It occured to me today that I've been ranting about the Oregon LNG lawsuit for months now and many of you have never had easy access to the documents that I've been reading.
Today we correct that deficency.
In the right-hand column you will find a new feature. Tom's Research Department.
Happy Reading
Well, thanks Tom for exposing, through Peter Hansen's/OLNG's Demand Letter, the true "Beast' among us in LNG Speculators who choose now to bully us into commiting this community, again, to a bad deal in a bad marriage to yet another gang of profiteering Energy Speculators hell-bent on forcing themselves upon this community.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget, those five commissioners at "Port" are "US" as we elect them to serve in "OUR" interest and trust in the doing of "OUR" public business and personally, I insist that they do not sell us wrongly down the river on this and until something shows differently, DSL still holds that "Aces" on this and if Hansen and gang want to bully somebody on allowing them to move forward shouldn't they take it to that department at State?
I find it very interesting that NNB/KAST-AM has so obviously, as well, aligned itself in support of this second LNG Scheme in our community over supporting "Port's" efforts in working in the interest of our community's future, at "Port", to get answers that we all need on this.
rovokes the obvious public perception
And yes Tom, it was a bad deal at the beginning and it's still bad deal after going through how many hands with vague knowledge of control of the property at the very beginning and still so.
ReplyDeleteMy prefernce would be to get it all settled and then move forward with a current deal and one that works in "OUR" favor and benefit.
All this upheaval and expense for a liquefied fossil fuel process that there is currently a hugely waning demand or use for and an unverified number of end jobs that you, I or nobody else around here could come close to qualifying for?
I still say we can find a helluva better use for and many more jobs on that property.
The Union construction jobs?
They will still be there right?
Maybe good jobs for the other 85% of our community non-union workforce as well since we all need to be working. Right?
And by the way, where's the presumed Mother Coporation/Holding Comapany, Leucadia Corporation on this thing?
ReplyDeleteThat particular and most current key partner seems to have disappeared, adding yet, more murkiness....questions?....to the issue.
U.S. District Judge sides with Oregon LNG
ReplyDeleteIn a ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Michael Mossman denies a motion by the Port to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Oregon LNG over the port's failure to renew a lease with the Oregon Department of State Lands for land on the Skipanon Peninsula. The Port, in turn, subleases that land to Oregon LNG. This decision upholds a recommendation from U.S. Magistrate Judge John Jelderks.
Judge Mossman has yet to rule on Judge Jelderks February 3rd recommendation granting Oregon LNG a preliminary injunction to force the Port to provide the 30-year-lease to them. In his Findings and Recommendations, Judge Jelderks says the Port's present failure to meet that obligation is contrary to the public interest in at least two important ways. This failure subjects the Port, a public entity, to potential liability for substantial damages that plaintiff LNG might incur because the premises are not available for the additional thirty-year renewal period provided for in the sublease. This failure also undermines the confidence of the public and business in the certainty of contracts concluded by public entities such as the Port. The public has an interest in knowing that public entities are bound by the contracts they conclude, and the public has an interest in businesses having confidence that they can rely on their contractual agreements with public entities. In the absence of such mutual confidence, the public cannot trust in the finality of agreements concluded with public entities, and businesses might rightly be hesitant to conclude agreements with, or require more favorable terms from, public entities.
The appeal deadline on Judge Jelderks recommendation on the injunction is February 22nd. If no objections are filed, the Findings and Recommendation will go under advisement on that date. If objections are filed, a response is due within 14 days after being served with a copy of the objections.
Now isn't that different than Freels Earlier Rant... It looks like the Port still has options.
Once again, DSL extended a two year extension on "The Port's" dealine for approval or not of that first 30 years lease.
ReplyDeleteNow, who is going to mount the attack to get them to reverse it?
I venture again, OLNG does not want this issue aired in "The Public Courts" for fear of exposing the entire history of this socalled "Business Deal" and whatever holes of legality that may cause its undoing.
Again, so far, all we have are opinions and no orders and I think "Port" and Counsel are just as aware of it as my limited common sense allows me to speculate.
Five comments and four are from some guy who calls himself Patrick McGee. What kind of an egocentric is this guy?
ReplyDeleteColumbia River LNG terminal plan hits Oregon DEQ permit obstacle
ReplyDeleteBy Ted Sickinger, The Oregonian
February 19, 2010, 8:25PM
Oregon environmental regulators have told the developer of a proposed liquefied natural gas import terminal on the Columbia River that they will likely deny the project's water quality permit in May in the absence of substantially more data on potential impacts to the river.
Full article:
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/02/oregon_deq_stymies_lng_termina.html
The fact of the matter is that the pro-LNG OREGONIAN keeps writing BUSINESS stories about how there is no market, various state and federal agencies are slowing if not stopping approvals so why does KAST keep pretending that these plants are 1) inevitable 2) ever going to happen and 3) "bring the salmon back" and save the economy of the North Coast?
Tom, given that there hasn't been a single new LNG facility opened anywhere recently, why would the market bear not just one (Bradwood) but TWO (OLNG) facilities?
You think getting the Board of Commissioners to approve Bradwood was easy? Half of the Board's LNG supporters have been recalled for precisely that reason. And now ONLG would have to go through a similar process even if the County doesn't have to approve it because Warrenton, who would approve a plutonium factory if it were proposed, has given their initial okay.
At what point do we move on to projects that actually bring jobs and livability that cause small businesses and small industries that actually pay family wage jobs to want to move here? They don't seem to be flocking to Longview.
We can't have the continuing clown show between the County Board and the Port. It's not good, it's divisive in the extreme, and the rest of state is laughing at us.
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ReplyDeleteFive comments and four are from some guy who calls himself Patrick McGee. What kind of an egocentric is this guy?"
And here's #6...You jealous cause I can think of all that stuff which many call questions?
Would you care to respond to my....uh..."Egocentric" questions "Anonym"?
Oops, sorry, I should not have said "questions" with regard to my statement that four of the five questions came from an egocentric who calls himself Patrick McGee. I should have said four of the five "statements" (now four of the eight) came from some guy who calls himself Patrick McGee. I cannot appologize for the egocentric comment and have to wonder why this person. who obviously considers himself smart enough to have others give him attention, can't get his tools sufficiently together to make one entry rather than a whole bunch of little ones.
ReplyDeleteBut, he obviously addresses all threats which must say something about his character. Unfortunately, it may not be something good.
And of course "Anonym" you still have no input on the issue of "The Port" lease with OLNG and the questions still evident regarding an amicable resolution in the interests of the citizens, even you included, of Clatsop County and Lower Columbia River in general.
ReplyDeleteSo, Patrick, now we know you learned your politics at the knee of the Governor in the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. You have exceeded the master.
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