Alaska's Challenge of Change

In just one decade, the Inuit town of Barrow, Alaska was transformed by the oil boom from America's northernmost outpost of subsistence hunters to one of the richest municipalities in the United States Producer Andrew Tkach and cameraman Mike Phelan documented the profound changes the people experienced in the 1980's for CNN's Special Assignments Unit. They also trekked on the sea ice with an Inuit hunter who warned of the consequences of a major oil spill in the Arctic. His warning are more urgent than ever, even though a federal judge recently declared the Trump administration's attempt to revoke a ban on new oil and gas drilling in Arctic waters illegal.