Statement analysing the impact of granting the right-of-way applications for an oil pipeline across U.S. federal lands in Alaska would have on the environment in accordance with the requirement of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

Statement analysing the impact of granting the right-of-way applications for an oil pipeline across U.S. federal lands in Alaska would have on the environment in accordance with the requirement of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

Statement analysing the impact of granting the right-of-way applications for an oil pipeline across U.S. federal lands in Alaska would have on the environment in accordance with the requirement of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

Statement analysing the impact of granting the right-of-way applications for an oil pipeline across U.S. federal lands in Alaska would have on the environment in accordance with the requirement of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

Originally published in 1972, this volume, supplemented extensively with maps and tables, and employing sophisticated institutional and empirical analyses, discusses a number of important issues relating to the viability of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the natural environment. The author concludes that exploiting North Slope oil was justifiable as a calculated risk, although an alternative route and transport mode to the Midwest of eastern market would be more attractive than TAP.

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