Word: alaska
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...compared with 358 million in 1979. In addition, the U.S. so far this year has been importing 19.4% less foreign oil than in 1979. Domestic drilling activity is also at an alltime high, as wildcatters dig wells in the prairies of Wyoming and off the coast of Alaska...
...million cu. ft. of gas per day. Geologist Richard Powers estimates that as much as 15.5 billion bbl. of oil and 62.5 trillion cu. ft. of gas lie beneath Wyoming, Idaho and northeastern Utah-a resource larger than the proven reserves on Alaska's North Slope. By 1982 Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America will have finished an oil pipeline from Wyoming to Nebraska. Says one of Amoco's production chiefs, James Vanderbeek: "So far, we've only scratched the surface...
...conservation decision of the century." At stake were more than 100 million acres of virgin forest, magnificent mountains and prospective oilfields in the country's largest state. The future of Alaskan lands was also one of the most contentious environmental questions of the day. Conservationists maintained that Alaska's timbered coastline and tundra needed strong federal protection. Developers and businessmen, supported by Alaska's top elected officials, argued that the Federal Government should not lock up virgin land before its soil and mineral wealth could be assessed. After almost four years of warfare over how to balance...
...measure is a masterpiece of compromise. The House originally approved a bill in 1979, sponsored by Arizona Democrat Morris Udall, chairman of the House Interior Committee, that would have protected 127.5 million acres, about one-third of Alaska's land, an area larger than California and Maine combined. The bill was favored by many environmentalists, but it was blocked by Democratic Senator Mike Gravel, who wanted to ensure future development in his state...
...largest caribou herds in the U.S. Of this land, 56.7 million acres have been designated as wilderness where logging, mining and motorized vehicles will be outlawed. The rest of the land will be open to some development, but only under stringent environmental safeguards. Out of Alaska's total of 377 million acres only 8% of the land will be completely closed to hunting, 20% to oil and gas exploration, and 34% to mining...