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Show DAILY HERALD "Saturday, September 18, 2004 ing or drying up," Jones said. (Questar Continued from Al Annual residential gas bill on the rise The laws that prohibit us from drilling are based on the premise that oil and gas procustomers and the remaining old technolo-- , ducers are " ' $1.5' million win be refunded to gy$hat doesusing significant dam-y- " its industrial and transportaage to the land surf ate," he ' ' tion customers. said. "Tlie price we're paying for - But Jones said the oil field supplies in the open market is industry has changed over .the ' higher than current rates covyears. er," said Alan Allred, Questar ?. "Ve now have new tech' Gas president and chief execunologies where we can clear tive. This request is being one pad and drill six to seven 'made now so we can keep up rigs, and with much less with higher prices this winter." he said. The company last raised rates Oh (he positive side, Allred said Questar customers could L$3.38 a month, to its residential Have faced a 26 percent in--' customers in June. qreaie in their monthly bills, if Allred attributed the higher ft fjpr Questar'? company-dVnfc-d costs of buying gas to state gas reserves. About and federal legislation that reof a customer's bill tfrohjrds nnet producers' access to oil ' ii mlde. up of the cost of buy-- . and gas reserves in the nation iyg gps, and the remainder ' "We dont have a supply costs such comprises non-ga- s as thjt'of operating and mainproblem in this country, but we do have an access problem. taining the gas delivery sys- About 40 percent of the U.S. natural gas resource base is of the. natural gas we under heavy federal restricprovide to customers come tions. refrom Questar 2 "That's a problem since the serves and is delivered to our reserves we've been drawing customers at 'cost-o- f service' 'Hon m recent years are matur pricing, which means the cost Average annual gas bill $1,000 rather than worrying about time or order." Some of the ffroun of six left Friday, and some are leaving itoday; all are heading to Alabama, though from there they could be going anywhere, - said Randy Frank, director of emergency services for the American Red Cross Mountain Valley Chapter in Provo. Frank is one of the six. Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf Coast states early Thursday and was still wreaking havoc and causing problems for hundreds of thousands of people on Friday. Ivan was the deadMest hurricane to hit the United States Vsince Floyd in 1999. It caused Cmore than 70 deaths in the Caribbean and at least 33 in the United States, 14 of them in Florida, according to The Associated Press. More than 1.7 million residents throughout the South still did not have power on Friday, and insurance experts put Ivan's damage at anywhere from $3 bil- - SOURCE: Questar Gas Daily Herald of producing the gas instead & ' market prices," he said. The' cost to develop and produce this gas is considerably lower and more stable than the cost of gas we need to purchase from third-partsuppliers.-y Hurricane Ivan, Frank said. The people leaving from the Mountain Valley Chapter in Provo will be gone for two to three weeks, and then another-rotatiowill likely be sent, Frank said. Steve Kimball, a volunteer from Kanosh, said he was unsure exactly what he would be doing in Alabama, but he expected to be helping people left homeless by the hurricane. He was called two weeks ago and asked if he could go, and then Thursday night got a call that he definitely would be leaving, n ' he said. , lion "That's the great part. You do not know what you are going to see. ... You don't know what is going to be necessary; there's no menu to order from," he said. And while volunteers may be dealing with people who have lost everything, including family members, the chance to help is what drives the volunteers to take time from their own lives, Frank said. "We are pumped," he said. "It's so satisfying to know that thousands of people from all over the country are being deployed to help out and get people back on the ball." to $10 billion. More bad news may be on the way. Tropical storm Jeanne looms in the Atlantic and is churning its way toward the southeastern United States possibly Florida, the AP reported. But the news of more hurricanes and bad weather does not stop more than 700 Utah volunteers from heading to the southeast. The Utahns are among 6,000 American Red Cross volunteers being sent from all over the country to help with the aftermath of ui rn n7 TT LTuZrUUNJ Jabar, who was being treated at a hospital for wounds to his face and one hand. He blamed insurgents waging a campaign to oust U.S.-le- d coalition forces. "By attacking Iraqi police, they think that they will be sent to heaven, but by God's will, they are now melting in hell," Jabar said. A wave of bombings, mortar attacks and shootings targeting police and potential recruits has killed hundreds of people nationwide since the fall of Baghdad in March 2003, as militants try to thwart efforts to build a strong Iraqi police force capable of taking over security from American troops. More than 250 people have been killed across Iraq in the past week alone. The car exploded in the heart of one of Baghdad's busiest commercial areas, a short distance away from the storied al-- , Moutanabi street, whose outdoor book market attracts large numbers on Fridays. When police fired shots to disperse the crowds, thousands of shoppers streamed from the area. "I saw human flesh and blood in the street, then I fled," said Mouayad Shehab. e The blast left a f crater and littered the area with debris, including at least five artillery shells that police said came from the suicide car. Parts of the car, believed to be an old Chevrolet Malibu, were found more than a 100 yards away, witnesses said. The police vehicles had been deployed to help American troops seal off the area around Haifa Street, where U.S. and Iraqi forces were raiding suspected insurgent hideouts, sparking a gunbattle. Along with the 63 arrests, security forces seized rockets, grenades and machine guns, In th 31 :: are being deployed to help out and get people back on the ball." Randy Frank lice officials said. "I was thrown outside my car," said a policeman, Ali W'M'M'M'M'MMOIU are pumped. It's so satisfying to know that thousands of people from all over the country director of emergency services, American Red Cross Mountain Valley Chapter r $200 " We way and care for people and half-doze- $400 -- - get them whatever they need " E $600 Al insurgents killed a U.S. Marine on patrol in Anbar province. It gave no details. As of Thursday, 1,027 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq campaign, according to the Defense Department. n cars were A blocking a bridge in central Baghdad when a car rammed into them and exploded in the middle of the parked cars, po- mm Gas-owne- d "Continued from Al Continued from Growing consumption, and the rising cost of buying natural 3 gas, is fueling arvincrease in I the gas bills of Qtiestar's Uttfh J customers. ... 'latt Red Cross Iraq A3 6-- terior Ministry spokesman Sabah Kadhim said. At least 10 people were wounded in the raids, according to the Health x Ministry. West of Baghdad, hundreds of men dug mass graves to bury the dead from a wave of American air strikes that started late Thursday and stretched into Friday in and around Fallujah. Health Ministry official Saad said at least were killed and 27 wounded in the Fallujah strikes. The U.S. military said intelligence reports estimated up to 60 militants may have been killed. American troops have not entered Fallujah since ending a threeweek siege of the city in April, and the claim could hot be verified. Mahmoud Sheil, 50, a tribal sheik in the area, likened the killings from U.S. airstrikes in Fallujah to the slaughter of civilians under Saddam Hussein's ousted dictatorship. "They (the Americans) say that Saddam is th mm of mass graves, but they are tfie ones ' responsible for thesffllass graves," he said. 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