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Last year, environmentalists criticized the Biden Administration's decision to approve the Willow Project, a proposal by ConocoPhillips to produce up to 600 million barrels of oil on the North Slope over 30 years. Not far away, Australian company Santos is planning a similar proposal called the Pikka Project, which would produce about 400 million barrels over 30 years. That project has gotten much less attention than Willow in the Lower 48. Philip Wight, an environmental historian at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, explains the context behind these projects and explains why companies are still drilling in the Alaskan Arctic, even as oil production has boomed in other states. He also details how climate change is affecting the industry and Alaska as a whole, including causing some bizarre issues for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which delivers oil from the North Slope to refineries and export terminals.

Few people have shaped Alaska as much as the late Senator Ted Stevens. He helped push through landmark laws to settle Native land claims, develop the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and establish federal fishing policy. He also sent billions of federal dollars to Alaska to build infrastructure. Stevens would have been 100 years old this month. We'll discuss his legacy, how he worked across the aisle and his fall from politics on this Talk of Alaska.

http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/comics/godzillamap.shtml (August 1977.) We supposedly start on the "western coast of Alaska." Unfortunately, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline is in the eastern half of the state. His next stop is described as a "major Alaskan Pipeline terminal" which is "several miles inland." Since 500+ miles from the west coast is a bit more than "several" and it's unlikely Godzilla would be able to walk halfway across Alaska before SHIELD arrived, I've assumed he came ashore near the southern terminal at Valdez. Dum Dum Dugan then notes he walks into the sunset (to the southwest in Alaska), but he obviously turned east not too long afterward. Godzilla appears in Seattle. SHIELD drives him back to the sea. Godzilla appears in San Francisco Bay by the Golden Gate Bridge, which, of course, takes major damage. SHIELD and the Champions drive him back to the sea. Godzilla encounters Batragon in the North Pacific and follows him to "an island in the Aleutian chain." More action against Doctor Demonicus and his monsters on an island in the Aleutian chain. Godzilla has journeyed to the "mountains of northern California." SHIELD captures him and takes him to a "SHIELD base north of San Diego." Godzilla escapes confinement at the SHIELD base. Red Ronin, piloted by 12-year-old Rob Takiguchi, carries Godzilla from the SHIELD base to San Diego. Ronin then directs Godzilla inland, away from San Diego. Godzilla destroys Boulder Dam and is swept to Las Vegas by the resulting flood. Never mind that it's officially been called Hoover Dam since 1947. Godzilla journeys from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon, where he fights Yetrigar. Red Ronin joins the fight against and defeats Yetrigar in the Grand Canyon. Godzilla is transported from somewhere in the midwest to the moon by advanced, extra-terrestrial technology. He's then transported back to Salt Lake City. Godzilla and Red Ronin fight the Mega-Monsters in Salt Lake City. Godzilla defeats the Mega-Monsters, but Ronin is decapitated. Godzilla leaves Salt Lake City. Godzilla travels east, encountering a bunch of cowboys. Godzilla's encounter with the cowboys from a "ranch east of Salt Lake City" concludes. SHIELD finds Godzilla in western Colorado, shrinks him with Pym particles, and captures him. SHIELD transports the miniature Godzilla to New York City, where he escapes into the sewers. Godzilla's New York adventure continues as Rob escorts him back to the SHIELD agents. And Godzilla's getting bigger again. Still in New York, the Fantastic Four arrive to lend a hand. The FF use Doctor Doom's time machine to transport Godzilla supposedly back to prehistoric Earth, where he encounters Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy. I say "supposedly" because the Fallen Angels limited series later retconned Devil Dinosaur to being on an alien planet instead of prehistoric Earth. The official Marvel doctrine now is that Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy originated from an alternate universe, although I'm not sure this really solves all the problems of his various appearances. In any case, this issue and the next also features a people far closer to human beings than anything Jack Kirby ever put in Devil Dinosaur, but that's enough digression. Godzilla fights beside Devil Dinosaur. Back on Earth, his innate radiation causes Doom's time machine to recall him back to New York. And to make matters worse, he's back to full size. The Avengers join the FF and SHIELD in their efforts to keep Godzilla from destroying New York. (Cover date July 1979.) The Avengers, FF, and SHIELD can't seem to beat Godzilla, but Rob talks to him one last time and convinces him to leave. Godzilla disappears into the Atlantic, never to be seen again (by that name and appearance) in the Marvel Universe because Marvel no longer has the license to use him. You can find out more about Marvel's version of Godzilla at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe. I Was a Teenage Marvel Zombie > Godzilla's Path through the Marvel Universe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fave-five-from-fans/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fave-five-from-fans/support

Jaką chorobę przeniósł na zwierzęta i ludzi renifer, który padł przed 70 laty?Gdzie w Polsce istnieje wieczna zmarzlina?Dlaczego koncern paliwowy sztucznie zamraża ziemię pod ropociągiem na AlasceZ jakiego powodu dawne lotnisko na Syberii wygląda jak wielka folia bąbelkowa?—W tym odcinku Podcastu Crazy Nauki opowiemy Wam o zmarzlinie, która nie jest już nazywana “wieczną”, ale “wieloletnią”: co się z nią dzieje w wyniku ocieplania się klimatu? I co się dzieje z wsiami, drogami czy rurociągami, które na niej wybudowano? I wreszcie: co się stanie z klimatem, kiedy ten proces, o którym Wam tu opowiemy, nabierze tempa? Jeżeli cenisz to co robimy, jeśli podoba Ci się nasz podcast, to będzie nam bardzo miło, jeśli zechcesz pomóc nam jego w tworzeniu dzięki Patronite:https://patronite.pl/crazynaukaJeśli wolisz dorzucić nam coś jednorazowo, to również będzie nam bardzo miło. Może postawisz nam kawę? Dzięki! :)https://buycoffee.to/crazynaukaA tu znajdziecie nasze koszulki (i nie tylko)

Jaką chorobę przeniósł na zwierzęta i ludzi renifer, który padł przed 70 laty?Gdzie w Polsce istnieje wieczna zmarzlina?Dlaczego koncern paliwowy sztucznie zamraża ziemię pod ropociągiem na AlasceZ jakiego powodu dawne lotnisko na Syberii wygląda jak wielka folia bąbelkowa?—W tym odcinku Podcastu Crazy Nauki opowiemy Wam o zmarzlinie, która nie jest już nazywana “wieczną”, ale “wieloletnią”: co się z nią dzieje w wyniku ocieplania się klimatu? I co się dzieje z wsiami, drogami czy rurociągami, które na niej wybudowano? I wreszcie: co się stanie z klimatem, kiedy ten proces, o którym Wam tu opowiemy, nabierze tempa? Jeżeli cenisz to co robimy, jeśli podoba Ci się nasz podcast, to będzie nam bardzo miło, jeśli zechcesz pomóc nam jego w tworzeniu dzięki Patronite:https://patronite.pl/crazynaukaJeśli wolisz dorzucić nam coś jednorazowo, to również będzie nam bardzo miło. Może postawisz nam kawę? Dzięki! :)https://buycoffee.to/crazynaukaA tu znajdziecie nasze koszulki (i nie tylko)

In this episode of the [i3] Podcast, we speak with Bob Maynard, Chief Investment Officer of the Public Employees Retirement System of Idaho (PERSI) at the eve of his retirement, after 30 years with the fund. We look back at how a job as the deputy attorney of Alaska saw him getting involved with investing and how he has stuck to his mantra of keeping it simple. “Whenever I get a bright idea, I go to a dark room and lay down until it has passed,” he quips. Bob addresses whether defined benefit systems are doomed, expels myths around US pension funds underfundedness and why he believes CalSTRS' Chris Ailman is the best CIO on the planet. 1:00 Moving to Alaska at a time when it was still a frontier state; the state was only 19 years old 6:00 Working on some of the largest oil and gas litigation cases in US history, including the Trans Alaska Pipeline case 9:00 The Alaska Permanent Fund and the link with oil and gas litigation 11:00 Slowly the fund moved away from just bonds to include real estate. So I couldn't afford my own house, but I knew how to buy an office block in New York. 12:00 Setting up the first currency program with the help of Fischer Black 13:30 Phone calls with Fischer Black locked you into a way of thinking about markets and I probably used that more than anything over the last 30 years. 15:00 [At PERSI] we only do eight to 10 things [in our investment strategy], but if I would be doing 25 things then currency would be in there. 16:00 The mean variance model is not that complicated 17:30 Joining PERSI you found a fund that was more than 60 per cent underfunded. Did you know that? 19:30 “The chair said: ‘Just get us in the middle of the pack', and I thought: ‘I can do that; I can be mediocre” 22:00 There are a thousand ways to invest. You just have to find the right way for your particular set of circumstances. 26:00 The 90s were a great time to be a 70/30 fund. 27:00 The best place to be in the last 10 years was the S&P 500 [index] 28:30 [Institutional investors] are not long term investors; we use it as propaganda to get us through tough times. 31:00 There are times in history where there is a fundamental shift in equity markets, but whether that means you should move out of equity markets…There have been a number of those [approaches] since the 1990s that looked at that and none of them have proven to be able to move through troubled times. 32:00 When there is excess liquidity in the system, all sorts of things work 36:30 The idea of what an unfunded liability is is completely misunderstood. Under an entry age normal accounting system we assume that people are going to earn double of what they earn today at the end of their career. If we would shut off the system today and look at the actual liabilities then we would be 140 - 150 per cent funded. 38:00 There are funds that are in trouble, but that is because some of them cut their contribution rate to below cost 45:00 Investing is about attitude: whenever I get a bright idea, I go to a dark room and lay down until it has passed 47:00 Listening and learning from other state pension funds' board meetings. I've learned more from listening to [Chris] Ailman than from my own fund; he is the best CIO in the world as far as I'm concerned. 50:00 You retire on 30 September 2022. Any plans? “I'm going to do what I do best: nothing”.

Jeff was joined by Mike Craig from Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. They discuss how he grew up in Valdez and Glenallen, how he turned a temporary one month job at Alyeska into a career that has lasted 39 years, his work at Alyeska since the early 1980s, keeping the Trans-Alaska Pipeline safe, and the upcoming 45th anniversary of the pipeline being in service. 

Fran Kelly (pictured) has long been my company for early morning walks, but now after 17 years guiding as Radio National's "Breakfast" host, she is stepping back from the role  - read about her decision: "‘It's time': Fran Kelly to leave ABC RN Breakfast after 17 years at the helm". And here we hear Nick Nutall, the "We Don't Have Time" comms director ,talk about COP-26 and why we have has so many of these international events. Other Quick Climate Links: "The Most Important Climate Summit in History Is a Local News Story Too"; "Twelve Apostles drilling plan turns spotlight on Victoria's gas strategy"; "Clean energy delayed by ‘stubborn incumbency' of fossil fuel"; "‘A green adventure': Is carbon-free flying possible?"; "Getting burnt: The Nationals worry about voters with long memories"; "Cop26 climate deal will be harder than Paris accord, admits Sharma"; "Cop26 menu focuses on plant-based dishes with 80% Scottish food"; "Former PMs apologise to Pacific leaders for Australia's apathy on climate crisis"; "Malcolm Turnbull on Murdoch, lies and the climate crisis: ‘The same forces that enabled Trump are at work in Australia'"; "How Much Did Ancient Land-Clearing Fires in New Zealand Affect the Climate?"; "Raging Flood Waters Driven by Climate Change Threaten the Trans-Alaska Pipeline"; "‘Case closed': 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans"; "National Party is extorting the government for money and favours on climate change"; "Mirage man Morrison continues to defeat the common good"; "COP 26 Comment from Metung by Tom Moore"; "Retrofitting Buildings Is the Unsexy Climate Fix the World Needs"; "The Informer: Electric dreams with an ocean view"; "Prince Charles warns of ‘dangerously narrow window' to act on climate change"; "PM's net-zero will underwhelm summit: ACF"; "Alan Kohler: The alarming consequences of Canberra's climate capers"; "Madonna King: Public faith in our political system is at an all-time low, and it's no surprise"; "Rod Oram: A country getting serious on climate change": "NDCs, climate finance and 1.5°C: your Cop26 jargon buster". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

Professor Nicole Webster (pictured) had spent a couple of decades considering coral reefs in tropical Queensland and has now just become the second woman to be appointed as the Chief Scientist for the Australian Antarctica Division and you can hear an interview with her on Radio National - "A different challenge for the new Antarctic Division chief". Other links for today are: "Boris Johnson's climate credibility at stake in run-up to Cop26 summit"; "UK poised to confirm funding for mini nuclear reactors for carbon-free energy"; "Morrison the pragmatist leads from the back on net-zero"; "ON THE ROAD TO GLASGOW Episode 3 . Amazon Manifesto"; "‘We all have a role': more than 260 Australian rules footballers sign up to climate campaign"; "Climate Conscious at Home"; "Electric Vehicles Are About To Get Crazy Cheap"; "News Corp's climate pivot perpetrates a new fraud and draws us closer to climate catastrophe"; "With a five per cent vote the Nationals are holding us to ransom on climate change"; "Can a Carbon-Emitting Iron Ore Tycoon Save the Planet?"; "Alan Kohler: Murdoch and the BCA are providing cover for Morrison. Good"; "Modi & Johnson to launch global solar power grid"; "Raging Flood Waters Driven by Climate Change Threaten the Trans-Alaska Pipeline"; "Inside Clean Energy: Taking Stock of the Energy Storage Boom Happening Right Now"; "Welcome to Climate Ready Clyde"; "Taylor to address Nationals' meeting as MPs warn ‘this is not a done deal'"; "‘A matter of survival': What's COP26?"; "How do we tackle Australia's burning problem before it burns us?"; "When bad news is good News: accepting climate change shouldn't mean denying it will hurt jobs"; "Australian-first farmer mutual aims to cut out carbon farming middleman". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

If you desired to live in Ireland, but circumstances prevented you from doing so, what's your Plan B? Jane Fadely found herself in that situation and she discovered Fletcher, North Carolina. Fletcher is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, centrally located 12 miles south of Asheville and 9 miles north of Hendersonville. Jane has led a fascinating life, including growing up as the daughter of a candy salesman (think of crates of m&ms in your garage … ) working as a laborer on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, living in Ireland and writing several books. Find out about Jane's journey to Fletcher, on Episode 43 of Retire There with Gil & Gene.  Jane Fadely's book on moving to, and living in, Ireland is Chickens in the Garden, Wellies by the Door: An American in Rural Ireland. Her book on reluctantly leaving Ireland and, eventually, moving to North Carolina is Leaving Ireland: The Long Road Back to America. And Jane's book on traveling to Ireland is Irish Bits & Pieces: Ireland… Take Me Away!.Jane's fictional works include:A romance novel set in Ireland - Lost & Found in Ireland: A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance;Seasons of Ireland: Thoughts, Poems, Proverbs & Recipes;There's a Leprechaun Under My Bed;Apple Tree Lane;Look & Find: What Will You Find Today?; andMingo & The Alaskan Christmas Tree Day

This week your hosts break down ANWR, the Transfer of Federal Public Lands, Climate Change, Santa Clause, McKenzie River Delta Gas Pipeline, Public Lands in Public Hands, and the Trans Alaska Pipeline.

Hello Interactors,After enduring a few days of record heat that burnt my drought tolerant plants to a crisp and likely claimed the lives of two of our favorite wild birds that would frequent my daughter’s window feeder, my new pair of shoes arrived I had ordered from Canada. As did a new monitor and other odd consumer goods. And soon I will be boarding a plane that will spew another chunk of the estimated 22 tons of CO2 our family will contribute to the atmosphere this year. That’s four and a half hot air balloons full. I know I’m heating up the planet with my shoes and trips. You probably do to. It seems we not only need to protect the environment, we need protection from ourselves.As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…THE RIVER’S ON FIREAs an early teenager in the 1970s, just entering middle school, I remember getting a pair of “Earth Shoes” as part of my back-to-school get up. They featured a tread that read, “GASS”, which stood for Great American Shoe Store. Most, if not all, of our shoes back then came from the Great American Shoe Store – Kinneys.  I felt pretty cool in my new kicks; especially when that first snow fell and I could see the GASS imprint in my foot tracks. Gas was on the minds of many in the 70s, as it was becoming increasingly hard to come by. It was also increasing pollution.Kinneys was capitalizing on a burgeoning environmentalist trend that had been growing since the publishing of Rachel Carlson’s, Silent Spring in 1962. By 1970, water and air pollution was prevalent, the federal government was forced to intervene. On January 1st, 1970 the Council on Environmental Quality was created with the signing of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This requires Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) of all federal agencies who are planning projects with major environmental ramifications. Either recognizing they may be a target of the government or perhaps seeing consumers being drawn to environmentalism, the American auto makers also got in on the environmental action. A January 15th New York Times article read, “Detroit has discovered a word: “Environment.”” The General Motors (GM) CEO, Edward Cole, promised an “essentially pollution free car could be built by 1980.” Engineers from GM, Ford, and Chrysler attending the 1970 convention of the Society of Automotive Engineers were all pitching anti-pollution technologies. GM’s CEO was probably influenced by his son, David Cole, who was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan. He co-authored a paper for that convention entitled, “Reduction of emissions from the Curtiss Wright rotating combustion engine with an exhaust reactor.” There was growing concern entrusting those very institutions responsible for the destruction of the environment with devising schemes to save it. The country’s air, water, and land was being smothered in waste. Something needed to be done. So on July 9th, 1970, 51 years ago today, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was proposed by Republican President Richard Nixon. This agency was intended to focus on short-term fixes targeting violators of the law, so Nixon appointed Assistant Attorney General, Bill Ruckelshaus, to the post. Ruckelshaus promptly ordered a steel company to stop dumping cyanide into Cleveland, Ohio’s Cuyahoga River. It was so polluted that it had caught fire at least thirteen times. Ruckelshaus also banned the use of DDT. After being jostled around in various appointments and governmental positions, including the head of the FBI, he was reappointed to head the EPA in 1983 by Republican President Ronald Reagan. The Reagan administration grew concerned over the faltering reputation of the EPA after Ruckelshaus’ replacement, Anne Gorsuch Burford, (Neil Gorsuch’s mom) cut the EPA’s budget, eliminated jobs, and neutered enforcement policies. The EPA and the environment was slipping backwards, so once again it was Ruckelshaus to the rescue. He promptly fired most of her leadership team and got back to work protecting the environment running the EPA until 1985.Upon leaving government, Ruckelshaus moved to Seattle and was a practicing attorney and continued to prosecute environmental crimes. In 1993, Democrat President Bill Clinton appointed him to the Council for Sustainable Development and throughout the 90s he worked as a special envoy in the Pacific Salmon Treaty between the United States and Canada and was chair of the Salmon Recovery Funding Board. Republican President George W. Bush then appointed him to the United States Commission on Ocean Policy in 2004. The commission was terminated that same year but in 2010 became part of the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative which Ruckelshaus co-chaired. Ruckelshaus endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and Hillary Clinton in 2016 and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama in 2015. Nearly fifty years after being appointed by a Republican president to become the country’s first EPA administrator in 1970, fighting for environmental justice at the international, federal, state, local levels – and in the private sector – Ruckelshaus passed away at his home in my neighboring town, Medina, Washington in 2019.FROM DUST TO THE SEA WITH WALLY AND ERMALEEWhen the Nixon administration created the EPA, they decided to put it under the Department of the Interior. This executive department’s mission is to, “protect and manage the Nation’s natural resources and cultural heritage; provide scientific and other information about those resources; and honor its trust responsibilities or special commitments to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and affiliated Island Communities.” For the first time in our nation’s history, it is headed by a person indigenous to these natural resources and cultural heritage; native American, Deb Haaland.  The department dictates how the United States “stewards its public lands, increases environmental protections, pursues environmental justice, and honors our nation-to-nation relationship with Tribes.”When the EPA was created in 1970, the Secretary of the Interior was Alaskan land developer and politician, Wally Hickel. Instead of creating a separate administration for the EPA, Hickel urged Nixon to fold the designated 15 offices under the Department of Interior and rename it the Department of the Environment. It’s hard to know if Hickel’s suggestion was genuinely thoughtful or an egoist attempt to gain power. After all, Hickel was a controversial pick for the post of Secretary of the Interior in the first place. Many activists, journalists, and even the Sierra Club, mounted campaigns to thwart his appointment.Walter Joseph “Wally” Hickel was born in Kansas in 1919 where he and his family endured both the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Given the heat waves this summer, we’d be wise to reflect more on the Dust Bowl. It’s was the era’s most devastating man-made environmental disaster. Stripped of their native grasses by cattle and sheep or farmers making room for wheat, White settler farmers ignored Indigenous dryland farming methods that used the grasses to anchor, moisten, and nurture the fervent soil – even during droughts. When a record drought swept across the country and the wheat dried up, farmers tilled it under. Void of organic matter the land became susceptible to the winds sweeping across the plains. The term “Dust Bowl” came from Denver based Associated Press writer, Robert Geiger, reporting on his own personal account of a particularly pernicious dust storm. On April 15th, 1935 he wrote, "Three little words achingly familiar on a Western farmer's tongue, rule life in the dust bowl of the continent—'if it rains.'"He was reporting on a severe dust storm that occurred the day prior – “Black Sunday”. “Black blizzards” of dirt and dust hurled themselves across Oklahoma south to Texas lifting and mislaying an estimated 300 million tons of topsoil. Dust storms such as this went on from 1935 to 1941 sucking soil particulates from the ground darkening the skies in clouds of dust that blew as far east as Maine. It also scattered people in all directions across the country in a climate migration crisis of their its own making. Wally Hickel was one of the displaced.Wally was an athlete in High School and taught himself how to box by watching newsreels of Joe Louis. He became the Class B Golden Gloves champion in 1938 at age 29. Two years later he found himself in California fighting the welter weight champion, Jackie Brandon. Brandon broke his nose in the first round, but Hickel knocked him out three rounds later. Evidently struck by wanderlust, Hickel wanted to then hop a ship headed for Australia but lacked a passport, so instead he boarded the S. S. Yukon headed for Alaska.He returned to Kansas and married, but lost his first wife to illness. He worked as an airplane inspector that included occasional trips to Alaska to inspect privately owned planes – including Russian planes. It was in an airplane hangar that he met his second wife, Ermalee Strutz, and moved to Alaska. Hickel described her as “beautiful as a butterfly, but as tough as boots.” Her father was a United States Army Sergeant stationed in Anchorage and her family had ties to Alaska’s largest financial institution – National Bank of Alaska. She pushed Wally to enter the race to become Alaska’s second Governor. Hickel struggled with dyslexia, so Ermalee was tasked with doing most of his writing, including his campaign speeches. She remained a powerful influence on his career, including pushing Hickel to support the Alaska Permanent Fund. This is a state-owned corporation that invests at least 25% of the money flowing through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline in a fund that sends dividend checks to each resident of Alaska. In 2019, this yielded an annual check in the sum of $1600. This government run basic income guarantee was devised, implemented, and executed by a string of conservative Republican Governors starting with Wally in 1966 and continues today with the Republican far-right Christian conservative, Mike Dunleavy. Maybe this is where liberal socialist-leaning politicians like Bernie Sanders got the idea for a nationwide Universal Basic Income.In 1968, Hickel was told by Nixon that he would have to leave his post as Governor of Alaska to become the Secretary of the Interior. Wally cried. He probably cried again two years later when Nixon fired him for his “increasingly militant defense of the environment.” Hickel led a string of pro-environment policies in his short two years as Secretary: Preserved some of the Florida Everglades: He established the Biscayne National Monument preserving the ecological development of 4,000 acres of keys and more than 90,000 acres of water in the bay and the Atlantic Ocean.Delayed the Alaska oil pipeline to study its effects on permafrost: Heat generated from the pipeline would melt the permafrost leading to unknown damage to the ecosystem and the piping system.Halted the drilling of oil in the Santa Barbara channel: After a 1969 oil spill, Hickel removed 53 square miles of federal tracts from oil and gas leasing. (Later Reagan hoped for more platforms to be built in the channel because he liked how they reminded him of Christmas trees flickering in the dark. Locals call the oil rigs Reagan’s Christmas Trees)Cracked down on oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico: After this oil spill in the gulf, also in 1969, Hickel asked the Attorney General John Mitchell (the man who recommended Ruckelshaus for the EPA position) to convene a grand jury to investigate violations by Chevron and 49 other companies in nearly 7,000 oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico.Stopped imports of commercial whaling products: After placing eight species of whales on the Department's Endangered Species List, Hickel halted imports of oil, meat and any other products from these species. In 1969, roughly 30% of the nation’s soap, margarine, beauty cream, machine oil, and pet food came from whale oil.The final straw for Nixon was Hickel’s public opposition of the administration’s policies on the Viet Nam war and their fatal handling of the Kent State student protests. Hickel wrote, “I believe this administration finds itself today embracing a philosophy which appears to lack appropriate concern for the attitude of a great mass of Americans – our young people." Hickel was promptly let go. With him went the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Leslie Glasgow, who was in charge of Fish, Wildlife, Parks, and Marine Resources. Glasgow took a leave of absence from Louisiana State University, where he taught marsh wildlife, to assume his post under Hickel in Washington, D.C. He exceled at educating, convincing, and cajoling corporations, companies, and governmental agencies into environmental conservation practices. He was loved by both hippies and hunters and represented widespread hope that the nation could finally begin to heal the land it had wrongly wounded. But those hopes were dashed when it became clear Nixon would rather appease corporations than heal the environment. In a December 12th, 1970 New York Times article Glasgow said he was “pushed out of the Department of the Interior by political and business interests in a shake up that represented a “definite step backwards for environment.”” In anticipation of running for a second term in 1972, Glasgow supposed Nixon thought “the changes and dismissals had been made early in hopes that the people would forget them before the Presidential campaign.” What everyone remembers, is not what Hickel and Glasgow did for the environment but what Nixon did to himself and the country as the first evidence of the Watergate Scandal started the summer after their firing.AMERIGNIGMAGlasgow went back to teaching and Hickel went back to real estate. He was not about to make the same mistake his dad made in not owning property, so he bought as much as he could. He started Hickel Investment Company that is now run by this son, Wally Jr. They own and operate hotel rooms, food and beverage outlets, office and retail spaces, and residential lots around Alaska. They, like all residents of Alaska – including poverty stricken Indigenous tribal members – benefit from increasing profits from extractions of natural resources like oil and fish. It makes me question Hickel’s sterling environmental track record as Secretary of Interior – a post that demands a lot of reading and writing.  Perhaps he relied heavily on, and was influenced by, his environmentalist and academic assistant secretary, Dr. Glasgow. Maybe he diddled a dyslexic Hickel into an environmental clinician the same way his wife shaped him into a politician. Especially if Glasgow was known for his ability to convince corporations that doing good for the environment was also good for business. After all, conservation and conservative are just two letters apart.The United States is an enigma when it comes to mixing environmental stewardship with commercial profits. The EPA and the National Park Service sit under the Department of Interior which “manages public lands and minerals, national parks, and wildlife refuges and upholds Federal trust responsibilities to Indian tribes and Native Alaskans. Additionally, Interior is responsible for endangered species conservation and other environmental conservation efforts.” But the Forest Service sits under the Department of Agriculture which “provides leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, and related issues.” Meanwhile, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) sits under the Department of Commerce which “works with businesses, universities, communities, and the Nation’s workers to promote job creation, economic growth, sustainable development, and improved standards of living for Americans.”Like all slaves to fashion, I likely ditched my eco-kicks in favor of the next cool shoe. Probably a new pair of 1978 Nike Tailwinds, the first to feature an air pocket. They too had a cool tread first made from a waffle iron. I don’t recall what kind of imprint they left in the first fallen snow, but I know now the imprint my habitual consumerism has on the environment. And I need help.Environmental protection, conservation, and restoration are necessary to limit the greed that seems to overcome both producers and consumers of limitless goods made from limited resources. Over zealous consumerism will not be quelled by collective action on the part of consumers. Leaders need to lead and act on behalf of future generations of both humans and non-humans. That’s what it means to lead. The dirt from “Black Sunday” filled ponds and potholes across the plains decimating duck and other wildlife populations. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a fervent Democrat, hired a Republican to remedy the calamity. He appointed the famous, well loved Iowa cartoonist and conservationist “Ding” Darling to head the U. S. Biological Survey – what then became the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Department of the Interior. He created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) putting 2.5 million young people to work restoring natural wetlands and habitats along the nation’s four major flyways. More than 63 national wildlife refuges were established during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. That’s what leadership looks like, America, in the face of a man-made climate crisis. Subscribe at interplace.io

“Look, you’re already dead. If you’ll just quit fighting, I’ll make it easy for you.” Hello and welcome to episode twenty two of Once Upon a Nightmare. In this episode I go full on true crime as I discuss The Massacre in McCarthy, Alaska. Also listen out for my podcast recommendation! Suffer the Little Children Podcast Thank you for listening and don’t forget to rate and review on iTunes. For updates, reviews and behind the scenes info follow via one or all of the below options: Instagram – @onceuponanightmarepodcast Twitter - @anightmarepod Letterboxd - @anightmarepod Facebook - Once Upon a Nightmare Email - onceuponanightmarepod@gmail.com Part of the Podbreed Network: https://www.podbreed.com/ (https://www.podbreed.com/) Music by: Darren Curtis Music - https://www.darrencurtismusic.com/battle-music Dark Anthem G Sources  https://www.travelalaska.com/Destinations/Communities/Kennicott-McCarthy.aspx (https://www.travelalaska.com/Destinations/Communities/Kennicott-McCarthy.aspx)  Frozen Terror - Ice Cold Killers- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfCVeB226kM  https://amok.fandom.com/wiki/Louis_Hastings (https://amok.fandom.com/wiki/Louis_Hastings)  https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hastings-louis.htm (https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hastings-louis.htm)  https://www.britannica.com/topic/Trans-Alaska-Pipeline (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Trans-Alaska-Pipeline)  https://casetext.com/case/hastings-v-state-55

Carla Williams presents Wildcat Women, Narratives of Women Breaking Ground in Alaska’s Oil and Gas Industry. The book, Wildcat Women documents the life and labor of pioneering women in the oil fields of Alaska’s North Slope. It profiles 14 women while exploring an untold history of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. “These trailblazers faced down challenges on and off the job: they drove buses over ice roads through snowstorms; wrestled with massive pipes; and operated dangerous valves that put their lives literally in their hands; they also fought union hall red tape, challenged discriminatory practices, and fought for equal pay—and sometimes won”. Carla Williams, raised in Crosby, Minnesota, lived for forty years in Alaska. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from University of Alaska Fairbanks and spent most of her career working in Alaska’s oil and gas industry.

27.3.1975: Der Bau der Trans-Alaska-Pipeline beginnt

As a teenager in the 60’s, Larry moved from Seattle to Alaska, first to Kenai then Anchorage. After college, he took a job in California, where he met his future wife Sunnie. They married and returned to Anchorage to live, work and raise their three sons: Graham, Nolan, and Marshall. Today, Larry and Sunnie enjoy cycling, backcountry hiking and skiing, and “cabin time” at their hand-built log home in Willow. In the future, they anticipate extensive travel abroad, spending time with their sons and granddaughter Kinley Rae in the Lower 48.

In this episode of West Obsessed, High Country News Correspondent Krista Langlois talks about her recent feature story on a burgeoning recreation industry in the West's northern-most terrain. Alaska looks to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline as a boon for an unlikely economy in the Frontier State: Thru-hiking through rugged wilderness.

Roy David, Sr. is an elder from Tetlin, Alaska. He grew up living a traditional subsistence lifestyle of hunting, trapping, fishing, and gardening. Roy David worked on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, as an alcohol counselor, and in law enforcement. He has also participated in dog team races. Roy David has great knowledge of traditional stories and is interested in sharing his knowledge and stories with the younger generation in hopes of keeping his Native traditions and values alive for the future.

In Battleground Alaska, Fighting Federal Power in America's Last Wilderness, Stephen Haycox critiques four critical environmental battles within Alaska. His analysis focuses on the establishment of the ANWR is the 1950s; the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline in the 1970s; the passage of the Alaska National Interests Lands Conservation Act in 1980; and the struggle that culminated in the Tongass Timber Reform Act of 1990. In his talk, he explains how “Alaska’s economy depends as much on absentee corporate exploitation of its natural resources, particularly oil, as it does on federal spending.” Stephen W. Haycox is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is the author of many works including Alaska: An American Colony and Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics and Environment in Alaska.

This week Visibility 9-11 welcomes author of The Energy Non Crisis, Pastor Lindsey Williams.  Pastor Williams is a whistle blower who worked for three years as Chaplin on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction project where he learned that there is no shortage of oil in the world and that elites have formulated a plan to use oil as a mechanism to control the world.  Pastor Williams' warnings and predictions have since came to pass in the nearly 30 years since his experience in Alaska.  Pastor Williams makes predictions for the price of crude oil in this episode and discusses the crumbling myth of "peak oil".  This is a must hear interview for everyone who wishes to understand the recent surge in gasoline prices to over $3.00 a gallon.