Oregon

With Oregon LNG’s Columbia River project now canceled, Colorado business and elected officials on Tuesday stepped up their support for the lone remaining West Coast liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project along the south-central coast of Oregon.

With Oregon LNG’s Columbia River project now canceled, Colorado business and elected officials on Tuesday stepped up their support for the lone remaining West Coast liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project along the south-central coast of Oregon.

Plagued by sustained local opposition, backers of Oregon LNG, a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project along the mouth of the Columbia River, have pulled the plug on the decade-old project to build a liquefaction terminal and connecting 87-mile gas transmission pipeline.

Plagued by sustained local opposition, backers of Oregon LNG, a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project along the mouth of the Columbia River, have pulled the plug on the decade-old project to build a liquefaction terminal and connecting 87-mile gas transmission pipeline.

FERC last Friday rejected Canadian-based Veresen Inc.’s proposed Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project in Oregon, citing problems with its Pacific Connector pipeline link to tap western Canada and U.S. Rockies supplies, along with the project’s lack of contracts from buyers.

A proposal in the Oregon legislature (HB 4036) advocating clean electricity could alter the state’s natural gas-fired generation, and a troubled gas-fired plant under construction in the state is back on track and should open later this year, Portland General Electric (PGE) CEO Jim Piro said Friday.

State legislative committees in Oregon planned to discuss on Thursday putting into law a landmark agreement to phase out coal-fired generation between 2030 and 2035.

A FERC draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) was released Wednesday on the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project slated for the Columbia River in Oregon, concluding most environmental impacts can be mitigated to meet federal standards. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is seeking public comments on the draft by Oct. 6.

Previously announced plans for expanding natural gas storage to serve expanded gas-fired power generation in the Pacific Northwest are moving along on schedule through the Oregon regulatory process, Portland-based NW Natural CEO Gregg Kantor said Tuesday during a quarterly earnings conference call.