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Brett Watson, Assistant Professor of Applied and Natural Resource Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage

FOUND: Alaska rich in petroleum faces an energy shortage - What They Never Told You

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline crosses underneath the Dalton Highway, carrying crude oil from the North Slope to a port in Valdez. Lance King/Getty Images

In the state with the fourth-largest proven reserves of oil and gas in the U.S., there is a looming energy shortage.

Above the Arctic Circle, oil producers on Alaska’s North Slope send an average of 465,000 barrels of crude oil south each day for shipping to refineries and users around the country and the world.

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