Save the helium

Article Abstract:

The Helium Privatization Act of 1996, which has been signed into law by Pres Clinton in an effort to shrink the federal budget, is being criticized for its lack of foresight. Although the strategic helium reserve 'owes' the US Treasury $1.4 billion, the debt is but an accounting formality that could be written off without hurting the federal budget. By eliminating the reserve, the federal government will soon find itself competing at the gaseous helium market as the country needs the gas for research on space and the military, and superconductivity, as well as for fiber-optic production. The government should turn over the reserve to a form of private partnership involving helium suppliers organized to preserve and administer the gas.

Industrial Gas Manufacturing, Industrial gases, Helium, Laws, regulations and rules

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Storm troupers: a coalition of citizen's groups is determined to save the Oak Ridges Moraine

Article Abstract:

The Save The Oak Ridges Moraine coalition consists of a dozen citizen's groups determined to save Ontario's landform, which consists of 160kms of land along the Trent River. The Ganaraska River watershed, which is part of the moraine, could be destroyed to give way to a proposed housing development.

Environmental aspects, Protection and preservation, Ontario, Watersheds, Moraines

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Bureaucrats save lives

Article Abstract:

Many public servants, such as the National Science Foundations's Herman Lewis, should be honored rather than discredited for their responsible and judicious decisions that have furthered science. Lewis's approval of yeast research in 1978 resulted in an inexpensive vaccine against hepatitis B.

Column, Appreciation, Professional government workers, Professional government employees, Lewis, Herman

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