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Sign of the Time.
| Letter:Time to sign After watching in dismay and amazement as four Clatsop County Commissioners rolled over for the Texas liquefied natural gas speculators trying to force their Bradwood Landing project on our county, I was very glad to sign the petition to put an important question in the LNG battle to the voters. When former commissioner Richard Lee and three other commissioners (thank you Sam Patrick for your independent thinking) decided to open our county's parks and recreation lands to massive gas pipelines, they did so despite overwhelming public and expert testimony against the NorthernStar LNG project. It seems clear that NorthernStar supporters filed suit to stop the citizen ballot measure because they know the people of Clatsop County will vote against the idea of putting our parks, families and community at risk for the sake of LNG. These pipelines in our parks and open spaces would carry regasified, unodorized liquefied natural gas, which the Oregon Department of Energy has recently confirmed we do not need. I look forward to voting on this issue in the fall and stopping the further risk of harm to our community. Today there is an opportunity in many parts of Clatsop County for residents to sign the petition to put this referendum on the November ballot; more information is available at www.ClatsopCommonSense.org Carol Newman Astoria | |
June 1, 2008 in pipeline | Permalink
