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The Ten-Year-Long Fight against Oregon LNG Is Over

By Roy L Hales

Leucadia National Corp has decided it will no longer fund the proposed $6 billion LNG terminal in Warrenton, at the mouth of the Columbia River. A determined coalition of local residents, fishermen and environmentalists blocking their way. Now the ten-year-long fight against Oregon LNG is over.

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FERC Denied The Jordan Cove Project

The ECOreport reposts the story of why FERC Denied The Jordan Cove Project and a threat to the future

Originally Published on Cascade Wildlands

by Francis Eatherington, Cascadia Wildlands Umpqua Regional Advisor

Last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied the Jordan Cove Project. We were shocked as FERC is known as the rubber-stamping government agency that approves fossil…

Feds Reject Jordan Cove LNG Terminal

The ECOreport reposts Feds Reject Jordan Cove LNG Terminal and Pacific Connector Pipeline

From Cascade Wildlands

EUGENE, Ore. – Conservation groups and private landowners celebrate a tremendous victory with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions denial of the plans for the Jordan Cove/Pacific Connector LNG project on March 11, 2016. The order found that public benefits of the project would not…

What is at stake in Jordan Cove LNG?

By Roy L Hales

Several dozen protesters camped out in front the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“FERC”) headquarters in Washington DC. Many were fasting, some for for days. According to Francis Eatherington, of Cascade Wildlands,“We did a lot of actions in the 10 days I was there. We were very busy.” They are adamantly opposed to Oregon’s proposed Jordan Cove LNG project and FERC is…

Coos Bay LNG Facility: An undemocratic process for a “bridge fuel” that leads us closer to environmental and economic doom

From Cascadia Wildlands 

By Bob Ferris

The most recent elections sting all of us who care about the environment and the future of the planet like rock salt gingerly applied to an open wound. Part of that sting is the peril we face when anti-scientific types like James Inhofe (at right) and Ted Cruz are considered for important and knowledge-based leadership roles in the Senate. And part of it…