Search Results for: The Trans Alaska Pipeline Controversy

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 contro

Awarded the 1993 W. Turrentine Jackson Prize of the Western History Association, given for a professional historian's first book on "any aspect of the history o

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

In 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 f