In its 1982 decision, the commission said consumers had only a "negligible" interest in what pipelines charged because shipping rates represent a small share of gasoline and other refined petroleum products.
A new direct pipeline could charge $1 per thousand cubic feet.
While Collins told the panel that he's worried about attracting enough smart students into science because "we have a mandate to ensure a strong pipeline," the charge doesn't specifically discuss ways to attract minorities and women into the field.
In an interview, the Kwakwaka'wakw activist and author accused the police of using "No Pipelines" graffiti charges against another roommate since dropped pending an investigation as an excuse to confiscate all four residents' phones, computers, video cameras and USB sticks and to search their house.
The transportation safety board also faulted the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, charged with overseeing pipelines, for having weak regulations and lacking adequate staff to fully evaluate pipeline operators' safety plans.
On another occasion, the new report said, one of the officials shared information about the confidential price a pipeline company was charging the government.
Transwestern Pipeline, the unit, charged up to 100 times as much as the federally regulated rate in two controversial deals that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said violated its rules about arm's length transactions.
On the day that the Senate approved (77 votes strong) the Alaskan oil pipeline, the F.T.C. charged that the 8 major U.S. oil companies have conspired for more than 20 years to eliminate competition, to keep prices artificially high, & to create shortages of oil & gas.
Paul MacAvoy, economics professor emeritus at Yale University, explains that the rates pipeline companies can charge to move crude are capped by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The landscape has changed: Many companies that hire college students represent small businesses without recruiting budgets, while larger companies focus more on-campus for internships (as this becomes an employment pipeline), and colleges charge fees for companies to recruit on campuses.
