This report was prepared to determine whether the Trans-Alaska Gas System (TAGS) is compatible with other pipelines, such as Trans-Alaska Pipeline System and the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System. Compatibility implies that construction, operation, and maintenance of TAGS will not interrupt or impair the operation and maintenance of these other pipelines in an unreasonable manner. The report is in response to Yukon Pacific Corporation's filing on December 5, 1986 for an amended right-of-way application for the construction of a pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to Port Valdez.

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