A.LOOK AT NATURAL GAS Do we really By GARRY FAIRSAIRN CALGARY (CP) — While Canada and other nations prepare to build Reets of tankers to carry liquefied natural gas, world analysts are still trying to determine the risks involved in such shipping. “Liquefied natural gas can be viewed from widely different perspectives," J. Reed Walker of Applied Technology Corp., Norman, Okla,, told the recent World Petroleum Congress in Bucharest, Romania. : “At one extreme, it is a panacea that will provide the answer to many energy Tibet’s future, a vague reply PEKING (Reuter) —. Former prime minister Rierre Trudeau asked Vice- Fremier Deng Xiaoping (Dang Hsiao-ping) on Tuosday to disclose China's ilicy on the future af Tibet Ricrercived a vague reply, leau says he has been unsuccesbful in seeking from Deng an answer on whether’ Peking plans to colonize thinly-populated: Tibet with Chinese when the vast region bordering on India is brought out of the Middle Ages into modern times. Health officials debate disease, refugees OTTAWA (CP) — Federal and Ontarlo health officials appear to disagree on the degree of tuberculoels found in refugees entaring Canada | from Southeast Asian camps. But they agreed Tuesday that the health of the general public has not been threatened, And doctors in both levels of government termed in- correct or exaggerated published reports that refugees with highly con- tagious cases of tuberculosis had been admitted to On- tario. “In the first place, tuberculosis is not a highly infectious disease,"’ a doctor with the federal health department sald in an in- terview. Dr. A.C. McKenna, chief of Ontario’s chest disease service, said the degree of infectiousness was probably nil in the 33 refugees with tuberculosis who entered the province during the last few months, All were treated with drugs before leaving Southeast Asia and now are receiving follow-up treat- ment in Ontario, including three who were admitted to hospital. The drugs render the disease on-infectious within about seven days, but treatment must be continued for several months. to achieve a cure. Federal and provincial health officials appear, however, te differ on how the cases were defined when | they entered Canada. Dr. McKenna said federal authorities labelled the cases active, but not contagious; a spokesman for the federal health department said all the cases were designated inactive by federal officials. The federal spokesman said persons suffering active or contagious tuberculosis are not allowed to enter under the Immigration Act. Persons with contagious tuberculosis spread the disease by spraying large numbers of germs into the air when they cough or sneeze. Someone with active tuberculosis is sick with the disease, although: that per- son may not spread enough germs to be considered con- tagious. Inactive tuber- culosis means germs are present in the body but not growing. Federal Health Minister David Cromble's statement Monday made no mention of active tuberculosis. He sald that no Indochinese refugees with contaglous tuberculosis are being admitted, But spokeamen at both levels of government suggested the important distinction is belween contaglous and non- contagious. The executlve director of the Canadian Lung Association said active tuberculosis should not be a determining factor when allowing immigrants into Canada -- “especially litical refugees like the at peonle.” Tibet is about the size of Quebec but has less than one- third its population. Trudeau had just returned from the region when he met with Deng for two hours. China took over Tibet in 1951 two years after the late Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung founded thz People's Republic, He told reporters after the meeting: “The Peking government is obviously - dolng a lot to bring Tibet into . the modern times out of the Middle Ages. What happens when they suc-o ceed? Will they also have succeeded in getting Tibetans lo consider themselves part of China? Or with higher education and development will Tibetans say, ‘We don’t want to belong to anybody .., Why can’t we be Independent?'” Trudeau said he would have thought one way of . dealing with this would be to populate the region with Chinese. He suid he saw evidence of this around Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, where many Chinese are members of the armed forces. 6 Trudeau sid when he asked Deng about this, ‘All he an- swered ... is ‘You knowhnat too many people want to go and live in ‘Tibet xor they don’t find it all that com- fortable,”" He added: “Either they (the Chinese} don’t want to think about it or they're not sure what their plan is.” Liker Canada, China is @ multi-nationalhcountry but more than 95-per cent of its estimated 915 million are Chinesz. Tibetans, con- sidered a minority na- tionality by Peking, account for about 1.28 million. Trudeau said China's policy toward Tibet fascinated him because Canada has similar prab- lems with its French Cana- dians, Indians and Eskimos. Trudeau said Deng “spoke at great length about Soviet imerialism and made it clear that in his mind the dif- ferences between Moscow and Peking have their origin in Russian chauvinism which is worse, as he put it, than in the czarist days.” Deng also was “quite direct and rather pessimistic’ about the Sino- Soviet talks in Moscow this week, Trudeau said. Trudeau said Deng told - him the talks “might go on for a very long time without much progress.” Deng also said Peking sup- ports the Arab cause — in particular, Palestinian claims. He suggested the United States change its policy of support for Israel and un- derstand that friendship with the Arabs would remove the danger of what he termed as Soviet imperlalism in the Middle East. ‘He (Deng) said they themselves as Chinese never contested the right of Israel to exist and that he wasn't suggesting the United States abandon Israel,’ Trudeau said. On the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, Trudeau said Deng com- mented “rather candidly that he understood Egypt, that it ia looking for peace." Deng's remarks “show an open-minded or moderate approach to the Middle East question,” Trudeau said. “He doesn’t go for the pure Arab line any more than he goes for the pure Israeli Deng also toid Trudeau the Chinese support the deposed regime of Cambodian Premier Pol Pot who was chased out of the capital of Phnom Penh earlier in the year by Vietnameseled rebel § forces. “He explained they were supporting a principle of the inviolability of frontiers and they ‘were not condoning everything that Pol Pot had done,” Trudeau said. He added that the way Deng had explained it “sounded as though he had regretted he had not ex- pressed earlier some of his fears, or reservations, about Pal Pot.” problems and at the other exlreme it is a hazard that willlead to the deaths of tens of thousands of people.” Although neither extreme is true, Walker said, there is no reliable way to estimate the chances of disastrous accidents, Scientists had developed theories of how large quantities of liquefied natural gas (LNG) would The Herald Wednesday, September 26, 1979, Page § know the risks involved ‘However, presently available information is not sufficlent to determine accurately where the cloud will ignite, the number of people injured or killed, or the amount of property damage.” While Walker’s remarks provided little comfort for such areas as the Maritimes, a possible destination ‘for way, accused en- vironmentalists of being too critical of gas, | “There seems to be an excess of critical voices against gas for safety and environmental reasons,” Counting both liquid gas and liquid petroleum gas_ (LPG) shipments, Kvam- sdat said “ships have been involved in 26 serious in- cidents but only one leakage respectively having ac- cumulated 183 and 777 ship years of service.” Describing a 1974 ex- plosion on the Japanese tankship Yoyu Maru, where 33 people died, Kvamsdal said that disaster resulted from a collision that rup- tured wing tanks carrying 92,-000 cubic metres of naphtha. planned liquid gas tankers from the Arctic, another congress paper was more optimistic. . R.S. Kvamsdal of Moss Rosenberg Verft AS, Nor- react when spilled, forming a cold, dense cloud that would flow over water or ground, before forming a flammable methane-air plume. : ‘138 LNG and LPG ships, has been reported, “There is no record of fire or explosion in any gas cargo, The statistics are based on records from 43 and argued: BUSINESS DIRECTORY The 43,000 cuble metres of liquid gas inthe ship’s centre tanks were not immediately released and had no elfect on the number of deaths, he “Any ordinary tanker carrying refined, highly flammable products would have exhibited the same hazard," Describing how liquid gas shipments are becoming essential for areas thal cannot teceive gas by pipeline, Masao Tange of Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd. said liquid gas already provides ‘97 per cent of town gas and seven per cent of electric power in Japan. Despite the Yoyu Maru accident in Tokyo Bay, Japan would have six ter- minals to receive liquid gas by the end of this year. Altogether, Kvamadal said, there are 11 liquid gas trading routes in the world, three being developed and nine being considered. Walker, meanwhile, agreed that “absolute safety cannot be provided from any system where large quan- tities of energy are stored, transported or used.” Many studies, he said, ignore the risks involved in the allernatives to liquid gas. And, in any case, the future of liquid gas ship- ments ‘'may ultimately depend on the urgency of the gas shortage,” Walker said. Plumbing - Heating - Commercial Servicing Residential - Industrial - Specializing Gas Fitting and Sheet Metal Shop . : . Charlie Belanger PLUMBING & HEATING LTD. ‘Unique Bathroom Boutique’ 4% LAKELSE AVENUE P.O, Bax 534 PHONE 635-9319 TERRACE, B.C. 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