The Alaska pipeline /
Explores the impact of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline on culture and society in Alaska, as well as on the environment and Alaskan wilderness. Features commentary by the men and women who worked on the line, as well as long-time Alaska residents, members of the Native Alaskan community, environmentalists,...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Closed-captioned. |
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| Summary: | Explores the impact of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline on culture and society in Alaska, as well as on the environment and Alaskan wilderness. Features commentary by the men and women who worked on the line, as well as long-time Alaska residents, members of the Native Alaskan community, environmentalists, government geologists, and local and national politicians. Examines the conflict between the desire to bring Alaskan oil to market and increase the energy supply versus the desire to protect the land and wildlife. Discusses the engineering feat of building an 800-mile pipeline that traverses three mountain ranges and thirty-four rivers, and that has to withstand earthquakes and subzero temperatures. |
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| Item Description: | Originally broadcast on PBS in 2006 as an episode of the television program American experience. Widescreen presentation. Not rated. Special features include: worker photo gallery. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; region 1; stereo. |
| Production Credits: | Editor, Cherry Enoki ; music, Tom Phillips ; camera, Steven L. Rychetnik, Brian Dowley. |
| ISBN: | 0793692288 9780793692286 |