Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 02, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnieta met March Cabinet wont permit Oil port Kitimat Deal hurting Canada official Washington up canadians have Hurt Only not the linked by refusing to permit an Oil port at a Energy official said the Canadian Cabinet announced last week that it would not permit such a which would have received alaskan Oil and put it into a new pipeline to from existing pipelines would have carried the Oil to the United the official said in an interview in addition to the jobs that the Kitimat project could have Canada will lose the substantial economic Benefit of using existing pipelines to Alberta crude Oil production is he if there int any port or pipeline the pipe lines will have lower throughput and More spare which Means Highet tariffs for in 15 to 20 there May not be enough Western Canadian Oil to sup ply Western Canadian he that would mean an Oil port would have to be built either on the East or West in discussing the Kitimat decision last prime minister Trudeau said there is a Chance the decision might be reviewed at some future Date if any Canadian need for such a facility but for he the Federal government does not want to risk major coastal Oil spills for a project designed Only for quite if it is just for the my offhand attitude is Why dont they build a port on their West coast if they want to bring Oil for themselves congressional supporters of an other the proposed Northern tier Oil Are expected to push legislation speeding up approval for that line As a Means of bringing alaskan Oil to the Central United the Northern tier proposal would involve an Oil port in the state of near British Columbia another alternative for handling the growing volume of alaskan Oil would be to expand the current prac Tice of shipping it through the Panama canal and then moving it to Chi Cago and Northwest through the existing pipeline the Energy official said a 1976 study found that on a Large economic Benefit scale there was Little to choose Between the Vari Ous including the economics Between the various proposals was so close that we make a since the Kitimat option was eliminated by Ottawa and earlier congressional legislation ended the Tran Mountain plan to put an Oil port in Washington state and move Oil along an existing pipe line to the official said removal of the Kitimat option might have one effect on the United states in that the Northern tier project would take longer to Start delivering and Northern tier refineries Are already having Supply problems As the Ca Nadian government continues to phase out Oil the Northern tier refineries prob lems can be eased through a time Swap of he under that Canada would boost its Oil shipments to those but Only with assurances that the extra Oil imports would be repaid at a future Over 1500 and sell too k Armor endless wire today top titles at a super Low Price your Choice 8tracks or cassettes Gordon ugh foot endless wire each records also 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they but so far without much involvement by the communist countries continues to with Intelli gence reports indicating about soviet military advisers in Ethiopia and cuban some of whom have taken in attacks on somali some senior officials fear unless the finds a Way to Stop the two communist countries May expand involvement toothed african perhaps the first attempt at finding a lever came almost two months when National Security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski suggested the soviets might harm the possibility of negotiating a new strategic arms limitation treaty by acting i tempera icly in on Brzezinski turned that suggestion into a Strong telling report ers if tensions were to Rise because of unwarranted intrusion of soviet Power into a purely local then that would inevitably complicate not Only the negotiating process itself but also ratification of a treaty by the the have refused to link the Horn of Africa War with any arms the opposes using its military Power As a lever against the realizing this might precipitate a major but it did make a minor show of military Force a few weeks hustling a warship out of dry Dock and sending it to patrol off the coast of the designed to show the soviets and cubans that the is keeping a close did not Stem the increasing number of communist troop Trade sanctions a common International tool for showing displeasure with another country would not officials Trade with the soviet Union already is highly restricted and there has been no Trade with Cuba since Castro took As for the has indicated that a general withdrawal of cuban troops from Angola and Ethiopia would be a precondition for resuming diplomatic has taken Little notice of after putting up with a Trade embargo for More than 16 it apparently believes it can put up with it another option the has so far rejected is supplying arms to state depart ment officials believe Somalia started the War by attempting to violate the territorial integrity of neighbouring the principle of territorial integrity in whose name the soviets and cubans Are intervening is accepted by the and All but two of the approximately 50 members of the organization of african it seems about All the can do is Call International attention to the repeated promises of the soviet Union to fight Only to the Point where Ethiopia territorial integrity is this tactic has its own the temptation in a successful ethiopian Campaign to push somalis out of the Ogaden area is to continue the drive to the japanese court awards million damages Tokyo a a japanese court wednes Day awarded damages of million to 16 persons who claimed they took an Antidia Rhea drug and contracted a Nerv paralysing disorder that has struck about Japa a lawyer for the plaintiffs in a City on the sea of Japan 320 Kilometres 200 Miles West of complained that the court had granted a Mere 35 per cent of what we demanded from three drug com Japan and Takeda chemical industries plaintiffs elsewhere said they see the size of the award As a move to pressure them into settling out of a total of drug users who claim they contracted the disorder have asked Mil lion in 21 lawsuits filed in courts All Over Japan since the government in 1970 banned the Antidia Rhea also known As it had been used in Japan since some cases have been settled out of some plaintiffs died and courts in Tokyo and Okayama earlier granted damages to 55 the disorder is known As Smon an acro nym for subacute Mylo the condition affects spinal and optic it causes numbness of the defective psychic diarrhoea and other stomach in 300 patients and supporters pro testing the Kanazawa settlement gathered at Tanabe demanding to see company the officials Tanabe has claimed the is virus caused and a spokesman said the company will Appeal the Kanazawa a lib Agergy spokesman said we arc admitting that the drug caused but Only in Japan and we Are doing this Only As a formality in order to expedite pending the spokesman and a representative of Takeda said their companies will continue to work for out court Egypt orders French fighters Washington a Egypt has ordered 46 sophisticated Mirage Al jets from France in a Deal that further complicates congressional consideration of the pro posed fighter Sale to Middle East government sources said the Mirage Al is a fast attack fighter with Many characteristics of the United states new which the Carter administration pro poses to sell to the Sale is obviously going to have a bearing of congressional deliberations Over fighter sales to Israel and saudi said one Senate aide who asked not to be the proposed sales have drawn Sharp particularly from pro israeli Mem Bers of they would end the policy of not Selling lethal weapons to the state department spokes Man Hodding Carter said the Mirage jets Egypt plans to buy were taken into account when the Anu nitration pre pared its arms sales package earlier this but the Senate aide said the administration has yet to provide Congress with a de tailed account of How Many planes the Arab countries and Israel will have from All sources in the Early 1980s when the planes would be delivery dates and prices of the Mirage Al could not be the largely saudi financed for arms Pur already have Mirage f3 fighters and soviet Mig 21 and mig23 ;