Alaskan pipeline

1. An oil pipeline that runs eight hundred miles from oil reserves in Prudhoe Bay, on the northern coast of Alaska, to the port of Valdez, on Alaska's southern coast, from which the oil can be shipped to markets. Also called the Trans-Alaska pipeline.

In 1989 an environmental disaster occurred when an oil tanker, the Exxon Valdez, ran aground and leaked millions of gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, causing the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

After oil was discovered in Prudhoe Bay in 1968, construction of the pipeline was delayed for several years, as conservationists warned against the effects of the pipeline on the ecosystems through which it would run.

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One eye-catching exhibit consists of a gargantuan grizzly-bear hide tacked to a wall, the beast’s hind legs framing a piece of the Alaskan pipeline.

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The company has a long history of outfitting men doing manly things, from providing uniforms in the first and second world war through outfitting workers on the construction of the Alaskan pipeline in the 1970s.

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In contrast to a “common misconception” that pipelines look like the Alaskan pipeline - aboveground and snaking across pristine areas - natural gas pipelines are underground and known to visitors only because of a marker, Fore said.

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He said BP, which had a string of accidents before the spill, including an Alaskan pipeline leak and a Texas City, Tex., refinery explosion, had failed to demonstrate that its corporate culture had changed.

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Like when we helped design the Alaskan pipeline to withstand a major earthquake.

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