A bullet would not make a very big hole -- maybe the size of a dime. He advocated for the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971) and demanded environmental safeguards in the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.39, Hickels staff reached out to young people with programs like Earth Day, and Hickel urged President Nixon to make it a national holiday. US refineries included in the same broad market as Alaskaand that process Alaska crudecan be found in Hawaii, California, and Washington. Since then, the refinery has diversified its capabilities, and today it accepts and refines crude oil from around the world. The effects of climate change are occurring rapidly in Alaska and nowhere more than in the Arctic and areas with permafrost, Mike Byerly, a resident of Homer, told the commission. 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Charles Wohlforth, From the Shores of Ship Creek: Stories of Anchorages First 100 Years (Anchorage: Todd Communications, 2014), 79-81. A Constitutional Amendmentrequires a majority vote of the people of Alaska, and the item was put on the1976 statewide general election ballot. Two projects that caught particular notice, but that he did not push, were a water pipeline to California48 and an undersea railroad to Siberia. The citys combined civilian and military population stabilized to about 6,000 in 1942, then doubled to 12,000 within five years, and by 1951, it was more than 47,000. 17. Hickel, Walter J. "Wally" | Alaska History Alyeska also operates the Ship Escort/Response Vessel System (SERVS), helping to safely transport tankers through the Sound and providing extensive spill response preparedness. Although the crafts council, which was generally supportive of the sale of BPs assets to Hilcorp, acknowledged its analysis was just a one-year snapshot, the organization maintained it nevertheless provided an insight into how Hilcorp prioritizes investments in maintenance. Terrence Cole, Fighting for the Forty-Ninth Star: C.W. Alaska Wants to Let an Oil Giant Keep Secrets From Its Own People Hopefully they inherited, and are paying good attention to, experienced personnel on TAPS., As a corporation with operations in eight states beside Alaska, including Texas, Pennsylvania and Louisiana, Hilcorp holds itself out as responsible stewards and partners of the environment.. He also has been a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Social Justice and Human Rights. About TAPS TAPS Facts Construction Throughput Pump Stations Flow Assurance Ship Escort Response Vessel System (SERVS) Valdez Marine Terminal (VMT) Oil Spill Response Capabilities Drills and Exercises Our #1 newsletter delivers the weeks climate and energy news our original stories and top headlines from around the web. He also co-founded The Northern Forum and was heavily involved in the establishment of Commonwealth North.50. We dont know their financial situation, said Epstein, who is president of LNE Engineering and Policy, an Anchorage environmental consulting firm. The corporation is named after an Aleut word meaning "mainland". It has worked to shore up pipeline support structures wreaked by thawing permafrost. McLaughlin, in an ongoing bid to keep the companys financial books a secret, told the commission earlier this year that Harvest Alaska was adept at maintaining growth through acquisitions and a lower cost-structure while remaining a safe pair of hands for the future ownership and operations of the assets.. No biographical sketch for Walter J. Hickel was published in John P. Bagoys. At 42 gallons per barrel, that means that the pipeline supplies about 6 percent of the oil used in the United States. Hickel spent the next decade promoting a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to Valdez parallel to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and building a gas liquefication plant at Valdez. Trans-Alaskas safety record: 18 oil spills in 20 years There have been 18 breaches of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline in the last 20 years, according to data from the Pipeline Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA). US President Joe Biden has cancelled permits for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office. "What if the Alaska Pipeline blew up?" Hilcorp completes purchase of BP's Alaska assets with approval of Its a costly and increasingly relentless battle that took center stage when the commission was confronted by questions of whether Hilcorp is up to the task of keeping the pipeline secure against these climate change-driven threats. He chose not to run for a reelection in 1994.49, Hickel founded the Institute of the North, an Anchorage-based non-profit association that advocates Alaska and Arctic policy issues and caring for commonly-owned land and resources and managing them wisely. Biographical Sketch, Walter J. Hickel, Governor of Alaska, Secretary of the Interior Designee, Office of the President-Elect, Richard M. Nixon, December 23, 1968,File: Walter J. Hickel - Biographies, Written, 1965-1986, Walter J. Hickel Papers, 1950-2010 (HMC-0665), Box 309, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage. The working interest owners include BP, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Chevron. He negotiated a settlement with the Exxon Corporation to pay for impacts from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Walter J. Hickel, October 15, 2003, Interview by Patricia Limerick and Charles Wilkinson [Inside Interior: Walter J. Hickel], transcript, Center of the American West, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, http://www.centerwest.org (accessed November 14, 2015). He sold it, built two more and sold them, taking the profits and investing them in new business ventures.18, In 1947, he founded Hickel Construction Company and developed it into a multi-million dollar business. Hickel arrived in Anchorage on November 21, 1940, with only thirty-seven cents in his pocket. Lacking a trainer, he said later that all he knew about the sport was what I had learned from watching newsreel films of Joe Louis and other professionals.10 He fought every Saturday night behind Joness barn in Claflin. Hickel hired Tom Kelley, a personal friend from Houston, Texas, who had experience in oil exploration and knew how oil companies acted and reacted, to plan additional lucrative oil sales. Even at todays low oil prices, oil revenues account for approximately 67 percent of unrestricted General Fund revenues in FY 2017, according to the Alaska Resource Development Council, a nonprofit, membership-funded organization of individuals and companies from the states oil and gas, mining, timber, tourism, and fisheries industries. Safety Informational Brochure Pipeline System Map MAP Emergency . Hickel capitalized on Alaskan resentment against their long-standing political and economic conditions they had faced, in one form or another, throughout the twentieth century. Over the course of 36 hours, the pipeline was shut down and the oil had to be drained from the punctured section so that it could be repaired. Hickel proposed to slash a 550-mile highway (unofficially known as the Hickel Highway) from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay, by attempting to turn a winter trail into an all-season road on federal land, with construction crews using big D-9 bulldozers to cut into the permafrost. The thirty-year TAPS State and Federal land leases were due to expire in 2004. He lost to Republican State Senator Arliss Sturgulewski in the 1986 Republican primary.41, Hickel spent the next decade promoting a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to Valdez parallel to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and building a gas liquefication plant at Valdez. U.S. Coast Guard Pollution Incident Database. In 1982, Governor Jay Hammond asked Hickel and former Governor William A. Egan to lead an effort to explore alternatives to bring Alaskas North Slope natural gas to market. Faulty safety values and the absence of safety valves have been noted by the commission on Hilcorps wells almost since the company began operating in Alaska, including a violation earlier this year for failing to equip a gas well with a required safety value on a site located within 660 feet of residential buildings and public roads. Why Now? Alaska refineries are part of a broader market that includes West Coast and Asian refineries, according to a 2016 AOGA report. See also, Elizabeth Tower, Anchorage: From Its Humble Origins as a Railroad Construction Camp, 153. Mid-Alaska Pipeline, LLC 615 Bidwell Ave., Suite 100 Fairbanks, AK 99701 907-374-4627. Walter J. Hickel, Who Owns America?, 40-47. Entry for Walter J. Hickel, in Creating Alaska: The Origins of the Forty-Ninth State, University of Alaska; http://www.alaska.edu/creatingalaska/whos-who/alaskans/business-leaders/hickel (accessed November 15, 2015). The pipeline was an amazing engineering accomplishment that contributed much to Alaska's economy. 10. In 2016, distillate fuel oil consumption comprised about 20 percent of the total US petroleum consumption. If someone were to blow up the pipeline, it would make the mess from a tiny bullet hole look like a pinprick. The Alaska pipeline is an amazing structure that carries oil from wells in the very far north of Alaska down to the ice-free port in Valdez, Alaska, where tankers pick up and transport the oil. Different chemical engineering processes are used to create different products, Hunt explains. September 10: The lease for 179 parcels of land covering 640 acres of state-owned land in and around Prudhoe Bay is put up on the auction block. Terrence Cole, Boom Town: Anchorage and the Second World War, 75-85, in The Pacific Northwest in World War II, ed. His firm built several hundred homes in the Spenard and Turnagain residential subdivisions. 117-178; James K. Barnett . Arrive Early to Beat Storm, Hutchinson News (Hutchinson, KS), January 14, 1940, 2, http://newspapers.com (accessed November 16, 2015). It has no record of owning and operating facilities anywhere near the size and complexity of TAPS. In 1977, Fluor completed engineering, procurement, and construction services for the Trans-Alaska pipeline, the largest pipeline in the world. Live from New York and Hong Kong, bringing you the essential stories from the close of the U.S. markets to the open of trading across Asia. Entry for Ermalee Hickel, in Fond Memories of Anchorage Pioneers, Volume 1 (Anchorage: Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo 15, Auxiliary 4, 1996), 229. 29. 811 is the phone number you call before digging to protect yourself and others from unintentionally hitting buried pipelines or utilities. Entry for Walter Joseph Wally Hickel, Find A Grave Memorial; http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52117897&ref=acom (accessed November 12, 2015). Even with the increase, TAPS is still operating at only one-third of its capacity, having seen a 39 percent decline in the past ten years, according to AOGA. Preferred citation: Bruce Parham, Hickel, Walter J. Harvest Alaska currently operates pipeline systems in Alaska's Cook Inlet and on the North Slope. 31. While Hilcorp is only about 3 percent of the size of BP, according to one estimate given the commission, its purchase of BPs Alaska assets gives it a larger share of the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, the syndicate that owns and operates the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, than either Exxon and ConocoPhillips. The Alaska corporation commonly known as Alyeska Pipeline Company was founded in 1970 to design, construct, operate and maintain a pipeline to transport oil from the fields on the North Slope of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968 to an ice-free deep-water port in Valdez, Alaska. The younger Hickels grandparents had left southern Germany a decade or so before the Zecha family did, and settled near Claflin, a German-American community (population about 800) located almost exactly in the middle of Kansas.4, Hickel grew up during the Depression and Dust Bowl years in Kansas, near Claflin in a strict, but loving, Roman Catholic family with deep religious convictions. George Bryson, Why Wally? Carl Weimer, special projects advisor for the Pipeline Safety Trust, a non-profit watchdog organization, says its a head scratcher to try to predict how Hilcorp will perform now that it is the principal owner of TAPS because it has no track record of administering oil pipelines of significant size. 32. The refinery provides the majority of jet fuel used at international airports in Seattle; Portland, Oregon; and Vancouver, British Columbia. What that meant is that if things didnt work out and Hilcorp couldnt pay the money it owed, BP couldnt go after Hilcorp as a whole, only this separate subsidiary, said Andrew Logan, senior director for oil and gas for Ceres, a Boston-based sustainability advocacy group. The project includes a gas treatment plant at Prudhoe Bay, a buried 42 diameter pipeline, and a liquefaction facility and export terminal in Nikiski, Alaska. Sign up to get PRNs top stories and curated news delivered to your inbox weekly! In mid-January 1940, he participated in a southwestern Kansas Golden Gloves tournament, in Hutchinson, as a member of the western Kansas Bad Lands boxing team.11 Later that month, he left for California by signing up for a regional Golden Gloves tournament in Hobbs, New Mexico. More than 1 million barrels of crude oil move through the pipeline each day. Or enough to nearly fill an entire supertanker like the Exxon Valdez. Prudhoe Bay, discovered in 1968 by Richfield (ARCO) and Humble Oil (ExxonMobil) and confirmed by BP in 1969, is the largest oil field in North America. Because workers welded much of the pipeline at temperatures well below zero, engineers anticipated that the metal would expand once-hot oil began flowing through. The location of the production site relative to the refinery determines that mode of transportation, Hunt says. In lawsuits targeting the coal operator Arch, residents contend that mining activity has disrupted their lives and emitted a gas that threatens their safety and the planet. About TAPS TAPS Facts Construction Throughput Pump Stations Flow Assurance Ship Escort Response Vessel System (SERVS) Valdez Marine Terminal (VMT) Oil Spill Response Capabilities Drills and Exercises He was Chairman of the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Committee for three terms.53. The pipeline was built between March 1975 and June 1977, running from the North Slope fields at Prudhoe Bay to the Marine Terminal at Valdez on Prince William Sound. The sale is part of BPs efforts to exit Alaska after the company announced it would begin the process to leave in August of 2019. In 1974 and 1978, he was defeated by Naknek legislator and bush pilot Jay Hammond, who won two terms as governor. If you detect a spill or other emergency on TAPS, from a safe location, call Alyeska at (907) 835-4709 or 911. Quotation by Stephen Haycox, Professor of History, University of Alaska Anchorage, in Alaskas Walter Hickel, who Nixon Fired over Vietnam, Dies, Anchorage Daily News, May 8, 2010, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news-politics-government/articles24582163.html (accessed November 16, 2015). The 800-mile Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is an engineering marvel that has moved 18 billion barrels of oil since startup in 1977. Biographical Questionnaire, Walter J. Hickel, Dictionary of International Biography, Sixth Edition, 1969; File: Walter J. Hickel - Biographies, Written, 1965-1986, Walter J. Hickel Papers, 1950-2010 (HMC-0665), Box 309, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage. He made as much as $300 per month, when $100 a month was considered a living wage. Prior to 1976, Alaskas personal income tax rate was 14.5 percentthe highest in the United States. Pipeline Technician Salary in Alaska Annual Salary Monthly Pay Top Earners $334,037 $27,836 75th Percentile $145,081 $12,090 Average $104,517 $8,709 25th Percentile $35,397 $2,949. Its designed to process heavy crude from Californias San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles Basin, as well as crudes from the North Slope and international sources. Alaskas Finest, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, December 16, 1955, 1; Walter J. Hickel, Who Owns America?, 68-69; and Terrence Cole, Fighting for the Forty-Ninth Star: C.W. He built and operated commercial projects including the Northern Lights Shopping Center, University Center, Travelers Inn, and the Captain Cook Hotel.19, Hickel joined developers Carl Martin, Emil Pfeil, and Marvin Muktuk Marston in building rental units, high-end residential developments like Turnagain by the Sea, and neighborhood shopping centers.20 In 1951, he joined Carl Martin in building a forty-unit housing development they called Martin Manor. Harvest Midstream operates crude oil and natural gas gathering, storage, transportation, treatment and terminalling interests across the Lower 48 and Alaska. ByBruce Parham, November 2015. A Real Life Political Thriller, Anchorage Daily News, We Alaskans, November 11, 1990, O-6. Alyeska Service Company will continue to operate the pipeline as it does today. Valdez Marine Terminal (VMT) - Alyeska Pipeline The Providence Thermal Unit was opened in 1979. Because not all crude oil is the samethere are differences in quality and composition depending on the oil field it comes from, and this can even change with timenot all refineries are set up in the exact same way. He was an Alaskan leader who promoted Alaskan interests, meaning that Alaska must become an owner state. Historian Claus-M. Naske used a similar term, corporate state. AlthoughHickel's attempts to define this term remained elusive, historian Stephen Haycox said: he seemed to mean that Alaska should use its power as owner of the states natural resources, and the wealth derived from that ownership, to establish a more stable state economy.44 This term has gained much more utility as a political mantra rather than as a call for a carefully conceived program of diversified economic development. 20. Alaska crude oil is transferred from production sites to refineries by pipelines, ships, and trucks. It reported just three spills in the last 10 years from its Alaskan pipelines, totaling about 350 gallons, according to records from the Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration. Wally, Cook Inlet Historical Society, Legends & Legacies, Anchorage, 1910-1940, http://www.alaskahistory.org. See Bechtel's History from 1889 to Today - Bechtel But the agency overseeing the transaction, the Regulatory Commission of . River and Stream Crossings: 34 major, nearly 500 others. Alyeska Pipeline Service Company: Safely, reliably operating the Trans Alaska Pipeline System. Mit Ihrer Anmeldung erklren Sie sich damit einverstanden, Inhalte von uns zu erhalten. 27. 23. PGP key: http://ow.ly/iEHN3089Gqg. Until its acquisition of TAPS, Hilcorp and its Alaskan subsidiaries were small-time players in the oil pipeline business. Hilcorp touts itself as a leader in taking on dying oil and gas operations across the United States and reinvigorating production with innovation and integrity.. The pipeline is 800 miles long and four feet in diameter. Walter J. Hickel, Who Owns America?, 48-53. World Oil Reserves The world has proven reserves equivalent to 46.6 times its annual consumption levels. "TAPS is an engineering marvel that has played a critical role in the history of the energy industry," said Sean Kolassa, President of Harvest Midstream. Operations The remaining 10 percent is converted into anode-grade calcined coke, which is then sold to aluminum smelters worldwide. ARCO, or the Atlantic Richfield Oil Company, is now a subsidiary of British Petroleum (BP). Alaska Pipeline Shutdown 'Significant' Event for BP - CNBC A major out-of-state refinery handling Alaska crude is BPs Cherry Point, in Blaine, Washington. In May 1970, after the tragic shootings on the Kent State University campus on May 4, he wrote a forceful letter to Nixon urging him to respect young people who opposed the Vietnam War, but the letter was leaked to the press, leading to his firing by the president on Thanksgiving Eve, 1970.40, Hickel returned to Alaska and quickly re-entered state politics. That incident wasnt the first time. 22. At Gray, our journalists report, write, edit and produce the news content that informs the communities we serve. It is a fiction that Hilcorp can own 49 percent of the pipeline and its operating company without exerting a similar lions share of Alyeskas governance, Veri di Suvero, executive director at Alaska Public Interest Research Group, told the commission in a written statement. After the Hobbs tournament, he went to Los Angeles for several amateur fights. Theymet under conditions she later described as hardly romanticwe worked in the same hangar.16 Besides Theodore, they had five more sons: Robert Bob Hickel, Walter Joseph Wally Hickel, Jr., John Edward Jack Hickel, Joseph William Joe Hickel, and William Karl Karl Hickel.
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