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Editorial

10/28/2008 11:42:00 AM

Wu got it right Organized labor’s LNG-motivated attack ignores the big picture The politics of liquefied natural gas just became as funny as a Shakespearean comedy of confused identities. Now we have the Republican nominee for Congress (Joel Haugen) deciding that he'll abandon the GOP and run as an Independent. While Republicans are mad at Haugen for jumping ship, the newly-minted Independent takes a shot at incumbent Democratic Rep. David Wu on the LNG issue. Complete article: http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=392&ArticleID=55499&TM=67094.22

Oregon LNG Takes Another Step Forward in Approval Process

FERC Accepts Formal Application for Project

WARRENTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has officially accepted Oregon LNG’s formal application. Oregon LNG is a proposed liquefied natural gas import facility located on the Skipanon Peninsula in Warrenton, Oregon. The project will increase natural gas supplies in the Pacific Northwest and other western states.

FERC posted acceptance of the application on Monday, October 27, 2008. The project has already successfully completed local land-use approvals.

Complete article:  http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20081028006773&newsLang=en

 

Add `unreliability' to LNG

By Tom Elias

Article Launched: 10/27/2008 12:07:01 AM PDT

The poll numbers on liquefied natural gas this fall were startling, especially to individuals who attended the only large-scale public hearing ever held in California about LNG.

Complete article: http://www.presstelegram.com/opinions/ci_10823997

Oil & Gas Utility - Operations and Strategy

LNG terminal developers occasionally collide with FERC standards

October 24, 2008 9:42 AM ET
By Katie Teller

Most LNG projects that come before FERC eventually receive approval, conditioned on meeting environmental mitigation measures.

There are currently 19 LNG terminal and expansion projects that FERC has approved that have not gone into service yet. Six are under construction, while 13 have not entered the construction phase. Six import terminals under FERC jurisdiction are currently in operation.

Complete article: http://www.snl.com/interactivex/article.aspx?CdId=A-8570006-10859

Wu says NO to LNG

10/22/2008 1:35:00 PM

Congressman says the vote in Clatsop County is a sign voters are against terminal By PATRICK WEBB The Daily Astorian U.S. Rep. David Wu, today offered a strong position against building a liquefied natural gas terminal on the Columbia River. He said Clatsop County voters' views expressed in the pipeline referendum last month should be taken as a vote against LNG. Complete Article: http://www.dailyastorian.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=395&ArticleID=55316

Ore. governor requests rehearing on LNG terminal

10/20/2008, 6:03 p.m. PT The Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gov. Ted Kulongoski is asking a federal commission to hold a rehearing on a liquefied natural gas terminal along the Columbia River.

Last month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the Bradwood Landing terminal proposed by NorthernStar LLC.

Kulongoski says the terminal poses environmental concerns, and the state will take legal action if the federal commission does not hold a rehearing.

Kulongoski's request came Monday — the same day the Cofederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Nez Perce Tribe and the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission asked the federal government to reconsider its decision.

The tribal groups say the federal commission failed to analyze how the terminal could effect their treaty rights.

10/18/2008 7:59:00 PM

Bradwood opponents jubilant after latest LNG news Federal fisheries agency, Washington state Department of Ecology question Bradwood approval process The Daily Astorian and The Associated Press Washington's Department of Ecology and a federal fisheries agency have challenged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for approving the Bradwood liquefied natural gas terminal. Managers of both agencies say there has been adequate environmental analysis of the impacts of the proposed terminal, 20 miles east of Astoria. The National Marine Fisheries Service, a division of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, criticized FERC's approval of the Bradwood project as "not consistent with the requirements of the Endangered Species Act." Simultaneously, Washington's Department of Ecology has asked federal authorities to slow down the process, saying that FERC violated the law by "failing to take a hard look at the environmental impacts of the project." LNG opponent Dan Serres, with Columbia Riverkeeper, welcomed the news. "The petitions submitted by Washington Department of Ecology and NMFS strongly support other local, state and other federal agencies who have told FERC that what they are doing is plainly illegal. Complete article: http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=55250&TM=5665.663

NOAA Fisheries says FERC violates species act in LNG approval

by Ted Sickinger, The Oregonian Friday October 17, 2008, 9:31 PM

The nation's top fisheries agency on Friday told U.S. energy regulators that their Sept. 18 decision to issue conditional approval of the controversial Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas terminal was illegal under the Endangered Species Act.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service said the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was out of line in issuing its license without necessary state and federal permits in hand. Before FERC can issue a license, NOAA Fisheries Service says it must be formally consulted on how to minimize the project's impact on endangered species.

Complete article: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2008/10/noaa_fisheries_says_ferc_viola.html

Lineup for LNG project adds a competitor

by Ted Sickinger, The Oregonian Monday October 13, 2008, 8:34 PM

Steven Nehl/The OregonianPeter Hansen, chief executive of Oregon LNG, has spent nearly five years pushing a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas terminal on the Skipanon peninsula, just west of Astoria (in background). His company filed a formal application Friday with federal energy regulators.

Most controversy over liquefied natural gas in Oregon has focused on proposals to build an import terminal 20 miles east of Astoria on the Columbia River and on a competing project in Coos Bay.

With little fanfare Friday, however, backers of a third LNG project delivered 21 binders to federal energy regulators containing their application to build a terminal on a spit of sand and blackberry brambles that juts into the Columbia River from Warrenton.

Complete article: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2008/10/lineup_for_lng_project_adds_a.html

A four part article by KPBS (San Diego, CA.)

Sempra's LNG Plant Fuels Controversy  by Amy Isackson.

http://www.kpbs.org/news/local;id=12940

Part 2: Sempra's Plan to Import Liquefied Gas Raises Health Concerns by Amita Sharmra.

http://www.kpbs.org/news/local;id=12960

Part 3: Regulators Resist Environmental Review of Importing LNG by Amita Sharma.

http://www.kpbs.org/news/local;id=12970

Part 4: The Cost of Importing Liquefied Natural Gas by Amita Sharma.

http://www.kpbs.org/news/local;id=12973