Coos Bay signs LNG pact
COOS BAY The city of Coos Bay isn t throwing its support behind the proposed liquefied natural gas terminal project, but it could benefit from it. The City Council voted 5-1 Tuesday to sign a deal with Jordan Cove Energy Project that would allow th...
 2.7K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 175.0 FERC tips favor toward Portland
The World nailed it in their recent editorial: FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, owes this community and the Jordan Cove Energy LNG and Pacific Connector developers, an answer; a simple YES or NO. The developers have jumped through all ...
2.5K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 288.0 Confusion delays LNG hearing
A federal official has offered one reason why local liquefied natural gas developers haven t received a hearing before federal regulators. The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission remains silent on the matter, but a project manager in...
2.7K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 254.0 Jordan Cove EIS lacks analysis
FERC snubs Jordan Cove (The World, Oct. 12) was an article that detailed Federal Energy Regulatory Commission s refusal, for the third time, to initiate formal discussions of the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas proposal. It prompted a somewhat disi...
2.7K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 193.0 Port, Jordan Cove pressure FERC
Local port officials are calling on federal regulators to decide and soon whether to allow a liquefied natural gas terminal on Coos Bay s North Spit. Lawyers for the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay submitted a letter to the Federal Energy R...
4.6K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 306.0 Port, Jordan Cove pressure FERC
Local port officials are calling on federal regulators to decide and soon whether to allow a liquefied natural gas terminal on Coos Bay s North Spit. Lawyers for the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay submitted a letter to the Federal Energy R...
4.6K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 306.0 Grant could add cargo dock to LNG project
Port officials could have a greater stake in the liquefied natural gas project proposed for Coos Bay if a sizable federal grant comes their way. The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay has filed a $45.3 million application for a Transportation...
2.7K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 191.0 FERC owes Bay Area an answer
Federal energy officials need to fish, as the saying goes, or cut bait. After five years of argument, anticipation and anxiety, the Bay Area deserves a ruling on a liquefied natural gas terminal not perpetual, unexplained delay. The Federal Energy ...
2.1K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 236.0 FERC snubs Jordan Cove
COOS BAY The developers who d like to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in Coos County won t get to take their application before federal regulators this month. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission meets Thursday, but Jordan Cove Energy Pr...
2.8K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 236.0 County OK's flooding Kentuck Golf Course
COQUILLE - Developers of a local liquefied natural gas terminal have cleared another hurdle in addressing environmental concerns, as they try to move forward with the project. The Coos County Commissioners approved a zone change Tuesday for the Kentu...
5.0K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 331.0 FERC snubs Jordan Cove
Federal officials won t be talking about a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in Coos County when they meet next week. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released an agenda for its Sept. 17 meeting Thursday and Jordan Cove Energ...
2.6K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 254.0 Congress weighs Web ad privacy rules
WASHINGTON The Web sites we visit, the online links we click, the search queries we conduct, the products we put in virtual shopping carts, the personal details we reveal on social networking pages all of this can give companies insight into what...
8.1K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 220.0 Army Corps seeks input on gas terminal
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking comments on the liquefied natural gas terminal proposed for Coos Bay s North Spit. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a final environmental impact statement in May, stating the project would ha...
1.7K - Aug. 21, 2009; scored 193.0 Tribes: Delay LNG hearing
Local Indian tribes want Coos County to delay a county hearing on a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal. The county commissioners are scheduled to discuss contested aspects of the North Spit proposal at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Coquille. Despite the...
4.5K - Jul. 21, 2009; scored 175.0 Clatsop County commission OK's LNG terminal
ASTORIA (AP) Clatsop County commissioners have again given land-use approval for a liquefied natural gas terminal along the Columbia River. Opponents say they ll appeal again. Last year the commission approved zone changes to allow NorthernStar Nat...
2.1K - Jul. 19, 2009; scored 216.0 LNG is not on FERC agenda
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission won t consider an application to site a liquefied natural gas terminal in Coos County at its meeting next week. Jordan Cove Energy Project had petitioned the agency to rule on the case, but those efforts prove...
0.9K - Jul. 10, 2009; scored 707.0 County will re-examine LNG plan this month
County officials have set a date to reconsider an application to site a liquefied natural gas terminal in Coos County. The developers also hope federal regulators will rule up or down on their project next week. Coos County commissioners will hold a ...
2.6K - Jul. 7, 2009; scored 878.0 'Natural' meds legal, but unregulated
Homeopathy sprang from the inventive some would say fanciful mind of German physician and chemist Samuel Hahnemann in the late 1700s. Experimenting on himself, he became convinced that if an ingredient causes a symptom in a healthy person, it wil...
9.1K - Jun. 22, 2009; scored 191.0 Plants lack funds to quiet reactors
VERNON, Vt.- The companies that own almost half the nation's nuclear reactors are not setting aside enough money to dismantle them, and many may sit idle for decades and pose safety and security risks as a result, an Associated Press investigation ha...
8.7K - Jun. 17, 2009; scored 324.0 Obama picks new member for FERC
President Barack Obama has nominated a longtime aide to former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack to serve on the federal board overseeing siting of liquefied natural gas terminals. John Norris, who currently serves as Vilsack s chief of staff at the Agricult...
1.0K - Jun. 12, 2009; scored 198.0 | 
