Randy Prince is adamant Coos County failed to consider the risk of tsunamis when it approved Jordan Cove Energy’s application for a liquefied natural gas terminal.

The facility is proposed for Coos Bay’s North Spit within sight of the Pacific Ocean.

He has asked the Land Use Board of Appeals and the Oregon Court of Appeals to overturn the county’s ruling, but neither would.

So the Eugene activist has put the issue before the Oregon Supreme Court. Last week he filed a petition for review. That doesn’t mean the state’s highest court will hear the case.

In fact, the odds are against it.

Stephen Armitage, the supreme court staff attorney, said the court agrees to review less than 10 percent of the petitions it receives.

 Armitage would not say how long it would take for the court to decide whether to hear the appeal, though he said the average is about two months.

In his appeal, Prince argued the county should have revised its comprehensive plan to consider the potential impact of tsunamis, after the Department of Land Conservation and Development found cause for concern in 2002. LUBA threw the issue out on a technicality — that the DLCD never notified counties of its decision. The Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal without comment.