The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy
Title | The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy PDF eBook |
Author | Peter A. Coates |
Publisher | Lehigh University Press |
Total Pages | 456 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780934223102 |
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
Amazing Pipeline Stories
Title | Amazing Pipeline Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Dermot Cole |
Publisher | Epicenter Press (WA) |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
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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.
Wildcat Women
Title | Wildcat Women PDF eBook |
Author | Carla Williams |
Publisher | University of Alaska Press |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2018-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1602233543 |
Subzero temperatures, whiteout blizzards, and even the lack of restrooms didn’t deter them. Nor did sneers, harassment, and threats. Wildcat Women is the first book to document the life and labor of pioneering women in the oil fields of Alaska’s North Slope. It profiles fourteen women who worked in the fields, telling a little-known history of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. These trailblazers conquered their fears to face hazardous working and living conditions, performing and excelling at “a man’s job in a man’s world.” They faced down challenges on and off the job: they drove buses over ice roads through snowstorms; wrestled with massive pipes; and operated dangerous valves that put their lives literally in their hands; they also fought union hall red tape, challenged discriminatory practices, and fought for equal pay—and sometimes won. The women talk about the roads that brought them to this unusual career, where they often gave up comfort and convenience and felt isolated and alienated. They also tell of the lifelong friendships and sense of family that bonded these unlikely wildcats. The physical and emotional hardship detailed in these stories exemplifies their courage, tenacity, resilience, and leadership, and shows how their fight for recognition and respect benefited woman workers everywhere.
800 Miles to Valdez
Title | 800 Miles to Valdez PDF eBook |
Author | James P. Roscow |
Publisher | Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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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.
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy in Historical Perspective
Title | The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy in Historical Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Allan Coates |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 732 |
Release | 1988* |
Genre | Conservation of natural resources |
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Journeys Down the Line
Title | Journeys Down the Line PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Douglas Mead |
Publisher | Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | 632 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Trans-Alaska Pipeline (Alaska). |
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The 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.
In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez
Title | In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez PDF eBook |
Author | Art Davidson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Transportation |
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