Prebuild plan halted for Alaska pipeline By GARRY FAIRBAIRN CALGARY (CP) — Sponsors of a $2-billion plan fo pre-build paris of the Alaska Highway natural gas pipeline announced Thur- sday they have halted the pre-build project because the National Energy Board did not authorize enough natural "gas for export, "The particular volumes and term are too short for proper financing feasibility,” said a statement by Foothills Pipe Lines (Yukon) Ltd., Pan-Al- berta Gas Lid. and Foothills owners. Dome wants incentive Robert Blair, chairman of Foothills and of part-owner Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co. Ltd., said the recent energy board decision was ‘a surprising setback.” The board approved 3.75 trilliar cubic feet of gas exports but gave only 18 trillion to PanAlberta. Pan- Alberta bad asked for 4.5 trillion, which it would ex. rt through facilities built y Foothills, with those facil- ities later to be used for Alaskan gas flowing south as part of the $15-billion Alaska Highway gas project, Vowing to fight the energy boards’s allocation, Blair and Foothills president Robert Plerce said the 3.75- trillion cubic feet would probably be enough to make the prebuild project finan- cially feasible if it were allocated in a different fashion among competing export applicants, Pierce said delay of the prebuild plan would probably also delay the over- all Alaska Highway project while pre-build sponsors try to make different to get Arctic. oil By GARRY FAIRBAIRN CALGARY (CP) — The chalrman of Dome Petroleum Ltd. predicted Thursday that Canada will lose a valuable chance to strengthen national unity unless tax incentives for Artic oil exploration are restored in some form. Chairman Jack Gallagher sald in an interview that domestic ener By security, eastern shipbuilding jobs and central Canadian manufacturing jobs are alsa dependent on Arctic oil development. But in the long term, the most important impact of that oil could be on Con- federation itself: “If Quebec can see that we have a small Middle East up inthe Beaufort Sea and if the people in Quebec can realize that because they have 30 per cent of the population they have 30 per cent of a small Middle East's revenue — these are the things that can pull us together.” He said that despite all the publicity about Arctle in- centives, most people fail to realize that through royalities, profit-sharing regulations and corporate lax Oltawa would get 40 ta 70 per cent of all Beaufort Sea oil revenues, ‘without taking any of the development risks,” That could be $6 billion a year for Ottawa in 12990 with today’s world prices and production of a million barrels a day, Unlike oil produced in provinces, where provincial governments own the Tesource and where their royalties are a focus for federal-provincial disputes, the Beaufort Sea oil is owned wholly by the federal government. . Dome, which has been the leading company in Beaufort _exploration, used federal tax incentives imaginatively to attract other investors into ita drilling plans, However, this week's INDUSTRIAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS federal budget viriually eliminated a frontier . ex- ploration allowance known as super-depletion, the cornerstone of Arctic in- centives. Rather than in- creasing allowable deduc- tions by 68.6 per cent, it will soon be slashed to 6.6 per cent. - . Because of that federal move, Dome announced Wednesday it is suspending plans to build a $100-million sophisticated Arctie drilling ship. = se: arrangements for their exports. ' Blair, noting stated U.S. government support for any project that helps the over- all Alaska Highway project, said his group may launch “another round of con- testing’ in U.S. courts and before other regulatory badies to try to block imports from Pan-Alberta’s com- petitors. Pan-Alberta is equally owned by AGTL and Alberta Energy Co., while AGTL and West Coast Transmission Co. Ltd. equally own Foothills, which would build Canadian sections of the Alaska High- way project. The pre-build project would involve a $1.2-billion northern border pipeline in the Uniled States, $400 million of Canadian facilities, plus a “western leg’ delivering gas to California. Pan-Alberta president Scotty Cameron said many small Alberta gas producers, 200 of whom packed a meeting room Thursday for a briefing by prebuild Sponsors, are dependent on the project for markets for their gas. Blair vewed that the project's sponsors would not abandon the pre-build project or the gas produce dependent on it, : “~~ hom LIBRARY BROWSING By ED CURELL and MARIA YOUNG The Library has organized two pre-Christmas programs for children -a cartoon hour on Saturday, at 1 p.m. with lots of action packed, non-stop fun for kids, anda puppet show on Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. These promise to provide a great time for all who attend. We are also looking for any donations of 1978 Time and MacLeans magazines in order that we may complete our holdings for binding. We would be grateful for any issues that could be provided. New books this week include: Nights in the underground by Marie-Claire Blais one of Canada’s most celebrated novelists and a winner of the Governor General's award. This novel is devoted to the lives of women and is a profound story of human isolation and the healing powers of love. 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