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...largest remaining synfuels project also looks a bit wobbly. That is the $2.1 billion, 750-employee Great Plains venture to extract synthetic gas from coal near Beulah, N. Dak. Great Plains, owned by five energy and utility firms, had planned to charge up to $10 per 1,000 cu. ft. of gas. But the facility, currently 70% complete, could charge no more than $6.25 per 1,000 cu. ft. because of the fall in fuel-oil prices, to which the gas rates are pegged. At those prices, Great Plains looks like a terrible investment for its owners. They are turning...
Aside from Union's efforts, the only other major synthetic-fuels project in the U.S. is the partially completed $2.1 billion Great Plains Coal Gasification Project near Beulah, N. Dak. The plant is scheduled to produce 125 million cu. ft. of high-quality natural gas daily, from 14,000 tons of coal, by December...
...money. After bitter private discussions, the two men had to take the issue to the President for a decision. Reagan surprised some of his closest staffers by agreeing to go ahead with $3.1 billion in loan guarantees for the Great Plains coal gasification project in Beulah, N. Dak., and the Colony shale oil venture near Parachute, Colo. Washington also authorized spending up to $400 million to guarantee the price of oil produced from shale by the Union Oil Co. near Parachute Creek, Colo...
...DIED. Beulah Bondi, 92, ever sprightly character actress who spun a 50-year career out of portrayals of sweet, tart, tetched and/or touching older women in scores of films, including the 1939 classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, in which she was the ma of the young Senator played by Jimmy Stewart; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...gives these places different names (Victory, Beulah, Morgana, China Grove) and residents who meet unhappy as well as amusing fates. People are murdered, crushed by falling trees; some drink too much, some go crazy. Those who think of Welty as a gentle, "safe" Southern writer may be surprised to find an early story about a geek, a consumer of live chickens for a traveling circus...