Canadian owned Jordan Cove Energy Project, LP, the company behind a proposed LNG import/export terminal, contributed another $2,000 to CCAP making its total contributions to $3,000. Just like the Australian owned CCAP contributor, ORC, Jordan Cove’s interest in influencing local politics is solely for the benefit of their shareholders.
Neither the strip miner, ORC, nor the natural gas energy developer, Jordan Cove, represent industries with a history of success in uplifting depressed rural economies. Nevertheless, local proponents have attempted to cast these resource extraction industries as saviors, corporate white knights, job creating deities who will enrich our schools and pave our streets with gold. Unfortunately, the empirical evidence indicates these companies and others like them are more predator than savior and the only enrichment will be to the same “tiny band” of local regulatory critics who have always prospered while everyone else suffers.
Cameron Parish. Louisiana, the home of Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass LNG import/export terminal is a case in point. Just like Jordan Cove, Cheniere road into town promising jobs and an increased tax base and a supporting pipeline used eminent domain rights to acquire property rights from landowners. Sabine Pass went into service in 2008 and unemployment in Sabine Pass as well as Cameron Parish are at 12% increasing steadily since 2008 while the population has dwindled and the poverty rate sits at almost 12%. This is consistent with the economic conditions in other regions with LNG terminals around the world and attempts to claim otherwise are spurious, contrived and designed to defraud a desperate populous. (Same argument is true of coal export facilities).
Back here on earth, the same characters that have sold the policies of unregulated resource extraction that have left the county broke and begging for more federal timber are attempting to repackage an old theme that somehow hiring a monarch, czar, god, AdminMan or PAC tool also to be known as an administrator is somehow new and shiny and modern. It isn’t.
I admire the effort underway by Barton and Pettit getting so many chamber members writing letters pushing Messerle. There is something wrong with Geno’s water. Regarding ORC. It appears that ol John Griffith, a man from the same mold as Messerle, a man who has convinced himself that not only can he walk on water but that his poop don’t stink, is still bitter about losing to Main four years ago and he decided to write a letter full of untruths. Griffith tells us that we need the 23 page lease with ORC to get lots of money to fund “Sheriffs Patrols”. Bullcrap Johnny. If Griffith had read the proposed lease, if he had bothered to stare the truth in th eye, he would be telling people that the most the county will receive durig the next 17 years is $39,000 and less than $12,000 will be received year one. How many patrols will that fund Johnny? Of course, by signing the lease, its payback time for the contributions to the Messerle campaign.
Thanks for another well thought article. I have no idea what Mr. Landrum is talking about.
Everybody should be aware that the fix is in. In the latest bi-weekly conference call between FERC, Jordan Cove, and the others who rule this area; Mr. Friedman has declared that: …” Tetra Tech will categorize the comments once scoping has ended. They will include a “non-environmental issue – out of scope” category – to cover comments that would not be addressed in the environmental impact statement (such as the benefit of exporting liquified natural gas, and “fracking” during horizontal drilling for natural gas in certain shale formations).”
We have fallen down the rabbit hole here, when “fracking” (one of the worst practices ever used by the energy developers) will not be considered in an environmental impact statement in a project that is the direct result of such practices.
Geno, with all due respect, this is not an advertising venue for you to use. Thanks.
It seems to me they are skirting the laws on foreign influence in the American political system. I bet if the Russian Gazprom made those contributions a howl would go up in this county that could be heard in Washington, D. C. Think it over.
I’m still willing to take Seat #2 for Coos County Commissioner as a Write In!!
“Lets do more with what we have” Cut waste, build treasury, promote jobs and last but not least: Positive Thinking can move Mountains!! Money helps!
Why, don’t you report on something NEW! People with the Gold has always made the Golden Rule! The haves will always control the have not s! Even when the revolution happens and the Haves are tossed out, the void will be filled with more Haves, and more Have Not will still be unsatisfied!! Check out World History and prove me wrong!
You aren’t suggesting everyone just roll over and drink the Kool-Aid are you Geno?