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A 5 i' Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday .January 25, 1984 Texas expertise a plus, I AT&T cash-flow crisis pipeline spokesman says iPhone rate hike reguestei United Press International AUSTIN — Texans’ famil iarity with pipelines should be a plus for an energy consortium hoping to gain right-of-way in Texas for an 1,800-mile Wyom- ing-to-Louisiana coal slurry pipeline, a company official said Tuesday. “I don’t think we’ll get any major opposition from environ mentalists because we’ve built a lot of pipelines,” said Earl Evans, director of public affairs for Energy Transportation Sys tems, Inc. The Houston-based com pany is expected to find out where its opposition will come from Wednesday at a pre conference hearing scheduled before the Texas Railroad Corn- gas industry should help ETSI’s permitting process. “Texas has a lot of pipelines,” They’re familiar with The utility regulatory agency must rule on ETSI’s request for a certificate of public conveni ence and necessity before the company can proceed with ac quiring right-of-way for the 945-miTe stretch of pipeline in Texas. Evans said Texas’ vast ex panse of pipelines for the oil and ran T THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH Welcomes You (A Member of the Anglican Communion) EPISCOPAL STUDENT CENTER CANTERBURY HOUSE 902 Jersey, College Station 696-0774 The Rev. J. Mark Wilburn - Chaplain he said pipeline construction and the way pipelines are laid.” The Railroad Commission is not expected to take any testi mony at Wednesday’s hearing, said spokesman Brian Schaible. “We’re simply going to be dis cussing who wants to participate (in hearings) and the number of hearings and location of hear ings,” he said. “We’re mostly going to be working out pro cedural details.” The chief opponent of the pipeline is expected to be the railroads, who could knocked out of a large source of the re venues they now receive to haul coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana to electric utilities in Kansas, Texas and Louisiana. The railroads have indicated they will not permit right of way for pipelines under their tracks. The pipeline would be 30 to 36 inches in diameter and buried to a depth of about three feet. United Press International AUSTIN — Armed with a favorable report from a Public Utility Commission accoun tant, AT&T Communications pressed its case Tuesday for an emergency 10.9 percent in crease in its Texas long distance rates. “Everyone knows our posi tion,” said AT&T lawyer Joyce Beasley. “We’ve shown both good cause and a nega tive cash flow.” AT&T’s emergency case, filed a month ago, was bol stered by a PUC staff report that said the company could be entitled to an immediate $103.7 crease. million annual in- The company also has a re quest pending for a perma nent rate hike of $304 million to offset the effects of the Jan. 1 divestiture of the Bell System. Despite finding AT&T had a positive cash flow, PUC staff accountant Randy Klaus said the company’s request for an emergency $115.4 million in crease grew out of the “most unusual of circumstances.” Klaus said even though there is no evidence AT&T is losing money, the company could justify a rate hike if th^ commission decides condi tions in the telecommunica tions industry are pushing tin- company toward a financial crisis. AT&T says it has lost $300,000 a day since the Jan. 1 divestiture when it was forced* -under a PUC order—to pay Southwestern Bell Telephone and other local phone com panies more than $900 million in “access” charges. An expert witness for the Office of Public Counsel sub mitted written testimony saying AT&T does not J serve any rate increase J cause it has a positive anaf cash flow of $52 million. James P. Jansen, a priJ ility consult— J Ws p. contranJ utility consultant, said view of AT&T’s rate tion showed that the company’s claims its earnings in Texas amount $326,589. Access charges were bit* against AT&T as part oftit PUC order granting Bd $653 million interim rate crease and covers expense) access to local telephone works in Texas. Bower denied bond reduction; prosecution evidence sought United Press International SHERMAN — Defense counsel for a man accused of shooting four people in an air- Wednesday Evening Eucharist with supper following 6:00p.m. Friday Morning Eucharist with breakfast following 6:30 a.m. Student Center Chapel, St. Jude's , open 24 hours Study space & T.V. room open until 10:00 p.m. BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION PARISHES AND MISSION ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH 217 W. 26th Street, Bryan 822-5176 The Rev. Romilly Timmins - Rector Elect The Rev. 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