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Top Trump adviser calls for reviving controversial natural gas project on Oregon’s coast
The Columbian ^ | April 21, 2017 | Chris Mooney and Damian Paletta, The Washington Post

Posted on 04/21/2017 10:21:20 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A top adviser to President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to throw the administration’s support behind a proposed controversial liquefied national gas terminal in Oregon that had been rejected by regulators during the Obama administration.

“The first thing we’re going to do is we’re going to permit an LNG export facility in the Northwest,” said Gary Cohn, chair of the White House National Economic Council. “Just think of the transport time from the Northwest to Japan versus anywhere else. Then we’ve got to put facilities on the East Coast to get from the East Coast to Germany.”

“The one place we’re going to permit in the Northwest, it’s been turned down twice already,” Cohn said in comments at the Institute of International Finance, in which he called the opportunity for exporting liquefied natural gas “enormous.”

While Cohn did not name a specific project, the White House confirmed Thursday that Cohn was referring to the proposed Jordan Cove LNG export terminal, which would be sited in Oregon’s Port of Coos Bay. That’s where Veresen, the Calgary-based company whose subsidiary is proposing the project, wants to construct two massive, 160,000-cubic-meter storage tanks and other facilities that would receive natural gas from a pipeline, compress it into a liquid for transport, and then pipe it out to tanker ships for sale abroad.

It isn’t clear what Cohn meant in saying that “we’re going to permit” the project, because final approval actually falls to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, an independent agency....

(Excerpt) Read more at columbian.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: drillbabydrill; energy; gas; japan; oregon; palinwasright; trump
Everything President Trump touches is "controversial" to the media.
1 posted on 04/21/2017 10:21:20 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Drill Baby, Drill!


2 posted on 04/21/2017 10:23:26 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Proud Keeper of the Sarah Palin and New First Lady Melania Ping Lists. Let me know if you want on.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

True! But the name Gary Cohn is garlic to some of our Freeper vampires, lol!


3 posted on 04/21/2017 10:25:35 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Outside of Portlandia, much of Oregon is dying economically. It may be a blue state, but it’s one of those city-dominated states that are by far and away red geographically. This will be received in Oregon far better than the media will portray.


4 posted on 04/21/2017 10:27:05 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: miss marmelstein

The Paulestinians?


5 posted on 04/21/2017 10:27:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is amazing! The libs stopped this which would be incredible for one of the most depressed areas in Oregon.


6 posted on 04/21/2017 10:31:45 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Ivanka-Jared Conspiracy Theorists.


7 posted on 04/21/2017 10:33:26 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sticking it to the green weenies who controlled the regulatory state under Obama.
8 posted on 04/21/2017 10:33:31 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: bray

‘’This is amazing! The libs stopped this which would be incredible for one of the most depressed areas in Oregon.”

Might even help make Oregon American again! (Holding my breath and praying.).

Cohen is looking like “de man.”


9 posted on 04/21/2017 10:39:09 AM PDT by libstripper (nd)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But but but, some freepers told me Gary Cohn was a NEO-CON Globalists. I am so confused.


10 posted on 04/21/2017 10:42:35 AM PDT by hotsteppa
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To: hotsteppa

The accusations are that Cohn is a crony capitalist.

Let’s wait for him to start championing a few small business initiatives before going all in on him.

Trust, but verify.


11 posted on 04/21/2017 10:53:23 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good move. Supply China and Japan with LNG from Oregon and supply Germany (Nato) with LNG from the east coast and make Europe independent from Russian gas.


12 posted on 04/21/2017 10:55:47 AM PDT by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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To: miss marmelstein

People are seldom completely good or completely bad. Cohn actually is a bit of a neocon globalist in my opinion, but so long as that tendency is siloed off and kept from creeping into policy, he can do some good.


13 posted on 04/21/2017 10:58:51 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: KC_Lion

Wait, Cohn is supposed to be the anti-Trump in the administration.


14 posted on 04/21/2017 11:01:28 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

ROFL!!!


15 posted on 04/21/2017 11:06:11 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: 353FMG

Isn’t it closer to go over the top of the world ?


16 posted on 04/21/2017 11:14:01 AM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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Pipeline through most uninhabitable part of the world?


17 posted on 04/21/2017 11:19:40 AM PDT by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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To: 353FMG

Planes fly over Iceland and Scotland Pipeline is not practicle.


18 posted on 04/21/2017 11:25:14 AM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Top Trump adviser calls for reviving controversial natural gas project on Oregon’s coast

If it pisses the libs off, I'm for it, even if we don't need it.

19 posted on 04/21/2017 2:13:18 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Spend all their time feelin' sorry for themselves Victim of this, victim of that ... Get Over It)
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