Another BP Leak Forces Shutdown of Major Alaskan Pipeline

01/11/11 After discovering a leak at a North Slope pumping station, BP was forced to shut down the Trans-Alaska pipeline , which moves more than 12 percent of America's oil output. BP is the largest stakeholder in Alyeska Pipeline Service , which runs the entire pipeline system that stretches 800 miles from the vast Prudhoe Bay oil field to the port in Valdez. The immediate environmental damage seems to ...

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Your View: Letters to the editor (Feb. 17)

02/17/11 The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil.

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U.S. submarines conduct exercise north of Alaska

03/19/11 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska's lieutenant governor greeted a Navy submarine Friday at a temporary ice station set up 160 miles north of Prudhoe Bay. Mead Treadwell met the crew of the USS Connecti...

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