Pipeline deal would give
BCE natural gas monopoly

Westcoast Transmission Company, holder of the only export permit for Peace River | ®
gas, applied to the board of transport commissioners in Ottawa this week for permission
to “‘be relieved of the responsibility’’ of building the natural gas ‘‘feeder’’ line from Hunt.

ingdon to Vancouver.

Plan of Westcoast is to construct a 30- cach line from the Peace River gas fields to

Huntingdon, to carry 300,000,000
cubic feet of gas per day into the
United States, on a 20-year con-
tract.

B.C. Electric, in a deal with
Westcoast, plans to build a 36-
mile, multi - million - dollar line
‘from Huntingdon to supply Van-
eouver and the lower mainland
area on its own terms.

Demonstrating once again its

complete capitulation to the

B.C. Electric, Vancouver City

Council indicated Monday this

week that it would not oppose

Westcoast’s plan to eliminate

natural gas lateral lines to Kam-

loops and Vancouver.

“Tt is assumed the B.C. Electric
will be distributing gas here and
will build the line,’ Ald. Donald
McTaggart told council members.
“TJ understand it was intended that
the laterals would be built by the
main pipeline operators but now
they will be built by the local
distributing companies.”

Vancouver City Council immedi-
ately came under fire for its

supine surrender to the BCE
monopoly.
- LPP city secretary Maunice

Rush sent a strongly-worded let-
ter to city council in which he
said:

“Tf Westcoast Transmission is
allowed to change its previous
commitment and the B.C. Elec-
tric builds the line from Hunt-
’ ingdon, it would considerably. in-
crease the capital expenditure of
the company, which would then
be charged against the public in
higher rates for natural gas.

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-“Any change along the lines

‘proposed would be at the ex-
pense of the people of the Fraser
Valley and lower mainland
municipalities.

“As you are aware, the LPP has
opposed BOE distribution of na-
tural gas in Greater Vancouver.
We have proposed instead that
gas distribution should be under
municipal ownership. This re-
mains our stand. It can be readily

seen that no matter who handles

the distribution of natural gas in
Vancouver any decision by the
board of transport commissioners
changing the terminus from Van-
couver to Huntingdon would ad-
versely affect our citizens.

“All Fraser Valley municipal
councils (with the exception of
Kent) have taken a united stand
against any change in the term-
inus. They are asking that: the

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{Langley city and municipality,

bid. They have also wired the
Fraser Valley member of parlia-
ment and have sent a two-man
delegation to Ottawa to represent
them at the hearing.

“Present at the meeting where
the above actions were taken were
from _ Sydney,

Matsqui, Abbotsford, Sumas, Maple
Ridge, Mission village and muni-
cipality, Kent and Chilliwack city
and township.”

Rush urged council to “send a
representative to Ottawa to take

a united stand with the Fraser
Valley municipal delegation

board of transport commissioners
reject the Westcoast Transmission

against changing the terminus
from Vancouver to Huntingdon.”

PUC not fit body to consider
BCE gas application, says LPP

The present Public Utilities Commission is not a fit body to hear the B.C. Electric’s
application for natural gas distribution rights “because it has consistently favored the com-

pany and forfeited all public confidence,” Alf Dewhurst, LPP provincial organizer, declared

in a statement this week.

“If the B.C. Electric secures the right to distribute natural gas it will mean that this

Continued

IWA

unionists in support of the Rest-
more workers.
Earlier in the week information

pickets were withdrawn from
Woodward’s and Forst’s when
these two firms agreed to stop

handling Restmore products.

The dispute arose when the com-
pany fired Tom Haggart, 7160
Nanaimo, an IWA plant chairman,
because he questioned a new time
eard ruling.

When plant workers met last
week to discuss the situation they
were given a five-minute ultima-
tum to get back to work. They
refused, and all were “‘fired.”

The company managed to hire
about 60 non-union workers, and
secured an injunction against pick-
eting of the plant. .AFL unions
such as electricians and truck
drivers refused to handle com-
pany goods, and CCL Upholsterers
Union at a second Restmore plant
declared as “hot” any material
coming from the Parker Street
plant.

Finding that it could not oper-
ate, the company cooled off some-
what, and agreed to the “truce”
while attempts are being made to
settle the dispute.

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giant monopoly will virtually con-
trol the light,
power industries of the province,’

fuel, transit and

continued Dewhurst.

“The whole deal smacks of a
between Westcoast

Transmission, the U.S.-controlled
oil trusts and the BCE to deliver
the fuel and power market over
to the BCE. This is what lies
behind Westcoast’s application for
a revision of its federal pipeline
permit which is now before the
board of transport commissioners
sitting in Ottawa.

conspiracy

“Consequently it would be no-
thing short of criminal for Premier
Bennett to allow a government
commission which has in the past
showed such a decided bias in

favor of the BCE, to judge the
merits .of the utility company’s
application.

“The LPP demands that Premiér
Bennett dismiss the present per-
sonnel of the PUC and appoint
new members before the commis-
sion proceeds to hear-the applica-
tion. We demand further that
the ‘hearings on the BCE applica-
tion be held in Vancouver for the
convenience of those who wish to
make submissions on the appli-
cation.

“The LPP has wired the board
of transport commissioners at Ot-
tawa urging rejection of West-

coast Transmission’s application to
be relieved of its agreements to
build lateral lines to Vancouver

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TWA and 168 forest firms 2 as Jet
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In a similar four-year |
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