The Trans-Alaska Pipeline controversy
Subtitle: technology, conservation, and the frontier
By: Peter A. Coates.
Publisher: Lehigh University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Bethlehem [Pa.]; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Petroleum pipelines -- Environmental aspects -- Alaska; Environmentalists -- United States -- Attitudes; Conservationists -- United States -- Attitudes; Trans-Alaska Pipeline (Alaska); Trans-Alaska Pipeline (Alaska) -- Public opinion; Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959; Alaska -- History -- 1959-
Description: Considers the opposition to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) from conservationists and their ideologies. Discusses from a historical view its relationship to earlier engineering projects and technological innovations in Alaska and the debates that accompanied them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-431) and index.