Daily News story on recent meeting

The Longview Daily News has a brief story about the Oct 26th meeting with FERC in Cathlamet. Here's an excerpt:

Angry citizens faced off with federal regulators Wednesday night in the latest of a series of contentious public hearings over plans to build a liquified natural gas plant on the Oregon side of the Columbia River.

More than 125 people attended the meeting at Julius Wendt Elementary School, during which representatives from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission fielded area residents' thorny questions about the LNG plant. Northern Star Natural Gas hopes to build in Bradwood, Ore., an abandoned mill town less than a mile from Puget Island.

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Over and over again, audience members accused FERC of withholding critical information about the project. FERC project manager Paul Friedman and engineer Kareem Monib explained that their agency hadn't yet analyzed the environmental and safety data Northern Star is compiling.

The crowd, many of whom wore red t-shirts emblazoned with "I am NOT an LNG 'acceptable risk,' hectored the two FERC agents. During a slide show about how the plant and pipeline would be constructed, a woman called out in the dark, "Where are the homes that you don't show that you're destroying?"

The complete article is available here.