A combination industrial gas supply and power generation project involving a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal at Coos Bay along southern Oregon’s Pacific Coast is being examined on a preliminary basis by the Oregon Department of Energy’s siting council, which will hold a hearing on the proposed project Jan. 19. Comments from the public are due by Feb. 10.

Having filed a notice of intent to eventually make a formal application to the state, Energy Projects Development LLC is now subject to a public information hearing that will be conducted by the state energy department next month at the Coos Bay city hall.

Although the proposal, for which a notice of intent (NOI) was filed Nov. 19, is short on details, the proponents did specify they want to develop a 25 MW combined-cycle gas-fired generation plant adjacent to the LNG terminal. Heat from the electric generation process would be used to help re-gasify, or warm, the LNG that would be off-loaded into a storage tank onshore inside Coos Bay on what is called the “North Spit.”

Copies of the NOI can be viewed at the energy department office in Salem, OR., or at the Coos Bay Public Library, according to a notice on the state energy department’s web site.

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