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CALGARY (CP) — Husky
Oil Ltd, announced Monday
that it is undertaking a $450-
million, five-year program
to speed development of ita
heavy crude oil reserves in
Alberta and Saskatchewan,

Company president James
Nielson said the initial
program could be just: the:
first slage of a progtam:
involving $2 billion or rnore
in heavy oil exploration,
development and upgrading.

The upgrading program,
which would involve other
companies in partnership
and which relies on proposed
government incentives,
would include construction
of an upgrading plant in
Saskatchewan near the bor-
der city of Lloydminster.

Nielson also announced
that Husky will participate
in a consortium organized by
Pacific Petroleums Ltd. for

a heavy oil upgrading plant
in Alberta.

Husky had, however,
declined an offer by Gulf Oil
Canada Ltd. and Petro-
Canada Ltd. whereby those
companies would have
participated in development
of Husky’s Lloydminster-
area heavy oil reserves.

The Husky president tolda
news conference that
company's position is that
outside partners are wanted -
only for the higher cost
tertlary recovery stage.
Husky would handle the
more economical primary
and secondary stages by

The $450-million program
would boost Husky’s net
crude oil production by
20,000 barrels a day in the
180-Ey 105-kilometre
Lloydminster area which it
controls, doubling its current

production.

Other fuel sources needed

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Policies are needed to make
oll consumers switch to other
fuels where practical and to
reduce consumption where
there are no' alternatives,
says the Association of |
Professional Engineers: of
British Columbia. “

repart on energy
released Monday by the
association says that oil
currently provides 52 per
cent of the energy used in
B.C,, but the province
produces only about a
quarter of its own oil.

The report calls for a
“thoroughgoing com-
mitiment {o conservation”
with penaliles for waste.

Crash cause
unknown

ROCHE HARBOR, Wash,
(AP) — Investigators were
trying Monday to determine
the cause of a single engine
plane crash near this San
quan Island resort, killing all
four persons aboard.

The San Juan County coro-
ner's office identified the
victims of the Saturday night
crash as Albert D. Mc-
Cormick, 59, and his wife
Marie, of Edmutits, Wash.,
and Robert. J, Woods,;71, and -
his wife Harridl, bry’ af?
Marysville, Wash.

The Grumman Tiger plane
apparently had just taken off
from an alratrip when it went
down about one kilometre
east of the runway in a
wooded area, sald Bill
Hamilton of the Washington
Department of Tran-
sportalion. The wreckage
was located Sunday, he said.

Hamilton sald the couples
had been to Roche Harbor
for dinner and were retur-
ning to Paine Field in
Everett, Wash.

Mediator
appointed
VANCOUVER (CP) —
Ken Albertini has been
appointed as mediator in the
dispute involving 250
meateutters at eight

Woodward's store in the
Vancouver area,

George Johnston,
spokesman for the Canadian
Food and Aliied Workers
Unton, seid today that talks
are expected to get un-
derway within 10 days.

The union, which yoted 83
per cent Sunday in favor of
strike action, is asking for
extension of fringe benefits
to part-time workers, who
form about 40 per cent of the
unign membership, Johnston
said.

No cheques

for needy

VICTORIA (CP) — The
British Columbla govern-
ment does not plan’ to
distribute its Guaranteed
Annual Income for Need
(GAIN) cheques to needy
senior citizens during the
current postal strike, a
spokesman said Monday.

The spokesma® said the
80,000 cheques, each for a

maximum of $38.88, are not

considered a main source of

income, and the government

will consider delivering

them through its emergency

mail service only if the atrike
. is a prolongued one.

The governnient has been
using its planes and trucks to
deliver regular government
correspondence and payroll,
welfare, pension and aid-for-
handicapped cheques from
Victoria to major centres in
the- province.

The cheques. are
distributed to recipients
through the local govern-
\ment agent’s offices

The report rejects the

energy crisis.

“Rather we face a steadily
deteriorating situation
resulting from a com-
bination of our heavy con-
sumption of oil products, the
small proportion of oil that
‘comes from provincial
sources, declining Canadian
ail production and the in-
creasing gap between
Canadian domand and

supply of oil," the engineers
nal.

Beef price hike seen

MONTREAL (CP) — The
price of regular ground beef
could go as high as $2 a
pound unless the federal
government ‘increases beef
import quotas for 1979, says
Chester Wilcox, corporate
meat manager of Dominion
Stores Lid.

Increasing the quota to 250
million pounds from the
current 150 million pounds

his’ “would certainly take a

great deal of pressure off the
Canadian market,” Wilcox
said in a recent interview,

But, he added, the mave
“is up to (federal
Agriculture Minister
Eugene) Whelan," who re-
fused this year to increase
the quotas by a relatively

_ modest 20 million pounds.

Whelan told the Canadian
Meat Importers Association
it had to pay the going price
for beef, said association
president Erin Daniels,

Import restrictions
protecting domestic
producers have combined
with a cyclical thinning of
herds to produce rising
prices, Regular ground beef,
formerly called hamburger
within the trade, was 68
cents a pound last year.

Today, regular ground
beef is running at about $1.48
a pound, sald Wilcox.

He said beef purchases
had dropped off by about 40

r cent this summer from

t year, and as consumers
switch to pork or poultry,
prices for those items “‘have
advanced in accordance with
pressure put on them,"

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Jack Levine, president of
Stelnberg Ltd., said both.
Canada and the U.S. are at
the low end of the beef cycle
which occurs every three to
five years, driving prices
higher,

Herds are so thinned that
the traditional autumn run of
beef, which normally
depreases prices, didn't
occur, Daniels gaid.

John Bonspiel, president of
Letovsky Ltd., which han-
dies 21 per cent of total
Canadian beef imports, said
Ottawa’s policy is ‘to hell
with the consumer.”

Bonspiel said that while

there is no actual shortage of
beef, there is a shortage of
affordable beef,

He said the only thing that
can stop rising beef prices is
lifting import restrictions,
because “even if consumers
eat less beef, prices are still
going to rise.”

Claude Dufour, president
of Provi-Viande Inc., a
subsidiary of Provigo Inc.,

said there is. no beef shor- i

a

“It is up to the respective
ministers (in Ottawa) to do
something about it,” said
Harold Shneer, president of
Woodex Systems Ltd. °

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It is important that you see and
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1979 CANADIAN
The Toyota Canadian is one of
Canada’s lowest priced import cars.
But that doesn’t mean it’s short on
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either a 1.2 litre or 1.6 litre engine, the
Canadian offers an electric rear
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