Georges Bank oil prospects loom off Massachusetts coast
Shell Oil and Mobil Texaco and Digicon researchers use seismic ships to map Georges Bank seabed for potential oil leases to be offered next spring. In 200 tracts off New England coast, the expeditions seek promising sites while hearings on environmental impact study loom.
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Shell Oil
Georges Bank
Gordon Phillipson
Shell
Phaedra
Baltimore Canyon
New York
Virginia
New England
Mobil
Texaco
Digicon
Phillipson
New Bedford
Massachusetts
URI Campus in Rhode Island Among Nine Sites for Solar Plant
The University of Rhode Island Kingston campus is named as one of nine sites for a proposed national solar electric plant. ERDA aims to select a builder by February 1 1977 with construction to start in 1978 and finish by 1980. The project would generate about 10 000 kilowatts and cost around 100 million dollars serving as a model for future facilities. Other sites include Arizona California Florida Mississippi Puerto Rico and Texas.
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Kingston, R.I
University of Rhode Island
Kingston
U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration
Albuquerque
N.M
ERDA
URI
Narrangansett Electric Co
Rhode Island
Board of Regents
Arizona
California
Florida
Mississippi
Puerto Rico
Texas
Cancer study stymied by time and money shortages
NEW HAVEN AP Shortages of time and money hinder efforts to identify and eliminate occupational cancer causing agents. Dr. Robert F Craft, acting director of NIOSH, urged more funding and a strong toxic substances law as current studies focus on trichloroethylene PCBs and perchloroethylene while noting the lack of an occupational surveillance system.
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New Haven
Robert F. Craft
Craft
Division of
National Institute For Occupational Safety and Health
NIOSH
Yale School of Medicine
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Ples
Fritz
Tony II
New Bedford, Mass
R.I
Fritzie
Hush Puppies
Narragansett Basin
James Skehan
S.J
Weston
Mass
Father Skehan
Edward King
The
New England Council
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