The Eskimo And The Oil Man : The Battle At The Top Of The World For America's Future

The Eskimo And The Oil Man : The Battle At The Top Of The World For America's Future


Title :	The Eskimo And The Oil Man : The Battle At The Top Of The World For Americaâ€™s Future
Main Author :	Reiss, Bob
Date of Publication :	2012
Overview :	The Arctic century is upon us. A great jockeying for power and influence has erupted among nations in the high north. At stake are trillions of dollars in profit or loss, US security, geopolitical influence and the fate of a fragile environment as well as the region's traditional people. As the ice melts and oil companies venture north, the polar regions may become the next Panama Canal, the next Arabian Peninsula-places on earth that remain relatively unknown in one century and become pivotal in the next. Now Shell oil plans to sink exploratory wells in the pristine waters off the North Slope of Alaska-a site that the company believes contains three times as much oil as the Gulf of Mexico. This book tells this story through the eyes of two men, one an Iñupiat Eskimo leader on Alaska's North Slope, the other the head of Shell Oil's Alaska venture. Their saga is set against the background of an undersea land rush in the Arctic, with Russian bombers appearing off Alaska's coast, and rapid changes in ice that put millions of sea mammals at risk. The men's decisions will affect the daily lives of all Americans, in their cities and towns and also in their pocketbooks. The story begins as a fight and ends with a surprise.
Call Number :	333.8230916327 REI
Location :	Level 3, Anjung Bestari Building, National Library of Malaysia