A Synthesis of Existing, Planned, and Proposed Infrastructure and Operations Supporting Oil and Gas Activities and Commercial Transportation in Arctic Alaska
This report builds on the National Research Council’s 2003 study entitled Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska’s North Slope. The authors of that study identify the need for information that can contribute to comprehensive planning of oil and gas activities in the region. Unfortunately, there is a still a shortage of regional-level studies that present information about oil and gas development and other types of industrial activities in a useable manner for a wide audience of stakeholders and in support of an integrated approach to planning and management.
This report is designed to fill that gap by integrating a variety of data that have not been previously assembled. More specifically, the purpose of this report is to synthesize information about existing, planned, and proposed infrastructure and operations that support oil and gas exploration and production and commercial transportation over the whole of Arctic Alaska, compiling a region-wide vision of these industrial activities that has not previously existed.
This report is intended as a factual and unbiased reference for the wide range of stakeholders interested in such industrial activities. Chapters 4 through 9 summarize information related to specific geographic sub-regions of Arctic Alaska and includes an original map. All original maps were made using a combination of publicly available data layers, geo-referenced data layers that were created specifically for this report, and the data holdings of Audubon Alaska. Chapter 10 provides a region-wide synthesis and the map depicts infrastructure and commercial transportation for all of Arctic Alaska. Taken as a whole, the report provides readers with an overview of the history, current conditions, and plausible future extent of industrial infrastructure in Arctic Alaska.
Via International Arctic Research Center
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