crossing the yukon river we had northwards in the arctic following the route of the trans alaska pipeline and crossing the mighty brooks range of 1000 kilometer long mountain range that runs right across northern alaska. halfway along the route we had cold put a little more than a gas station in the middle of the wilderness until the mid 1990 s. the dalton highway was closed to normal traffic anyone wanting to use it needed a special permit from the oil companies. now truck drivers tell us they're encountering more and more tourists most come here in the winter to see the northern lights but they often underestimate the risks it's beautiful as it is nice as it is it's not to me it's not worth it because it's it is very dangerous you know and specially come i'm prepared just think about it you might have to walk you know 10 miles in this weather i thought people up there they got there and just they're not that you know you know they have light jackets they have you know tennis shoes or and it's just not very smart it's jurists pretty much. 'd we drive further into the mountains there's be

crossing the yukon river we had northwards in the arctic following the route of the trans alaska pipeline and crossing the mighty brooks range a 1000 kilometer long mountain range that runs right across northern alaska. halfway along the route we had cold put a little more than a gas station in the middle of the wilderness until the mid 1990 s. the dalton highway was closed to normal traffic anyone wanting to use it needed a special permit from the oil companies. now truck drivers tell us they're encountering more and more tourists most come here in the winter to see the northern lights but they often underestimate the risks it's beautiful as it is as nice as it is it's not to me it's not worth it because it's it is very dangerous you know and specially come unprepared just think about it you might have to walk you know 10 miles in this weather i thought people up there they got there and just not that you know you know they have light jackets they have you know tennis shoes or and it's just not very smart it's jurists pretty much. 'd 'd 'd we drive further into the mountains there's been

crossing the yukon river we head northwards in the arctic following the route of the trans alaska pipeline. and crossing the mighty brooks range of 1000 kilometer long mountain range that runs right across northern alaska. halfway along the route we had cold put a little more than a gas station in the middle of the wilderness until the mid 1990 s. the dalton highway was closed to normal traffic anyone wanting to use it needed a special permit from the oil companies. now truck drivers tell us they're encountering more and more tourists most come here in the winter to see the northern lights but they often underestimate the risks it's beautiful as it is nice as it is it's not to me it's not worth it because it's it is very dangerous you know and specially come on prepared just think about it you might have to walk you know 10 miles in this weather i thought people after they got there and just they're not that old you know they have life jackets they have you know tennis shoes and it's just not very smart it's jurists yeah pretty much. 'd 'd we drive further into the mountains there's been a

crossing the yukon river we had northwards in the arctic following the route of the trans alaska pipeline. and crossing the mighty brooks range a 1000 kilometer long mountain range that runs right across northern alaska. halfway along the route we had cold put a little more than a gas station in the middle of the wilderness until the mid 1990 s. the dalton highway was closed to normal traffic anyone wanting to use it needed a special permit from the oil companies. now truck drivers tell us they're encountering more and more tourists most come here in the winter to see the northern lights but they often underestimate the risks thank you beautiful as it is as nice as it is it's not to me it's not worth it because it's it is very dangerous you know and specially come i'm prepared just think about it you might have to walk you know 10 miles in this weather i thought people up here that got there and just not that you know you know all that light jackets they have you know tennis shoes are and it's just not very smart it's jurists pretty much. 'd we drive further into the mountains there's bee

and the proponent of the trans-alaska pipeline the chairman and ceo of atlantic richfield commented the criticisms that had been made by environmentalists significantly improved the safety of the eight rivers crossings and also of the fortification against earthquakes. he complimented that. and i pointed out to president george h.w. bush when his vice president and his chief of staff were complaining about environmental criticism of our response to exxonmobil, to the exxon valdees, and that environmentalists had predicted there was a chance of a major tanker spill and this was the 186th trip. so it's not a one-sided story there's been obstruction, inefficiency -- there's a lot of that to it, but it's not kept us from doing important things. i think the failure is much more of a lack of commitment to do big things and political reconciliation in bipartisanship than it is of environmental obstruction. >> good caution, administrator. governor, i wanted you to celebrate if you can one of the big mitigated wins. now i believe one has to look at the american record and say the science is good

the proponent of the trans alaska pipeline, the chairman and ceo, commented that the criticisms thathad been made by environmentalists significantly improved the safety of the eight river crossings and also the fortification against earthquakes. he complemented that and i pointed out to president george h. w. bush win his vice president and his chief of staff were complaining about environmental criticism of our response to exxonmobil. environmentalists, had predicted there was one in the thousand chance of a major spill and falling involving a tanker coming down from st. william sound. so, it's not a one-sided story. but it's been obstruction and efficiency and there's a lot of that to it, but it's not kept us from doing important things. and i think the failure to do big things in the country, is much more a lack of ambition and commitment to do big things, and political reconciliation and bipartisanship, then it is of environmental obstruction. >> governor i want to have you celebrate if you can one of the big unmitigated win, the pesticides and chemicals was not done in yet state

in the late eighties, the trans-alaska pipeline was pumping about 25% of america's energy needs. million barrels a day. that has come down to basically around 500,000 barrels a day. and the demand across america continuing to rise, of course. when oil was discovered, the federal government had to settle the land claims. we didn't want it to be a welfare bill. we had to remind congress we're a proud people that are self-sustaining, self-reliant, and that we want to ke it that way. so, they came up with ancsa, alaska native claim settlement act, which is pretty unique. our portion was 5 million acres of land to be selected, and $22 million to start our businesses. trying to select those lands while we were being left out of the most highly potential areas, that was the challenge. it was almost like we were set up to fail. but we didn't. i guess there was some concern, wondering what a few savage eskimos would do with millions of dollars, right? from the early days of right around '94, we were able to grow the company to about 225 million in revenue. today, we're close to 3 billion

just want to recall that the first time that statute was applied to block development was the trans-alaska pipeline. i was the receiving officer for that environmental impact statement. i remember the judge wrote in his own hand, failure to comply with the national environmental policy act. the interior department went through two iterations. they finally produced a 2,000 page analysis and the proponent of the transatlantic pipeline, the chairman and ceo of the richfield, commented the criticisms made by environmentalists significantly improved the safety of the eight river crossings and also the fortification against earthquakes. he complimented that. and i pointed out to president george h.w. bush when his vice president and his chief of staff were complaining about environmental criticism of our response to exxonmobil, to add the "exxon valdez," environmentalists predicted there's a 1 in 1,000 chance of a major spill of a tanker coming down the anchor sound and this is the 876th trip. so it's not a one-sided story it's been obstruction, inefficiency, excessive paper. there's a lot of th