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Feds still taking comments on LNG at Coos Bay
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 | No comments posted.
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission still is accepting new information from the public and government agencies to help it prepare a final environmental impact statement.
That information must come from entities not involved in the process, such as state departments — not Jordan Cove Energy Partners or developers of the proposed Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline.
For the past two years, Jordan Cove and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline collected data about the potential impacts of the project. The draft environmental impact statement, released in August, summarizes the agency’s findings as well as those prepared by seven other assisting federal agencies.
Around the end of October, FERC will hold public hearings in Coos Bay and three other communities along the route of the 230-mile pipeline to Malin. They will be designed to collect comments about the draft EIS.
Written public comments are being accepted until Dec. 4, at which time the FERC will compile them to complete a final EIS.
Once this document is ready, it will be submitted to the FERC board, which is made up of five members, three of whom are currently Republicans and two who are Democrats. Bob Braddock noted that although the board has political affiliations, its decisions are usually unanimous.
“You seldom see it politicized,” he said.
That information must come from entities not involved in the process, such as state departments — not Jordan Cove Energy Partners or developers of the proposed Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline.
For the past two years, Jordan Cove and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline collected data about the potential impacts of the project. The draft environmental impact statement, released in August, summarizes the agency’s findings as well as those prepared by seven other assisting federal agencies.
Around the end of October, FERC will hold public hearings in Coos Bay and three other communities along the route of the 230-mile pipeline to Malin. They will be designed to collect comments about the draft EIS.
Written public comments are being accepted until Dec. 4, at which time the FERC will compile them to complete a final EIS.
Once this document is ready, it will be submitted to the FERC board, which is made up of five members, three of whom are currently Republicans and two who are Democrats. Bob Braddock noted that although the board has political affiliations, its decisions are usually unanimous.
“You seldom see it politicized,” he said.
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