Alaskan Oil Drilling
Background
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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. |
Alaskan Oil Starts Flow in Pipeline, 1977, New York Times.
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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