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After the discovery of oil in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, it didnt take long for environmentalists to cry gloom and doom and for the media to hype those claims. From caribou dying to earthquakes to all hell breaking loose, there was no shortage of catastrophic predictions though the Alaska pipeline now boasts great success roughly 30 years later.      Construction on the pipeline began in 1975, and oil first moved through it on June 20, 1977. Former Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton summed up its success in 2003 that Today the pipeline produces 17 percent of our domestic petroleum. It...

Terrorists are threatening to blow up Alaska oil pipelines. Via Foxnews Alert. Fox said they were going to take guns and shoot them?

Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. officially incorporated a new, lighter hydraulic clamp into its trans-Alaska oil pipeline repair toolbox last week. The clamp is the invention of Alyeska and local engineering firms that found a better way to plug oil-spewing holes after a man shot the pipeline with a high-powered rifle in 2001, causing a $20 million clean-up bill. Alyeska employees practiced with the clamp for the first time last week as part of the company's regular training exercises. "I'm very pleased with what they have done," said Becky Lewis, the Department of Environmental Conservation pipeline section manager with the Joint...