Breaking ice for Arctic oil [videorecording]

Title:

JLCTITLE245:

[videorecording] / presented by Ross Coen.

Personal Author:

Coen, Ross Allen.

Publication Information:

Juneau : University of Alaska Southeast, c2012.

Physical Description:

1 DVD (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Series:

Evening at Egan.

Event Note:

Recorded September 14th, 2012.

Abstract:

What the test run of an ice-breaking tanker in the Northwest Passage tells about the impracticality of moving crude oil by icebreaking ships. The 1968 voyage of the Manhattan provides an important historical reference point for marine traffic and resource development in the Arctic.

Corporate Subject:

Manhattan (Tanker) -- History.

Subject Term:

Petroleum -- Transportation -- Alaska.

Tankers -- United States -- History.

Oil fields -- Alaska.

Geographic Term:

Northwest Passage.

Added Corporate Author:

University of Alaska Southeast.

Technical Details:

DVD-R

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