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Alaska oil pipeline reshapes life from Fairbanks to Valdez
The Alaska trans Alaska pipeline, a $6.1 billion project by eight major oil firms, spreads through the state from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez. It brings 10 000 workers rising to 14200 by midsummer, higher prices and unemployment relief fears, and social change as Valdez grows, housing costs soar, and services strain under a booming oil economy.
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Tad Bartimus
Associated Press
Anchorage, Alaska
Alaska
Anchorage
Houston
Dallas
Arctic Ocean
Fairbanks
Aleyeska
Prudhoe Bay
Arctic
E.L. Patton
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co
Valdez
Jay Harmond
Alyeska
Nevada
Rogers C.B. Morton
Interior