THE EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL
  • Home
  • Thesis
  • Context
    • Supertankers
    • Alaskan Oil Drilling
  • Contributing Factors
    • Causes
  • Collision
    • Running Aground
    • Cleanup
  • Tragedy
    • Damaged Ecosystem
    • Native Americans
    • Economic Effects
  • Triumph
    • Environmentalism
    • A Regulatory Call to Action
    • Oil Pollution Act
  • Conclusion
  • Research

Alaskan Oil Drilling

 Background 
In 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries placed an embargo on importing oil to the US in retaliation for supporting  Israel in the Yom Kippur War. Oil prices and fear of oil shortages rose. President Nixon prioritized building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which several oil companies had sought to build since 1970.
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Oil Crisis, 1973, New Scientist.
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Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act Signing, 1973, Richard Nixon Foundation.
 Trans-Alaska Pipeline 
“The saga of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline is at once one of the most remarkable and regrettable of this decade. And in it there are lessons for us all.”  Morris K. Udall, July 1973, US Congress Testimony.
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Alaskan Oil Starts Flow in Pipeline, 1977, New York Times. 
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Sign Showing the Pipeline Route, n.d., Nan Miller Times.
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Trans-Alaska Pipeline Near Delta Junction, 2014, Anchorage Daily News.

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  • Home
  • Thesis
  • Context
    • Supertankers
    • Alaskan Oil Drilling
  • Contributing Factors
    • Causes
  • Collision
    • Running Aground
    • Cleanup
  • Tragedy
    • Damaged Ecosystem
    • Native Americans
    • Economic Effects
  • Triumph
    • Environmentalism
    • A Regulatory Call to Action
    • Oil Pollution Act
  • Conclusion
  • Research