Californian disaster. You dont think about alaska unless perhaps youre an earthquake specialist or some trivia master. But alaska is exactly where the great quake happened on march 27, 1964, at 9. 2 on the Richter Scale. It was the biggest earthquake ever recorded in north america and the second most powerful in world history. Does anyone know the most powerful . [inaudible] the answer is chile in 1960, and that when registered 9. 5. The white and alaska lasted more than four minutes which is an incredibly long time for an earthquake. The human tragedy and physical damage of it all are dramatically and vividly captured by henry in his book, but the impact on people, on structures and on the landscape is only part of the story that henry tales. His book also is a story about how a major Natural Disaster ended up spurring scientific inquiries. And that part of the story centers around one individual in particular, a geologist with u. S. Geological survey named george plastered. He wasnt
Now to the floor of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal savior, we thank you for the fellowship of your spirit and your consolations of love. May our lawmakers remember that you are their rock and refuge. Lord, speak peace to their hearts in these turbulent times, guiding them along the path of your wisdom. Reward their efforts with a joyful harvest, as they strive to build up and not tear down. Raise them above discord and division, helping them to Work Together to keep america strong. We are grateful for the favor you have given this nation and for surrounding us with the shield of your compassion mercy and love. Strong deliverer, accept our grateful praise. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States o
When Congress Last debated opening anwr to oil and Gas Development, people made arguments about the use of new technology and how it would minimize the impact on anwr. Since then a lot of the claims have borne out in the industry. We will share some of them today. A couple are directional. Extended reach Multi Lateral drilling techniques that allow wells to be drilled in all directions from a well pad kind of like spokes on a bicycle wheel. Directional drilling has been around since the 1970s. But at that time it was did not allow the reach that we can now. And so you could drill a few square miles around a pad. I have a figure thats been shown before in the hearing today. You can see a couple, three square miles using technology from the 1970s and fast forward to the run on the far right, 12acre pad where a rig can reach out and cover 125 square miles. That means that you can space pads in modern development up to ten miles apart and that there is little to no surface impact between t
Good morning everyone. Committee will come to order. We meet this morning to consider opening a very small portion of alaskas 1002 area to responsible Energy Development to meet the 1 billion budget reconciliation instruction that our Committee Received last week. The 1002 area covers 1. 57 million acres of land in northeast alaska within the nonwilderness portion. You bring it over here, sean. Within the nonwilderness portion of an war. And i think its important to put this in context in terms of the areas we are talking about. Anwar itself is 19 million acres. Approximately the size of south carolina. The nonwilderness area, is approximately the size of delaware. The area here is designated as federal wilderness. So when were talking about anwr itself, i think its importedant to recognize there are parts that are designated as wilderness, parts within the refuge and parts, the 1002 area specifically been designated for consideration for oil and Gas Exploration. So again i want to be
Alaskas delegation senator lisa measure cows ki is the chair of the hearing. Welcome back, everyone. Sorry for the extra tenminute delay but we have finished at least these tranche of voting and hopefully well have an opportunity to get through this last panel with an opportunity for questions and conclude the hearing before we have another round of votes. So thats the hope here. This second panel is perhaps more of our technical panel. We have several witnesses present to help answer questions about modern development on the north slope and what it might look like in the future. Joining us today are mr. Aaron shut. Aaron is the president and ceo of doyon limited. Thank you for being here. You also brought your son with you, which is a great Educational Opportunity for him and we appreciate you both being here. Low w lois epistone is epstein is with us. She has been before the committee before. Following ms. Epstein, we will have mr. Richard glenn, also a frequent flyer here to the to