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The Eskimo and the oil man : the battle at the top of the world for America's future / Bob Reiss.
Lippincott Library HD9567.A4 R45 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reiss, Bob.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Itta, Edward.
- Shell Oil Company.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Alaska.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Offshore oil well drilling.
- Eskimos--Land tenure.
- Alaska.
- Petroleum reserves--Alaska.
- Petroleum reserves.
- Eskimos--Land tenure--Alaska.
- Eskimos.
- Offshore oil well drilling--Alaska.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Business Plus, 2012.
- Summary:
- "The Arctic century is upon us. A great jockeying for power and influence has erupted among nations in the high north. At stake are trillions of dollars in profit or loss, US security, geopolitical influence and the fate of a fragile environment as well as the region's traditional people. As the ice melts and oil companies venture north, the polar regions may become the next Panama Canal, the next Arabian Peninsula-places on earth that remain relatively unknown in one century and become pivotal in the next. Now Shell oil plans to sink exploratory wells in the pristine waters off the North Slope of Alaska--a site that the company believes contains three times as much oil as the Gulf of Mexico. The Eskimo and the Oil Man tells this story through the eyes of two men, one an Įupiat Eskimo leader on Alaska's North Slope, the other the head of Shell Oil's Alaska venture."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Argument, April 2010 1
- Chapter 2 The Big Thaw, May 23
- Chapter 3 Edward's Dilemma, June 40
- Chapter 4 Pete Slaiby's Challenge, July 59
- Chapter 5 Aboard Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy, August 78
- Chapter 6 The Arctic Opens for Business, September 100
- Chapter 7 Alaska, Washington and Big Oil, September 122
- Chapter 8 Russia Moves In, October 148
- Chapter 9 Caught in the Middle, November 166
- Chapter 10 The Frustration Mounts, December 191
- Chapter 11 Winter in Barrow, January 2011 216
- Chapter 12 What Norway Can Teach the US, January 233
- Chapter 13 A Bittersweet Goodbye, February 250.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781455525249
- 1455525243
- 9780892960767
- 0892960760
- OCLC:
- 771913442
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