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Others agree that conservationist demands often seem unreasonable in an Alaskan context. "As long as they stuck to protecting the environment, the Sierra Club was a very worthwhile organization," says Chuck Evans, vice president of the First National Bank of Anchorage. "But when they start attacking progress and profit, they're out of their realm." One bumper sticker puts it more crudely: "Let the bastards freeze in the dark...
...supporters see it, the trans-Alaskan pipeline would be a veritable lifeline, bringing the vast oil riches (10 billion barrels) of the North Slope to an energy-starved U.S. To its foes, the 789-mile pipe is a monster that could leak and pollute the Arctic wilderness...
...lawyers are working on a wide range of other cases, including a suit to force the Federal government to build more schools for Alaskan Eskimos...
Adelman said he thought the crisis would last at least until 1985. He expressed confidence, however, that decreased demand for imports, as the result of an Alaskan pipeline and evaluation of environmental costs of energy, would end the shortages after that time...
SAMOTLOR, beneath the 100-sq.-mi. Lake Samotlor, is believed to be the world's richest single oil deposit, comparable in potential to the entire Alaskan North Slope. When fully developed, it will have more than 3,000 producing wells. Despite cold so extreme that steel becomes brittle and brake fluids freeze, Soviet drilling and construction crews are expanding production at a rate previously achieved only in Libya...