-Aancastw Farming, Saturday, September 23,1978
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Agriculture to get top priority
under senate compromise gas bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
U.S. Senator Herman E.
chairman of the
Senate Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and
Forestry, sought and
received assurances last
week that American
agriculture would receive
“high priority” under the
compromise natural gas
pricing bill now being
debated by the Senate.
Entering the debate on the
controversial and complex
energy bill, Talmadge said
“utter chaos” would occur in
the production and
processing of food and fiber
unless fanners are assured
“a dependable supply of
reasonably priced natural
gas.”
Senator Henry M. Jackson
of Washington, chairman of
the Energy and Natural
Resources Committee and
floor manager of the bill,
assured Talmadge that
essential agricultural uses
for natural gases would be
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protected if the bill becomes
law.
In response to a series of
questions propounded by
Talmadge, Jackson agreed
with the Georgian’s in
terpretation of the bill that
farmers would receive the
“same high priority ac
corded households and small
businesses in protection
against sharply higher
natural gas prices by
exempting agriculture users
from the incremental
pricing features of the bill.”
Jackson also agreed with
Talmadge that the bill
“provides an exemption
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tailment for essential
agriculture uses.”
Jackson warned that
agricultural users of natural
gas would experience some
price increases. But he said
that would not be “as great
as boiler fuel or other in
dustrial plant increases in
that category.”
Talmadge reminded the
Senate that in recent Winters
some dairy processing
plants had been denied
natural gas and that supplies
to some fertilizer plants
were curtailed during the
Winter of 1973/74. He asked
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Jackson if the bill -would we have done is to protect though it is not “whi
prevent a repetition of those essential agricultural uses.” satisfactory from
or greater curtailments. Talmadge has stated that standpoint.” He said it
“The answer is yes,” he expects to support the “the best we have been al
Jackson responded. “What compromise gas bill even to work out.”
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