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Wildlife and oil: a survey of critical issues in Alaska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Robert B. Weeden  and
David R. Klein
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The world's oil magnates have recently turned their eyes to Siberia, Alaska, Arctic Canada, and the Chukchi and North seas and have invested huge sums in exploration for petroleum in lands scarcely touched by modern technology a decade ago.

Throughout the Arctic, serious questions have arisen regarding environmental and cultural by-products of petroleum exploration and development. Perhaps nowhere has there been greater public concern than in Alaska, which has experienced commercial oil production since 1958 near Cook Inlet and which is now working out plans for development of the Prudhoe Bay pool.

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Polar Record , Volume 15 , Issue 97 , January 1971 , pp. 479 - 494
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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