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...spokesman for Kennecott Copper Corp., which has made the highest-grade copper strike ever in Alaska, sounded an even more alarming note. Said he: "Withdrawals of public lands have reached such proportions that our national security already may be jeopardized." Oil companies, already drilling on Alaska's North Slope, want a chance at least to prospect the potential parklands, and loggers are casting avid eyes on Alaska's timber resources...
...delivered in soft Southern tones, they were blunt and stark. If the world's use of oil continues at present rates, he predicted, demand will exceed international production by the early 1980s. Just to stay even would require "the production of a new Texas every year, an Alaskan North Slope every nine months or a new Saudi Arabia every three years...
Fitzgibbons also birdied the par five 14th with a salvo of four flawless shots. He cleared the water hazard that guards the 14th green on his second shot, a 4-iron he caught flush, but the ball kicked off the slope of the green and he needed a chip and a putt for his birdie...
...Republic of Technology the experience of the present actually uproots us and separates us from our own special time and place. For technology aims to dilute and immunize us against the peculiar chances, perils and opportunities of our natural climate, our raw landscape. The snowmobile makes a steep mountain slope or the tongue of a glacier just another highway. Our America has been blessed by a myriad variety of landscapes. But whether we are on the mountaintop, in the desert, on shipboard, in our automobile or an airplane, we are protected from the climate, the soil, the sand, the snow...
...other concessions in the Middle East and North Africa might be nationalized too?in fact several of them have been?BP's management foresightedly stepped up the search for oil in politically friendly (though environmentally frigid) climates, from the North Sea to the Labrador shores and Alaska's North Slope. The company began buying leases in Alaska as early as 1959, and brought in a North Sea gas field in 1965. BP's competent but colorless management has never been strong on marketing, preferring to sell crude in bulk. For all its 23,000 gas stations in Europe...