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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1980
Synfuel incentives too small, official says
United Press International
HOUSTON — Government incentives for commercial de
velopment of coal synfoel plants are inadequate, although the
energy industry has the technology to handle the projects
today, the president of Conoco Coal Development Co. told the
International Coal Utilization Conference Tuesday.
“What we need are incentives on the order of investment tax
credit and accelerated depreciation,” said Jimmie R. Bowden.
“Unless we adopt tax policies which make synthetic fuel plants
an attractive proposition, broad-based production will be im
possible. ”
Bowden said the problem with incentives offered by the
new xederal Energy Security Corp. such as grants and loan
guarantees “is that they imply government involvement in
project management. The best example today of management
control placed on a corporation because of loan guarantees is
Chrysler. We in the energy business who are competent to
manage a synfuel plant can do without that kind of incentive.”
Bowden stressed the technology to operate commercial coal
synfuels plants existed while time was being lost on govern
ment-financed research and development projects.
“If we have the commercially available technology and
abundant coal supplies, why aren’t we embarking on a logical
plan toward commercial coal-based energy now?” he asked.
“While acknowledging the value of research and develop
ment, it seems to me that we are wasting our own and our
nation’s valuable time.
“The ambitious and comprehensive energy goals of the
Energy Security Corporation certainly will accomplish much,
but I am convinced that the most prudent course to pursue is
rapid synfuel commercialization now using established,
proven technology. ”
Bowden said delays in commercial development of coal
gasification and liquefaction plants will thwart President Car
ter’s Program for Energy Security goal of500,000 barrels of oil
equivalent per day in 1987,
Man found innocent
in suicide assist trail
United Press International
DALLAS — A man acquitted in
the initial testing of a 6-year-old law
that makes it a crime to assist a
suicide, said he never intended his
friend to die.
David M. Toupounce, 24, was
found innocent Monday by a jury
that deliberated for more than 10
hours over three days.
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DENVER — A plaintiffs attorney
says the $10.5 million verdict against
KerrMcGee Corp. for plutonium
contamination in the Karen Silk-
wood case should be viewed as a
warning to large companies to exer
cise extreme care with deadly subst
ances.
Arthur R. Angel, a lawyer from
Oklahoma City, made the claim to
the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals Monday as he urged a three-
member panel to uphold a federal
court jury’s award of that amount to
the Silkwood estate.
The woman suffered the alleged
contamination a few days before her
death in a single-car traffic accident
Nov. 13, 1974. The company has de
nied responsibility for the contami
nation.
Kerr-McGee lawyers have
appealed on the argument that mas
sive pre-trial publicity, as well the
Three Mile Island nuclear accident
in Pennsylvania, prevented the com
pany from getting a fair trial when
the jury heard the case last year.
Angel, explaining that half a gram
of plutonium could cause cancer in
32 million people if evenly distri
buted into their lungs, said he was
“astounded to learn just how hazar
dous this substance was.”
He described the large damage
award as an attempt by the jury to
tell Kerr-McGee “in unmistakeable
terms” that citizens would not toler
ate carelessness with so dangerous a
material.
“We know it’s a lot of money, but
it’s justified under the law,” he said.
Silkwood worked as a lab analyst at
the company’s Cimarron, Okla.,
plant, which turned liquid pluto
nium into pellets and inserted them
into metal fuel pins to be used as
reactor fuel.
The woman’s fatal car crash occur
red while she was en route to meet
with a New York Times reporter, re
portedly to disclose alleged evidence
of safety defects at the facility.
During the hour-long court pre
sentation Monday, attorneys for
Kerr-McGee argued jurors were in
fluenced by publicity from the case,
news stories about the Three Mile
Island accident, release of the movie
“The China Syndrome” and opposi
tion to the Black Fox nuclear power
plant being constructed near Inola,
Okla.
News on TV
too simple—
broadcaster
United Press International
EL PASO — Television is respon
sible for over-simplifying a complex
world, veteran broadcast journalist
Robert Goralski told 1,200 delegates
to the 71st annual convention of the
Texas Congress of Parents and
Teachers.
“When I hear that two out of every
three people get their news from
television, I worry about the com
petency of people to judge complex
issues,” Goralski, who spent 15 years
as an NBC correspondent, said at
Monday’s opening session of the
three-day meeting.
He suggested television’s tenden
cy to be a “headline service” could
result in the nation’s youth not know
ing enough to make proper deci
sions.
“We re rather bored with difficult
stories,” he said. “The economy, the
nation, jobs — generally, do not lend
themselves to short stories.”
He encouraged parents and
teachers to provide students with
newspapers, magazines and books
for detailed explanations of the issues
of the day.
Goralski spoke on the eve of dele
gate voting on a number of proposals
which will determine future lob
bying efforts by the 107,000-
member state PTA. The association
successfully lobbied legislators last
year for a return to the semester sys
tem for public schools.
Issues expected to come before
the congress include: legislation pro
viding for recall of school board trus
tees, definition of a district’s respon
sibility in educating the children of
illegal aliens, collective bargaining
for teachers, state supported all-day
kindergarten, state reimbursement
to school districts for revenue lost
through tax exemptions, teacher
proficiency testing, state funding of
college museums and stronger laws
regarding the use of alcohol and to
bacco.
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