Consultants to a county planning commission reportedly will recommend denial of a land-use permit for NorthernStar Natural Gas Co.’s Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal site along the Columbia River.

“A group of contract planners hired by the county to review Bradwood’s land-use application — a key local approval in the federal LNG permitting process — determined after months of study that the proposed LNG project does not comply with the county’s planning policies,” the Astoria (OR) Daily Astorian reported, noting the issue would be dealt with at the July 10 meeting of the Clatsop County planning commission.

Environmental impacts going beyond the county’s permitting authority and local emergency services beyond the local response capabilities were cited as two reasons for rejecting the permit in a 226-page report by a planning commission review team that was released Wednesday. The report details 27 Clatsop County approvals requested by NorthernStar.

The paper said the latest report will be submitted as staff recommendations to the seven-member county planning commission, with a hearing on the issues July 10 and a follow-up public meeting July 17.

This latest development on the Bradwood project comes as the recently reemerged Oregon LNG project near the mouth of the Columbia River at Warrenton, OR, (formerly Calpine’s Skipanon project) has received a local rezoning permit and will be the subject of a public hearing Thursday, June 28, in Warrenton.

Four of Oregon’s five current LNG proposals are along the Columbia, which requires various local permitting covering, bridge-building, dredging, pile-driving, landfill, tank construction, rail line realignments and installation of natural gas pipelines.

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