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I. Executive Summary PURPOSE OF THE STUDY When the Alaska Legislature enacted legislation to promote construction of a pipeline to transport North Slope natural gas, it did so fully mindful of the variety of impacts brought about by Alaska’s last construction mega project. The Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) project, an 800-mile oil pipeline running from Prudhoe Bay to the Port of Valdez, was launched with vastly inadequate planning on how to deal with the social and economic impacts it would bring to both the directly affected communities of Alaska, and
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I. Executive Summary PURPOSE OF THE STUDY When the Alaska Legislature enacted legislation to promote construction of a pipeline to transport North Slope natural gas, it did so fully mindful of the variety of impacts brought about by Alaska’s last construction mega project. The Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) project, an 800-mile oil pipeline running from Prudhoe Bay to the Port of Valdez, was launched with vastly inadequate planning on how to deal with the social and economic impacts it would bring to both the directly affected communities of Alaska, and
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I. Executive Summary PURPOSE OF THE STUDY When the Alaska Legislature enacted legislation to promote construction of a pipeline to transport North Slope natural gas, it did so fully mindful of the variety of impacts brought about by Alaska’s last construction mega project. The Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) project, an 800-mile oil pipeline running from Prudhoe Bay to the Port of Valdez, was launched with vastly inadequate planning on how to deal with the social and economic impacts it would bring to both the directly affected communities of Alaska, and
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I. Executive Summary PURPOSE OF THE STUDY When the Alaska Legislature enacted legislation to promote construction of a pipeline to transport North Slope natural gas, it did so fully mindful of the variety of impacts brought about by Alaska’s last construction mega project. The Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) project, an 800-mile oil pipeline running from Prudhoe Bay to the Port of Valdez, was launched with vastly inadequate planning on how to deal with the social and economic impacts it would bring to both the directly affected communities of Alaska, and
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I. Executive Summary PURPOSE OF THE STUDY When the Alaska Legislature enacted legislation to promote construction of a pipeline to transport North Slope natural gas, it did so fully mindful of the variety of impacts brought about by Alaska’s last construction mega project. The Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) project, an 800-mile oil pipeline running from Prudhoe Bay to the Port of Valdez, was launched with vastly inadequate planning on how to deal with the social and economic impacts it would bring to both the directly affected communities of Alaska, and
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