The trans-Alaska pipeline controversy: Technology, conservation, and the frontier
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline was the object of perhaps the most passionately fought conservation battle in the U.S. Although numerous authors documented the pipeline construction during its construction, there is, surprisingly, no previous scholarly treatment of this event written by an historian. Coates is an environmental historian who views the most interesting aspect of the controversy to be [open quote]its relationship to earlier engineering projects and technological innovations in Alaska and the debates that accompanied them.[close quotes] Thus, he describes how the conservationist and environmental ideas arose during numerous earlier major Alaskan projects and controversies, including the Alaska Highway (1938-41), Canol Pipeline (1943-45), exploration of Naval Petroleum Reserve Number Four (Pet 4, 1944-1953), DEWline (1953-57), oil development in the Kenai National Moose Range (1957-58), statehood (1958), the creation of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge (1960), Project Chariot (1958-63), and Rampart Dam (1959-67). The history starts with the acquisition of Alaska in 1867 and finishes about the time of the Valdez oil spill in 1989.
- OSTI ID:
- 6681504
- Journal Information:
- Arctic and Alpine Research (Boulder, Colorado); (United States), Vol. 24:4; Other Information: From review by D.A. Walker, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, in Arctic and Alpine Research, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Nov 1992); ISSN 0004-0851
- Publisher:
- Bethlehem, PA (United States); Lehigh Univ. Press
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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