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...Goddamn Fragile Tundra...
...provide remote-control shut-off valves along the route. In addition, they must respect the ecology of the areas the pipe crosses. However, their plans call for burying 90% of the pipeline in the permafrost, while the Geological Survey wants about 50% of it raised on stilts over the tundra. Until the differences can be worked out, Hickel says, work on the pipeline will not begin...
...should "bypass the traditional political process." Interior Secretary Walter Hickel, in a display of candor if not superior timing, told an Alaska Earth Day audience that a controversial 800-mile hot oil pipeline will be built from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, despite concern that it will endanger fragile tundra along the way. The Administration holds that it has already established a strong ecological program, but the Commerce Department chose Earth Day to announce the granting of a permit for Hawaiian Independent Refining Inc. to build a 29,500-barrel-a-day oil refinery on 120 acres near Honolulu...
...Tundra study concentrates on what modern man can do to preserve the especially fragile arctic environment around Alaska's oil-rich North Slope...
...Paris, to make drawings from which a grimly authentic set could be built. Then he took his all-male, largely English cast to a location in Norway 200 miles north of Oslo, where the topography, light conditions and bitter climate closely resemble those of Siberia. On that inhuman tundra, Wrede is trying to capture on film Solzhenitsyn's minutely detailed study of man's stubborn endurance in a world of inhumanity...