Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Merle Haggard. Accompanied as always by her parents, brother and sister, she attended his Manhattan concert and went backstage first. It was the day before The Hag's birthday, so Tanya sang Happy Birthday into his ear. As a reward, Merle invited her onstage to sing her hit, Delta Dawn...
...perhaps the last person to set down on paper his kind of life and values. As a result the book reads like an elegant manifesto for the old South, including all of the things aristocratic Southerners once held dear. Percy begins the book with lengthy descriptions of the Mississippi Delta country he lived in, its people, and his relatives, as if he could not begin to describe himself until he had first described his setting and background...
...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. Bearing a projected price...
Spokesmen for the consortium argue that Canada has only about seven years of proven natural gas reserves left before it may have to rely on the untapped Mackenzie Delta deposits. A pipeline to the delta would be too massive a financial undertaking for Canada alone. But by hooking up with U.S. gas fields in Alaska, the Canadians can share the costs. The consortium has thoughtfully proposed that the 48-in.-wide pipe be buried, the surface above it revegetated, and the gas refrigerated to prevent melting the permafrost that it would traverse...
Some Canadian economists note that the proven Mackenzie Delta gas reserves are not now large enough to justify Canada's proposed 50% share of the program's cost. And settling claims with the Eskimos and Indians whose ancestral lands the pipeline would cross could cost billions of dollars. "This is essentially a project to transport Alaskan gas to American consumers," says McGill University Economist Eric Kierans...