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Author: Robert Douglas Mead
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 632
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe building of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline, its impact on the Alaskan economy, and its environmental and social effects on the land, the people, and the wildlife along its path.
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
Author: Dermot Cole
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 228
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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.
Author: Stan Cohen
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780933126718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Clay Berry
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive history of the native claims settlement act and the legislation that authorized the trans-Alaska pipeline.
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.
Author: James P. Roscow
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 254
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe actual building of the line is described and the controversial issues of environmental impact, timing, planning and accountability are discussed.
Author: Ron Walden
Publisher: Publication Consultants
Published: 2015-01-05
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 159433532X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPipeline 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.
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.
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.
