Recently, we've been subjected to moronic opposition to the Bradwood Landing Liquified Natural Gas Plant, scheduled to be located on the Columbia River in Clatsop County, Oregon.
Our local leftist propaganda sheet has whined and sniveled about this project; a project that will bring both a large number of jobs and millions of dollars into our regional economy. Our local congressman, who lacks the testosterone to take a position on the horrific Barnett/Paskenta/Mohegan/Cowlitz organized crime enterprise known as their megacasino, has had no difficulty shooting off his mouth in opposition to THIS project... as if we have no need to expand our energy infrastructure... and no need for the increased energy capability, the construction and maintenance jobs and the economic boost this plant will bring.
On this issue, the Longview Daily News has exhibited the common sense long missing from the local newspaper, and has pointed out that these stall tactics will not keep the plant from being built... it'll just make it more expensive.
Politicians should stop stalling LNG
Sunday, March 1, 2009 1:13 AM PST
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March 1 Daily News editorial
Debate over a Houston-based firm’s plans to build a liquefied natural gas terminal at Bradwood Landing has entered its fourth year. In that time, extensive studies have been conducted on the proposed LNG terminal’s environmental and economic impact. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has given the project its approval.
Still, opponents of the LNG terminal — landowners whose property would be crossed by gas pipelines, and groups and individuals concerned about the project’s impact on the Columbia River — have lost none of their zeal. The volume of well-organized protests has been such that a number of Oregon and Washington politicians have gravitated to their cause. Southwest Washington Congressman Brian Baird, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski and, to a lesser extent, Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire are among those lawmakers who’ve weighed in on the side of opponents.
The Bradwood Landing project probably cannot be stopped by any amount of politically inspired opposition. If the developers satisfy state requirements — as they appear to have done to FERC’s satisfaction at the federal level — the LNG terminal will be built. But politicians can delay the project. Kulongoski, for example, filed suit in federal court last month, after FERC turned down an appeal to revisit their approval of the LNG terminal.
Debate over a Houston-based firm’s plans to build a liquefied natural gas terminal at Bradwood Landing has entered its fourth year. In that time, extensive studies have been conducted on the proposed LNG terminal’s environmental and economic impact. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has given the project its approval.
Still, opponents of the LNG terminal — landowners whose property would be crossed by gas pipelines, and groups and individuals concerned about the project’s impact on the Columbia River — have lost none of their zeal. The volume of well-organized protests has been such that a number of Oregon and Washington politicians have gravitated to their cause. Southwest Washington Congressman Brian Baird, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski and, to a lesser extent, Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire are among those lawmakers who’ve weighed in on the side of opponents.
The Bradwood Landing project probably cannot be stopped by any amount of politically inspired opposition. If the developers satisfy state requirements — as they appear to have done to FERC’s satisfaction at the federal level — the LNG terminal will be built. But politicians can delay the project. Kulongoski, for example, filed suit in federal court last month, after FERC turned down an appeal to revisit their approval of the LNG terminal.
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