SS Manhattan, was commissioned by Humble Oil to transit the Northwest Passage in order to test the logistical and economic feasibility of an all-marine transportation system for Alaska North Slope crude oil. Proposed as an alternative to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the Manhattan made two voyages to the North American Arctic and collected volumes of scientific data on ice conditions and the behavior of ships in ice. Although the Manhattan successfully navigated the Northwest Passage—closing a five-hundred-year chapter of Arctic exploration by becoming the first commercial vessel to do so—the expedition ultimately demonstrated the impracticality of moving crude oil using icebreaking ships. Breaking Ice for Arctic Oil details this historic voyage, establishing its significant impact on the future of marine traffic and resource development in the Arctic and setting the stage for the current oil crisis.
Teaching at the Top of the World
Author: Marilyn Forrester
Publisher: Publication Consultants
Published: 2010-02-01
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1594331758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarilyn Forrester arrived in Alaska in 1977 with a goal of striking it rich by being a welder on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. With her traumatic divorce behind her, a new English degree, return airline ticket, and $200 in her pocket, she was ready for adventure. However, she didn’t do welding, but had unique and exciting adventures as she worked for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company in Anchorage, at Pump Station Five, and later at Prudhoe Bay. While working at Prudhoe Bay, she applied for a teaching position at Alaska Business College, and was immediately hired. Marilyn discovered she loved teaching and learning! After many humorous predicaments, she was hired at the Bush village of Napaskiak. As a teacher, Marilyn has a deep love for children that shines through in Teaching at the Top of the World. Sometimes Marilyn reflected, “And they are even paying me to do this job.” She became an advocate for her Special Education students. Her many adventures include being lost in a whiteout while walking home from school, showering without soap and drying with Kleenex, and golfing in the Nome Bering Sea Tournament. Teaching at the Top of the World chronicles the joys and hardships of living and teaching in remote Alaska. Perhaps she really did strike it rich—she affected the lives of hundreds of children.Marilyn was one of the writers featured in Alaska Women Write, a collection of stories about adventurous Alaska women.
