Arctic LNG Ship Tech Promises Canadian Edge
Blair of Alberta Gas Trunk Line says Arctic LNG shipping tech could surpass gas movement itself. AGTL and Petro-Canada propose a $1.5 billion Arctic LNG route from Melville Island to St John’s, Quebec City or Canso Strait. Three firms will build year round icebreaker tankers costing about $500 million, capable of cutting through heavy ice.
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Arctic
Canada
Bob Blair
Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co. Ltd
Medicine Hat
Agtl and Petro-Canada Ltd
National Energy Board
Ottawa
Melville Island
St. John’s
N.B
Quebec City
Canso Strait
Nova Scotia
Blair
AGTL
Soviet Union
Finland
Petro-Canada seeks 1.5 billion Arctic gas tanker project
Petro-Canada and Alberta Gas Trunk Line seek NEB approval for a 1.5 billion plan to ship LNG by tanker from the High Arctic to Ontario and the Maritimes with a parallel US export request. The scheme envisions Drake Point gas cooled to LNG on Melville Island, tanker delivery to Canso Saint John or Quebec City, and pipeline reconversion.
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Ottawa
Petro-Canada
High Arctic
Bill Hopper
Petro- Canada
National Energy Board
Alberta Gas Trunk Line Ltd
Quebec
Maritimes
Hopper
United States
U.S
Drake Point
Melville Island
Bridgport Inlet
Iranian envoy seeks peace with Khomaini amid Tehran clashes
Iran sent an envoy to seek talks with Ayatullah Khomaini but his aide said there would be no meeting and he rejected Carter's call to allow the Bakhtiar government to succeed. Clashes between anti shah demonstrators and loyalist soldiers continued with reported fatalities.
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Tehran
Ayatullah Khomaini
U.S
Carter
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Jalal Tehrani
Shah
Paris
Khomaini
France
Ayatullah
Ibrahim Yazdi
Shahpour Bakhtiar
Yazdi
Bakhtiar
Ghotbzadeh
Iran
Ramsey Clark
National Front
Clark
Dezful
Ahwaz
Radio Tehran
Bomb-grade uranium may have gone to Israel
Former CIA deputy director Carl E. Duckett told Rep. Udall that over eight years three CIA directors concurred a private Pennsylvania plant may have diverted highly enriched uranium to Israel. The agency questioned Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp of Apollo and briefed lawmakers, but investigations remain secret and unresolved.
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John J. Fialka
Washington Star
Washington
CIA
Congressional
Israel
Pennsylvania
Carl E. Duckett
Agency
Science
Morris K. Udall
House Interior Committee
Richard Helms
Ramsey Clark
Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp
Apollo
Udall
FBI
General Accounting Office
Department of Energy
Bomb injures shoppers in Jerusalem market
A blast at Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem wounded about 20 people as Alfred Atherton began talks with Israeli leaders. Police said the device appeared planted by Palestinian terrorists. Injuries described as light to moderate. no deaths reported.
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Jerusalem
U.S. Middle East
Alfred Atherton
Mahane Yehuda
Battle for Kampong Som Deep Water Port Reaches Day Four
Reports from Bangkok say heavy fighting continues around Kampong Som and Kampot as Vietnam invades Cambodia. Thai forces and Pol Pot loyalists clash on offshore islands while civilians report damaged fishing boats and wounded fishermen.
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Bangkok
Kompong Som
Cambodia
Vietnam
Pol Pot
Kampong Som
Kampot
Serm Na Nakorn
Kampong
Thailand
Carter
Soviet Union
Remains Found May Link D B Cooper Hijacking
In Kelso Washington an emergency exit placard found in a wooded area is believed to originate from the Northwest Airlines Boeing 727 hijack. The Cooper case involves a parachute escape with 200000 dollars, with no body or funds recovered. The placard could only come from a plane with the rear door opened.
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Kelso
Wash
D.B. Cooper
Here
Northwest Airlines
Cooper
IRA blamed as huge gas and oil storage blasts hit London area
Explosions and fires tore through a massive natural gas storage tank at Greenwich and an oil tank at Canvey Island near the Thames. Police said the IRA is suspected, marking a coordinated attack. No injuries were reported as residents were evacuated and firefighters battled fires blotting the night sky.
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London
Reuter
Greenwich
Thames River
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Scotland Yard
Canvey Island
England
The
Press Association News Service
Blackwall
Canada Inflation Eases Slightly to 8.4 Percent in December
Statistics Canada reports December consumer prices rose 8.4 percent from a year earlier, matching April’s 8.4 percent and down from November’s 8.8 percent. Food and housing led gains with a 9.0 percent yearly inflation in 1978, while food alone jumped 15.5 percent.
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Ottawa
Statistics Canada
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Bryan Blomme
Canadian Steamship Lines Co. Ltd
Federal Shipping Co. Ltd
Great Lakes Shipping Co. Ltd
Alberta
Saint John
Montreal
Arctic Islands
Frank Webber
Laos
Sam San
Peking
Federal
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