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; AUSTIN — : A formula that
would allocate to customers $41
million in fuel overcharges col
lected by Gulf States Utilities Co.
was recommended to the Public
Utility Commission by Texas’
consumer counsel.
But the Beaumont-based
electric utility has asked the PUC
for authority to invest the
money in a coal-fired generating
plant now under construction in
Louisiana.
GSU recovered the money
from the company’s fuel sup
plier, United Gas Pipeline Co.,
in a lawsuit over natural gas sup
plied to two generating plants in
Louisiana.
A PUC hearing examiner will
hear evidence on the distribu
tion of the award in January.
Public Counsel Jim Boyle said
his office intervened because of
a concern that large industrial
users would collect up to 80 per
cent of the money if the PUC
bases refunds on a 10-year usage
plan.
Boyle said it would be unfair
for industrial customers to re
ceive any of the refund because
they have already passed on the
overcharge costs to their cus
tomers.
The plan submitted by
Boyle’s office calls for $5 million
to be set aside for such energy
conservation investments as
weatherization, rebates to
buyers of efficient appliances
and loans for insulating homes.
“Our energy conservation
plan will put $5 million to work
in lowering everyone’s electric
bill — money which might
otherwise have predominantly
enriched the profits of large in
dustrial customers,” Boyle said.
The remaining $36 million
would be distributed by direct
cash refunds to various classes of
consumers, with current re
sidential customers getting a
uniform amount.
GSU, which serves more than
500,000 customers in East and
Southeast Texas, has also asked
the PUC for permission to take a
$1.8 million cut from the award
for legal fees.
But Boyle said the company’s
rate base already makes an allo
wance for legal fees.
LONDON — Giant American
transport planes apparently car
rying a second batch of cruise
missiles and possibly nuclear
warheads landed Tuesday,
sparking protests and the arrests
of 125 women. In another out
burst, red paint was sprayed in
the British defense minister’s
face.
The women were arrested at
Greenham Common airbase
west of London where the mis
siles were arriving after they
blockaded the main gate in a
chanting, singing demonstra
tion.
As they stopped traffic, a U.S.
C-5a Galaxy and a C-141 Starlif-
ter landed on a runway guarded
by paratroopers and a vehicle-
mounted gun.
Reporters at the scene said six
or eight long crates were
wheeled toward the missile stor
age silos and other cylinders,
thought to be the warheads, also
were unloaded from the planes.
Describing the cylinders a
BBC television reporter said, “It
is thought they are the nuclear
warheads.” Cruise and Per
shing-2 missiles are scheduled to
be deployed by NATO in Bri
tain, West Germany, Nether
lands, Belgium and Italy to
counter Soviet missiles.
The defense ministry refused
to comment on the contents of
the planes.
Defense Secretary Michael
Heseltine, who announced
Monday’s arrival of the first
cruise missiles, was sprayed with
red paint by an anti-nuclear de
monstrator at Manchester Uni
versity in northern England.
Heseltine looked shaken as
police hustled him through an
angry crowd of some 200 heck
lers, many shouting “out, out,
out,” in front of the student un
ion where the minister gave a
speech. As Heseltine left, two
eggs were thrown at him.
A Starlifter landed Monday
at Greenham Common and
Heseltine told Parliament it car
ried the first new cruise missiles
for Britain. But he said he would
be making no further arrival
announcements.
In Parliament Tuesday,
Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher told opposition Labor
Party leader Neil Kinnock he
was talking “absolute rubbish”
when he accused her of being a
lackey to the United States.
The Greenham Common
“peace camp” women, whose
numbers have swelled consider
ably since Monday, sang and
chanted as they tied themselves
to the base gates with strands of
wool. They held up traffic for
nearly an hour. About 40 police
men dragged them away.
At the nuclear submarine
base at Faslane, Scotland, 230
miles northwest of London,
three men scaled the radio com-
municatins tower and stayed
aloft for six hours before com
ing down, a defense ministry
spokeswoman said.
She said the men, who held a
banner that read “no cruise,”
were arrested when they came
down and were charged with
trespassing.
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