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THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1978
Underground gas
project scrapped
United Press International
FARMINGTON, N.M. — Al
though the project was considered a
success, Department of Energy Of
ficials have announced plans to cap
the well which was part of the na
tion’s first’s experiment at using an
underground nuclear device to free
natural gas.
An agency spokesman said grow
ing opposition to use of nuclear
energy had led gas industry officials
to conclude that it would be difficult
to establish regulations providing
for use of gas produced in such a
manner.
So by November, the site of
Project Gasbuggy, located 55 miles
east of Farmington, will be returned
to its natural state. Jurisdiction of
the land will be turned over to the
U.S. Forest Service.
DOE officials said the restoration
work, expected to cost $290,000,
will begin in August. In addition to
capping the main well and three ex
ploratory wells, crews will also re
move natural gas production and
other equipment.
Project Gasbuggy involved deto
nation of a 29-kiloton nuclear device
4,227 feet underground in a natural
gas formation on Dec. 10, 1967. The
experiment was conducted jointly
by El Paso Natural Gas Co. and
what was then the Atomic Energy
Commission.
David Miller, a spokesman for the
DDE s Nevada operations office,
said the success of the project led to
two additional experiments, Project
Rulison and Rio Rlanco, both in
western Colorado.
“Our conclusion was that this
could be a successful technique for
releasing additional quantities of
natural gas,” said Miller. “But the
problem of establishing standards
for using gas containing man-made
radioactivity prohibited its im
plementation.”
Miller said Gasbuggy, Rulison
and Rio Blanco were all part of the
federal government s Plowshare
program, an effort to discover
peaceful uses for nuclear explosive
devices. However, Miller said
Plowshare has ended because
money is no longer available for
such experiments.
“The discontinuance of funding
was largely due to public opposition
to having nuclear explosions in their
backyard,” he said.
Miller said tests were conducted
to determine level of radioactivity in
the gas.
"But there were no standards for
the use of natural gas containing
man-made radioactivity, and to es
tablish those probably would have
taken years, primarily because of
challenges by anti-nuclear groups,”
he said. “Industry just felt there was
no way they could make this type of
gas production viable in the face of
this likely opposition.”
At the time it was conducted,
there was no strong opposition to
Gasbuggy, Miller said. However,
by the time the Rulison and Rio
Blanco experiments were con
ducted, opposition to such projects
was stronger. He said tests on the
gas produced from the Rulison well,
however, showed that its level
radioactivity was lower than the
naturally occuring radioactivity
found in gas used in Denver.
South African
U.S. media of
accuses sl)
hypocris
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO—A South Afri
can diplomat Wednesday accused
President Carter and some mem
bers of the American media of
moralizing and pontificating about
South Africa’s racial policies while
ignoring Russian and Cuban excur
sions and military dictatorships on
the African continent.
Pieter Goosen, South Africa’s
consul general in New Orleans, de
fended his country’s record on
human rights in a civic club speech
and criticized U.S. policies toward
that country.
Twenty pickets marched and
chanted “racism has got to go” out
side the St. Anthony Hotel. Chair
man Mario Salas of the San Antonio
Committee Against Mercenary Re
cruitment and U.S. Intervention in
Foreign Countries said Goosen
being invited to speak to Rotarians
was a disgrace to the City Council
which has gone on record condemn
ing the racist illegal government in
South Africa and a disgrace to the
people of San Antonio in general.
“In our relations with the United
States we are getting a great deal of
stick and very little carrot,” Goosen
said. “There is nothing wrong with
human rights. We in South Africa
are all for it. Such moralizing, how
ever, should be universally applied.
Why should South Africa be singled
out?”
Goosen said 40 of the 50 so-called
independent states of Africa were
ruled by military dictatorships,
while the apartheid policy practiced
in South Africa was allowing politi
cal independence of the nine sepa
rate black nations which desire it
and also prevented any one group
from dominating the other in his
country.
“Ninety percent of the 50 states
have no human rights, no democ
racy,” he said. “Nothing is being
said about them. It is difficult for us
to understand why the president of
the United States goes to a country
like Nigeria where he embraces the
political dictator, and from there he
talks about human rights in South
Africa.”
Goosen said he personally regrets
very much the death of black protes
ter Steve Beko in a South African
jail, but asked, “why all this focus on
what happened in Africa when the
same thing happened in Texas.” He
mentioned the case of Joe Campos
Torres, a Mexican-American who
drowned while in custody of Hous
ton police last year.
The diplomat added that South
Africa was of major strategic impor
tance to the West because 81
cent of the oil and GOpercenli
strategic minerals import;
NATO countries, and 28 per#
America’s oil, passed arotitl
Cape of Good Hope.
“We in South Africa bee®
noyed at the lack of support
from the Western World,It!
“We fought alongside in hvo
wars. We never asked for sir
don’t owe the United Stil
penny. We have tried to cal
tion to the Cuban and Russia
cursion in Africa, which
menacing indeed.
“I think it (Cuban-Russiai
vention) is very generally i
nized and nowadays theresetn
be a rethinking, at least a retltl
by officials up in Washingti
their policies, for no more It
hear Ambassador (Andrew)
talking about the Cubans ha
stabilizing influence in Aim
we would hope that thisn
would eventually lead toadiat;
official American policy.
“We think America si
stablizing in Africa. South Mi
of all colors — black, white,
pink would like to help, but
cooperation and not tin
moralizing and pontificating.
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ATLANTA — About 100 Ameri
can mayors and their spouses — all
curious about life on Fidel Castro’s
island — boarded a chartered jet for
a week-long visit to Cuba Wednes
day
“I haven’t yet been convinced
that the Cuban government is acting
contrary to the interests of the
United States in Africa or any
where, said Mayor Joseph Tilem of
Beverly Hills, Calif. T m going be
cause I haven’t seen Cuba in more
than 30 years.
Tilem said he spent “two or three
days in Cuba as a merchant marine
officer in 1947.
Another travelled making a return
visit to Cuba was 70-year-old Caro
Brown of Denton, Texas, who ac
companied her son-in-law. Mayor
Joseph Mitchell and his wife,
Carolou. Mrs. Mitchell said she re
membered Cuba only as a child, but
her mother said she has warm and
vivid memories of pre-World War II
Havana.
“I’ve been dreaming of this for
years and always thought it would
be an impossibility,’’ said Mrs.
Brown. “I know it’s changed and a
lot of it’s going to hurt me, but I
want to see it all again.
The U.S. Mayors Conference
shelved an anti-Cuban resolution at
the final session of its convention,
voting to leave in committee a reso
lution by Republican Mayor Clay
Shaw of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,
which would have disassociated the
USCM from the trip. The Castro
government sent the invitation
through the mayors conference,
which handled arrangements.
No USCM money or public funds
were involved. Each mayor paid the
$495 charter cost privately.
Nashville city councilmen Mac
McPherson and Douglas Wise said
they saw the trip as “an educational
experience.”
‘Tm going to learn a little more
about their culture,” said McPher
son. “I don’t think there’s anything
to be worried about.
Asked if conservativ
might hold the trip agaimlti
election time, Wise replied,
explained correctly to the
no; if anything, it can bebenel
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don do Beach, Calif, playhll
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fellow travellers and said bell
the mayors could promote [|
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their schools — to maintainat(
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have to go over there and mie.
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mal, Ill., said he let votersImT
his plans to visit Cuba when
was arranged several montkp
and has had not adverse reaclil
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