Emperor Hickel: The Man Who Invented Alaska … and Sarah Palin by Greg Palast
Palin’s PipeIn 1973, the United State Senate authorized the Trans-Alaska Pipeline by
a single vote.
To get that controversial law passed, R.O. Andersen, Chairman of ARCO Petroleum, now a part of British Petroleum, testified under oath that North Slope Alaska resources would be shipped exclusively to the US market, not Japan.
He and Governor Hickel also swore the oil pipe would not be followed by a gas pipeline on the same route.
Yet today, Yukon Pacific Corporation has begun work on that gas pipeline designed to ship liquefied fuel to Japan.
For Sarah Palin, whose rise to Governor was engineered by Hickel, this was her greatest accomplishment in office: requiring the major oil companies to participate in Yukon Pacific’s gas pipe project.Yukon Pacific’s founding investors were R.O. Andersen …and Walter Hickel.
On Saturday, Governor Walter Hickel passed away. He was 90.
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