Natural Gas Curbs Hit Local Homes and Firms After Dec 31
After December 31 the Gas Service Company will not add new hook ups or allow load increases for 16,000 customers across 23 area towns. The federal curtailment order by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission hinges on General Motors’ demand and Wyoming reserves. Washington hearings start next week to argue the size of Wyoming supplies. In the meantime new construction must proceed without gas hookup and potential penalties loom if allocations are exceeded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Lambert
Bob Grabham
Grabham
Federal Power Commission
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Cities Service Gas Company
General Motors
Cities Service
Wyoming
Washington, D.C
Power Commission
Ottawa
Ottawa and Gas Service
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
el Paso
Paola
Raymond Kinsley
Centropolis
Total Electric Utilities
Kinsley
Rex Bowling
Franklin County
East Sixth
Charles Porter
Steve Thompson
Thompson
Ottawa Homebuilding Boom Faces Gas Ban Upset
Ottawa builders fear the natural gas ban will chill a years long housing boom. With 59 permits this year versus 43 last year, executives warn cooling demand as costs rise and electric options become more common.
Conferees Nix Elderly Rates In Energy Measure
Washington AP report flags defeat of a Senate plan to require utilities offer the lowest rates to citizens over 62, aiming to cut elder bills by about 40 percent. Train subsidy for Amtrak also approved, with a $18 million funding path through March 1.
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Washington
Congressional Energy
Senate
Senate Energy
House
Bennett Johnston
D-La
Carter
Amtrak
Albert Gore Jr
D-Tenn
Russell Long
Farmers on Interstate 70 clash with laws and plans
Kansas Highway Patrol warns farmers marching to Topeka for the American Agriculture Movement strike will face interstate bans on farm equipment. Rush notes a possible legal path as leaders seek talks with AAM. Organizers from Goodland defend use of I-70 citing taxes and purpose.
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Salina
Hns
Col. Allen Rush
Kansas Highway Patrol
Topeka
American Agriculture Movement
AAM
Goodland
Kansas
Rush
The
Highway Commission
Secretary of Transportation
O.D. Turner
L.J. Owens
Goodland Area
Roberts
Georgia
Farmers may graze wheat land set aside in 1978 plan
Agriculture Secretary Bergland approved grazing on 1978 set aside wheat land to cut grain output, with 26 percent of planted wheat required to qualify for price supports. Details pending as legal questions remain. Winter wheat planted for next summer faces erosion protection rules requiring vegetative cover not to mature or be harvested.
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Washington
Bob Bergland
Bergland
Kansas City
Farmland Industries, Inc
Agriculture Department
Department
U.S
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Martin Owens
Greater
Willow Acres
Jim Alexander
Herald
Anthony Moffett
Dconn
Conference Committee
Moffett
Thomas P. O'Neill
Highway Patrol
Earl Schmitt
Linwood
Schmitt
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