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Article: North Slope, Alaska, Residents Oppose Natural-Gas Pipeline Route.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- July 21, 2001
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By Ben Spiess, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 21--North Slope Inupiat Eskimos called on Alaska's big oil companies Thursday to abandon the idea of building a natural gas pipeline from the Prudhoe Bay oil field through the Beaufort Sea to Canada.
At a hearing in Barrow that was at turns folksy, funny and stormy, Native leaders, Gov. Tony Knowles and numerous gas development advisers questioned oil companies' tentative plans for a pipeline development that would take natural gas out of Alaska with minimal benefit to the state.
One by one, the leading political bodies of Alaska's Arctic laid down their ...