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personnel
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another
Twenty people from five commands
were either advanced or frocked to
their present ranks on Tuesday.
They include:
From Commander Fleet Air Kefla-
vik: 0S2 Randy L. Fellows;
From Navy Broadcasting Service,
Detachment 8: ET2 Owen Hull;
From Naval Communication Station
RMCS James W. Grubbs, RMC James D.
Farrow and YN1 Margaret McCabe;
From Naval Security Croup Admin-
istration: CTOSA Darlene Donovan;
And from Naval Station, Kefla-
vik: HMC William R. Bean, AOC David
J. Frandsen, PNC Clifford W. Ste-
phens, AMH1 Virgil Busby, A01 Craig
L. Curtis, BUI Patrick D. Lyons,
AK2 Kristal J. Busby, YN2 Paul M.
Friesen, ASE2 Gordon P. Holman, AC2
Julia L. Lascola, AD3 "L" "D" Lain-
hart, ABH3 Douglas J. Logan, AC3
Nicolette A. Mersch and HT3 Timothy
G. O'Toole.
In addition, CommSta meritori-
ously advanced Rill Ronald D. Jen-
nings and RM3 Timothy L. Hood un-
der the Command Advancement Pro-
gram on Sept. 28 and NWSED frocked
AG2 Dave Hendrickson on Oct. 1.
Volume 22, Number 39
October 19, 1979
Energy Awareness Week begins Monday
The Navy's second annual Energy
Awareness Week will be observed Mon-
day through Oct. 28. The purpose of
this event is to increase awareness
of national and worldwide energy
problems, to inform military and
civilian personnel about what the
Navy is doing to achieve the energy
management goals, and to emphasize
the continuing need for energy con-
servation.
Conservation means the wise use
of natural resources such as soils,
water, plants, animals and minerals.
The natural resources of any area
constitutes its basic capital and
wasteful use or non-use of those
constituted an economic loss.
Natural resources are of two
main types, renewable and ron-renew-
able. Renewable resources include
natural vegetation of all kinds.
Non-renewable resources are those
that cannot be replaced or that can
only be replaced after an extremely
long period of time. Such resources
include the so-called fossil fuels
of coal, petroleum and natural gas.
Here on the NATO Base, everyone
is turning down and turning off to
conserve vital energy. One of the
major projects that probably every-
one has noticed is the beginning in-
stallation of geo-thermal heating.
Reykjavik has had this asset for
ever 30 years now, and has cut the
dependency on foreign fuel to almost
nothing.
In 1974, the United States drew
up a contract with Iceland to agree
upon the entire peninsula surround-
ing Keflavik to go geo-thermal.
The only problem that stood in the
way of progress between then and
now was to find a source of heat
under ground. Grindavik, having a
geo-thermal plant, turned out to
be the closest and most convenient
and thus, construction and the im-
portation of materials for an exten-
sion began.
It will take approximately two
years to complete installment.
Within 8-10 years after installa-
tion, the money invested by Ice-
landers and Americans will have
paid for itself.
"It will literally save mil-
lions upon millions of fuel oil
money,” said Lieutenant Commander
Thomas A. Dames, Energy Conser-
vation Officer, "and reduce the
dependency of foreign oil."
Another important aspect con-
cerning Iceland's energy short-
age is hydro-electric power.
Iceland gets new
by Mile Magnusson
A new government was formed in
Iceland Monday following the col-
lapse of the earlier coalition.
The new government is acting as
an interim administration until
elections are held and a new major-
ity is formed.
The crisis came when the Social
Democratic Party decided to with-
draw from their coalition with the
People's Alliance and the Progres-
sive Party. They cited deep-seated
differences over economic affairs
as being behind their move and they
demanded elections be held so the
Icelandic nation could choose which
path to follow.
The 60-seat Althing (Iceland's
Parliament) was left divided on
what to do next. The People’s Al-
liance (14 seats) and the Progres-
sive Party (12 seats) were opposed
to elections and suggested the So-
cial Democratic Party (14 seats)
join with the Independence Party
(20 seats) to form a new government.
But the Independents were not will-
ing to join the SDP in a new gov-
ernment as they said the Social
Hydro-electric power supplies
a great portion of Iceland as
well as the base with electric-
ity generated from the force of
running water such as rain, melt-
ing snow and glaciers.
However, the reservoir from
which it draws its power has been
abnormally low in the past two
years. It must now be conserved
until the problem is overcome.
An emergency shipment of gener-
ators have been ordered from the
United States and will be installed
for use beginning in January, 1980.
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interim government
Democrats were partly to blame for
the economic situation. At the
same time the IP wanted elections.
But who was to lead a government
until the voters had been given the
chance to choose?
The answer came at the beginning
of this week. The Independence
Party was willing to lend its sup-
port to a minority Social Democrat
caretaker administration provided
certain conditions were met.
Elections would have to be held as
quickly as possible and the SDP
would have to agree not to intro-
duce any controversial legislation
nor make any radical changes in
policy in general during the run-
up period to a new majority govern-
ment. The Social Democrats agreed
to this and took over the reins of
government on Oct. 15.
The outcome meant the shortest
session of the Althing in history.
The 101st Legislative Assembly of
Iceland had been convened less than
a week earlier following summer re-
cess but had to be dissolved to al-
low for elections Dec. 2 and 3.