Landowners rise up against eminent domain for LNG pipeline
The Oregonian has published another in its series about the Jordan Cove LNG project. The article...
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Tag: Pacific Connector Pipeline
Jody McCaffree protects Blue Ridge pipeline route landowners
For more than twenty minutes Jody McCaffree locks horns with Coos County hearings officer and...
Read MoreJordan Cove LNG supporter doesn't want pipeline in his backyard
Prior to being appointed interim Coos County Commissioner, Fred Messerle testified at a hearing...
Read MoreOverview of Pacific Connector Pipeline presentation
…landowners will not benefit from the billions of dollars in transportation fees for the gas. Not only will landowners not benefit from the revenue generated but they must maintain and pay taxes on the easement.
Read MoreMain shows he made critical land use decision without reading the evidence
Bob Main demonstrated that he made a critical decision during a LUBA remand without having read all the evidence. The remand dealt with the consequences upon the Olympia oyster of burying a 36″ pipeline in Haynes Inlet. Main doesn’t even get the name right, repeatedly referring to it as the Olympic oyster.
Read MoreCounty accepts new conditions on PCGP
Bob Main and Cam Parry voted to accept the recommendations and additional conditions of hearing officer, Andrew Stamp, to allow the proposed Pacific Connector gas pipeline to go through Haynes Inlet. Messerle recused himself because of a conflict of interest. This may seem like bad news for opponents of the Jordan Cove LNG facility, however, amongst other things the conditions move place the permits into the jurisdiction of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Oregon Department of State Lands and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.
Read MoreStrike another commissioner from voting on the pipeline
Commissioner Parry claims to be an advocate for the environment and has his own company for river/stream restoration on behalf of salmon and various fish species, which uses federal grant funds. I find it alarming, as should his “grantor’s”, that he would vote in favor of such a destructive LNG pipeline directly through our estuary knowing full well the impacts of such dredging and environmental insults to salmon, oysters and crabs.
Read MorePipeline will devastate the bay
No matter what happens Commissioner Messerle will find a way to grant the permit, and that will give the green light to Williams and its corporate partners, Fort Chicago Energy Partners and PG&E Corporation. They’ll bury their pipe in the inlet and start bulldozing their way to Malin. The native oysters in Haynes Inlet will be goners, along with the commercial oysters, the fish, the clams, and most of the marine life in the estuaries and in the bay all the way out past the jetties.
Read MoreOregon files motion to set aside Jordan Cove FERC authorization
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).
Read MoreThe Little Oyster That Could
Anyone who believed the story we were fed about Ruby, must have thought that the investors who put up the $3.5 billion for it were too wrong to just be stupid, they had to be crazy. Hah! Crazy like a skulk of old foxes. You do the math: natural gas can be purchased in Opal for about $4 per Bcf, and Japan is paying five times that amount. The trick is to get the Wyoming gas to Japan. No problem there. That’s a piece of cake!
Read MoreCounty counsel mixes “apples and oranges” with ORS subsections
Oubonh White, has been filling in and has manifested what appear to be some evidence of glaring gaps in her grasp of the laws relevant to safely conducting county business.
Read MoreOlympia oyster makes a media splash-Forbes, Bloomberg and more
Coos County’s native oyster is causing a stir across the country thanks to AP writer Jeff Barnard. From Forbes to Bloomberg Business Week
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