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...world looks upon all these resources and salivates. Texaco, Exxon, Amoco, Norsk Hydro and other transnational oil companies are setting up joint ventures to tap into the enormous oil and gas reserves scattered through Siberia, including the Timan Pechora basin above the Arctic Circle (where the recoverable reserves are estimated at nearly 4 billion bbl.). Canadian, American and other Western mining companies are prospecting for gold and other minerals. Norwegian and Japanese interests are negotiating to increase shipping between Europe and Asia by way of arctic waters north of Siberia...
...have attracted up to 75 followers around Quebec and 200 more in Switzerland and France. Though some were recruited from among his patients, most learned of him through the lectures he gave on two continents. In 1988 and 1989 he was paid to speak at a public utility, Hydro-Quebec, where he talked of "self-realization" and recruited more than a dozen employees. Listeners who seemed receptive to his initial message might find themselves invited to join an inner circle where his full apocalyptic vision was unveiled...
Andrews explained that Harvard has a policy ofnon-ownership for the stocks of the large tobaccocompanies but has not recommended the same policyfor Hydro-Quebec...
Dartmouth College, however, divested itself ofall its Hydro-Quebec bond holdings, nearly tenpercent of its total endowment, after a petitionof more than 2,300 signatures urged Dartmouth'sBoard of Trustees to consider ending the college'sownership of project bonds...
...college ... makes no moral judgment aboutprojects being built by Hydro-Quebec," said VicePresident and Treasurer Lyn Hutton. "This decisionis made for reasons specific to our community...