Geologist, independent scholar and Jackson School adjunct faculty member Scott Montgomery argues in his op-ed in The Conversation “Large-scale fracking comes to the Arctic in a new Alaska oil boom” that new wave of Arctic development will help increase U.S. oil production and influence in world oil markets.
Fracking comes to the Arctic as oil companies discover volumes on Alaska’s North Slope | The Conversation
April 25, 2017
Trans-Alaska Pipeline, northern Brooks Range, Alaska. Credit: U.S.Geological Survey/Flickr