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Alaska pipeline anxiety spurs governor's plea for Obama to open oil taps
Halt in pipeline operations will spell end of oil on North Slope, warns academic
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Mon, Aug 31, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Washington
ALASKA Governor Bill Walker has a message for President Barack Obama: Fill the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System while you still can.
The United States agreed earlier last month to allow Royal Dutch Shell plc to resume Arctic oil exploration, yet state officials say it may not be enough to save the 1,300km pipeline, Alaska's economic lifeline for the past 40 years. Efforts to limit drilling and dwindling volumes on the line may eventually make it difficult to move crude at all.
