Posted on 04/18/2016 3:26:04 PM PDT by Hojczyk
he world is hungry for LNG and it represents a major opportunity in terms of evening out our trade imbalance. But thanks to the dedicated efforts of green energy warriors and Oregon politicians, yet another refusal of a construction permit seems to have been the final straw for The Oregon LNG company and theyve pulled the plug on the entire project. (The Oregonian)
It didnt have a lot of public support, Ill put it that way, Warrenton City Commissioner Henry Balensifer III said Friday
Under Oregon LNGs plan, an 87-mile pipeline would have shuttled Canadian natural gas from Woodland, Wash., to the Warrenton terminal, where it would await export to Asia.
But Oregon LNG lacked support from key elected officials whose votes were needed to move forward. Clatsop County commissioners voted unanimously to reject the application to build the terminal, a decision later upheld by the Land Use Board of Appeals.
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, and state Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, had also come out against the project.
Wyden said he was relieved to hear the project would not move forward. Yes, Oregon residents must be proud that they elected Ron Wyden as their Senator at this point. Hes relieved that the project will be going elsewhere, never to darken the doorway of his states residents again.
But what is the loss of the LNG terminal taking with it? Local estimates indicate that the project would have produced more than 2,000 construction jobs spanning a period of several years and at least 150 full time, permanent jobs for workers at the plant after that. (And thats a lot of jobs for a low population area.) The full economic impact of that much productivity and money flowing into the region is nearly impossible to calculate, but hey
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So a depressed job and economic part of Oregon gets the shaft [and the US economy loses billions in our foreign trade balance] because 4 or 5 Clatsop County commissioners are environuts or got a few constituent emails saying not in my backyard. Plus, an Democrat Oregon Senator and Democrat state senator toe the anti carbon use party line.
The 11/2016 election is the only fix we have to save America.
Personally I think Oregonians should ban all fossil fuels, all fossil fuel powered vehicles/engines/boilers and any Oregonian that disagrees with the first two propositions.
Well, the very few of my classmates in Warrenton apparently don’t want jobs. Or is this the Coos Bay LNG plant?
Either way, those losers are all addicted to welfare.
Oregon was
“Progressives” progressing to hell. Morons.
The author doesn’t get it. Even if these people accepted that it’s not going to stop the gas from moving to market, they’re perfectly content that it’s not going through their part of the world.
Looking at the map I can understand why this small community might not want an LNG terminal blighting their small section of the Columbia River & don’t want the added traffic congestion in a town with only one road in & out.
Again, looking at the map, the area on the north shore of the river is relatively unpopulated, in Washington state closer to the source, & wouldn’t require a pipeline under the river.
Candles are neither wind nor solar driven—let the SOBs shiver in the dark.
FR protectionists will blame free trade for these lost jobs
There you go again, bringing reason and critical thought processes into the picture.
Way to wreck a perfectly good rant!
Wasn’t Wyden the one that said “the virus must be stopped before it spreads” in reference to the the Malhuer protest, just before Lavoy was executed?
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