Power

concerns
Yukon

By Vic PARSONS

WHITEHORSE (CP) —
The Yukon legislative
assembly, nervous that the
federal government might
try to sell the Northern
Canada Power Commission
to private interests, wanta
the Crown corporation left
alone for the time being.

The slxteen-member
assembly will debate a
motion brought forth by

Education Minister Doug
Graham, one of 11
Progressive Conservatives,
which voices concern about
the possibillty of a sale and
asks that the federal
government give full con-
aideration to the opinions of
Yukoners.

The power company, one
of more than 400 federal
Crown corporations,
produces and sells elec-
tricity in both the Yukon and
Northwest Territories, but is
a frequent money loser.

The company might not
seem like an attractive
proposition in view of its
oases, but Graham saya that
Is one of his reasons for
concern,

“I can’t see & private com-
pany taking it over without
making money, so there-*
would have to be immediate
Increases in power rates,’’
Graham said in an‘ in-
terview.

“Talso don’t see a private
company doing a major ex-
pansion in power production
in the Yukon of $700 million
to $1 bitllon without an
assured market,”’ he added,
tefering to projections that
the territory will need more
power if it is to build
atronger industrial base.

Mining industry officials:
say several mineral depoalts -
could be brought = into

production if. power .was is
owey ‘boathouse question, a group

available, Howeyor.,,.con-
servatloniats aid Th

opposed to ‘nay
jects,

Graham said the territory
would like to take over the
corporation's assetts in the
Yukon rather than see them
sold to private interests, ;

But the Yukon government
would also Iike Ottawa to
hang on to the company for a
while. ;

“We're not too anxious to
take It over right now. We'd

BEG
power.”

ballet is

‘The Mini-Bolshoi Ballet
Will be coming to the
FR.E.M. Lee Theatre in
Terrace on Friday, Noy 2.

This is a company of
twelve dancers selected
from major Soviet dance
companies, and their
visit to Terrace is part of

a 50-concert tour of

Canada.
Two-of the dancers are
from ihe full-sized

Bolshoi company. Two
‘are from the Kiev ballet,
and the rest are from the
State Acedemic ballet

By ALAN ARBUCKLE

LLOYDMINSTER, Sask.
(CP) — The heavy-oil fields
hetween here and North
Battleford are dotted with
pumps lifting crude out of
the ground but industry
spokesmen say little money

crude and syphoning off the
oll that fluaieto nae or But
even then, it has to be
thinned before it will flow
through a pipeline and, up-
graded before any refinery
in-Canada can turn it into
gasoline, heating oil or other

is being made in what’ prod

amounts to an outdoor
laboratory,

While there is a market for
the molasses-like crude,
much of the activity is almed
at learning how to get more

me oil to the surface than the

coming

school based in Odessa.

The dancers will be
performing scenes from
Act IT of Swan Lake, from
Act IT of Sleeping Beauty,
and new ballet set to the
music of the Romeo and
Juliet Overture. All:
music is by Tchaikovyskl,

For further in-
formation regarding
tickets, please phone 635-
239. Tickets will also be
available in the Skeena
Mall on Oct. 26 from 7
p.m, and Oct. 27 from 10
a.m, to 4 p.m.

LIBRARY BROWSING
:

Y
ED CURELL and MARIA YOUNG

Jan Gould is the second
author who will be giving a
talk at the Terrace Public
library on Oct. 26, She is
accompanying Beth Hill. Jan
the author of . The

of. hort atories set in the Gulf
‘Ystands;;'and Women of
British Columbia, a
historical look at women
through B.C.'s past—nurses,
loggers, homesteaders,
missionaries and others.
Jan is a well regarded
journslist and author of
many articles and short
stories. The boathouse
question is her first
collection of fiction, She will
_be talking about the craft of

the use of factual material in
fiction with regard to her
own writings,

Oct. 26 promises to be an
evening of uncommon in-
terest. Both guests are
highly respected members of
the B.C, writing community
and fascinating and ac-
complished individuals in
their own right. .

Each will be speaking for
about one hour, including a
question and answer period.
Beth Hill will illustrate he
talk with slides and
documents.

Once again, these authors
will be giving a presentation
on Friday, Oct, 26 at8 p.m. in

miniscule recovery levels
possible by primary
methods.

Glen Krueger of Marathon
Petroleum Canada Ltd. says
the oil industry historically
has had to risk money for
years in advance of

roduction in an effort to

crease the available re-
serves of energy.

Estimates of how much
heavy oil is in the ground in
Canada range irem the
billions of barrels to
astronomical amounts in the
trifions, when oil sand
deposits are included. But no
matter how much is there,
the question remains of how
to get it out of the ground and
into the market place
economically, '

Lorne Cannon, site
engineer on an experimental
project near Meota, Sask.,
says if the price were
doubled to world prices,
operators of the project still
would recover only the cost
of lifting the ail to the sur-
face, They could not recover
their investment.

Cannon's project is a
“huffpuff'’ experiment
whereby steam is injected
into the oil pool to thin it and~
increase the pressure needed
to force it to the surface.
Once the steam has done its
work, the same pipeline used
la inject it is used to pump
the oil out.

Cannon was cautious about
revealing production levels
when interviewed by
reporters on a tour of the oil
fields. But the operators of
the project, Texasgulf Enc.,
Total Petroleum Ltd, and the
Saskatchewan Oil and Gas
Corp., were getting only a
barrel a day by primary
recovery methods and now
have twostorage tanke of 750
barrels each at the site, 3

Along with the oll, the
PUrgps are bringing up water
and“as much as 80 per cent

effort hardly seems worth it
until one ponders the world’s
energy needs. -

Murray Owens of Husky
Oil Ltd., saida few years ago
that it wasn't economical to
bother recovering even the
heavy ail that could be had
easily, but higher prices and
reduced royalties are
changing that. ,

The trick is to find a way ol
cheaply. recovering more ol
the oll in the ground and
unlocking the reserves ta
make them part of Canada’s
energy future.

Saskatchewan and the
federal government have
committed $16.4 million ta
assistin recovery ex:
periments. More than $9
million hag been allocated,
including $1,4 million to the
experiment on which Cannon
is working.

Other companies have
gone ahead with ex-
periments without govern-
ment help, trying such

raducts. .
Given the difficulties, the

gimmicks as setting the oil
afire 600 metres below
ground to thin it to the point
where it can be pumped up.

A job
for the
bravest

BOYLE, Alta. (CP) — It's
not @ job for the faint-
hearted. The men who build
sawdust burners must have
steady nerves, no fear of

heights and a willingness to

work without insurance,
Rick Brade, head of the
fourman crew putting up 4
25-metre-high burner in this
community 120 kilometres
northeast of Edmonton,
knows the hazards of the job
and w.
without insurance coverage.

“It would be too costly,”
he says,

Besides the other qualities
required for the job, the men
have to be as sure-footed as
cats. A wrong step could
mean a fast trip down.

The burners are built out
of a series of panels bolted
together, ;

ANNOUNCEMENT

THOMAS NENNINGER, B.SC. MCPA
_ (Charter Physiotherapist
Ispleased to announce the opening
. Ofthe =~

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Ph. 638-1010 -
Appointment by medical referral only

the crew works .

The Herald, Friday, October 19, 1979, Page 5

Bob Farquharson, vice-
president of Murphy Oil Co.
Ltd., warned reporters
against using the estimates

of heavy oil in place running
to the trillions of barrels
since little of that likely will
ever be recovered, But the
potential remains for the re-

source to alleviate the -

shortage of conventional oil.

A major problem, he said,
is finding the billions of
dollars needed ta finance
development when the
returns are so far into the
future and the praduction
will only be a tiny fraction of
what is in the ground,

The Lloydminster fields,
he insisted, are the cheapest
and easiest to tap and yield a
crude that will at least flow,
albeit slowly. Oil mined from
other areas, such as Cold
Lake, Alta,, can fairly be
described ag a solid. r

upgrading plant costing
ag meh as $1 billion is
needed to get Lloydminster
heavy oil into the energy
system, bul there is concern
that the plant can’t be built
until a way is found to
provide enough crude a3 a
stable feedstock,
Farquharson expected it
would take four to five years

§ You’ve got to get the crude out first

to get an upgrader on
stream, even if financing
were found for it now,
A possibility, he said, is a
ant that can handle 10,000
rrels a day, rather than
the 100,000 barrels usuall
discussed. :
But there is still more
work to be done to raise
recovery levels beyond the
10 per cent of the oil in place.
“We have not run pilot
projects through their life
yet to know whether their
recovery projections are
accurate,”

Developers, therefore face
a dilemma. To make an
upgrader sensible, they have
to increase supply, but to
Increase the supply, there
must be an upgrader to
translate heavy oil into
crude that other Canadian
refineries are capable of
handling for something other
than asphalt,

DOGS DON'T PADDLE
Newfoundlands, the big
water dogs of Enxstern
Canada, don't paddle like
most dogs, but swim with

long, curved strokes, the |

National Geographic says.

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