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 MoreWe will probably see a revised EIS for Jordan Cove, but, instead of being documentation of an objective analysis leading to a rational blend of social, economic, and environmental considerations, it will be a blatant attempt to justify, yet again, a pre-conceived decision. This would be a direct violation of NEPA which would lead to prolonged litigation.
Read MoreFour bills in the 2011 Oregon legislative session, two in the House and two in the Senate, are aimed at easing the process for wetlands fill permits on private land associated with long distance transmission
Read MoreWhy is the Port of Coos Bay so ready and eager to inflict such massive impacts on our already compromised estuarine ecosystem in order to facilitate construction of a facility that is, by FERC’s own documentation, no longer needed?
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