The article discusses the plans of a resident in Valdez, Alaska to make his hometown a booming resort economy fueled by a ski mountain. It states that because of the decreasing supply of oil in his hometown, Ryan McCune, a local snow...
“Like it?” he asked. “That’s a slice of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.” The massive project to build the pipeline had started in 1969. When complete, it would carry crude oil 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope to Valdez, 118 miles east of Anchorage. “There’s a thrivin...