Word: permafrost
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...five years they have been able to delay the building of the Alaska pipeline. Their arguments were that it would interfere with the sex habits of reindeer, damage the permafrost, pose a hazard because of the danger of earthquakes and, finally, that there might be oil spillage...
...Russians to measure 460 trillion cu. ft., or one-quarter more than all known deposits in the Middle East. Moscow announced last week that production had begun at the nearby field of Middle Vilyui, but it will not be easy to get the gas out. Yakutsk's Permafrost Institute is experimenting with new techniques to pipe gas and oil through the perennially frozen earth...
Under the agreement, the U.S. would contract to purchase some 2 billion cu. ft. of natural gas per day from the Urengoiskoye fields of north central Siberia. This gas will be piped 1,500 miles across permafrost to a warm-water port near Murmansk, where it will be liquefied and then transported by supertanker to the U.S. East Coast. At the same time, the U.S. agrees to purchase between 1.5 billion and 2.5 billion cu. ft. of gas per day from eastern Siberian fields near Yakutsk. This gas in turn will be transported by a U.S.-Japanese consortium...
...Department of Interior to delay construction until the land claims can be settled. Then there were the complaints that the pipeline would ravage Alaska's ecology. The pipeline would traverse three rugged mountain ranges, 23 rivers and three active earthquake zones. Much of the terrain is delicate permafrost, which could become a bog if its surface cover is disturbed...
...problems yet. We are not ready to grant a permit tomorrow." In a recent statement, the U.S. Interior Department declared that the alternate Canadian route would "serve mainly to shift the location of ecological problems rather than cure them." Both routes would disturb wildlife, and both confront permafrost. Hot oil, piped through this frozen ground, might melt the land around it, causing the pipe to sag and break-tarring huge areas with toxic crude...