Eric Keto
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In Alaska, we don’t pay income tax. We don’t pay sales tax. But once a year every man, woman and child gets a cut of the state’s oil wealth. -
The trans-Alaska pipeline was the largest privately-funded construction project in the world, built across the biggest U.S. state and faced with unprecedented natural obstacles. -
The building of the trans-Alaska pipeline drew thousands of young workers from around the country to Alaska. -
The trans-Alaska pipeline was the largest privately-funded construction project in the world, built across the biggest U.S. state and faced with unprecedented natural obstacles. -
National environmental groups fought hard to stop the pipeline. Ultimately they failed. -
National environmental groups fought hard to stop the pipeline. Ultimately they failed. -
Every day of the year, no matter the conditions, commercial truck drivers make the trip from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay -
When Alaska became a state, the federal government agreed to hand over more than 100 million acres. There was just one problem. Alaska Native people already claimed that land. -
The Trans Alaska Pipeline would cut through land where Alaska Native people had lived for millennia. And they were formally claiming that land as their own. -
Deadhorse isn’t your average Alaskan town. The community at the start of the pipeline exists solely as a service hub for North Slope oil workers.
