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Pastor Lindsey Williams an ordained Baptist minister for 28 years, went to Alaska in 1970 as a missionary. Pastor Lindsey Williams was given the northern 7 out of the 28 construction camps including the oil field at Prudhoe Bay to hold worship services at each of the 7 camps once a day, each one approximately 35 to 40 miles apart from the other.

After six months a PR employee at Alyeska Pipeline Company told Pastor Lindsey Williams that he was an invaluable asset to the company.

He said that Lindsey was saving the oil pipeline company thousands of dollars of counseling fees and had voted successfully to give Pastor Williams executive status if he wished to accept it.

Executive status meant that Lindsey Williams could go anywhere he liked and see anything he wanted regarding the pipeline operation. They gave him a vehicle and an executive pass and he was also invited to sit in on board meetings in an advisory capacity in order to help the relationship between management and labor.

Because of the executive status accorded to him as Chaplain, he was given access to information, as documented in his eye opening book, "The Energy Non-Crisis" ~ By Lindsey Williams.

The projected cost of building the pipeline was $600,000,000. That was the anticipated figure in 1971.

In 1971, the nine major oil companies of America, had the pipe shipped from Japan to Alaska. The pipe had been built in Japan, as the oil prices were too high in America.

The pipe had to be stored from 1971 until 1974 in the pipe yards of Fairbanks, Valdez, and Prudhoe Bay (Three sites in Alaska).

The Transalaska oil pipeline began its construction phase on 29^th April 1974.

In 1974, the pipeline began to take shape: the government had issued their permits, surveys had been made, the ecology had been studied from 1971 to 1974, and an entirely new method of building the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline had been devised.

The regulations and the inflation of the 70′s pushed the projected cost from $600 million (In 1971)
up to $2 billion (In 1974).

Lindsey Williams arranged a tour of the 'Prudhoe Bay Facility' for Senator Hugh Chance.

The Senator was given information by a number of highly-placed responsible executives with Atlantic Richfield, and these were cooperative with him at all times.

Senator Chance had a talk with Mr. X, (He is named Mr. X, to protect his anonymity).

Senator Chance returned to Mr. Lindsey Williams dormitory room at Pump Station No. 1 and sat down and said to Lindsey, “Lindsey, I can hardly believe what I have seen and heard today.”

“Lindsey, I was in the Senate of the State of Colorado when the Federal briefer came to inform us as to why there is an energy crisis. Lindsey, what I have heard and seen today, compared with what I was told in the Senate of the State of Colorado, makes me realize that almost everything I was told by those Federal briefer was a downright lie!”

The next day, Senator Chance was once again given an interview with Mr. X.

Senator Hugh Chance asked Mr. X,
“Mr. X, how much crude oil is there under the North Slope of Alaska, in your estimation?”

Mr. X answered, “In my estimation, from the seismographic work and the drilling we have already done, I am convinced that there is as much oil under the North Slope of Alaska as there is in all of Saudi Arabia.”

The next question that Senator Hugh Chance asked, was,
“Why isn’t this oil being produced, if there is an oil crisis?”

Mr. X told him that Federal government and the State government of Alaska had allowed only one pool of oil on the North Slope of Alaska to be developed.

Senator Chance then asked, “Mr. X, do you think that there are numerous pools of oil under the North Slope of Alaska?”

Mr. X replied, “Senator Chance, the government has allowed us to develop only one 100-square-mile area of this vast North Slope. There are many, many 100-square-mile areas under the North Slope of Alaska which contain oil. There are many pools of oil under the North Slope of Alaska.”

The Senator then asked, “Mr. X, what do you think the Federal government is out to do—what do you really think the government has as its ultimate goal in this business?”

Mr. X stated, “I personally believe that the Federal government is out to declare American Telephone and Telegraph a monopoly. In so doing they will be able to divide the company and to break the back of the largest private enterprise on the face of the earth. Secondly, they want to nationalize the oil companies. I believe that these two objectives merge.”

Senator Chance asked one last question, “Mr. X, if what you say is true, then why don’t you as oil companies tell the American people the truth and warn them? ”

“Senator Chance,” Mr. X replied, “we don’t dare tell the American people the truth because there are so many laws already passed and regulations on the books that if the government decided to impose them all on us and enforce them, they could put us into bankruptcy within six months.”

Senator Chance returned to Alaska in the summer of 1975. Senator Chance was again given a tour of the oil field and it's facilities.

Lindsey Williams said to the Senator, “Surely a government official would not lie to us about the energy crisis.” Senator Chance answered, “Chaplain Lindsey, we were told something about the Prudhoe Field, and we were told that there was an energy crisis. Today I have found out that there is no energy crisis.”

The next day, Senator Chance and Lindsey Williams walked into the office of Mr. X at Atlantic Richfield’s facility and Senator Chance began to ask questions.

The Senator said, “Sir, I want to ask you these questions as a gentleman to a gentleman. I would appreciate very much your direct answers. I promise you that the answers you give will be answers that I would like to use in trying to wake up the American people.”

He asked, “Mr. X, what is it that the Federal government is out to do? Why is it that they are not allowing the oil companies to develop the entire North Slope of Alaska? Why is it that private enterprise cannot get this oil out? Mr. X, will you please tell me the whole story?”

Mr. X said, “Senator Chance, there is no energy crisis! There is an artificially produced energy crisis, and it is for the purpose of controlling the American people. You see, if the government can control energy, they can control industry, they can control an individual, and they can control business. It is well known that everything relates back to crude oil.”

The Senator then asked, “Would you please tell me what you yourself think is going to happen?”
Mr. X answered, “Yes, by Federal government imposing regulations, rules, and stipulations, they are going to force us as oil companies to cut back on production, and not to produce the field. Through that they will produce an energy crisis. Over a period of years the intention is that we will fall so far behind in production that we will not have the crude oil here in America, and will be totally dependent on foreign nations for our energy. When those foreign nations cut off our oil, we as Americans will be helpless.The intention is to create this crisis over a period of time.”

Senator Chance asked, “Mr. X, if you developed the entire North Slope of Alaska as private enterprise what would happen?”

Mr. X looked at the Senator and answered simply, “If we as oil companies were allowed to develop the entire North Slope oil field, that is the entire area north of the Brooks Range in Alaska, producing the oil that we already know is there, and if we were allowed to tap the numerous pools of oil that could be tapped (we are tapping only one right now), in five years the United States of America could be totally energy free, and totally independent from the rest of the world as far as energy is concerned. What is more, sir, if we were allowed to develop this entire field as private enterprise, within five years the United States of America could balance payments with every nation on the face of the earth, and again be the great nation which America really should be. We could do that if only private enterprise was allowed to operate freely, without government intervention.”

The Senator was obviously very angry, and he looked back at Mr. X and said, “Sir, in light of all that you’ve told me, you’ve set me thinking today that after being a State Senator for four years, I would like to know something. Sir, will you please tell me what you think the American government is out to do?”

It was at that point that Mr. X revealed his, opinion that the government was out to declare American Telephone and Telegraph a monopoly, and secondly, to nationalize the oil companies.

Senator Chance almost gasped at that point and asked, “You mean to tell me that you’re convinced that the Federal government is out to nationalize the oil companies?”

Mr. X said that was so, in his opinion, and that the Federal government would continue to put such rules and stipulations on the oil companies until fuel prices would go sky high.

This, according to Lindsey Williams, was a conversation which happened in 1975. Already Mr. X was predicting over $1.00 a gallon at a time when the American people were reluctantly paying something like 50 cents a gallon.

Mr. X told the Senator and Lindsey Williams that the Federal government would force oil prices to over $1.00 a gallon, and in doing so would make the oil companies look like villains, and the American people would request the Federal government to nationalize the oil companies.

Senator Chance had another question to ask, “Mr. X, if you’re convinced that the Federal government is out to nationalize the oil companies, undoubtedly you have a target date?”

Mr. X said, “Yes, Senator, we do. As oil companies we have already calculated that with present government controls and regulations, we as oil companies can remain solvent until 1982.”
Those were Mr. X’s exact words. ~ Lindsey Williams

The Senator said, “Sir, I’m amazed at what I’ve heard, because it falls in line with what I’ve believed for years, in what the Federal government and its agencies are really attempting to do to the American people.”

In 1975, a  flotilla carrying millions of dollars worth of equipment was crushed by ice.

The ice closed in around the flotilla, including the tugboats. They were stuck at Prudhoe Bay for the winter, and could not get out again. The barges were destroyed by the ice, but they were able to save the tugboat.

The ecologist insisted they must not build a gravel dock out into the water to the point of the barges. Because there were some microorganisms on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean at that point.

1976 - The last six months of the construction of the line.

Because of cost overruns, the total cost of the oil pipeline was now expected to exceed $12 billion.

From 1976 and then on, permits that had been promised by the Federal Government were withdrawn.

92% of all the land in Alaska is owned by the Federal and State governments. Only 8% is owned by individuals, so the oil is on government-owned land.

The oil companies were allowed to to produce oil for the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline from only one 100-square-mile area of the North Slope of Alaska.

Mr. X has said that all of the land north of the Brooks Mountains included many pools of oil—it was there in vast quantities beneath that North Slope.

Someone had said that the welding on the big pipe was faulty, and there was a possibility that the whole pipeline would have to be redone, from beginning to end. The river bed would need to be dug up, and this would have destroyed the Eco-system.

Lindsey said to Mr. X, “Sir, thank you for making it all possible. I really appreciate you letting me rub shoulders with these guys.”

Then Lindsey asked,
“By the way, Mr. X, why is it that all these men are up here at Prudhoe Bay all of a sudden? I used to see men like them now and then—they came through periodically, but lately we’ve had a flood of the biggest men in the world as far as financing is concerned.”

Mr. X got up from his desk and at first was somewhat cautious. The smile disappeared from his face, and it was replaced by a frown. He closed his office door, then with a very sad look on his face, he said, “Chaplain, Atlantic Richfield has just completed the transaction of borrowing the worth of the company.”

Lindsey exclaimed, “That’s bankruptcy!”

As they carried on in their conversation that day in 1976, Lindsey asked Mr. X,
“You have just completed the borrowing of the worth of the company?”

“Yes, Chaplain,” he answered.
Lindsey looked at him and said, “But why?”
Mr. X said, “Chaplain, we are struggling for survival.”

Lindsey replied, “But, sir, that is not what they tell us. They say that the oil companies are huge monsters that are robbing the people of America. As American people, we have been told that the oil companies have no need of money—that they are great wealthy barons that have more than they could ever dare dream of. Why this big struggle for survival?”

Mr. X remarked, “Chaplain, the only reason we borrowed the worth of the company was that we might complete the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline—and in so doing, remain solvent by the sale of the oil.”

Lindsey asked himself a question, to which he then put to Mr. X:
“Sir, does the United States government own the oil companies?”

Lindsey Williams does not remember his exact words, but paraphrased it was something like this,

“No. The United States government does not own the oil companies literally, but they might as well. After all, it’s their land that we produce the oil from, on the North Slope of Alaska, and they might just as well have built the Trans-Alaska Pipeline—after all, we can do nothing at all without their permits. Not even to the building of a section of a haul road, or laying of a gravel pad, or the drilling of a well, or the production of so many barrels of oil a day from that well. In fact, we are told almost everything we are to do. We don’t really run this job.”

Lindsey asked, “Does the Federal government own the oil companies of America? They tell them how many dollars they have to spend to put a smog protection device on their refineries. They tell them exactly how the ships have to be built to haul the oil to California, and to Washington, and to Oregon, after it has been taken out of the North Slope of Alaska. If all that’s not enough, they even tell them the kind of paperwork they have to turn in to prove everything they are doing.”

Mr. X said to him very sincerely, “Chaplain, they will soon. The fact is that if we don’t flow that oil in time, we will go into bankruptcy.”

Lindsey asked him the question, “Mr. X, is the Federal government attempting to delay the flow of oil on the Alaska pipeline?”

He said, “Yes, they’re trying to delay the flow of oil.” Then he continued, “I’m going to go a step further. Chaplain, if they delay the flow of oil for a period of six months, the oil companies of America will be thrown into bankruptcy.”


One morning, Lindsey pulled up in front at the Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) building to hitch a ride with the most interesting man he could find.


As Lindsey entered the mans office, Lindsey looked at him with a kind of a smile on his face and said, “Hey, what do you have up today?”


“Ah,” said the man, “You came along at just the right time. How would you like to watch something exciting?
It’s something that I think will turn out to be phenomenal.”


They drove west, for about four or five miles, until they reached the edge of the Arctic Ocean.
They continued to drive another two miles on the gravel pad (Dock).


Each day, they returned to this spot, just to look for a “burn” (A cloud of black smoke)
coming from Gull Island.


The ARCO official explain to Lindsey that Gull Island is on the very, very edge of the 100 square miles from where they were allowed to produce. The ARCO official explained, “Gull Island is marginal. We have been allowed to drill there, but we know that any angle of drilling whatsoever to the north would mean that it would be out of bounds of the oil field from which we have been given permission to produce. I guess you know, Chaplain, that this one pool of oil right here on the north side of Alaska from which we are presently producing can produce oil at the rate of two million barrels every 24 hours, for the next twenty years, without any decrease in production. Not only that, but it will produce at artesian flow for the next twenty years.”

He continued, “After twenty years, we will either inject water or some other liquid into the ground in order to maintain that flow of oil, but we will not have to pump this field for over twenty years. The oil comes out of the ground at about 136°F, with 1,600 pounds of natural pressure.”


He said, “Chaplain, there is no energy crisis. There has never been an energy crisis. There will never be an energy crisis; we have as much oil here as in all of Saudi Arabia. If only the oil companies of America were allowed to produce it, we would have no crisis. Oh, we’ve been told there’s a crisis, but there isn’t one.”


And then it happened. Lindsey remembers that he stopped his conversation very abruptly and picked up his field glasses from beside him on the seat of the truck, and exclaimed, “Look, Chaplain! There it is!”


They got back into the pickup truck, and quickly drove back to the ARCO building. After everyone had left his office, the oil company official said to Lindsey, “Chaplain, we have just discovered and proven another pool of oil as big and maybe even bigger than the Prudhoe Bay Field. This is phenomenal beyond words.”

The high official of ARCO said, “America has just become energy independent.”

The next day, Lindsey went into his office and sat down. The oil company official soon walked in and closed the door behind him.

He said, “Chaplain, what you saw yesterday, don’t you ever as long as you live, let anything out that would tell anyone the data that you saw on those technical sheets.”

Lindsey said, “But sir, that’s going to end the energy crisis in America!”
He said, “No, Chaplain, it’s not. Quite to the contrary.”

“Chaplain, you weren’t supposed to see what I showed you yesterday. I’m sorry I let you go with me out there to watch that burn. I’m even more perturbed that I let you look at the technical data, because, Chaplain, you and I might both be in trouble if you ever tell the story of Gull Island.”

The company official said to Lindsey, “Chaplain, that great pool of oil is probably as big as the Prudhoe oil field, it has been proven, drilled into, and tested—we know what is there and we know the amount that is there, but the government has ordered us not to produce that well, or reveal any information as to what is at Gull Island.”

The Gull Island burn produced 30,000 barrels of oil per day through a 31/2 inch pipe at 900 feet. Three wells have been drilled, proven, and capped at Gull Island. The East Dock well also hit the Gull Island oil pool (You can tell by the chemical structure).

From 1973 through 1980 America was being told that it was in the midst of a major energy crisis, yet no oil production was allowed from the Kuparuk field. It wasn’t until 1981 that permission was finally granted for production.

Lindsy Williams two and a half years as Chaplain on the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline was coming to an end.

In 1974, Mr. Lindsey Williams returned to Alaska at the 'Prudhoe Bay Facility'. He told his friend Mr.X about what he saw while in America.
In Wheatland, Wyoming, there was a pipeline going from West to East across the Rockies, on the property of a friend of mine. I was riding the range with him in the Fall of 1972 on roundup and the pipeline was flowing full speed ahead, with all pumps going.

The following year of 1973, in the Fall, there was supposed to be an energy crisis.

The pipeline going across the Rockies, one of the main West-East pipelines, had been closed down.
In 1974, the pumps were not running, and at that time the man who managed that 32,000-acre ranch had been told by the oil companies that they had been ordered to close down that pipeline by the Federal government.

“Mr. X, if there is as much oil at Prudhoe Bay as in all Saudi Arabia, as you have stated, and if there really is an energy crisis, why was that cross-country pipeline through Wyoming closed down? You must know something about it.”

To which Mr. X. replied: “Chaplain, I will try to be honest with you today, and I hope it doesn’t get any of us in trouble. We are both Christian men, and we can only tell the truth. We, as oil companies, were ordered by the Federal government in 1973 to close down certain cross country pipelines and to reduce the output of our refineries in certain strategic points of America for the purpose of creating an energy crisis. That really began the first of the control of the American people.”


Lindsey Williams was conducting a missionary conference in Neodesha, Kansas. Neodesha has a very interesting place in the history of the United States, for it was there that the first oil gusher ever found in the U.S. took place.

About two months later, Lindsey was back in Alaska, and again saw Mr. X. Lindsey told him that he had been in Neodesha, Kansas, and that while, he was in the home of a Texaco distributor. He had asked questions about the problems in breaking down the Prudhoe Bay oil in American refineries. Lindsey mentioned that my friend had said that the oil had such a high Sulfur content that it simply was not suited to these refineries.

His face lit up and he burst into laughter. “Is that really what the man told you?”
Lindsey replied, “Yes, sir, it is.”

Mr. X had been there at Prudhoe Bay at the time when the first well produced oil, and he had analyzed the samples taken out and from all the other wells in the area. He reminded Lindsey that he was able to speak with authority and certainty on the matter of Sulfur content in the Prudhoe Bay oil.

He said to Lindsey, “The oil at the Prudhoe Bay field is pure enough that it can be cracked by any refinery in the United States, with only minor refinery alterations. Prudhoe Bay crude oil contains only 0.9% sulphur, which is quite low.”

Mr. X went on, “The sulphur content from the Prudhoe Bay is not excessive. It certainly is not a major problem. Alaskan Prudhoe Bay oil can be used very readily to supply all the needs of all the people of the United States for many years to come.”

Then one day, Mr. X and Lindsey crossed paths again. As they did, Lindsey asked him a question.
“Mr. X, now that the oil has flowed and the oil companies have remained solvent, contrary to what the Federal government seemed to want, could it possibly be that the campaign now is to make the oil companies look like fools? Are they being made to show exorbitant price increases and likewise being made to appear to show exorbitant profits? Is that why there are these new regulations that make the price of fuel go up and up?”

Mr. X looked sort of stunned, as if Lindsey had been reading his mind.

He answered, “Yes, Chaplain, there does appear to be a move on today to so disgrace the oil companies in the minds of the American people that some day the people themselves will ask the government to nationalize the oil companies.”

Lindsey asked, “Why don’t you tell the truth about those price increases?”
Mr. X again remarked, just as he had to Senator Chance that day, “Chaplain, we can’t. We don’t dare tell the truth. As oil companies we can’t tell the entire story. After all, the Federal government has already imposed so many regulations and stipulations over us, and there are so many laws held over our heads (laws that have never yet been strictly enforced), that if we ever told the truth in its entirety, then by the enforcement of laws that have already been passed, we could be forced into bankruptcy within a year’s time.”

It was 1976, and Lindsey had only a few more weeks to stay in Prudhoe Bay before leaving the construction phase of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline. It was almost completed, and Lindsey's work as Chaplain was virtually over. He had watched the last flotilla come to Prudhoe Bay in 1976.

After the pipeline construction phase was over, Mr. X and Lindsey Williams happened to be talking one day (Lindsey still lived in Alaska as a missionary and we were visiting), and he asked him what they were going to do with the natural gas that came from the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

Mr. X said, “Chaplain, do you remember all those huge pumps, and the large separating tanks, and those four-story buildings that were brought in on the flotilla of 1976? Do you remember that injection station? Do you happen to remember all those extra wells that were being dug—over by Atlantic Richfield’s main complex? And do you remember that huge flare not far from there, that was flared out across the water of the Arctic Ocean, because they won’t allow us to flare into the air like they used to do?”

Lindsey said, “Yes, Mr. X, I do remember all that. I saw it just before I left. In fact, one of the men took me over to the building and showed me through it. I could hardly believe the size of those huge containers inside those huge buildings they called ‘separators’.”

“Well,” he said, “Chaplain, we’ve been promised that we could produce that natural gas. We’ve been promised that the Federal government would allow us to build a natural gas pipeline down the same corridor from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, and there to liquefy the natural gas. That was the original proposal, and we have built the pipeline down the corridor with the intent of carrying the natural gas line, as well. It was to be taken down the corridor from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, then liquefied and taken out by ship to the lower 48 states. Then it was to be regasified, and eventually sent by pipeline all across America.”

Lindsey said, “Yes, Mr. X, I remember that was the proposal. In fact, there are still many hundreds of men in Alaska right now who are here for the purpose of being a part of the construction job to build that natural gas pipeline. I remember the technicians and the engineers telling me in each of the work camps that they expected the natural gas pipeline to be constructed very shortly. Most of them were expecting that project to start just as quickly as this project ended.”

“Yes,” Mr. X said, “That project was to start on the heels of this one, but I am predicting now, Chaplain, that the natural gas of the Prudhoe Bay oil field will never be produced.”

Lindsey said, “Mr. X, don’t I remember you telling me one time—about two years ago—that there was a plentiful amount of natural gas right in the Prudhoe Bay oil field alone?”

“Yes,” Mr. X answered, “There’s enough natural gas on the North Slope of Alaska to provide the entire United States with natural gas for the next two hundred years. If every other natural gas well in America were shut off, there would still be enough natural gas on the North Slope to provide for the total projected natural gas needs for all of the United States for 200 years.”

“That is based on the present calculated rate of consumption and the expected increased consumption year by year —there’s still enough there to provide all the projected needs of the United States for 200 years.”

“Well,” Lindsey commented, “Mr. X, we’ve been told there was a natural gas shortage, as well as an oil crisis.” Mr. X kind of laughed, “Chaplain, that natural gas pipeline will never be built.”

Lindsey asked him, “What are you doing with the natural gas at Prudhoe Bay? That gas comes out of the ground right along with the oil. You have to do something with it.”

He told Lindsey, “Yes, Chaplain, we have to do something with it. We cannot burn it—they will not allow us to. Therefore, it is costing us millions and millions of dollars to build huge facilities, and to drill additional wells and to provide huge injection pumps to pump that natural gas back into the ground. We are pumping the same gas back into the same field that it came from, at many, many cubic feet per day.”

“Well,” Lindsey reflected, “It would be no trouble to build a natural gas pipeline down the same corridor, and to bring the natural gas to America. After all, it is already available—the well has already been drilled, and the corridor itself is available. The pump stations and all the facilities are already here. Even the camps would soon be ready to be occupied again.”

Mr. X agreed. Then he gave a startling prediction that came true only a few months later.

He made the projection that President Carter would have a choice as to which way the natural gas pipeline would be constructed. It could be built down the same present corridor, from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, then liquefied in Valdez and taken out by ship to the lower 48 states, or President Carter would have the alternative of having the natural gas pipeline built across Canada.

Mr. X said, “Chaplain, I predict that when the President comes to the time of his choice, he will choose that the natural gas pipeline must be built across Canada, and that it cannot by any circumstances be built across Alaska, liquefied, taken to the West coast, and then distributed across America.”

Lindsey was confused and asked, “Why do you predict that? What is the significance of that?”
He answered, “Within 6 months time we could be producing natural gas for America, down the present corridor which has already been built for it. The natural gas could go down the same route that has been used for the Prudhoe Bay oil. A natural gas pipeline could be built down that corridor within six months, and a liquefaction plant in Valdez could be built in a few months, because everything is ready to go. Within a matter of months the natural gas could be distributed across the entire United States, with the addition of a few cross-country pipelines. If that were done, there would never be any crisis of natural gas in all the lower 48 states of America, and that could all be accomplished within a matter of a few months.”

He paused, “But Chaplain, if the President chooses to take the natural gas pipeline across Canada, it will never be built.”

Again, Lindsey pressed him for an answer: “But sir, why could it never be built?”

He told Lindsey, “First of all, the reason it will never be built is that with the rate of inflation in America today and around the world, there is no consortium of gas companies in the world that could afford to build that pipeline. They could not raise that kind of money. Chaplain, the red tape that is involved, and the approval by Canada, for that pipeline to be built across their country rule it out-plus, of course, the royalties that Canada would require of us. There is no way the red tape and all the other details would be completed in your lifetime or mine, to carry that pipeline across Canada.”

Lindsey then asked, “Mr. X, are you trying to tell me that President Carter and his advisors intentionally chose for that pipeline to go across Canada, because he wanted to stop that gas from reaching the lower 48 states?”

Mr. X looked back at Lindsey and said, “Chaplain, that is exactly right.”

Lindsey said, “But Sir, surely the government officials must care something for our people?”
Mr. X said, “Chaplain, mark my words that natural gas pipeline will never be built.”

“Well,” Lindsey said, “Sir, what will happen to the Prudhoe Bay oil field? I’ve been told that the natural gas top has to come off after a certain period of time, or the oil field cannot be properly produced, because there will be too much top pressure.”

He nodded. “Yes, Chaplain, that is exactly correct. If something is not done within five years, we will begin to have difficulties with the production of the crude oil from the Prudhoe Bay field.”

Then Lindsey said, “Mr. X, could this also be possibly a part of the great plot—to somehow shorten the life of the Prudhoe Bay oil field, because they will not allow the natural gas to be taken off and used, or to be burned?”

He just looked at Lindsey with a rather unusual smile, as if to say, “Well, even you, Chaplain, have sense enough to know that!”
Lindsey then asked, “What will you do over a period of time?”
He said, “After so many years we will have to inject water into the ground, and hope we can keep up the pressure of the field to the point where we can maintain production over the number of years that we have projected that the oil field can produce.”


Then, only a few weeks ago as Lindsey was writing his book (That this blog is based on), something quite startling happened. Lindsey was talking with a certain gentleman in the Midwest who lives near Estes Park in the center of Colorado (that is one of the largest parks in the Midwest).

This man said to Lindsey, “I live near Estes Park. My home is only a short distance away from that area, and I have noticed that up in the forest area of Estes Park there are some odd looking structures that are somehow being hauled in by huge helicopters, and they have been drilling in the national forest.”

He continued, “I wondered about that—after all this was supposed to be a closed area, but they were drilling and then they would move. There are a number of big drills and that rig in there—they were somewhat camouflaged so that nobody would recognize them, but since I live right near Estes Park, I could not help but realize that something was going on. I kept noticing the big helicopters moving this big equipment in. As well as that, some of the workmen lived right around me, and day after day they were driving in and out, and there was drilling for oil going on, right there in the park itself.”

The man’s story was becoming interesting. He went on, “You see, I am also a fire fighter, and it is my job, when a fire develops in the Estes National Park area, to go in and help them stop that fire. We have been extensively trained for working in our area, and we know every part of those mountains-and exactly how to fight a fire in them. Last Summer, sure enough (as often happens in the summer time) a fire developed in the Estes Park forest area. The fire fighters were called out by the local officials, and everybody gathered together ready to fight the fire.”

Then he said, “Chaplain Lindsey, we will never understand why, but the BLM [Bureau of Land Management] came in and said, ‘cancel the fire fight. We at the BLM will take care of it. We’ll handle this one ourselves.’ Our local officials said, ‘But you’re not trained for it. You do not have the manpower. We have men trained and they’re supposed to do it.”

However, the BLM said very emphatically, “No one will go into that forest area.”

The man went on to say, “Chaplain Lindsey, they did not go in. And they let it burn. They attempted to contain parts of it, but parts of it they could not. It burned a vast area, but we were not allowed to go in and fight it. Afterwards, it turned out that many of the rigs had been burned, but they started all over again. They’re all very secretive about that—why would they not let us know what was going on in that area?”

This is why: The man told Lindsey that he had probed very thoroughly into it and had learned that they had made a very sizable oil find. The government itself had authorized most of the drilling, but after they found it, they capped it. They said, “It will not be produced.”

This same thing can be multiplied in Wyoming and in other oil-productive areas all over the country.
The companies have been ordered not to produce. The finds are there. They know the oil wells are there.

Recently, Lindsey talked to a certain group on this subject. Afterward, a gentleman came to him and said, “Chaplain, it is my job to go around to the different areas of Wyoming. I check the level of the big oil tanks and the oil that is being pumped out of the ground. I’ve been working at this job for a number of years.”

He then related the following story. He named things that had happened a number of years ago, but Lindsey has withheld details and particulars that could lead to the identification of this man or his area. He said, “Some years ago we were producing X number of gallons, but in 1974 they cut back the number of actual pumping actions that our pumps make every 24 hours. That is to say, that a pump that was making X number of pumps 5 years ago, today is making only a portion of that number of pumps. They had slowed the pumps down.”




Lindsey asked, “Why sir? We’re supposed to be in an energy crisis?”
He answered, “I’ve asked myself that many times. The same field used to produce X number of gallons, and it still has the same number of pumps and everything is working like it used to, but now they’ve cut back on the pumping action of those pumps. Today it takes many more days to pump the same number of gallons from the identical field—it is the same field they’ve been pumping for years.”