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JAMES LESLIE Edmonton, Alberta...
Following the 17-day meeting of the World Council of Churches in Illinois (see RELIGION), Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, took a quick trip north into Canada. Asked at Calgary, Alberta, why he was making the trip, he replied with a twinkle: "If the Bishop is listening, I came to visit the Diocese of Western Canada. If he's not listening, I came to see the Rockies...
LAWRIE TYRRELL Edmonton, Alberta...
Loser was the Westcoast Transmission Co., Ltd., of Calgary, Ont., headed by Canadian Oilman Frank McMahon. He wanted to bring gas to the Northwest through a 930-mile pipeline from Canada's Peace River section in northern Alberta and British Columbia, where his Pacific Petroleums has sunk millions into a huge, new gas field. Losers also were the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Colum bia, which had hoped for big, new indus trial developments along the gas line. Cried one provincial cabinet minister: "This is disastrous...
Penalty for Stalling. But Canada's western provinces had only themselves to blame. Five years ago, Alberta might have won permission to pipe its gas to the U.S. But it wanted to hold on to enough gas to supply Canada for the next 50 years, decided that Alberta gas should first be piped to eastern Canadian markets. Not until the big Peace River Field was proved did Canada decide that it had more than enough for its own needs, and give an export permit to Westcoast. By then. Pacific Northwest was well along with its plans...