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...fuel oil. Because Maine was underdeveloped and had good ports, Occidental Petroleum Corp., Atlantic Richfield and Atlantic World Port each proposed to build a refinery near Machiasport. Another company, King Resources, acquired 300 acres on Long Island in Casco Bay, where it planned to build a huge oil-receiving and storage terminal. At first glance, the projects looked like a bonanza. But few Maine residents rejoiced wholeheartedly. The state's famous thick fogs and treacherous coastal waters made oil spills from tankers a probability-and a potential disaster to Maine's fishing and tourism industries...
...industry. Maine still has no laws regulating oil spills, offshore drilling and the like. Yet oilmen are now surveying the state's harbors, the only ports in the East deep enough to berth the industry's ever larger supertankers. The key trouble spot is Machiasport, where three companies plan major refineries despite thick fogs and tricky currents that pose serious risks of tanker mishaps and oil spillage. Devoid of controls, says Cole, "the state is standing stark naked to the oilmen...
...given the Interior Secretary's wide regulatory powers over the entire $50 billion petroleum industry. Hickel has also alienated many Northeastern Senators by his opposition to a scheme for cutting fuel costs in New England by permitting imports of foreign oil through a free trade zone at Machiasport, Me. He has, however, promised to re-examine his stand on that...
...Harvard students are, Patrick Armistead Gibson '31, of Richmond, Virginia, Dudley Lee Harley 1G., of Martinsburg, West Virginia, Alfred Hayes, Jr. 1G.B., of Greenwich, Connecticut, James Parker Pettigrove 1G., of Machiasport, Maine, and Greenville Ross Holden '31, of Idaho Falls, Idaho...
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