Proponents

The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) last Friday dismissed a challenge to one of the local permits issued for the development of the proposed Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) project and related interstate-connecting pipeline. The appeal dealt with one of three Coos County permits issued to the LNG project — this one being for development of the marine docking facilities.

One of the three major proponents of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Oregon produced an internal Oregon Public Utilities Commission (PUC) memo sent to Gov. Ted Kulongoski that counters to some extent an earlier assessment by the state’s energy department that LNG is unnecessary. The report by the Oregon Department of Energy said the need for LNG could be precluded by added Rockies supplies and climate change-induced energy efficiency and renewable steps (see NGI, May 19).

One of the three major proponents of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Oregon late last Friday produced an internal Oregon Public Utilities Commission (PUC) memo sent to Gov. Ted Kulongoski that counters to some extent an earlier assessment by the state’s energy department that LNG is unnecessary. The report by the Oregon Department of Energy said the need for LNG could be precluded by added Rockies supplies and climate change-induced energy efficiency and renewable steps (see Daily GPI, May 15).

President Bush last Wednesday signed into law energy legislation (HR 6) that contains a lot of Christmas goodies for proponents of energy conservation and renewable fuels production, but oil and natural gas producers and consumers got a lump of coal in their stockings.

As a competing plant up the coast at the mouth of Columbia River begins the FERC pre-filing process, proponents of the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project have had to delay by three months their filing to the federal regulatory agency because of additional pre-filing environmental review work on a separate-but-affiliated 230-mile large-diameter pipeline that will connect with the LNG terminal.

As a competing plant up the coast at the mouth of Columbia River begins the FERC pre-filing process, proponents of the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project have had to delay by three months their filing to the federal regulatory agency for additional pre-filing environmental review work on a separate-but-affiliated 230-mile large-diameter pipeline that will connect with the LNG terminal.

Contrary to perceptions, liquefied natural gas (LNG) proponents are still active in California, and on the eve of a deadline for the state’s governor weighing in on an offshore terminal proposal, activity continues to attempt what some critics consider politically impossible — siting an LNG terminal somewhere along the Southern California coast. The longest-running proposal to site a terminal in Long Beach harbor is still alive as are four separate offshore terminal proposals.

At least one of the proponents competing to build California’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal has squared off in a state regulatory proceeding with Sempra Energy’s two utilities over future transmission rights for getting regasified LNG into the utilities’ backbone transmission pipeline system in Southern California.

At least one of the proponents competing to build California’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal has squared off in a state regulatory proceeding with Sempra Energy’s two utilities over future transmission rights for getting regasified LNG into the utilities’ backbone transmission pipeline system in Southern California.