Who Is Pastor Lindsey Williams?

Pastor Lindsey Williams, an ordained Baptist minister, went to Alaska in 1970 as a missionary.

The Transalaska oil pipeline began its construction phase on 29^th April 1974.

Because of Pastor Williams’ love for the USA and concern for the spiritual welfare of the over 25,000 workers on the pipeline, he volunteered to serve as Chaplain on the pipeline, with the full support of the Alyeska Pipeline Company.

Pastor Lindsey Williams was given the northern 7 out of the 28 construction camps including the oil field at Prudhoe Bay to hold worship services at the 7 camps once a day. After six months a PR employee at Alyeska Pipeline Company told Pastor Lindsey Williams that he was an invaluable asset to the company.

He said that Lindsey was saving the oil pipeline company thousands of dollars of counseling fees and had voted successfully to give Pastor Williams executive status if he wished to accept it.

Executive status meant that Lindsey Williams could go anywhere he liked and see anything he wanted regarding the pipeline operation. They gave him a vehicle and an executive pass and he was also invited to sit in on board meetings in an advisory capacity in order to help the relationship between management and labor.

For three years Pastor Lindsey Williams had the opportunity to sit, live and rub shoulders with the most powerful, controlling and manipulative men on the face of this planet.

Because of the executive status accorded to him as Chaplain, he was given access to information, as documented in his eye opening book, "The Energy Non-Crisis" ~ By Lindsey Williams.

After numerous public speaking engagements in the western states, certain government officials and concerned individuals urged Mr. Williams to put into print what he saw and heard, stating that they felt this information was vital to national security. Mr. Williams firmly believes that whoever controls energy controls the economy. Thus, The Energy Non-Crisis.

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The Energy Non-Crisis - Chapter 1

Regulations that forced the costs of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline up from a projected $2 billion dollars to beyond $12 billion dollars. We’ll tell you more about that.
Senator Hugh Chance, a former Senator of the State of Colorado, visited Lindsey Williams on the pipeline at his invitation, to speak in the work camps for which he was responsible for, as Chaplain, on the northern sector of the Trans-Alaska Oil pipeline.


Lindsey Williams was to arrange a tour of the 'Prudhoe Bay Facility'.

Senator Chance was shown everything he wanted to see, and he was told everything he wanted to know. The Senator was given information by a number of highly-placed responsible executives with Atlantic Richfield, and these were cooperative with him at all times.

After Senator Chance had talked at length with Mr. X, (He is named Mr. X, to protect his anonymity) he returned to Mr. Lindsey Williams dormitory room at Pump Station No. 1 and sat down and said to Lindsey, “Lindsey, I can hardly believe what I have seen and heard today.”

“Lindsey, I was in the Senate of the State of Colorado when the Federal briefer came to inform us as to why there is an energy crisis. Lindsey, what I have heard and seen today, compared with what I was told in the Senate of the State of Colorado, makes me realize that almost everything I was told by those Federal briefer was a downright lie!”

Senator Chance then asked for another interview with Mr.X. The following day, the Senator, Lindsey Williams and Mr. X sat in Mr. X’s office.



Senator Chance’s first question was, “Mr. X, how much crude oil is there under the North Slope of Alaska, in your estimation?”


Mr. X answered, “In my estimation, from the seismographic work and the drilling we have already done, I am convinced that there is as much oil under the North Slope of Alaska as there is in all of Saudi Arabia.”


The next question that Senator Hugh Chance asked, was “Why isn’t this oil being produced, if there is an oil crisis?”


According to Mr. Lindsey Williams, Mr. X told him that Federal government and the State government of Alaska had allowed only one pool of oil on the North Slope of Alaska to be developed.


Senator Chance then asked, “Mr. X, do you think that there are numerous pools of oil under the North Slope of Alaska?”

Mr. X replied, “Senator Chance, the government has allowed us to develop only one 100-square-mile area of this vast North Slope. There are many, many 100-square-mile areas under the North Slope of Alaska which contain oil. There are many pools of oil under the North Slope of Alaska.”

The Senator then asked, “Mr. X, what do you think the Federal government is out to do—what do you really think the government has as its ultimate goal in this business?”

Which Mr. X stated, “I personally believe that the Federal government is out to declare American Telephone and Telegraph a monopoly. In so doing they will be able to divide the company and to break the back of the largest private enterprise on the face of the earth. Secondly, they want to nationalize the oil companies. I believe that these two objectives merge.”

Senator Chance asked one last question, “Mr. X, if what you say is true, then why don’t you as oil companies tell the American people the truth and warn them? ”

“Senator Chance,” Mr. X replied, “we don’t dare tell the American people the truth because there are so many laws already passed and regulations on the books that if the government decided to impose them all on us and enforce them, they could put us into bankruptcy within six months.”

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1974 - The pipline through Wyoming (USA)

In 1974, Mr. Lindsey Williams returned to Alaska at the 'Prudhoe Bay Facility'. He told his friend Mr.X about what he saw while in America.

Lindsey Williams: “Mr. X, let me relate to you what I saw in Wheatland, Wyoming, just a few weeks ago. There was a pipeline going from West to East across the Rockies, on the property of a friend of mine. I was riding the range with him in the Fall of 1972 on roundup and the pipeline was flowing full speed ahead, with all pumps going. The following year of 1973, in the Fall, there was supposed to be an energy crisis, and I found that the pipeline going across the Rockies, one of the main West-East pipelines, had been closed down. In 1974, the pumps were not running, and at that time the man who managed that 32,000-acre ranch told me that the oil companies had told him that they had been ordered to close down that pipeline by the Federal government. Mr. X, if there is as much oil at Prudhoe Bay as in all Saudi Arabia, as you have stated, and if there really is an energy crisis, why was that cross-country pipeline through Wyoming closed down? You must know something about it.”

To which Mr. X. replied: “Chaplain, I will try to be honest with you today, and I hope it doesn’t get any of us in trouble. We are both Christian men, and we can only tell the truth. We, as oil companies, were ordered by the Federal government in 1973 to close down certain cross country pipelines and to reduce the output of our refineries in certain strategic points of America for the purpose of creating an energy crisis. That really began the first of the control of the American people.”

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An Important Visit By Senator Hugh Chance - Shut Down That Pipeline

During the summer of 1975, Senator Hugh Chance visited Lindsey Williams on the pipeline in Alaska.

Over the course of three days, Senator Chance was at Prudhoe Bay, where, once again he was given a tour of the oil field and it's facilities. Because of his position in government, he was given an extensive tour. All questions that he asked were readily answered by the oil company executive conducting the tour.
Senator Chance was taken everywhere he requested to go and was shown all data that he asked to see.

The Prudhoe Bay oil field, from which crude oil is presently being produced, was explained in detail, and the entire North Slope of Alaska was discussed.

At a drill site, Senator Chance asked for more technical data and by the time he and Lindsey Williams returned that afternoon, they were totally astonished at what we had seen and heard.

Senator Chance had been taken to places that even Lindsey Williams, the Chaplain, had not previously been allowed to go.

Chaplains, after about nine months on the Pipeline, were then given executive privileges and were allowed an executive dormitory and were also allowed to see certain things that others could not.

Lindsey Williams said to the Senator, “Surely a government official would not lie to us about the energy crisis.” Senator Chance answered, “Chaplain Lindsey, we were told something about the Prudhoe Field, and we were told that there was an energy crisis. Today I have found out that there is no energy crisis.”

Senator Chance asked Mr. Lindsey Williams to arrange a another interview with Mr. X.

The next day, when Lindsey Williams contacted Mr. X and told him that the Senator would like to talk to him again, he said, “By all means. I’ll have some time this afternoon, and I’ll be glad to give you as much time as you need.”

That afternoon Senator Chance and Lindsey Williams walked into the office of Mr. X at Atlantic Richfield’s facility and Senator Chance began to ask questions. Mr. X was at first a little reluctant to answer the questions, and then the Senator said, “Sir, I want to ask you these questions as a gentleman to a gentleman. I would appreciate very much your direct answers. I promise you that the answers you give will be answers that I would like to use in trying to wake up the American people.”

Senator Chance went on asking questions. He asked, “Mr. X, what is it that the Federal government is out to do? Why is it that they are not allowing the oil companies to develop the entire North Slope of Alaska? Why is it that private enterprise cannot get this oil out? Mr. X, will you please tell me the whole story?”

Mr. X said, “Senator Chance, there is no energy crisis! There is an artificially produced energy crisis, and it is for the purpose of controlling the American people. You see, if the government can control energy, they can control industry, they can control an individual, and they can control business. It is well known that everything relates back to crude oil.”

The Senator then asked, “Would you please tell me what you yourself think is going to happen?”
Mr. X answered, “Yes, by Federal government imposing regulations, rules, and stipulations, they are going to force us as oil companies to cut back on production, and not to produce the field. Through that they will produce an energy crisis. Over a period of years the intention is that we will fall so far behind in production that we will not have the crude oil here in America, and will be totally dependent on foreign nations for our energy. When those foreign nations cut off our oil, we as Americans will be helpless.The intention is to create this crisis over a period of time.”

Senator Chance asked, “Mr. X, if you developed the entire North Slope of Alaska as private enterprise what would happen?”

Mr. X looked at the Senator and answered simply, “If we as oil companies were allowed to develop the entire North Slope oil field, that is the entire area north of the Brooks Range in Alaska, producing the oil that we already know is there, and if we were allowed to tap the numerous pools of oil that could be tapped (we are tapping only one right now), in five years the United States of America could be totally energy free, and totally independent from the rest of the world as far as energy is concerned. What is more, sir, if we were allowed to develop this entire field as private enterprise, within five years the United States of America could balance payments with every nation on the face of the earth, and again be the great nation which America really should be. We could do that if only private enterprise was allowed to operate freely, without government intervention.”

The Senator was obviously very angry, and he looked back at Mr. X and said, “Sir, in light of all that you’ve told me, you’ve set me thinking today that after being a State Senator for four years, I would like to know something. Sir, will you please tell me what you think the American government is out to do?”

It was at that point that Mr. X revealed his, opinion that the government was out to declare American Telephone and Telegraph a monopoly, and secondly, to nationalize the oil companies.

Senator Chance almost gasped at that point and asked, “You mean to tell me that you’re convinced that the Federal government is out to nationalize the oil companies?”

Mr. X said that was so, in his opinion, and that the Federal government would continue to put such rules and stipulations on the oil companies until fuel prices would go sky high.

This, according to Lindsey Williams, was a conversation which happened in 1975. Already Mr. X was predicting over $1.00 a gallon at a time when the American people were reluctantly paying something like 50 cents a gallon.

Mr. X told the Senator and Lindsey Williams that the Federal government would force oil prices to over $1.00 a gallon, and in doing so would make the oil companies look like villains, and the American people would request the Federal government to nationalize the oil companies.

Senator Chance had another question to ask, “Mr. X, if you’re convinced that the Federal government is out to nationalize the oil companies, undoubtedly you have a target date?”

Mr. X said, “Yes, Senator, we do. As oil companies we have already calculated that with present government controls and regulations, we as oil companies can remain solvent until 1982.”
Those were Mr. X’s exact words. ~ Lindsey Williams

The Senator said, “Sir, I’m amazed at what I’ve heard, because it falls in line with what I’ve believed for years, in what the Federal government and its agencies are really attempting to do to the American people.”

According to Lindsey Williams, Senator Chance was obviously very upset. In the dormitory room later that day, he said that when he went to the lower 48 states he would attempt to have somebody publish the truth of this matter and use it in their election campaign.

He wrote a personal letter to Ronald Reagan and received a personal reply—Senator Chance wanted Ronald Reagan to go to the North Slope of Alaska and see the truth as he had seen it, and make the energy crisis a major platform in his campaign. He believed that if he did so, he would be elected.

Ronald Reagan wrote back to Senator Chance and said, “Sir, I’d like to, but I don’t have the time—my schedule will not permit.” Senator Chance attempted to get others to know the truth about the Prudhoe Bay oil field and the fact that there was no true energy crisis, while something could still be done before the created crisis became even more severe. It was artificially produced, but many of the American people were becoming convinced that there really was an oil crisis, while the oil companies themselves were constantly being hamstrung.

By creating an artificially induced energy crisis, the American people in large numbers became convinced that our energy really was short. In Wyoming, the oil was available, but the pipe was shut down.

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Amazing Facts About the Oil Fields

Alaska is a huge state. It is one fourth the size of the entire lower 48 states. Alaskans refer to them as the original 48 states, and as “The Outside.”

Alaska is the largest state in the United States, yet 60% of the population of Alaska is in the one city of Anchorage. Alaska has three major mountain ranges; the Rockies, the Kuskokwin, and the Brooks Mountains. As you travel northward over each mountain range, there is a climatic change.

The southeastern coast of Alaska is known as the Osh Kosh, and this area of Alaska is very mild in winter. The Japanese current which warms Washington and Oregon also keeps this area of Alaska mild.

Immediately after crossing the Rocky Mountains into the first interior area of Alaska the winters become severe, going to 50° and 60° below zero. After crossing the second mountain range you come to the Arctic Circle area. The Arctic Circle is an imaginary line around the face of the earth, north of which there is at least one day per year when you have 24 hours of sunlight and another day when the sun never appears above the horizon.

Just north of the Arctic Circle are the Brooks Mountains, and north of the Brooks Mountains is the area to which we are referring in this book as the North Slope of Alaska. The North Slope is a vast Arctic plain, many hundreds of square miles. Generally speaking, it is a flat and very desolate land where there are no trees.

The Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline transverses the entire North Slope from north to south.

The Prudhoe Bay facility is an area where the oil companies are presently producing oil. The North Slope is the entire area north of the Brooks Mountains; Prudhoe Bay is a very small spot in this vast area.

Prudhoe Bay is located adjacent to the Arctic Ocean, and the Prudhoe Bay Field is developed under the auspices of two major oil companies. Atlantic Richfield was responsible for the developing of the entire east side of the oil field at Prudhoe Bay.

BP (British Oil Company), which is a British company, under the authorization of Sohio (which is an American company), developed the entire west side of the oil field.

There were seven other oil companies participating in the development of this field, under the auspices of these two companies. The Alaska Pipeline is the biggest and most expensive project ever undertaken by private enterprise in the history of the world.

When the oil companies began to develop the pipeline route north of the Brooks Mountains, there were no people, no roads, and no towns. There was nothing but a vast Arctic wilderness. This is especially relevant to the problems forced on the oil companies by the Federal and State officials in regard to the whole matter of ecology and environmental protection.

At tremendous cost to the oil companies, entire self-contained cities were flown in by Hercules aircraft and then constructed to house three to five thousand workers each. As there were no people, no roads, and no airstrips, the huge Hercules aircraft landed on frozen lakes in the winter time. The equipment was assembled, gravel pads were built, and the housing units and all life support systems were constructed on the gravel pads. Everything was brought together right there—all electrical systems, water systems, sewage systems—everything had to be constructed on the actual sites.

Hercules aircraft are huge four-engine turbo-prop aircraft, capable of carrying tremendous loads. The entire rear section of the aircraft opens and very large objects can be placed inside. The Hercules was designed by the military during the last World War for the purpose of driving tanks and other military craft directly on board.

In 1974, the cost to the oil companies of one Hercules was $1,200 per hour to rent. Remember, not one penny of government money was used for construction of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline. It was entirely financed by private enterprise. Animals north of the Brooks Mountains on the pipeline corridor had never seen human beings. The caribou, bear, and Arctic wolves had never seen man and had no fear of man.

Almost every day you would see a survey team sitting in one of the few trees while a bear went by.
North of the Brooks Mountains the ground is known as permafrost, because it is perpetually frozen all year round. In the area of Prudhoe Bay the ground is frozen for 1,900 to 2,100 feet down from the surface.

Yet to the depth at which the oil is produced, which is approximately 8,700 feet, the oil will come out of the ground at 135 °F. Most oil fields in the lower 48 states have to be pumped from the time of their original production, and we are often told that this is a major reason why America imports oil from such places as Saudi Arabia. The argument is that because the Arabian oil is so readily available and so much easier to bring to the surface, it is ultimately less expensive to import the oil than to take it from our own ground.

However, that is not the case at Prudhoe Bay; indeed it is not the case on the entire North Slope of Alaska. After 20 years of production at natural artesian pressure, the oil companies will inject treated water into the pool of oil, and then they can continue production at natural artesian pressure for many years to come.

Though the ground is frozen for 1,900 feet down from the surface at Prudhoe Bay, everywhere the oil companies drilled around this area they discovered an ancient tropical forest. It was in a frozen state, not in petrified state. It is between 1,100 and 1,700 feet down. There are palm trees, pine trees, and tropical foliage in great profusion. In fact, they found them lapped all over each other, just as though they had fallen in that position.

What great catastrophe caused this massive upheaval, and then led to such dramatic changes in the climate? We stress again that everything is frozen—not petrified—and that the whole area has never once thawed since that great catastrophe took place.

It is interesting to notice that tropical ferns have also been found at the Antarctic, and the evidence from these two areas, considered together, certainly suggests that there has been a dramatic change from a worldwide tropical climate to an Arctic climate within datable times.

It is also interesting to remember that the great Arctic explorer, Admiral Byrd, reported seeing tropical growth in near Arctic regions. Just as there can be a beautiful grand oasis in the middle of the desert of Egypt (such as the Fayum Region), perhaps there have been oases in this other kind of vast expanse in the Arctic Ocean area, where these subterranean tropical plants are (for some as yet unknown reason) still growing on the surface.

One day, Lindsey Williams watched as a pine cone was brought up from a well, claiming it looked just exactly as it would look on a young pine tree today. He put the closed pine cone it in an office on the premises of Atlantic Richfield. He simply put it on the desk and left it. The next day, he came back and the pine cone had opened up. The seeds could be seen quite clearly on the inside of the cone.

This was obviously after thousands of years of being in a frozen state, hundreds of feet beneath the surface.
He has had palm fronds in his home which were brought up from some 1,700 feet below the surface.

The tropical forest was between 1,100 and 1,700 feet beneath the surface. The base of the perpetually frozen ground is approximately 200 feet below the depth of the frozen tropical forest. The oil is found at a depth of 8,700 feet, average.

One day, Lindsey Williams was watching an operation proceeding at Pump Station 3, but did not take any special interest. Proceedings like this were going on all the time. However, on this particular day a man whom he personally knew to be very reliable man, came and said something like this: “Chaplain, you won’t believe this, but we were digging in this gravel pit on the Sag River, quite a number of feet under the surface depth. We brought to the surface what looked like a big Louisiana bull frog. We brought it into the building and allowed it to thaw out.”

The man described the way in which the frog was left there and then thawed out. He claimed they actually watched as it totally thawed, and that it then quite perceptibly moved—in fact it appeared to be alive, with those perceptible movements taking place for several minutes. Then the movement ceased, and the men threw the frog away.

At Prudhoe Bay, Lindsey Williams has seen the temperature go low as -130°F (130 degrees below zero).

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The Workings of An Oil Field

The Alyeska Pipeline Service Company was a consortium of nine major U.S. oil companies. And each of them sent a certain number of their executives to Alyeska for the construction phase of the Pipeline.

This meant men from each of the nine oil companies had been placed in management positions spread out across the North Slope of Alaska. They would spend a few weeks working in Alaska, and then work a few weeks back home, and then return back to Alaska again.

This meant that there was a continual rotation of executive officers, and, in practice, it was a very effective system. A man was not subjected to the rigors of the Arctic all the time, but would come back refreshed and able to perform with top efficiency while his alternate was relaxing in the lower 48 states or at Anchorage.

Most of the relaxing was done at Anchorage, rather than taking the arduous trip to the south at very regular intervals. It is relevant that the top executives in the oil company would work one week on and one week off in rotation. The further down the ladder you went, the longer they stayed on the job and the less time they had at home. By the time you got to the ordinary worker on the Pipeline, he was expected to stay on the job for six or seven weeks at a time, to go home for one week, and then to come back for a further six weeks.

The top executives would always overlap each other for one day, so that there was constant briefing and debriefing. It was thereby insured that the work would proceed without undue problems. Lindsey Williams spent a lot of time in the offices, and at no time did the executives object to the fact that he was present when they were talking about activities that were proceeding.

There were, of course, the common problems such as theft, with the usual attitude of, “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.” Some people are anxious for financial gain; others are more interested in a power structure; and when it comes to the political arena, that power structure might go way beyond mere money. It is possible to relate this to the oil fields, and to see some semblance of comparison with what is taking place in Canada.

Canada has already nationalized its oil companies. That is an actual fact of history, and this was often referred to by executives of the oil companies working for the Pipeline. The oil company officials in the top echelons have suggested that the Federal government wishes to nationalize the oil companies of America.

The heading of this chapter is “The Workings of an Oil Field.” It is relevant to emphasize that the United States government, as such, did not own anything —equipment, machinery, buildings, or anything else—on the oil fields. Not one penny of government money was invested in the Pipeline, yet the government exerted all sorts of pressures as they implemented their multitudinous rules and regulations. Neither did the oil companies own all of the equipment, for in many cases the work was subcontracted, and often the machinery was owned by the company to whom the work was contracted.

Many of those who had been there for comparatively short periods of time had no idea as to what had gone on before they had arrived, or as to the way certain activities developed. Over and over again the very nature of the field demands training that is simply not available anywhere else.

The dorms in which the men lived in the camps were very well appointed. There were two men in each room in a 52-room section. Men shared common baths in these common dormitory areas. During the first year of pipeline construction, it was not unusual to have steak and lobster twice a week.

The food was always in plentiful supply, being available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The men did not pay for their food, nor did they pay for their candy bars or pop. They simply took all they wanted.

The largest paycheck Lindsey Williams has seen for seven days of work was over $3,000 for an ordinary working man.

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The Barges Froze and Cracked and Popped

In 1971, the oil companies had first proposed the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline.

At that time the projected cost was $600,000,000. That was the anticipated figure in 1971, but before it could actually begin in Alaska, the government stepped in and said, “No, until more surveys are undertaken, and more guidelines have been laid down in such areas as the protection of the ecology, you will not build the pipeline.”

The nine major oil companies of America had hauled that big pipe from Japan to Alaska. It is interesting to notice that the pipe itself had been built in Japan, because prices were already beginning to go so high, even back in 1971. By that time it was cheaper to buy it abroad and ship it across the water to Alaska. So it was that an American bank financed a Japanese steel company for the purpose of building the big pipe for the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline.

While the pipe was actually bought and made in Japan and then shipped to America, it had to be stored from 1971 until 1974 in pipe yards—in Fairbanks, Valdez, and Prudhoe Bay—three sites in Alaska. Then in 1974, the pipeline began to take shape: the government had issued their permits, surveys had been made, the ecology had been studied from 1971 to 1974, and an entirely new method of building the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline had been devised.

At that time inflation was beginning to cut even deeper into the American economy. There was an increasing spiral of inflation in the early 70′s-up to that time the prices remained more or less the same year after year. When the pipeline began to be initiated in 1974, the cost estimate was no longer $600,000,000 (600 million dollars), but $2,000,000,000.

In 1971, the figure was $600, 000,000—America needed the oil at that time, but there was no energy crisis. Nevertheless, the country needed oil and private enterprise could produce it. However, the oil was on government-owned land, and so the project was stopped until government had their say. In 1974 the project cost was $2,000,000,000 for the cost of that pipeline. Now we reach 1976, and the oil company officials were saying that, because of cost overruns, the total cost of the oil pipeline would probably exceed $12,000,000,000.

There was an underlying force that was attempting to control both the oil companies and the flow of oil. From 1976 on, frustration began to be intensified. Permits were withdrawn, even though they had been issued for the entire time of the construction of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline, and had been promised as such by the Federal government.

Regulations were being intensified—there had been plenty of time in two years to update the regulations by which the government controlled the whole operation, in such matters as the protection of the environment.
The government was not putting one penny into the entire project.

92% of all the land in Alaska is owned by the Federal and State governments. Only 8% is owned by individuals, so the oil is on government-owned land. So it was that the oil companies were told what they could do, in very great detail.

Lindsey Williams remembers Mr. X saying that the oil companies were allowed to to produce oil for the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline from only one 100-square-mile area of the North Slope of Alaska. Mr. X had said that all of the land north of the Brooks Mountains included many pools of oil—it was there in vast quantities beneath that North Slope. Nevertheless, private enterprise and the oil companies of America are allowed to produce from only one of those pools.

A large flotilla of barges that were brought each year from the West Coast of the lower 48 states, bringing all the supplies and equipment necessary for the Prudhoe Bay oil field. Each year, one of the highlights was when the flotilla of barges came in. They brought everything, from the big pump stations to the flow stations to the pipe itself. They brought in vehicles, dormitories, and everything necessary in the way of large construction equipment, such as drilling rigs … and on and on. They brought in everything that was needed for the work of producing oil from the fields at Prudhoe Bay.

Then in 1975, the weather just simply did not cooperate. That flotilla would have to wait until the Arctic ice had left the ocean. The flotilla would usually stand for weeks at a place called Wainwright. They would wait for the ice to move at Barrow, and then they would have only a few days in which to get out. People would hear the message, “The ice is moving! The wind is moving from north to south—there’s a shifting!” So they would move out into Prudhoe Bay.

Finally the ice broke just long enough for the flotilla to come around by Wainwright and Point Barrow. Then it arrived at Prudhoe Bay, but something was wrong—the ice was barely staying off shore, so the flotilla did not have time to get back out. The ice closed in again, the wind was not favorable, and soon it was clear that the flotilla of barges and the tugboats that brought them in would be stuck at Prudhoe Bay for the winter—they could not get out again.


The equipment was brought in piece by piece, but then there were the expensive barges owned by the companies, and the tugboats that brought them in—how could they be saved? There was really only one way, and that was to build a dock. Why not? Put gravel out into the ocean and dock them on dry land, so that the ice would not crush them in the winter. The Federal bureaucracy cares nothing for time, and seems to care nothing for private enterprise. The fact that they had millions of dollars in equipment tied up there, sitting out in that water, mattered little.

The water was gradually freezing in around the barges, and it would crush all that equipment. They were able to save the tugboat, but the barges were left in the water, because there were some microorganisms on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean at that point, and the ecologist insisted they must not be destroyed by the building of a gravel dock out into the water to the point of the barges.

Lindsey Williams watched, as the big equipment was brought in. They were actually outfitting bulldozers so they could ride the bottom of the ocean and literally go up to the place where the barges were and pull them in. He watched as they stalled, and stalled, and stalled for time. The barges froze, and cracked, and popped. The big steel plates were literally destroyed, and millions of dollars worth of equipment was crushed by ice.

Why? Could it be that the government did not want that flow of oil? Could it really be that there is no energy crisis, except the one they want to produce?

Was it an attempt to frustrate the construction of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline?

Then came 1976 and the last six months of the construction of the line. At the same time, all across America, there were lines of people standing and waiting for fuel. There was talk of rationing, and yet there was plenty of oil in Alaska, and apparently there was a frustration to prevent it from being used.

In the last six months of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline construction, it seemed that everything went wrong. Suddenly there was another turn. Someone had said that the welding on the big pipe was faulty. Lindsey Williams knew the men, the welders, and the other men who were laboring there.

And then, only months from the completion of the whole project, there was this possibility that the whole big pipe would have to be redone, from beginning to end. Where it went under the river bed it would have to be dug up, and its ecology would have been destroyed. The suggestion was that it be dug up where it had already been laid in the ground under the streams. At this time of the year that would have been almost literally an impossibility, for it would have destroyed the fish streams and the breeding grounds—that was what the ecologists hollered. They insisted, “It can’t be done now-you must wait. After all, we don’t dare touch those streams at this time of year.”

It was clear that a deliberate attempt was being made to stop the flow of that oil, to prevent the whole project from being brought to a successful conclusion—it seemed that the intention was that it would never be produced.

America was told that the oil would leak out onto the ground and would destroy the “precious” tundra. The news media proclaimed that this would be the biggest oil spill ever known on the face of the earth, and it must be stopped.

Reference: http://www.lindseywilliams.net/lindsey-williams-the-energy-non-crisis-chapter-11/