I just got my hands on the findings regarding FERC's investigation of complaints against Oregon Pipeline. The judge who conducted the hearings here and in Forest Grove and Portland has determined that there is no evidence to support the complaints.
There was something else troubling about the report that reflects poorly on the process. FERC's lawyers had promised that the scope of the fact finding would be limited to those specific charges levied against Oregon Pipeline ( a sister of Oregon LNG) regarding it's practices in siting a natural gas line from Warrenton to Mollala. The findings went well beyond those limitations.
In her summary the presiding judge writes that MANY of those with standing to testify were actually talking about the Palomar Pipeline project which has no bearing on Oregon Pipeline. That's a helpful note even though one would think those comments would be redacted and not referred to in the final summary. More troubling were the judges comments that there seems to be a great deal of opposition here to any LNG terminal project in the state! She left that and those comments as part of the public record to FERC. She makes this conclusion after listening to testimony from some 30 people in three cities who were for the most part not directing their comments to the questions regarding Oregon LNG or Oregon Pipeline at all.
This is just outrageous behavior.
Every affected property owner was sent notice of these hearings. A very small percentage even bothered to reply.
Oregon LNG was right to challenge the very concept of holding these hearings in the first place.
Ah, gee, you mean the anti everything folks were able to run out the only likely new employer in Clatsop County once again? Just wait until WalMart raises its head again; they will initiate another campaign, undoubtedly with someone waiving a fish. It's only in the aftermath that we find out the truth. During the process, all we get is hype. How come is that?
ReplyDeleteCould or would we expect anything different from the top to the bottom on the process??
ReplyDeleteIt explains how radical the complainants are and then we have to listen to them explaining how corrupt the sitting commissioners are and were during the whole process. So they instigate a recall to remove and prove their point.
Then when they (AGO-Attorney Generals Office) on down get caught with their hand in the cookie jar they pull the damn client attorney privilege coverup or pay me thousands for document production. They resign and run, flee for cover and the local printed press and TV news shows and says nothing. We won’t ever hear the Daily Ass comment on the review the judge did on the FERC situation.
They have infiltrated all levels from the Governors Office on down. They shortly will have the majority in our local county government.
Wait till NHA and the Shorebank get rolling.
Has Oregon LNG complied with FERC's deadline requirement below?
ReplyDelete"The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has recommended Oregon Pipeline LLC to conduct an open season for the 193 km Oregon Pipeline.
The proposed pipeline would connect Oregon LNG’s proposed LNG import facility, to be located on the Skipanon Peninsula in Warrenton, Oregon to the regional hub in Molalla, Oregon.
The 36 inch diameter pipeline will be trenched with 3–5 foot of cover. The wall thickness of the externally-coated steel line will vary between 12.7 and 19 mm.
FERC has requested that Oregon Pipeline LLC provide its schedule either for conducting the open season, or sufficient reason why it does not need to in the near term, by 3 June 2010."