Why the pipeline Pipeline construction across eight hundred miles of Alaska required more than just pipe. The line included twelve pumping stations, and a new tanker port at Valdez. The pipeline project employed tens of thousands of people. It required the construction of the Dalton Highway. And it cost $8 billion dollars. Thirty- two people …
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Oil Under Prudhoe Bay
Oil, pooled deep under Prudhoe Bay, offered the greatest Alaska treasure of all. Men had come to Alaska for furs and fish and for Gold. In 1968 men came for oil, and they found one of the top 20 oil fields ever discovered anywhere in the world. More on recent Alaska history Problem. Prudhoe …