This new video by award-winning filmmaker Trip Jennings features affected landowners, fish advocates and ratepayer advocates; paired with stunning scenery and aerial photography.
Fracking for natural gas across the United States has blown up over the last few years, stirring a wave of controversy, corruption, and questions about our domestic national energy policy. Now, energy companies have targeted southern Oregon with a proposal to build a 235-mile natural gas pipeline and coastal terminal to export Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to Asian markets where the gas commands a much higher price.
The proposed Pacific Connector LNG pipeline would cross nearly 400 streams and rivers (many of which are critical habitat for threatened salmon), use eminent domain to intimidate private property owners, clearcut through 80 miles of public forests and 155 miles of private land, and build a terminal facility and power plant in the Coos Bay estuary. If the pipeline were completed, it would further increase demand for dangerous extraction methods in the Rocky Mountains where the gas originates. In addition to the environmental impacts, exporting natural gas would drive up gas prices for families, businesses and manufacturers in the U.S.
This project is much bigger than the incredibly destructive localized impacts: it is at the heart of our national energy policy.
