Here is what I got out of the Tuesday, March 27th, Jordan Cove Open House and Site tour. The new LNG Export application will be for the Jordan Cove LNG facility and South Dunes Power Plant “only” and does not include the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline. The pipeline according to FERC rep Paul Friedman already has a FERC Certificate under the Import terminal and despite its legal challenge, Jordan Cove is not withdrawing that application and permit authorization. Bizarre actually that they will be having two separate applications going on at the same time for the same project but not for the same purpose and need. How in the world will this ever pass NEPA? Obviously they don’t want to link the Pacific Connector with the Export terminal due to having to deal with purpose and need and eminent domain issues.

In addition, they will be using the dredging spoils from the marine slip dock to raise the property another 20 feet higher. The entire facility will be built on twenty feet of fill. Braddock also informed us that sand does not liquefy in the event of an earthquake. I guess fill doesn’t either?? Surreal… that is all I can say about that one.

According to Bob Braddock the marine slip is not big enough to house two ships and Jordan Cove has to control the entire slip. We already know this due to the Coast Guard ruling and issues with the Jordan Cove facility hazard exclusion zones, but I don’t know if the Port really has a clue after looking at the Tuesday, March 26th, World headline story and rendition drawing:

“Port inks wind energy pact”

Interesting also is the fact that they are saying the gas for this Jordan Cove export terminal would come from Canada…. Could they get around a ruling from the U.S. DOE due to this?

The Open House that occurred after the site tour was clearly lacking concrete information about the Jordan Cove Export project. Most of the tables had information about the consultants but not a lot of detailed information about the LNG project. I think it was rather clear that they are still trying to work out a lot of the details yet.

Here below is the World’s take on the Jordan Cove Site Tour and Open House. Holly’s coat makes some press and what a fine press coat it is by the way! I hope I did it justice.

“LNG site tour becomes ‘what if’ session”
Protesters pepper Jordan Cove exec with questions at FERC visit

KCBY covered the Jordan Cove Open House and also the Port meeting on Monday, March 26th, but despite repeated request has not put their story about the Port meeting on-line. They did put their stories about the Jordan Cove Open House on-line, however.

Sandy Messerle lets everyone know in the 2nd KCBY news reel below how much investors may lose in the soon to be Jordan Cove LNG “Whoops II” fiasco. The Jordan Cove LNG project is a mirror in so many ways to the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS), or Whoops” as it was called, nuclear power plant projects in the late 70’s and early 80’s. After spending billions of borrowed dollars, WPPSS defaulted in 1982 and reneged on payments of $2.25 billion in bonds issued to finance two nuclear power plants. Construction was well along, and plant number 3 at Satsop was about 85% complete, with the reactor in place when the default occurred. Cooling towers, 496 feet tall, never saw a breath of steam, and demolition costs are estimated to be in the hundreds of millions. [ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/21/us/21nuke.html – If this story doesn’t sound just like Coos Bay I don’t know what does.] The WPPSS default remains the largest municipal bond default in the history of the United States and goes to show that pouring more money into a bad project does not create jobs in the end or mean that the project will be successful. It just creates more boondoggles.

KCBY –
“LNG Job Creation”

“Jordan Cove answers questions”
http://www.kcby.com/news/local/Jordan-Cove-answers-questions-144719405.html

I think it is obvious that the local press is trying very hard to paint opposition to the Jordan Cove Project as just environmentalist. Nothing could be further from the truth, however!

Lucky for citizens, Channel 14 taped the entire March 26th Port meeting which you can view at this link:

Port of Coos Bay Board Meeting – View Complete Video of Meeting Here – 7 pm Monday, March 26, 2012:

Public comment starts over an hour into the Port meeting and was pretty good. Jonathan talked about the Port’s doo doo diligence being done daily and the doo doo being quite deep. It was choice….. Jonathan was at 1:17:10, Curt at 1:30:50 and Jody at 1:34:10. Everyone did excellent.

Last but not least, I now have the www.citizensagainstlng.com site back up and running. Several people have expressed an interest in helping to keep the site up to date. It is not finished being totally put together yet but felt I had to get something up before the Jordan Cove Open House. All the stuff everyone is wanting is in the works so stay tuned. A big ‘Thank You’ to Mary for all her help on this.