The Oregon Department of Justice launched another challenge to the Jordan Cove LNG project Friday, in a motion to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reopen the record and set aside an order granting authority and issuing certificates for the proposed LNG import terminal and associated Pacific Connector Pipeline. The motion states the “Jordan Cove Energy Project, L.P. has applied to the Department of Energy (DOE) for authorization to export natural gas and intends to ask the Commission to amend its existing authorization to add export facilities; and the price of domestic natural gas has remained at a price significantly lower than the price the Commission relied upon to find the project in the public interest.”
The motion insists that a new application is more appropriate than an amendment of the earlier application and asks to reopen the record stating, “Good cause exists because the facts demonstrate a change in core circumstances that goes to the very heart of the case. The heart of this case is whether the Jordan Cove LNG import terminal is in the public interest and the Pipeline is required by public convenience and necessity pursuant to the Natural Gas Act (NGA). The Commission’s Order relies on the Project providing an additional imported natural gas supply to the region as the benefit that outweighs the adverse impacts on private landowners and the environment. However, the facts the State seeks to submit in the record demonstrate that any benefit that may have existed when the import Project was proposed, no longer exists to offset the adverse impacts of the Project when the facility is intended to export domestic gas.”
The US Fish and Wildlife have also weighed refusing to sign off on the project indicating that Pacific Connector has not supplied requested information. Nevertheless, the pipeline battle continues and the future of the Olympia oyster hangs in the balance.
In your heart you know I’m right.
I accept your apology.
Who the H are you to tell ME what the right response is? I know exactly what I posted. You’re a complete waste of time, you just want to blather about.
That’s not the right response, TG.
The Braddock quote is from the October story. And thanks to the story today we know that Braddock was wrong, don’t we? Thank you, The World.
But that’s not where you went wrong. You completely ignored the point of contention. Here’s what you should have said:
I stand corrected. Clark did run the story, prominently in fact. Maybe he is not part of a grand conspiracy after all. I owe you a doughnut.
AND? Clark just couldn’t let it go could he Mark? He had to let Braddock debunk the entire thing at the end. Real professional there Mark? You defend these actions?
Bob Braddock, general manager of JCEP, said this morning that he was unaware of the letter, but that the protest was unfounded.
‘They failed to understand the application,” he said.
“He said that the application is for export only to free-trade-agreement countries. For that kind of application, the exporter needn’t show that the gas isn’t needed in the United States, he said.
Read more: http://theworldlink.com/news/local/article_6efc5f10-4f73-5904-ab6a-7d89f0fca5cd.html#ixzz1fh53KSBL
Well, well, well. I like old-fashioneds with sprinkles.
http://theworldlink.com/news/local/article_a728afe3-caa8-535e-b942-35e39e40b215.html
The DOJ sends out an email on Friday and you’re upset that it’s not in Saturday’s World? We’re not talking about a paper with the resources of the NYTimes here.
You’re going to have to lump The Oregonian and The Register-Guard in your little conspiracy story because neither of them printed it either — yet.
I’ll bet you a doughnut that you’ll be reading this story in all three papers. For The World, it’s a follow-up to this story —
http://theworldlink.com/news/local/article_6efc5f10-4f73-5904-ab6a-7d89f0fca5cd.html
You see, to know what’s in the paper, you actually have to read it which by your own admission is not one of your strong points. Something about gibberish?
The motion by the Oregon Attorney General to reopen the record re: Jordan Cove and to set aside FERC’s approval is a masterpiece. It succinctly outlines a legal argument that, if presented to the Ninth Circuit, would be a sure death knell for the Jordan Cove project.
In addition, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has refused to issue a final Biological Assessment because the proponents have failed to provide required data and sound analytical processes.
Further, the BLM will not have a viable land-use plan in place until June, 2013 at the earliest. Until that point in time, it will not be able to analyze the impacts of the proposed pipeline as it crosses federal lands.
Strike up the dirge for the Jordan Cove project.
I haven’t seen a word about this in Clarks’ litter box, has anyone else?
Mark? Has Clark decided to ever print this news?
Where the hell are his pom poms?
But you see Mark, he won’t print THIS news cuz Jonnie doesn’t want the rest of the voters to even read anything about it. Even though a large number of us would be pleased to read this news, we won’t see it in his paper.
That’s a damn shame.