Cumulative environmental effects of oil and gas activities on Alaska's North Slope / Committee on Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Polar Research Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Committee on Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope.

National Research Council (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade--Environmental aspects--Alaska--North Slope.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Oil and gas leases--Environmental aspects--Alaska--North Slope.

Oil and gas leases.

Environmental impact statements--Alaska--North Slope.

Environmental impact statements.

Oil and gas leases--Environmental aspects.

Petroleum industry and trade--Environmental aspects.

North Slope (Alaska).

Alaska--North Slope.

Physical Description:

xiii, 288 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2003]

Summary:

"In response to the request from Congress, the National Academies established the Committee on Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope, which prepared this report. The committee was directed to review information about oil and gas activities (including cleanup efforts) on the North Slope and, based on its review, to assess the known and probable cumulative impacts of such activities on the physical, biotic, and human environments of the region and its adjacent marine environment."--P. 1.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The human environment

3. The Alaska North Slope environment

4. History of oil and gas activities

5. Future oil and gas activities

6. Effects on the physical environment

7. Effects on vegetation

8. Effects on animals

9. Effects on the human environment

10. Filling knowledge gaps

11. Major effects and their accumulation.

Notes:

"This project was supported by the Contract No. X-82827701 between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-288) and index.

ISBN:

0309087376

OCLC:

52996847