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...American scientists hope to learn much more about the mysterious undersea area by prowling the depths some 200 miles southwest of the Azores. Their goal: the exploration of a small section of the great volcanic rift valley that cleaves the Atlantic Ocean bottom almost all the way from the Arctic to Antarctica...
...first round began last week when Canadian Arctic Gas Pipeline, Ltd., a consortium of 27 American and Canadian energy firms, filed a 7,000-page application in Ottawa and Washington. The group is seeking permission to build a 2,600-mile pipeline from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay and Canada's Mackenzie River Delta, across the barren Mackenzie Valley and into the U.S. (see map). The pipeline could eventually provide some 2.25 billion cu. ft. of gas a day for customers in Midwestern and Pacific Coast states-about 3.6% of present U.S. consumption-and an equal volume for Canadians...
...pipeline that will be officially proposed this summer by El Paso Natural Gas Corp. Beyond that, the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, as last week's proposal is sometimes called, involves complex and perhaps insoluble problems. Unlike the controversy over the Alaska oil pipeline, the battle for Arctic natural gas will be fought mostly over economic and political considerations, not environmental dangers...
...mask in the photograph is of an Eskimo tribe--an important distinction, for there is a real difference in the qualities of the work of the arctic Eskimo and Aleut and the two other, more southern tribes. The signs at the show credit this difference to environment: icebergs giving inspiration to the open, bold images of the Eskimo, northern rain forests spawning the more colorful, stylized forms of the Indian tribes. This is true, as far as it goes, but there is another, a more foreign element that seperates further the styles of these two groups...
...coping with the new environment of shortage. The company's size and diversity limit its vulnerability. In 1973 Exxon rolled up worldwide sales of $28.5 billion -about the same as the NATO defense budget. Rigs working for Exxon or companies that it partly owns bring up oil from the Arctic tundra, the Arabian deserts, the Gulf of Mexico and Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. Gasoline, jet fuel and heating oil are distilled from the crude at refineries in Benicia, Calif., Rotterdam, Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia, and Singapore. Pumps blazoning the names Exxon or Esso (still widely used outside...