LNG terminals: Doing our part for energy supplies or inviting disaster?(North Oregon Coast)

Four sites along the Columbia River are under consideration for industrial facilities that would serve as terminals for storing liquefied natural gas and then transforming that into regular natural gas for shipping to U.S. markets.

Liquefied natural gas, or LNG, is of growing interest because it’s more efficient to transport in that form than in its usual gaseous state. The gas is cooled to minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 162 degrees Celsius), compressing its volume to 1/600th the space it normally fills. Four companies have proposals to build LNG terminals at Bradwood Landing in Clatsop County, and Port Westward, near Clatskanie, and two in Warrenton, to unload the LNG cargo from various ships from throughout the world and turn the liquid product back to a gas, where it would be shipped to U.S. consumers. Another terminal is proposed in the Coos Bay area. The four proposals are in the very early stages. Only Northern Star Natural Gas LLC, a Houston-based company, has filed any forms with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. It’s not clear if regulators would approve just one, if any, or if they would allow all to be built. The rules on decision-making changed under the new energy law, and it’s not clear if Oregon’s Department of Energy will have a say in the decision. One percent of the energy that the United States uses is LNG. The gas is expected to make up 3 percent of the nation’s energy resources by 2008.

Ok about the LNG creating jobs I must tell you that when someone comes in to do work it is not uncommon for them to import the workers from their own area.

We are fighting a ship wrecking/recycle business from coming in now.

They are planning on bringing the Moth Ball Fleet from Benecia California.

Uhg I moved from that area 20 yrs ago and was joking about what an eyesore that was when the Comminsioner looked at me and said "those are the ships they will be bringing here".

So far as the 125 jobs it will create it is not guarenteed they will use locals.

The ships have so much organic marinebiology junk on them that we are concerned about the killing off of our Oyster Beds and other marine life in the Bay.

The port is smoozing this company and now the public has insisted on input.

The compamy says it has another port to go to readily and we welcome them to do just that.

I don't normally get involved in public forums but I do live on the Bay and King Vanity has shared so much about his Marine Biology learnings that allowing this salvage company to come in would be poor stewardship IMO.

We just paid (milloins in tax money) to clean up the hazardous waste site up the road from a ship repair/painting site that the Feds busted into and shut down due to the high toxins created from years of no regards for where waste went.

One of my ???'s is going to be why is this company who is salvaging the ships not doing it where the ships are docked in Benecia Cali.?

Also the company is new and we are curious who the PaPa Company is and if it may be from Pakistan/Indonesian hence the money goes back to that country.

We have a LNG tank out here about 2miles from us and it has shut it's gate when we first went Orange level and never reopened. That means the WC access to the fishing pier is not available. We used it quite often back then.

I highly doubt terrorists would pick out little ole Newport to bomb a LNG plant.

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