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...deposits in Alaska's Arctic; those deposits could supply 5% of U.S. annual demand (currently 22 trillion cu. ft.) when tapped, thus helping to head off the long-predicted severe shortage in U.S. gas supplies. In fact, the gas could begin to flow from the Alaskan wells into the Lower 48 as early as 1980-if Washington could only decide on how it should be moved...
...proposal, developed by the Alaskan subsidiary of the El Paso Co. of Texas, is aimed at keeping the gas under American control. The company would build an 809-mile-long pipeline from the North Slope to the Gulf of Alaska, closely paralleling the now half-completed trans-Alaska oil pipeline...
...transportation and cost more to operate than Arctic Gas's scheme. Similarly, defense and environmental considerations roughly balance out for the two projects. In fact the critical question-whether to cross Canada -will probably be decided not by the FPC's impartial analysis but by politicians. Alaskan officials and some 44 labor unions are backing the El Paso plan which, as an All-American project they believe will provide more Alaskan and U.S. tax revenues and create more U.S. jobs. Congressmen from Eastern and Midwestern states favor the Arctic Gas proposal because it promises to guarantee their voters...
...scathingly criticizes these groups for delaying construction of the Alaskan pipeline. The slowdown retarded U.S. economic growth and helped the Arab-dominated OPEC oil cartel grossly inflate oil prices and expand its powers. Among the consequences: "The unemployment of black teen-agers...
...form. She advised us not to sleep too near the lake because it was very cold, and indeed, we almost perished, reading thrillers by candlelight in the tent. Anyway, the shack that served as rest rooms was the wonderful thing about the place. Absolutely spotless, immaculate, and furnished in Alaskan dentist's office splendour. Shivering from the woods with pine-smeared toothbrush, you enter a room with a mirror in the shape of a crucifix. The walls are neatly papered with church directories, to worship at the place of your choice, which in this case was every Lutheran Church within...