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Most heartening to conservationists was the commission's condemnation of Consolidated Edison's plan for a huge hydroelectric power plant at the base of brooding Storm King Mountain, at the famed north gate to the majestic Hudson Highlands.* Governor Rockefeller, who had earlier supported the $162 million Con Ed project, backed off after his brother criticized it, said that "if another solution can be found, it should be." The commission chided local government for failure to request federal beautification and urban-renewal money, noted that the latter could open up rotting waterfronts and create little "fishermen...
...Court of Appeals recently ordered the Federal Power Commission to review its approval of the plant so as to give greater weight to the project's effect on the environment, marking the first occasion on which the FPC has been told to weigh the technical need for a utility against its effect on the scenery, fisheries or other equally relevant conservation considerations...
...industry's 50,000 suppliers reach into almost every community in the nation; yet its prime plants are so concentrated in a few states and cities that aerospace fortunes can make or break the economies of those centers. General Dynamics and Bell Helicopter provide a third of the manufacturing jobs in Fort Worth. Boeing now plans to up its Seattle work force from 64,000 to 80,000, and there are delighted complaints about how this will put a real strain on the area's housing and school facilities. Lockheed is chiefly based in California, but its huge...
...desert and through mountain passes driving stakes to mark the route for a $450 million pipeline that will carry natural gas 800 miles north from Iran's southern oilfields to the Russian border. At Bandar Shahpur, still others staked out the site for a $100 million petrochemical plant, owned jointly by Iran and the U.S.'s Allied Chemical Corp. Around the clock, workmen were building two new ports on the Persian Gulf ($300 million), a state-owned refinery outside Teheran ($133 million) and, nearby, the giant Latyan Dam ($100 million), which they hope to complete early...
...Russians have also agreed to build a $20 million plant to turn out heavy boilers, bridge girders and cranes. Czechoslovakia has promised a $15 million precision-tool factory. On a smaller scale, the U.S. Government last week agreed to provide $245,000 for the planning of a nationwide power grid to integrate the electricity that seven new hydroelectric dams will provide by 1967. In recent months, the U.S.'s American Motors, Britain's Rootes, France's Citroën and West Germany's Volkswagen have all signed deals to begin assembling cars in Iran, thus giving...