Bill Howitt, Alyeska engineer Across 420 miles of the pipeline's route, where the permafrost was unstable and the pipe could not be buried, the engineers designed vertical support members (VSM).

Alaska’s Arctic Ocean shores had been known to hold oil in some capacity since the 1800s. Native Alaskans would cut blocks of tundra to use as fuel for heat, as the frozen grass was soaked with ...

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs said in a statement that the answer to the Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta to the ...