Controversial plan for Oregon natural gas terminal abandoned
Associated PressSALEM, Ore. — A Canadian energy company called it quits Wednesday on a controversial natural gas pipeline and marine export terminal on the southern Oregon coast after failing to obtain all necessary state permits. Opponents of the Jordan Cove project, which would have created the first liquefied natural gas export terminal on the West Coast in the lower 48 states, rejoiced at the news. The marine export terminal would have been located at Coos Bay, with a 230-mile feeder pipeline crossing southern Oregon. Deb Evans, who owns land in rural southern Oregon’s Klamath County that the pipeline would have crossed, said, “It’s a good day for landowners.” She and her family have been fighting the project for years, fearing the loss of part of their wooded property, where they have a timber mill, to eminent domain.
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