The report summarizes the final impact statement concerning the application from Alyeska Pipeline Service Company for a 48-inch oil pipeline right-of-way across Federal lands in Alaska between a point south of Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope and Port Valdez, a port on the south coast. Discussed is the environmental impact resulting from the construction, operation, and maintenance of the proposed oil pipeline system (including the accompanying haul road), of a gas transportation system of some kind, from oilfield development, and from operation of the proposed tanker system. Because of the scale and nature of the project, the impact would occur on abiotic, biotic, and socioeconomic components of the human environment far beyond the relatively small part (940 square miles out of 572,000 square miles of land area) of Alaska that would be occupied by the pipeline system and oilfield. (Author)
Proposed Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Volume I. Introduction and Summary
1971
412 pages
Report
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English