The Jordan Cove LNG Terminal:Marine Reserve Meets Energy Reserves

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Thu, 02/09/2012 - 12:00am
Interview with Jody McCafferee on the Jordan Cove LNG Zombie plus more local news

What happens in Las Posado Stays in Los Pasado – except when it doesn’t.  Like the liquid natural gas itself, money keeps leaking into abandoned projects of dubious legality.  The Coos Bay Jordan Cove LNG terminal and its Pacific Connector Pipeline are  ‘Case In Point’:  Yesterday The U.S. Department of Energy rubber-stamped  a liquefied natural gas terminal in Coos Bay.

Rep. Peter DeFazio introduced a bill this week to block energy developers from using eminent domain authority to seize private property for pipelines serving export terminals for liquefied natural gas.

The bill doesn't prohibit LNG export per se, but could throw a wrench in plans for the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, a 234-mile pipe proposed to serve the Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Coos Bay.

The bills prospects are unknown, but it puts DeFazio in line with other members of Oregon's congressional delegation in questioning LNG exports from the state. It also backs put him squarely behind constituents in southern Oregon who have fought for years to block the Pacific Connector and Jordan Cove.

 

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The antic performance of Republican presidential hopefuls has repelled many people on the Left.  But it is instructive to pay attention from time to time.  President Barack Obama has disappointed his base and Independents who turned out in droves to vote for him the last time around arein a tectonic shift to the Right.

 The unthinkable really could happen.  Remember when no one believed that George W could be elected to a second term? 

So yesterday Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney in all three GOP presidential nominee events , winning over 40% of the vote in Minnesota and Colorado, and over 50% of the Missouri vote. In Minnesota, Romney came in third after Ron Paul, who won second place with 27% of the vote.

 Newt Gingrich failed to make it onto the Missouri ballot and he did not campaign in Colorado or Minnesota.  The Great Pretender instead began  stumping for the March 6th Super Tuesday states. Yesterday’s races were unique, and the stakes were lower, because in all three states no delegates were actually assigned based on the final tally. Missouri, Colorado and Minnesota will hold subsequent events to assign delegates to the GOP national convention in late August. Missouri’s primary was dubbed a beauty contest because the results have no bearing on the state’s March 17th GOP party caucus.

 Instead, the Missouri primary was seen as an effort to attract media attention. Why not do it the old-fashioned way and just buy media attention?

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