Alaska: Pipeline assessment

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Alaska Pipeline assessment
CW
23rd February 2006

• Lesson Aims
• To develop an opinion on the Alaskan Oil
  Pipeline
• To show understanding through arguments for and
  against the pipeline.

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Pipeline video

• Last lesson you watched the oil pipeline video-
  What can you remember from it?
• What are the other possible ways of transporting
  oil from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez?

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Key Words

• You should be aware of all of the following
  words whilst doing the essay preparation-
• Resource
• Ecosystem
• Food-chain
• Tundra
• Non-renewable
• Preserve
• Sustainability
• Impact
• Climate

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Dune Raider sheet

• Essay-
• Should new oilfields in Alaska be exploited?
• You are going to prepare your essay by using a
  Dune Raider worksheet
• This will act as a Writing Frame to plan the
  journey of your essay
• Use the many resources available to you this
  lesson

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Should new oilfields in Alaska be exploited?

• You already know that the oil pipeline has been
  built
• Oil is drilled from under the ground, and then
  pumped through the pipeline across Alaska
• You have got to decide whether it is a good idea
  or not to drill for even more oil

Should they be allowed to drill for more oil here?
Present route of oil pipeline
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Should new oilfields in Alaska be exploited?

• You will need to decide on all the pipelines
  good points
• And then compare them with all the pipelines bad
  points
• Then you decide- do the good points outweigh the
  bad points
• There is no right or wrong answer- its all about
  how you argue your opinion

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Research
Homework

• Make sure that your Dune Raider sheet is
  completed- you will need it next lesson
• You will not have any other resources available
  to you next lesson

• You might want to put some maps / photos etc
  into your essay