Jordan Cove Energy Partners filed a Notice of Intent to file a site application for a natural gas fueled power plant adjacent to the proposed LNG facility.
The South Dunes Power Plant (SDPP) will be a natural gas fueled combined cycle generating plant located on the North Spit on Coos Bay, in Coos County, Oregon, across from the city of North Bend. The plant will produce a nominal 380 megawatts (MW) of electrical power and process steam for gas conditioning prior to delivery to the Jordan Cove LNG facility. Jordan Cove Energy Project, L.P.
The SDPP will power the Jordan Cove LNG processing needs and “may” connect to the local distribution grid for stabilization or for sale. Water is a key component of electricity production this facility requires a steady source of fresh water. The Coos Bay North Bend Water Board will supply water to the plant.
Water will be provided by the Coos Bay North Bend Water Board through their municipal system, which has the capacity to provide approximately 4,000 gpm.
The North Bend Water Board operates the Dunes well field which was originally developed to supply water to the linerboard mill. Currently this system supplies approximately 500,000 gallons per day to the remaining treatment systems on the linerboard mill site.
This water flows from the remaining treatment systems from the linerboard mill through the industrial wastewater pipeline and out the diffusers in the ocean outfall.
Originally, SDPP was planned to be under 100MW but has grown by almost 400%.
The economics of more fossil fuel infrastructure are just not there… nor will they be there in the future. Why is the democratic “progressive” party so blind to this? Decentralized renewable energy systems that can be democratized with local ownership will be what spreads the production of energy in the future and the economic benefits of that are as far and wide as the renewable energy resource is itself, and we now know renewable energy can literally be found in every square inch of the world and is a more secure, stable, cleaner and cheaper energy source.
It is only a matter of time; the rest of the world is already catching on to this fact, while our local powers that be continue to stay in the dark ages.
We have enough cow poo here and gas that could be captured from our sewer treatment plants that could more than supply back up power ( if needed ) to decentralized wind and solar power systems; there is no need for building any more fossil fuel boondoggles such as this. People don’t need to lose their land, possibly by eminent domain, for yet another unnecessary pipeline either. Particularly when we are not even using to anywhere near capacity the pipeline we already have.
This is just another example of the insanity that has kept this area from moving forward for way too long.
Jody, you continue to conflate global energy issues with the development of our local economy. Let’s talk about one or the other.
If decentralized, local power is our economic/energy savior, what are you waiting for? Implement it. When you do, Germany and Japan for starters will love to know how you did it.
I’ll ask you the same question: How do you propose to double the world’s energy supply by 2050 while reducing carbon emissions? This question is about math as much as it is about energy. How do you do it?
I don’t know how you can say fossil fuels are not economically viable. Part of the problem is that they are too cheap. That is precisely why we need a carbon tax. In fact, there are only two energy sources cheaper than fossil fuels when you strip away all subsidies. Care to guess what they are?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/15/the-naked-cost-of-energy-stripping-away-financing-and-subsidies/
I see your point and agree. Nothing that’s said to him, that’s not handed down from the party will matter to him. That makes the party somewhat responsible for his positions.
However nauseating that may be, he is serving a purpose. He doesn’t mind showing their cards. That may be more useful for the voters in the long run. So lets probe him for the greater good. He doesn’t seem to mind.
Like I’ve said so many times, Mark M has no sense of direction, must have plutonium in his boots or something, that dial just spins and spins and where it lands nobody knows. But it won’t take you long. Let me repeat myself.
There is NOT a hair’s difference between the dems and the repubs. One party, one agenda, one plays dumb to the other’s brutishness.
Simple as that. Vote third party, don’t contribute any longer to the destruction of this precious earth. Enough of Marks’ propaganda, and enough of his parading around as some kind of ‘progressive’, doesn’t have the balls to stand up against SCDC, Chamber pots, or port holes. He’s simply A One Of Them Wannabes. He gets old really quickly. How does one discuss anything with a solid wall?
Whenever you’re willing to discuss the issue honestly and completely, I’m ready. Here’s a question to start of the discussion:
What is your plan to increase the world’s energy production two-fold by 2050 while simultaneously reducing carbon emissions?
It was at least 18 months ago that this became their plan, only it has grown in capacity. It was never designed to produce power for our towns. The transmission line goes north before it turns east behind Glascow. In an emergency like an earthquake for example, that power will never reach North Bend the same town that has to supply water for the plant. That is a major conceptual flaw, one of many. We know our government is “all in” on helping these speculators help themselves We know the governor has the power to appoint a new port commission with a new agenda. We get to see lip service for renewables that has some thinking Kitzhaber has changed course. That will be true when we see these local democrats change course. That party is hiding its true nature from the public MarkM will be the first to know when or if it shifts. He’s our local barometer on what the true position of the democrats really is.
Were seeing the real kitzhaber by looking at the port and its plans. This link is how and what they want you to see. like the song says. We won’t be fooled again.
http://www.environmentoregon.org/news/ore/governor-kitzhaber-releases-10-year-energy-plan-draft
“Looks good” says MarkM…? Maybe to a bunch ( or one ) uninformed cave dweller who is clueless about where this gas will be coming from. I don’t think all those people with contaminated wells from hydrofracking would think of this as being such a good thing. We need to stop all the madness and get off of these fossil fuels and the sooner the better. More fossil fuel infrastructure is not the answer. More hydrofracking is not the answer either.
Besides, the economics of fracking are horrid. All wells have decline rates where production drops over time. But instead of decades for traditional wells, decline rates in horizontal fracking are measured in weeks and months. The current natural gas fracking ponzi scheme is likely to be over as fast as it got started.
Russia’s Gazprom isn’t too worried about North American natural gas. They have concluded the following:
“We think the current US gas market model is unsustainable in the medium and long term,” Komlev told Platts via email. “We forecast that soon, the disparity between the shale gas costs and sales price will disappear. When it happens, it will make the US plans to become a major gas exporter economically unviable.”
In addition to this news there is another problem and that has to do with Marcellus Shale and its radioactivity. Thanks to Marcellus shale gas, radioactive radon gas is being delivered directly to people’s kitchens, via the burners on their stoves, or to a power plant smokestack upwind from where people live. This is expected to result in increased lung cancer rates in the coming years.
I don’t think people living here in the end will think of this as being such a good thing…
Here’s what’s happening:
http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/goldenageofgas/
Here’s what we should be doing:
http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/goldenrules/
Here’s proof we can do it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/opinion/sunday/natural-gas-by-the-book.html?_r=4&adxnnl=1&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1345874424-VuHhyNDGZ8x/VNjNGcPJeA
Plus, do not underestimate the scale, scope, and complexity of the problem.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/05/13/what-is-our-energy-future/
Looks good. This is the redundant power source we’ve needed for some time.
Read the full notice, Mark, even if the local distribution infrastructure supported backup assist from this plant which it doesn’t if the sell any excess power they are contractually required to honor any power purchase agreements. Lastly, the proposal indicates all power will be required to operate Jordan Cove
It says:
the main purpose of the SDPP is to supply uninterrupted power to the LNG Plant. A one mile, double circuit 230 kV transmission line
located in the JCEP utility corridor will connect the two facilities. An interconnection to the local PacifiCorp system could be provided for local grid stabilization. An interconnection to the BPA system could be available through installation of a new 6‐mile line (by others) north from the site to the Central Lincoln Substation.
I don’t see the problem, Mary.