Jordan Cove and the Road to California

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Tue, 12/29/2015 - 10:00am to 10:15am
Sarah Westover Talks Terminals on Oregon's coast

 from Southern Oregon Rising Tide
Over the holidays, Southern Oregon Rising Tide mailed festive postcards to several of their fracking foes with a special message: Bring the pipeline, expect resistance. Donning elf hats and tree-climbing apparel, SORT members scaled a snow laden doug fir tree that stands in the path of the proposed Pacific Connector Pipeline near Ashland, OR.
 
Pipeline construction still awaits final approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Department of State Lands, so trees on the 95-foot-wide, 232-mile-long pipeline easement are safe for now. But the message from the grassroots to the corporate world should be clear: this pipeline is a bad investment.
 
Veresen (VSN), the parent company of Jordan Cove, has continued to lose value in the stock market since 2014. This fall, the company revealed to FERC that they have yet to secure any buyers for the fracked gas they wish to export. Less than five percent of landowners on the proposed pipeline easement have signed contracts allowing work on their properties. Companies investing in the project will face financial challenges from environmental lawsuits, eminent domain proceedings—and also relentless work stoppages caused by tree sits and road blockades.

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