Word: alyeska
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...granddaddy of all garage sales is soon to occur in Alaska. With the completion of the great 800-mile Alyeska oil pipeline at last in sight, the builders are preparing to sell off the vast store of equipment accumulated in 2½ years of construction. Among the items for sale: 18,000 bulldozers, cranes and other pieces of heavy equipment; nearly 2,000 pickup trucks; 125 portable bridges; and from the 29 construction camps strung out along the line, 5,395 modular camp buildings fitted out as dormitories, kitchens, game rooms and offices and fully equipped right down...
...airborne assault-Alyeska President Bill Darch calls it a "commando raid"-on the pass could be stopped cold by a heavy snowfall. If it was, finishing touches on this last difficult part of the line would have to wait until about 30 ft. of snow melts late next spring...
...already been slowed by blizzards and sporadic work stoppages. As a result, concedes Darch, "we are not going to meet our goal of putting oil into the line next May." But "with a little luck," he insists, the oil will start to flow by the end of June, enabling Alyeska to begin loading tankers at the ice-free port of Valdez almost on schedule...
...early April when San Francisco Correspondent John Austin, swaddled in lay ers of arctic gear, stepped warily out of a warm airplane at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's oil-rich North Slope to begin reporting the story in the Nation section on the Alyeska pipeline project. Though the temperature was a nippy-50° F., old North Slope hands assured Austin he was enjoying unusually balmy spring weather. "Maybe so," he recalls, "but I didn't see any of them getting out the volleyball...
...mounted a complex legal attack on the Alaska pipeline. They won in court in 1973, and Congress included new environmental safeguards when it subsequently rewrote laws to allow the building of the pipeline. Because the groups had advanced "substantial public interests," the Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals ordered the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. to pay them legal fees that might have topped $100,000. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5 to 2 to kill the award. The decision carried a gloomy message to public interest lawyers: they can no longer look to the courts as a significant source...