Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 13, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Arabs Roll out red carpet for Brazil s Oil director Winnipeg free press thursday. February 13, 1975 by Leonard Greenwood Rio de Janeiro special tons _ when Carlos Alberto soil Isnard goes shopping everyone puts out the red carpet. Even in the Middle East where sudden new wealth from staggering o i 1 incomes has created indifference and some arrogance on a seller s mar Ket he is feasted and entertained. When Isnard goes shopping he has billion in his poc says one foreign expert. Even Arab sheiks treat a Cus Tomer like that with or. Isnard is commercial director for Brazil s state Oil monopoly Petr Obras what he is looking for on his shopping jaunts is barrels of Oil a Day. As agent for Petr Obras he is the biggest Independent Oil purchaser in the world. What was conceived Only a generation ago As a modest state Enterprise with a working capital of Only and few resources is now the economic giant of latin America with employees and sales in the billions. I it is so big it no longer buys All its crude from the International giants but negotiates directly with the governments sheiks and Kings of the Middle East. When it was formed in 1953 Petr Obras inherited one Small refinery to process bar a res of crude a Day. Now it can refine one million a Day. It has invaded the Fields of petrochemicals fertilizers Natu ral Gas and Coal. Just one of the subsidiaries it has spawned has become the biggest Gaso line and diesel fuel retailer in the mushrooming brazilian Market. Now it is building up a great Fleet of Oil tankers. Already it has More than two million tons of shipping including three ton supertanker. By 1980 this will be doubled. Petr Obras so dominates the brazilian scene it provided a springboard for general Ernes to Geisel to leap from the presidency of the monopoly to the National presidency in 1974. Since then Petr Obras Engi jeers have made several of strikes off Brazil s coast that even Gen. Geisel an Ultra Cau Lious Man says give Hope that within a few years Brazil might be self sufficient in Oil. This will obviously give be Tro bras even More stature. Especially now when quenching of Brazil s growing thirst for Oil has become a top National priority Oil policies have had a huge Impact on Brazil s relations with Israel on one Side and the Arab countries on the other. In a Little Over a year Brazil has moved from Strong support for Israel to an open wooing of the arabs and undisguised at tempts to persuade them to in Vest some of their new riches in Brazil. Despite the size and growing influence of Petr Obras no one suggests it should be subjected to tighter control. Here in latin America where the exploitation by foreign firms of National resources is the most explosive emotional topic be Tro bras is untouchable. To criticize its policies would be heresy. To suggest that the monopoly might be eased even if Only to allow foreign experts to search under strict National control for the Oil Brazil so badly needs would be regarded by some nationalists As verging on treason. Petr Obras operations Are shrouded in secrecy. Even some senior foreign Oil men who have to negotiate with its top officials have difficulties. To the press these men Are unreachable. In this country Lack of Oil overshadows political differences and lies at the Root of the biggest economic troubles. Brazil is bigger than the Continental United states has 100 million hard working people Rich agricultural land almost every Metal used by an Indus and enormous hydroelectric potential. But for 80 years it searched almost in vain for Oil until Dis c o v e r i e s in the past few months off the coast produced optimism at last. In 1951, Getulio Vargas who had previously ruled Brazil As dictator returned to Power As elected president and Drew up plans to develop National re sources. When he sent his scheme for a state Oil Enterprise to Congress in 1953 the opposition pushed through amendments to make it a monopoly. Air Canada statement requested by Victor Mackie free press staff correspondent Ottawa labor minister John Munro was asked in the comi Ituna wednesday to make a statement on the results of his efforts to secure a settlement of the issues in the dispute be t w e e n air Canada finance Branch employees and the com Pany at Winnipeg. Stanley Knowles Nipes North Centre put the re quest in the form of a motion that required unanimous con sent before it could be passed by the commons. The Liberal backbench ers declined that con sent. Outside the House or. Knowles said he and other members of parliament were receiving telegrams from irate finance Branch workers want ing to know what actions were being taken for a full inquiry into air Canada labor relations. One Telegram to or. Knowles said the Winnipeg finance Branch employees Are very dissatisfied with the Sloppy handling of Job another Telegram to the member said Calea finance Branch and air Canada signed a letter of understanding in october 1973. It called for the rat ing and classifying of employee jobs within six months. But sixteen months later this has not been done. What is the Worth of air Canada Signa it said that the employees of he Banch Are disillusioned and unhappy with the Long delay in reaching a settlement. It appealed to the Manitoba members to act on their behalf to achieve a settlement of the dispute with air Canada. When the first few employees began work in two rooms in Rio de Janeiro s Avenida Rio Branco in 1954 Brazil had Only half its present population and its Economy was based Al most solely on Coffee. The Interior was Little explored and the new capital Brasilia which has drawn Mil Lions into the hinterland had not been planned. There were few roads and travel was by train. T h e automobile Industry which this year will turn out close to one million vehicles did not exist and in the entire 3.25 million Square Miles of this country there were Only vehicles including buses and trucks All of them imported. Petr Obras was to run the Oil Industry under the National Oil Council exploring refining and providing sea transport for All brazilian crude. Existing privately owned refineries would be permitted to continue but their output was pegged at the 1954 level. Brazil had an estimated Trade deficit in 1974 of 521 Bil lion. Most of it was caused by the soaring prices of Oil imports which Cost billion com pared with million in 1973. But the country never went Short of Oil or seriously consid ered rationing. Today Brazil buys nearly half ils Oil from saudi Arabia and is a Good customer of Iraq. Cha wants govt. To pay for delays Stavva up the of Cdr it a Recd ill h in Ottawa up the Al government should be liable for the costs incurred because of Grain handling delays if the responsible parties such As labor unions cannot be charged with the loss the Ca Nadian federation of agriculture said wednesday. This was the Gist of a Resolution approved at the Cha s an Nual conference As an answer to demurrage charges built up during Grain handling disputes it agreed in a Resolution to ask the National harbours Board to store a least Board which wants Consumers to be represented on agricultural marketing l. L i r r Imus Iii a r k e 11 n i bushels of feed Grams at its boards generally run by pro Halifax terminals As is done at Duckers. Thunder Bay. The lib now Tho stores about bushels but the Cha feels this is not enough to keep Atlantic farm ers supplied if for any reason shipments from the Prairies Are curtailed. It also agreed to ask the fed eral government to allow . Cattle feeders to buy Prairie last year. These charges Are paid. Of shipowners whose vessels sit As foreign buyers. . Buyers the original Resolution rejected any participation by Consumers because they were Likely to be prejudicial to Ward their own interests and moreover do not have the in sight into input costs weather problems facing the farm Idle in port because the Char Canadian wheat Board in the Grain unable to Load cargo. Through the Board demurrage charges Are generally passed on to the Consumers because the wheat Board is simply their agent. In its Resolution one of Sev eral approved wednesday the Cha urged Ottawa and the provinces to make greater cd forts so that All Grain be handled uninterrupted to meet All and any commit ments to offshore it said the Farmer has Ful filled his role when he delivers came Leuers to buy Prairie but h 0 w a r d Falkenberg o feed grains at the same Price spokesman for the Edmonton based uniform organization now pay about 34 per cent More in freight Rales. The federation voted unanimously to support the International federation of agricultural producers which last january agreed that if world food Security is to be achieved there must be an orderly inter National marketing and pricing system for Grain. Grains Are the Basic food stuffs of the Ifan decided at its meeting in Winnipeg last month which at traded representatives from Argentina Australia Canada Denmark France Sweden and his Grain to the elevators and the United states should not be held responsible Consumers and gov for situations Over which he Erna cols have a vital interest has no control such As trans in ensuring that supplies of Poi tation or handling strikes. Grains will be adequate to demurrage charges should cover requirements. Close col be paid by the Federal govern liberation Between All parties mint if responsibility Lor i is therefore urgent and Essen charges cannot be assessed tial i the conditions for acc Quale supplies Are to be creat the Cha which represents de in time to avoid Large scale 90 to 95 per cent of a m i n e s especially in the country s More than j poorest triplets born from one egg Moscow a soviet Embry Logist Gherman Svea Togo of Leningrad University has reported the artificially induced birth of triplets from a single fowls egg Tass re ported wednesday. By implanting cells in an egg and thoroughly sealing it he reported triplets have been born from the eggs of a Duck a Turkey Hen and Japa Nese Quail. Succeeded in having the Resolution amended to say that there could be improved consumer producer communication with out consumer representation on the boards. Marketing boards handle such products As eggs hogs and chickens on a provincial level under the jurisdiction of the National farm products marketing Council established in 1972. billion cans recycled new York in .1970 about 1 s 5 million aluminium cans were recycled in the United states. In 1973 Hie number jumped to 1.6 billion. Georgia s attorney general has ruled that inmates must pay sales taxes at prison stores. Cable television is expected to reach nearly 11 million Homes by the end of 1975. Fujiyama s last eruption was in 1707. Logoff the Price of any size pizza with this Coupon limit one Coupon per pizza Farmers also expressed con Cern about the Atlantic prov inces and British Columbia. Another Resolution had the Cha delegates tip toeing canned fruits increasing los Angeles the value of production by the canned and Frozen fruits and vegetables Industry now estimated at billion a year is expected flirt our people make it better aim in on carry out 3106 Portage ave. 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