Word: coale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...renewed pressure for Watt's resignation. The occasion was a breakfast meeting of some 200 U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbyists in Washington, D.C. Watt was talking about a five-member commission that he had appointed at congressional behest to review Interior's much debated program of coal leasing on public lands, which has been called a multimillion-dollar giveaway at taxpayers' expense. Watt may have meant to extol his choice of commissioners, but what came out was something else. The panel, he said, had "every kind of mix you can have. I have a black, I have...
Even so, the U.S. continues to draw on nonrenewable fuels (petroleum, gas and coal) for 90% of its energy needs, not much below the 94% of 1973. The price and supply of oil worldwide remain very delicately balanced. Despite a frenzy of oilfield drilling set loose by oil decontrol, domestic production has actually slipped to 8.65 million bbl. daily, compared with 9.2 million in 1973. Now 30% more coal is being burned, but production of domestic natural gas declined by 18% in the decade. After six years, Washington's planned strategic petroleum reserve of 750 million bbl., which equals...
...BLACK, a woman, two Jews, and a cripple. This time, Interior Secretary James G. Watt hit the jackpot. This tasteless description of the composition of a newly appointed coal-lease commission brought Watt closer to being ousted from the White House than ever before...
...ACCORDANCE with this pro-industry stance. Watt most recently tried to lease more land for coal strip-mining. In 1981, he opened up 400,000 new acres of national parks to drilling and mining. (Although energy leasing had been done in the Carter Administration, 'hard rock' mining of minerals causes considerably more damage to the land.) In 1982, Watt presented Congress with a plan that would open virtually the entire nation's coastline to drilling...
...China's future. Chinese have synthesized insulin, flung satellites into space, made nuclear bombs ? yet do not supply their villages with adequate common matches. Baoshan, the huge new steel complex near Shanghai, is a state-of-the-art operation. But steel production requires heavy cargo of both coking coal and ore, and the river creek on which the Baoshan plant was built could not take heavy-laden ships. So iron ore must be shipped to the Philippines and then transshipped in small boats to Baoshan...