The Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-05-14, Page 171
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BY G. MacLEOD ROSS Western -skills to extract and through the Northwest ,Passage .at ' Hanover, N.H., the „...1./..S. rariamhtg in a dazzling display of
. market. the oll, it is to the East coast of the U.S.A., Coastguard in the iebraker
seopinanendsliftp; 1Vilintlataterroe backwas
The Northwest Pass* has circumscribed on the other by . for the North Slope Oil is only Northwind; scientists WM the.
been a continuing challenge to .. the possibility that one day the marketable in the U,S.A. and Scott Polar Research Institute.at down.
mankind for four centuries. Arab a might coalesce and thus will have v no effect in Cambridge, England; • the
From the time of Columbus in present a United front,, inhnleal ,Eureope or Japan, where it coulMcCLURE STRAIT.d Canadian government provided -
f .,1490.• until 1903-6 when Roald to the ' 'weat, more expecially not corripete With lower-cost m e t e o r 010 g i s t s, a i r • . Much useful satiey work was
1 • M. 'T.A.mundsen finally triumphed. It „ when sufficiently urged by the- foreign oil. reconnaissance and, last but by Since this was essentially a a c complished en ute
" is pot surprising therefore, that Soviets. From a defence point of % In the long term North Slope no means least, the Canadian fact finding voyage, ie was Hundreds of new fathometer
hunted to tea the ship tA) WS readings will appear "On "the
) the waterwaysmiand landmasses view it is therefore very desirable of1,, will not affect the U.S. Icebreaker John A. 1Vlacdoliald,
like, a funerary meniorial to American continent should be expects ' it. to • be priced
which surround the Passage read that, - if feasible,. the North product price' and- HUmhle which soon became known a.s
those who challenged, some of self-sufficient in oil reserves, competitively' in the doniestic
the Johnny Mac. :
other bccasions the Johnny Mae
lublindi et sr. hSeormoewttnsel,toismhe, wrnhallueagol charts, while Baker isla.nd was,
existingfoundthtt toim 1 F maps
misplacedtty. sic,taket will m il,Quenps,th;
whom never returned me Of ' ', Market, though a lowering of FIRST .ENCOUNT,ERV" • was called upon to heti), Escape
its
*the company which foun glory, This new find might 'prove to ILS. oil imports coUld changefrom the ice became so routine triew•elro:asaitioinnity- lutes:lilt:
'• -that the Humble Project
as well as scientific knowledge,, , double the presently known the Price -structure and thus The Manhatian , was pushed
were: Back, Baffin, Barrow, reserves Of oil in the ;U.S.A. Even delay the development of the oil by 43,000 horsepower up on to - Manager, Stanley Hcores were taken, while fouraaa, decided
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Beech Buchan, Cartier, Cook, so it will rmt be enough to carry field. At the'Inoment, 1973 is lee floes which gave Way and to try for anhistoric first by weeks were. spent looking for ice
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Davis, Dobbs, floes on which to thoroughlyobbs, Drake,, Fox, the country through the the date -when Humble expects enabled the ship to enter the tackling McClure Strait, around '
),„ -Franklin, Frobisher, Hearne, nineteen seventies and continued to, start moving crude to the , pack where ridges were 12 to 14 the north shore of Banks Island. test the ship
Hudson, James, Mackenzie, exploration at home must west coast and soon thereafter feet high. The wind driven No vessel had ever made the, 'Now all the information
0, McClure, Parry, Phipps, Ross, continue. . t . east of the Rockies. field -ice , pressed against east -west passage of this strait.,. gathered is being • digested.
Scoresby and Simpson.
Johnny Mac. Then, after
touching .at Barrow, the return
trip was begun.
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90DRP,10}1 .SIONATOTAR, ply RSDAY. M AY 14.1
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The p riv ate consortium oil•could be transported to This route, though the ,shorter, is Engineers are deciding what
Manhattan's sides and robbed
her of forward speed, then less well protected than the horsepower must be provided.
The oil recently dikovered
Jersey Standard,Humble the east economically, there was closed behind and held her fast. Prince of Wales Strait down
on the North Slope of Alaska is,
Atlantic Richfield and British''a possibility of taking out twothe ' island's southern shore •
Though she could use all her
in quantity, believed to be the for
Petroleumwas responsible, billion barrels a.day for the
find, even though situated in discoverynear Prudhoe Bay. , refineries on the -east coast power moving ahead, only 'one whieh will be the route for
largest in North America. Such a
thedise
where the major markets lie. But third was available astern, so future year-round shipping.,:
For 125 miles Manhattan
. a‘ such an unfriendly climate,- is of The question then became: How- the success of the effort that it . became immediately
broke ice until she encountered
peculiar strategic interest, to get the oil to market? There promises more than oil. Regions apparent that this arrangement
. 14 foot thick ridges, with,
because the known reserves on are several possibilities: To move in the far north Would be Was untenable. An arctic vessel
be able to steam astern occasional humps indicating 40
this continent are already the oil by tanker from the opened to development and must `
towater. -50 feet of ice under It
diminishing. While the Middle Trans -Alaska pipeline's southern - • settlement and, if oil could be with the same . handiness as
• was just beyond the point at
East is momentarily said to terminal ' to Piiget Sound, got out, minerals also would be '' ahead. .
which Lieutenant William Parry
possess 70 per dent of. the Free Washington, and then across the transportable. In the result, In such circumstances the
only thing to do was to wait for
World's . oil reserves, it is United States by pipeline; To ' nbrthern Canada might benefit ' of the Royal Nayy made the
deepest penetration westbound
perfectly obvious to the most build a pipeline across Canada to as much as the U.S.A. a shift in the wind. The time was
casual student of world affairs the United States; Yet a. third Jt was to determine the -cost spent taking ice cores -through in 1819, and it was here
that the constitution of the was tanker transportation 'tied of- transportation to the' East eight feet of solid ice. When the Manhattan ground to a halt. Air
wind shifted, Captain Pullen, the - reconnaissance showed that for
so:called "Free World"- can into a panama pipeline; Tanker . that a consortium of companies
become the "Captive World" transportation around Cape invested 40 million dollars of Canadian . Liaison ' Officer on 80 miles ahead the toe fields
overnight, because of its great Horne to the East coast of the 'private capital in the Manhattan Manhattan, radioed the Johnny became even worse. Then, with
This every pound of steam and
volatility. While the cooperation U.S., on submarine tankers. experiment, which consisted in Mac, asking for help. •
assistance from the Johnny Mac, ,
-of-theMiddle.Eastissustained on Finally -there -was t4o
he ossibility taking. their.1 _.: icebreaker has a fat -bellied ghape.
- argest _tanker of
--tzand-Nvas7..subjeetiti3Aess•-•triction,Athezhilmv-asdnXnelids8eldegte-e.„,,S7:.- ; - •
_the __one _hand 'by ;reliance .zon : .otmoving-d-hemiithy_giant4tank--1.140,0,-.0,
-4oais ..v.tleadweight, ....
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OfA thatrthe lortgliat,proftle-zotthe-i;;danctunatioeuvrethoutdraacemthe, ..:'
• . cutting it apart; reinforcing and
.. reassembling it to' form the Manhattan. She came up• astern Prince -of Wales Strait. Here the
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4 and sliced across Manhattan's newly gained ice exper' * '
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;VottTes a -r increase costs. ..
Provided, while an armoured
of two-inch tensile. steel wats -
• belt eight feet thick was fitted.,
--powerfill icebreaker.- A long the port .°_ side -backing -and, -goitigwithout the aid of the,.
No -deposit, non -returnable introduced legislation . to around the hull as the waterline.
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bottles increase the cost of food. completely ban the no -deposit, The ship was then turned
This statement was made non -returnable bottles. - The i n ternally into 'what, . was,
announcing the Ontario Federation leaders calls on the
$.* Federation . of Agriculture will .public to support this legislation. virtually, a marine laboratory,
step -op -its campaign to. have the The government • .has_ with ' 400. strain gauges, radio
gear, a computer programmed to
provincial government ban the - announced it is 'Considering its . print put positions every 12
,non -returnable, no -deposit glass -own • legislation to ban
, minutes and closed=citcuit TV
• containers. . n o -returnable bottles and monitoring the ice under the
Discarded and broken bottles increase the cash return value on,. bow. . , • ,
- cause the farmer possible injury many different glass containers.
The , 10,000 mile , voyage
to himself and his animals. The
* * * began at .Chester, Pa. with stops
' at ' Halifax, . N.S.,• Thule,
selecting a 4. new Greenland, after which the
* bottles cost the farmer expensive
time because he has to clear
them from fields and repair tires- When
' anmachinery cut and broken refrigerator allow eight cubic McClure straits were tested
d'
by glass. feet of capacity for a family of before rounding Banks. Island
The OFA president says that two, 'plus one cubic foot for and on to Prudhoe "Bay and
• the .careless attitude of the .each additiOnal member and two- Point Barrow, Alaska. There
• general public costs money in cubic feet for entertaining. If the were 54 seamen aboard from the
-, „,the end because -the hazard of household is composed entirely Humble tanker fleet; 48 naval
discarded bottles adds to the . of adults and teenagers, two .architects and engineers,
price of food as ' it'eligts the cubic feet for each additional scientists and glaciologists from
fai• 'mer mOney. ,
• member is better. the -University of Alaska,. the
U.S. Army's Cold Regions Lab
The Federation first asked the
• government in 1965.to ban
no -deposit non -returnable
bottles. The most recent meeting
with government officials about
RED CROSS- ,
the problem was in February.
problem of discarded bottles did ' . BLOOD CLINIC ..,0
Mr. Hill explains that the
• not ,start with the introduction
of non -returnable soft - drink
a'' containers. He saxs that people
have . been discding bottles
along country roads and fields
for many years.
Murray Gaiiht, Liberal M.P.R.
from Huroii7Bruce, recently. • 3....
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