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RESOLUTION NO-+"69-78
RESOLUTION URGING APPROVAL BY THE PUBLIC
UTILitIES COMMISSION OF THE POINT CONCEPTION
LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS TERMINAL SITE.
WHEREAS, supplies of natural gas from traditional sources
are declining; and
WHEREAS, unless new sources are developed, natural gas
shortages could become critical as early as 1982, resulting in the
loss of thousands of jobs and causing adverse economic consequences;
and
WHEREAS, the staff of the California Public Utilities
Commission has concluded that liquefied natural gas from Indonesia
and Southern Alaska is "required to assure P1P4 service" (all resi-
dential, commercial and industrial customers except utility steam-
electric plants and utility gas turbines); and
WHEREAS, by July 31, 1978, the California Public Utilities
Commission must select a site for an LNG terminal to receive this
gas; and
WHEREAS, the Commission staff finds that "of all the pro-
posed sites, Point Conception is the only location where a terminal
could be operational by the end of 1982"; and
WHEREAS, the Commission staff further finds that this gas
should be acquired "within the period that such supplies could be
received at a terminal constructed at Point Conception" both because
of need for the gas and the "real possibility" of losing these
supplies if there is further delay.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the
City of Bakersfield, recognizing the need to develop new sources
of natural gas, respectfully urges the California Public Utilities
Commission to approve the site at Point Conception for the Construc-
tion of'aiiquefied natural gas terminal.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was passed
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 12th day of July, 1978, by the following
vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN BARTON, CHRISTENSEN, MEDDERS, RATTY, ROGERS, SCEALES#~I~(~
NOES: COUNCILMEN: ~ ~ ~
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: ~,~ '
ABSTAINING COUNCILMEN: ~/t~l~'~~
APPROV~~ 12th~:~y~of July, 1978
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