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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Friday, June 7, 1946
Will Dynamic Detroit of the Future Be...
HUNGRY FOR
NATURAL GAS?
WHILE
WHILE DETROIT CELEBRATES for her glorious
Automotive Jubilee . . . proudly com-
memorates 50 years of unparalleled progress ... her
civic, ipdustrial and business leaders are planning an
even greater future for your city.
And vital to this future ... absolutely essential
to any substantial expansion of Detroit's industry
or residential boundaries ... is Natural Gas. In the
years ahead, this fine fuel must continue to be avail-
able, unfailingly and in bounteous quantities, if the
Motor Capital is to grow and prosper.
The present inexcusable muddle in which Detroit
finds itself on the question of its future natural
gas supply is, therefore, a matter of great concern to
every thoughtful citizen.
Panhandle Eastern ... the independent pipe
line operator supplying Detroit with natural gas
since 1936.... publishes the folloWing facts in the
public interest:
You are being told by the Michigan Con-
solidated Gas Company that its gas supply cannot
support additional house heating ... that next winter
its facilities will be strained to the utmost ... and
that "since 1940 we have been limited by the Pipe
Line Company to 125 million cubic feet of natural
gas per day."
At the same time, you read in the newspapers
that Panhandle Eastern has completed a new contract
with Consumers Power Company, which serves
most of Michigan outside of Detroit, assuring abun-
dant supplies of natural gas to Consumers Power
customers for the next quarter of a century!
Sounds like rank discrimination, doesn't it?
Plenty of gas for your neighbors . . . the near-by
communities of Oakland and Macomb Counties, the
cities of Pontiac, Lansing, Flint, Kalamazoo, Jackson,
Bay City, and Saginaw, to name only a few . . . but
only a limited supply for Dynamic Detroit!
But read further ... judge for yourself where
responsibility lies and what is the logical remedy!
Fifteen months ago at a conference before the
Detroit Common Council, Panhandle Eastern offered
to negotiate with Michigan Consolidated for a new
long-term contract to provide more natural gas for
Detroit's post-war needs.
PANHANDLE a EAsTE
Nothing came of this offer except a statement
by executives of Michigan Consolidated that its par-
ent holding company planned to construct its own
pipe line system to supersede Panhandle Eastern's
facilities, and that Michigan Consolidated would not
renew Panhandle Eastern's contract upon its
expiration in 1951.
Six months ago at a conference called by and
presided over by the chairman of the Michigan Public
Service Commission on the question of the future
natural gas supply of Detroit and the State, Panhandle
Eastern reiterated its offer to negotiate a new contract
providing more gas for the city. This offer met with
a fiat refusal by officials of Michigan Consolidated.
At this same conference, representatives of Consumers
Power informed the Commission of their readiness to con-
chae arrangements with Panhandle Eastern to provide
for the natural gas requirements of its entire territory for
a long period of years. These arrangements have now been
completed . . . the future natural gas needs of most of
Michigan—except Detroit—assured until at least 1971!
There is no question about the ability of
Panhandle Eastern to meet in full the future natural
gas requirements of your city. Keeping faith with
Detroit and the other cities it serves, Panhandle
Eastern has filed plans with public authorities which,
when approved, will start a third great pipe line
north from Texas and Kansas. This new construction
will raise the already enormous capacity of the Pan-
handle Eastern system by another 90 million addi-
tional cubic feet a day. And, when fully completed,
this third line will enable Panhandle Eastern to
deliver the astronomical total of 750 million cubic
feet every 24 hours to the territory it serves!
Michigan Consolidated's plan, as it affects
Detroit's private citizens, means no additional gas for
house-heating for several years at least. And, for the
gas-hungry industries of Detroit, it means no more
natural gas on an "interruptible" basis after 1951!
Panhandle Eastern stands ready to negotiate with Michi-
gan Consolidated for a new long-term contract which
would give Detroit its full share of its enlarged capac-
ity . . . assure an adequate supply of natural gas to your
city for decades to come. Such an adequate supply already
is assured to your sister cities in Michigan . . . to your
next-door neighbors. Will Detroit speak up for its share?
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