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Alaska and oil
* " Native Experience " A four part television documentary series about the impact of oil and mineral development on the Native cultures of Alaska, dealing in particular with the historical background leading up to ANCSA and the experiences, memories and perceptions of both natives involved in the lands claim and their descendants today in rural Alaska.
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled of crude oil.
A Russian sea captain noted oil seeps along the shore of the Cook Inlet as early as 1853, and oil drilling began in 1898 in a number of locations along the southern coast of Alaska.
* 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $ 15 billion in damages.
* 1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills of petroleum after running aground.
At nearby Valdez, ( also in Alaska ), the U. S. Coast Guard ordered all tankers filling up with oil to head out to sea.
According to author, Douglas Brinkley, President Harding came to the most northern U. S. territory in order to " open up Alaska lands " for oil, mining, and timber development and industry.
Harding also sensed the importance of oil in terms of national security and prosperity, signing an executive order that gave the U. S. a giant oil reserve in Alaska.
* July 28 – The first oil through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System reaches Valdez, Alaska.
* March 13 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $ 1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
* In July 2008, the NRDC and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. launched a direct mail campaign to encourage citizens to voice opposition to Shell Oil's exploration for oil off the Alaska coast.
For example, when BP needed to observe oil spills, they operated the Aeryon Scout UAV under a COA granted to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
* 1928 – Texaco becomes the first U. S. oil company to sell its gasoline nationwide under one single brand name in all 48 states ( 50 states after Alaska and Hawaii joined the Union in 1959 ).
Aegis Oil operates Aegis 1, an oil refinery and several oil rigs in Alaska.
As an epilogue, Taft, far from being arrested for sabotage and multiple murders ( self defense ), is asked to deliver a speech at the Alaska State Capitol about the dangers of oil pollution, and the companies that are endangering the ecosystem.
Growth accelerated remarkably after the construction of the Alaska Pipeline in 1977, the state budget being flush with oil revenues ; Juneau expanded for a time due to growth in state government jobs, but that growth slowed considerably in the 1980s.
The high prices were considered ironic considering that Alaska is one of the main suppliers of oil in the United States, but have the highest state average due to scattered villages throughout Alaska such as Lime Village making it difficult to transport oil and other goods.

Alaska and production
The series of taxes levied on oil production in Alaska has changed several times since 1977, but the overall form remains mostly the same.
Alaska receives royalties from oil production on state land.
The state also has a property tax on oil production structures and transportation ( pipeline ) property — the only state property tax in Alaska.
This is partly because it took several years to reach full production and partly because U. S. production outside Alaska declined until the mid-1980s.
Places such as the Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska, Iceland, California, and Nevada have geothermal reservoirs closer to the Earth ’ s surface, making its production cost-effective.
Subsequently, production of Alaska pollock surimi declined and was supplemented by surimi production using other species.
Kojima also considered Alaska as the site of the film production, due to the game's setting in the state.
Hastings is the chairman of the United States House Committee on Natural Resources and is a proponent of increasing domestic production of oil and gas, including drilling in the remote Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
With the United States entry into World War I, he was transferred to Alaska to oversee lumber production.
Between 1969 and 1983, he held a variety of exploration and production posts in Anchorage, Alaska, New York, San Francisco, London and Canada.
An American production, it relocated the events to Alaska and referred to Johnson's character merely as " Trapper ", or in the theme song, " Trapper Man ".
In some regions, including the Pacific Northwest United States, Canada, and Alaska, AMC Eagles are still abundant and in service and available for sale after over 20 years since production ceased.
The largest spawning grounds in Asia are located on the Kamchatka Peninsula of the Russian Far East, especially on the Ozernaya River of the Kurile Lake, which accounts for nearly 90 % of all Asian sockeye salmon production and is recognized as the largest spawning ground outside of Alaska.
What sparked the sudden interest for this phenomenon was the discovery of oil near Alaska ’ s northern coastlines, and two related factors ( Weeks 2010, p. 391 ): 1 ) the prospect that oilfields could abound in these waters, and 2 ) a consideration that pipelines would be involved in future production developments, as this appeared to be the most practical approach to bring this resource to the land.
Though the role is an extra, Allen Eyles's The World of Oz features a production still crediting the role to Cherie Hawkins, who later served for a time on the staff of the theatre department at University of Alaska Anchorage.
Among these were a production presented by the Anchorage Concert Chorus, Alaska Children ’ s Choir, and Alaska Dance Theatre in the Atwood Concert Hall on March 18 and 20 in Anchorage, Alaska, and the University of Colorado at Bolder in the Boettcher Concert Hall ( Denver ) on April 26.
Total production of birch syrup in Alaska is approximately 3, 800 liters ( 1, 000 U. S. gallons ) per year, with smaller quantities made in other U. S. states and Canada ( also from Paper Birch ), Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Scandinavia ( from other species of birch ).
2001: NETL opened the Arctic Energy Office in Fairbanks, Alaska, to promote research, development, and deployment of ( I ) oil recovery, gas-to-liquids, and natural gas production and transportation and, ( II ) electric power in Arctic climates, including fossil, wind, geothermal, fuel cells, and small hydroelectric facilities.
The production of wolf pelts is still an important source of income for Arctic communities in Alaska and Canada.
TDX Power is a power production and distribution company with a hybrid wind-diesel power plant in Saint Paul ( the largest hybrid wind-diesel power plant in Alaska ), a 4-MW Cat diesel power plant in Sand Point, Alaska, and a 10-MW diesel and natural gas power plant on the North Slope in Deadhorse.

Alaska and 1988
In 2011, it was announced that Barrymore had been cast alongside John Krasinski in Ken Kwapis's Big Miracle ( 2012 ), a romantic drama based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.
* In the 1988 Night Court episode " Danny Got His Gun: Part 2 ," episode 103 ( season 6 ), Dan is rescued from a plane crash in Alaska by an Inuit family.
Classic examples of this came in 1988, when Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis chose experienced Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, and 2008, when Republican candidate John McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
The Libertarian Party nominated Andre Marrou, former Alaska representative and the Party's 1988 vice-presidential candidate, for President.
* Alaska House of Representatives, District 4, Seat B, 1988
The Aleutians East Borough School District is located in Southwestern Alaska along the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Chain The District was formed in 1988 from smaller districts who consolidated and formed a Borough with taxing authority.
* Jonathan Waterman, High Alaska, AAC Press, 1988.
Published in 1988 by Random House, Alaska is 868 pages long.
However, Alaska and Hawaii have had their Republican caucuses before Iowa in the past, and in 1988 the Hawaii victory of Pat Robertson and the 1996 Louisiana victory of Pat Buchanan over Senator Phil Gramm had a significant impact on the results in Iowa.
Alaska Airlines made a Friendship Flight to Provideniya in July 1988 when it became the first American airline to serve a Soviet location.
* Alaska ( novel ), a 1988 novel by James A. Michener
Its main thoroughfares are Rainier Avenue S. and Martin Luther King Jr. Way S. ( until 1988 known as Empire Way S .) ( north-and southbound ) and S. Alaska Street ( east-and westbound ).
Anna Kathryn Holbrook ( born April 18, 1956 in Fairbanks, Alaska ) is an American soap opera actress, best known for her role as Sharlene Frame Hudson on Another World, a role she played originally from 1988 to 1991.
A resolution of the Alaska State Senate in 1988 supported an American claim to the islands, but during 1994 the Alaska State Supreme Court ruled in D. Denardo v. State of Alaska that Bennett Island, along with several islands, is not part of Alaska.
As of 1988, the 6th Light Infantry Division in Alaska was still using the M67 in its special weapons platoons.
Platina: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1988.
A resolution of the Alaska State Senate in 1988 supported this claim.
A resolution of the Alaska State Senate in 1988 supported this claim.
The 1988 series was " A People in Peril ," which documented the high degree of alcoholism, suicide and despair in the Alaska Native population.
# Jonathan Waterman, High Alaska, AAC Press, 1988.

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