1. Secretary Morton's Mistake: Which Pipeline?
- Author
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Hobbie, Barbara and Mancke, Richard B.
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PETROLEUM pipelines , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *ENVIRONMENTALISTS , *OIL consumption , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy ,TRANS-Alaska Pipeline (Alaska) - Abstract
Focuses on problems related to the approval of the construction of a trans-Alaskan oil pipeline by U.S. Interior Secretary Rogers B. Morton. Reasons for the delay in the construction of the pipeline; Objections of environmentalists to the construction of the pipeline; Sources that are capable to supply crude oil to the U.S.; Significance of the Alaskan oil for the U.S.; Views that the environmentalists' objections to the Alaskan pipeline arise from fears that wildlife life-cycle and migration patterns will be disrupted; Opinion that this project has been planned in order to satisfy petroleum thirst of the U.S.
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- 1972