The National Energy
Board of Canada -has re-
leased a report stating that
Canada has natural gas
- reserves totalling two trillion .
cubic feet.

This is sufficient gas, the
NEB claims, to last Cana-
dians for the next 25 years.

rPenor

aite
generally ‘met acceptance
from the Canadian oil and
gas industry. However, Ted
Baugh, president of the
Canadian Petroleum Industry

“Says the amount of natural .
gas reserve given in the NEB
report, is not sufficient for all
the involved parties to supply
their markets in the United
States. é-

switched ¢ to anew method of

In addition, one of the

authors of the NEB report is

reported to have admitted
that, according to certain
methods of calculation,
Canada could in fact have no
sufplus of natural gas at all.

The unnamed co-author of
the report says the NEB

up with its figure of two
trillion cubic feet of gas
reserves.

Also, some doubt has been
cast upon the viability of
proceeding with the pro-
posed Alberta section of the
Alaska pipeline.

Spokesmen for Alberta .

Gas Trunk Line say they

BANS MEAT IMPORTS

The Ayatollah Khomeinei
has returned in triumph to
his Moslem spiritual city of
Qum in northern Iran.

More than 100,000 excited
Iranians were crowded into
the city square to welcome
the Ayatollah who made his
return to Qumafter 15 years’
exile by the Shah of Iran.

Qum is 100 kilometers
north of Tehran.

Khomeinei, promised the
faithful tha will make his
headquarters
though he
tionary government which is
in Tehran. His headquarters
are in a theological college
but despite removing himself
from the seat of government,
the Ayatollah insists that he
will remain in control of the
government and issue direc-
tives from Qum.

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His pronouncements upon
arrival in Qum do not auger
well for the western world.

One of them was a promise
that he would wipe out all
western influence in Iran

which he wants to become an
Islamic republic.

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Khomeini has also banned
the importing of frozen meat
as part of his plan to bring
strict Moslem principles to
Iran. He has ordered all
existing stocks of meat to be
destroyed or used = as
fertilizer.

Meanwhile on the oil front,
the revolutionary government
has announced that it will
resume oil exports sometime
next week.

oO : pena reserves--or has 1?

would be happier with a
much” bigger surplus of
natural gas than the two
trillion cubic feet indicated
by the NEB. In fact, they

would like to have three .

times that amount of gas
in reserve to meet energy
needs of the future.

The extra gas reserves are

‘ 1s
ahead witht what petrofeum .
people refer to as pre-—

building of the gas Pipe line
through Alberta. .

Ed Broadbent, national
leader of the NDP, bluntly

‘called the National Energy

Board’s findings bordering
on the criminal.’’ he claims

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Canadian natural gas off into
the U.S. export market, the
reserves should be main-
tained for use of Canadian
consumers in view of the
present unstable world oil
situation in the Middle East.

The, Iranian oil situation
was having an effect this
week upon the United States
e majors

have started limiting their
crude oil sales to dealers.

Od use
cut back

Canada, the U.S..and 18
other of the world’s leading
industrial nations. have
agreed to cut oil consumption
by five per cent in order to
offset the shortfall of Iranian
oil on world markets result-
ing from the political turmoil
in Iran.

The 20 members of the
International Energy Agency
say that reports on the future
supply situation are serious
enough to prempt_ the
cutback.

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His voice choking with ”

emotion, Prime Minister Ian

Smith formally dissolved the
Parliament -

Rhodesian

. The moving scene in

ilisbuty brought an end to

‘White’ ‘sypremecy in-troubled
Rhodesia and a climax to.

Smith’s long campaign to
bring about an orderly and
peaceful integration in
government between blacks
and whites.

Rhodesia’ s first one-man

scheduled to be heldApril 20 20

as part of the transition to

black majority rule.

In the. new order of
government in Rhodesia, its
parliament will have 78
blacks.and'28 whites.

Meanwhile, Rhodesian air -
force planes struck another

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