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When prospectors struck oil at Prudhoe Bay in 1968, they stumbled upon the largest oil field in North America. Getting that oil out of Alaska would take nine years, employ some 78,000 people, cost more than $8 billion and require threading 800 miles of steel pipe through America鈥檚 most pristine wilderness.
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline changed just about everything and everyone it touched from the people who opposed it to the people who supported it, the people who built it, and the state of Alaska.

In the summer of 1977, Alaskan crude began to flow through the finished pipeline. Since then, the pipeline has delivered some 15 billion barrels of oil - half again as much as predicted. But the disaster that pipeline opponents said was inevitable came in 1989 when the Exxon Valdez ran aground, spilling a quarter-million barrels of oil. It was the largest, most destructive oil spill in US history.

Nuair a fhuair lorgairean ola ann am B脿gh Prudhow ann an naoi-ceud-deug seasgad 鈥榮 a sia, bha iad air lorg fhaighinn air an raon-ola a bu mhotha ann an Aimearaga a-Tuath. Bheireadh iad naoi bliadhna mus fhaigheadh iad air an ola fhaighinn a-mach 脿 Alasga; bheireadh iad cosnadh dha seachdad 鈥榮 a h-ochd m矛le neach-obrach; chosgadh e c貌rr is ochd billean dolair; agus ruitheadh iad ochd cheud m矛le de ph矛ob st脿ilinn tron fhasach a bu bh貌idhche ann an Aimearaga.

Dh鈥檃tharraich a鈥� Ph矛ob Tar-Alasga an 矛re mhath a h-uile c脿il agus a h-uile duine a th脿inig na luib 鈥� daoine a sheas na aghaidh agus feadhainn a bha air a shon; an fheadhainn a thog e, agus St脿it Alasga fh猫in.
As t-Samhradh naoi-ceud-deug seachdad 鈥榮 a seachd, th貌isich ola amh Alasganach a鈥� sruthadh tron ph矛oba. On sin, tha a鈥� ph矛ob air toirt c貌ig-deug baraillean de dh鈥檕la dhan d霉thaich 鈥� d脿rna leth a-rithist a bharrachd air na bha iad a鈥� s霉ileachadh o th霉s.

Dubbed in Gaelic with English subtitles