Word: alaska
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...will pass over or under 800 streams and rivers, including the Yukon. It will rise 4,800 ft. into the Brooks Mountain Range, swoop down east of Fairbanks, rise 3,300 ft. in the Alaska Range, and eventually drop into half-million-bbl. storage tanks in Valdez to await loading on tankers. The trip will take a month, longer if trouble turns up. But if all goes well, an uninterrupted ribbon of oil-9 million bbl. just to fill the pipeline-should stretch across the Alaskan tundra by mid-July. The flow will be stepped up gradually, reaching...
Pipes Under Pipes. First proposed in 1969, more than a year after the Atlantic Richfield Co. (Arco) struck oil at Prudhoe Bay, the pipeline ran into one delaying tactic after another. Alaska's natives-Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians -pressed for and won a federal law guaranteeing them a share of the pipeline's riches. Environmentalists insisted that the wildest of America's frontiers be protected, its delicate balance of nature left undisturbed. Not until the spring of 1974 did the bulldozers start moving; they began then only because the Arab oil embargo pressured Congress into passing...
...line bristles with care for its surroundings. About half of the line is elevated, protecting Alaska's fragile permafrost from melting under the 180°F. temperature of the oil as it leaves the ground at Prudhoe. More than four miles of the underground sections are specially insulated. Refrigerated brine is pumped through pipes beneath the pipeline to protect the permafrost...
Four hundred underpasses and pathways over buried pipe are provided for migrating Alaskan wildlife. Some sectors of the pipe are flexible enough to withstand earthquakes that register 8.5 on the Richter scale-greater than the devastating 1964 Alaska quake that destroyed 30 blocks of downtown Anchorage. The entire system can be shut down in ten minutes if the pipeline breaks. A maximum of 50,000 bbl. can spill; valves at various intervals can be turned to stop the flow...
Camps for Sale. Last week the Justice Department complained to the ICC that the charges could be as much as $2 too high. If the commission orders a cut, it would benefit not the consumer but the state of Alaska. The consumer will probably wind up paying the same price as for imported oil, now $13.50 per bbl. If the pipeline tariff goes down, the companies that own the line can make up most of the difference by paying their producing subsidiaries a higher price at the wellhead to pump the oil out of the North Slope. And their arrangement...