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THE ALCAN PIPELINE == Largest private energy project Tt won't do anything’ — Clark 7

OTTAWA (CP)- A US.- Canada agreement. to build a natural gas pipeline along the proposed Alaska high- way route will do nothing to

meet Canada's energy needs, Progressive Con- servative Leader Joe Clark said Thursday.

The proposed route, agreed to in principle in Washington following a meeting between Prime

‘Yes it will’ — US.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The

pipeline route chosen by President Carter to carry Alaskan natural gas to the continental United States should relieve potential supply problems in the Pacific Northwest states, according to state and in- dustry officials. :

“The Alaskan supply is going to relieve our supply picture somewhat,” said Janet McLennan, .Governor

Bob.Straub’s administrative assistant for. natural resources,

She said .the pipeline “would provide a so-called western leg which would

a give us some access to gas

that is independent of

About 70 per cent of the natural gas used in Gregon is imported from Canada, which has dramatically increased its rates. Some observers also worry the Canadian supply might be withheld or reduced when current contracts expire in

The route selection an- nounced Thursday by Carter and Prime Minister Pierre Turdeau of Canada is a $10 billion pipeline from Alaska's gas-rich North Slope to Fairbanks, then across Canada along the Alaska Highway.

The Canadian route has been endorsed by Straub,

President Jimmy Carter, provides no access to Canada’s.gas reserves in the Mackenzie delta, Clark said

Minister Trudeau and through a spokesman. “= Construction of a pipeline would provide some short- * term economic benefits for’ the northern region, Clark whe was out ofthe stateand said, but twould not not available for comment, alleviate the problem of Competing. proposals Canada’s dwindling gas: would have built the gasline supplies. along the route of the At best, a Canadian line existing Alaskan oil pipeline would not be built until tothe state's southern coast, sometime in the mid to late where the gas would be 1980's. . . liquefied and transported to Clark said he is concerned the West Coast by ship. whether Canada’s

Firm disappointed

HOUSTON (Reuter) — An El Paso Co. spokesman said Thursday the firm was disappointed. by President Carter's decision favoring a gas pipeline across Canada because it ‘ignores benefits to the U.S. inherent in an all- American system.”

guarantees

E! Paso said the proposed —

pipeline ‘‘commits this country to a multi-billion dollar project favoring Canada with enforceable . regarding matters of the utmost im- portance in the protection of the total public interest.”

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WASHINGTON (CP) — Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska, one of the key congressional advocates of the El Paso plan to ship natural gas from Alaska, said Thursday that El Paso supporters have lost their battle

In a statement issued shortly after President Carter announced approval of the rival Alaska Highway project,. the Democratic senator cated his beef that there .is no chance Congress will over-rule the

Paso has lost its battle

president. Under terms of special

U.S. legislation on the pipeline issue, Congress has 6) days to accept or reject the president’ decision.

Gravel. saw some minor success in the fact that the Alaska Highway project received U.S. and Canadian approval rather than another cross-Canada alternative — the Arctic gas plan — that would have involved little construction in Alaska.

“We apparently gave partially lost the Alaska gas line. I say partially because there will still be some 70- odd miles of pipeline built in Alaska and it will serve the second-largest city in Alaska,””

Gravel: also noted that Alaskans won an_ earlier political battle concerning Alaskan oi]. An oll pipeline was built across Alaska and the oil is being moved by ship from Alaska's south coast, just as El Paso proposed to do with the

natural gas.

“TL am not terribly gratified with the decision today but J think that on balanceif we had ta win just one, we won the right one, two, or three years back.”

aide to Gravel predicted that the. Alaska Highway project will easily win congressional approval, aided by a solid bloc of Midwest representatives who want it because a cross- Canada pipeline will deliver the Alaskan gas directly to their states.

U.S. senate gears for

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the ink barely dry on the new Panama canal treaties, Ronald Reagan and other conservative opponents opened a cam- paign Thursday to block U.S. Senate ratification of

the pacts. - Reagan said the + agreement to turn the canal

. over to the Panamanians will weaken the U.S. as an . international power and

increase chances .that the

* Panamanians will seize

control of the waterway before the year 2000, when U.S. control is to end.. “There is no way this will be seen as magnanimous,” the fermer California governor said. ‘It will be seen as.a further retreat by the United States.” Reagan’s testimony before a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing came.as the two chief U.S. negotiators for the treaties were testifying before a

House of Representatives international relations committee.

Sol Linowitz and Elisworth Bunker said Congress will be asked to approve $345 million in econimic aid for Panama, including $50 million for canal defences.

Asked what the U.S. would get in. return for the aid, Linowitz said: “The most important thing we get is enhanced assurance of an open, accessible, secure

With the leaders of 26 visiting countries looking on, including Prime Minister Trudeau, President Carter and Panamanian President Omar Torrijos signed the treaty Wednesday night, culminating 13 years of negotiations.

During his unsuccessful run for the Republican presidential nomination last ear, Reagan raised the

Winter will be tough say farmers

LEWISTON, Me. (AP)- Keep your long johns handy - the Farmers’ Almanac says the coming winter is

’ going to be a bitter one.

“For 1977-78, .we show another rough winter, with cold and snow aplenty although not as bad as the winter just past,’’ says the almanac’s 16lst annual edition, just off the presses.

The venerable publication was right on target last year when it forecast ‘‘a big, bad winter,’’ for the United States,. followed by a “scorchingly. hot’’ summer.

“We predicted it first,” says almanac editor Ray _Feiger, 67, who obtains his forecasts from Harry Bule, a retired astronomer and -school administrator in Inverness, Fla.

“He uses a secret for- . Maula, passed down since the almanac was founded in 1918,” says Gelger, ‘‘It’s. ‘based on sunspots, the position of the planets and the tidal actlon of the migon,"”

The almanac has been issuing forecasts 52 years

longer than the U.S. National .Weather Service, says Geiger, who iy foe passes up an opportunity for a good natured jab at the government run bureau.

“We call them a “non- prophet!’ agency," he says. + Despite the almanac’s warning of a cold and snowy winter, .its long-range prognostications offer the prospect of relief from extremes of heat and cold.

The summer of 1978 will

be moderate and more pleasant andin another year or. two there will be a mild winter, Geiger says. . In addition: to. weather inforamtion,. this year’s almanac is filled with the usual blend of homespun homilies, one-lone jokes, inspirational essays and recipes, includes ones for a “eoncrete’ pecan pleand hot tuna dogs.”

Geiger's 48 to be confused with the 185 vear old Old Farmers Aimanae, is sold to banks and other businesses, which distribute it free to their customers.

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canal issue and criticized

‘former president Gerald

Ford’s attempts — now completed by President Carter — to negotiate a new treaty.

Ford is supporting the treaties and was present for the signing ceremony. He predicted Thursday that the Senate ratification vote “is going to he very, very close.,, it’s going to be a tough fight.”

The four witnesses who testified Thursday before the Senate subcommittee are opposed to the treaty. All senators, including subcommittee chairman

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James Allen (Dem. Ala.), who appeared for the. hearing are conservatives who have said they will vote against ratification.

In his testimony, Reagan said student radicals in Panama have already said they will continue to demonstrate as long as there is a U.S. presence, with or without a treaty.

If Panamanian teaders are pressed by radicals to ignore the treaties, there is nothing to prevent Panamanian leaders from seizing control, he said.

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negotiators have adequately protected the national in- terest “and obtained the benefits for Canada to which we are. entitled.” Clark hoped these con- cerns could be laid to rest when precise details of the agreement between the two

‘countries are released,

possibly within a few days.

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GOOD OL’ JIMMY! GOOD OL’ PIERRE!

-WASHINGTON (CP)- Jimmy and Pierre, as U.S. President Jimmy Carter and. Canadian Prime Minister -Pleree Trudeau call each other socially, appear to be cementing the friendship established earlier this year.

The two government leaders went out of their way at a news conference

Thursday to thank each |

other for the friendship and

co-operation exhibited in negotiations leading to agreement on a northern

pipeline.

Both said the talks had taken place in thatspirit and could only help bring the two countries closer together.

The U.S. president praised him as a world leader and. sald that as a new man in office he had much to learn from Trudeau

who has. been Canadian prime minister since 1968, “7 want to re-emphasize my thanks to you, Pierre for your friendship and. co- operation,” Carter said at the end of the session, “j'm grateful for these final ‘words,” Trudeau replied. “If J can help you with your electors at some point I'd like to do so,” he added jokingly.

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