A Supply of Alaska Workers for the Gas Line

Thirty years ago two welders finished the final weld on the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, a 20th century engineering marvel that has pumped billions of barrels of oil to market and billions of dollars into Alaska's economy. Next month's anniversary comes in the midst of negotiations and planning for another pipeline - the gas line to ship natural gas from the North Slope, at least partly along the same route as the oil pipeline.