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 1000.0 County finalizes LNG plan
The Coos County Board of Commissioners has given final approval to a revised land use application for developers of a liquefied natural gas terminal. That doesn t mean it s a done deal. The action leaves open the door for another round of appeals to ...
1.2K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 624.0 Feds holding back $100 million
SALT LAKE CITY Brian Wixom s company has paid the U.S. government hundreds of thousands of dollars for leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands over the years, only to never put a rig in the ground. The money simply sits in a federal bank a...
6.0K - Aug. 10, 2009; scored 785.0 County OKs LNG plan again
COQUILLE The company proposing a liquefied natural gas terminal on Coos Bay's North Spit has received a renewed vote of approval from Coos County commissioners. The commissioners Thursday unanimously approved changes to the developers' land use app...
4.3K - Jul. 24, 2009; scored 799.0 Check your rhetoric at the door
Many months have passed since any politicians listened to local testimony about a liquefied natural gas terminal. People on both sides of the issue probably are yearning to be heard. But before the Coos County commissioners open their public hearing ...
1.8K - Jul. 22, 2009; scored 546.0 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 712.0 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 639.0 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 585.0 Ground zero in timber wars shows signs of peace
TAKILMA - On a steep slope of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, a crew of young men with chainsaws and hardhats worked their way through an old neglected clearcut, cutting brush and young trees and piling the remains to be burned later. Fresh...
8.6K - Jun. 22, 2009; scored 619.0 Locked out on LNG
Federal officials could decide whether to approve the siting of a liquefied natural gas terminal in Coos County as early as June 18. Or it could be several more months before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gets around deciding on the local ...
4.9K - Jun. 8, 2009; scored 668.0 LNG case will return to county
Coos County's Board of Commissioners will be talking about liquefied natural gas facility permitting again sometime this summer. They just don't know when. The board approved Jordan Cove Energy Project's land-use application in December 2007. Its dec...
1.1K - Jun. 6, 2009; scored 634.0 Locked out on LNG
Federal officials could decide whether to approve the siting of a liquefied natural gas terminal in Coos County as early as June 18. Or it could be several more months before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gets around deciding on the local ...
5.0K - Jun. 6, 2009; scored 643.0 Taking a new course
COOS BAY ” The owners of a golf course just off the Kentuck Inlet of Coos Bay have found a possible buyer for their property: Jordan Cove Energy Project. The liquefied natural gas terminal developer has signed an option to purchase either ...
3.8K - May. 14, 2009; scored 692.0 Oregon board rejects RV park
BANDON - Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals has quashed Indian Point Inc.'s efforts to build a 153-unit RV park just north of Bandon on the bank of the Coquille River. We're certainly disappointed, said Indian Point project manager Jan Sirchuk. But...
2.5K - May. 8, 2009; scored 858.0 RV park appealed, again
BANDON - Opponents have filed an appeal trying to block a 154-space RV park at a former mill site just north of Bandon. It's not the first time. The Friends of Bandon Marsh has submitted an appeal to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals, once again o...
2.3K - Mar. 23, 2009; scored 760.0 Bandon man appeals parks master plan
BANDON A Bandon man has filed a notice to object to the city of Bandon s new parks master plan with the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals over the City of Bandon Parks Master Plan. According to City Manager Matt Winkel, resident David Piscerne filed...
1.6K - Mar. 9, 2009; scored 653.0 High Court won't hear LNG case
The Oregon Supreme Court has refused to consider an appeal filed by opponents of the proposed liquefied natural gas terminal on Coos Bay s North Spit. The appeal argued Coos County needed to consider tsunami zones before approving the LNG terminal s ...
1.9K - Mar. 6, 2009; scored 663.0 State sends LNG approval back to Clatsop County
ASTORIA (AP) The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals has told the Clatsop County Commission to take another look at the Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas project. The board disputed the county s finding in a land-use decision that the facility is...
2.1K - Jan. 29, 2009; scored 956.0 Shaman, wife win Ashland land-use case
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) A state decision in favor of a shaman and his wife who practice an animistic religion near Ashland will give Oregon churches more latitude to build houses of worship in rural areas. The decision from the Land Use Board of Appeals...
2.2K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 834.0 Road impasse holds up chromite mining plan
Coos County commissioners and Oregon Resources Corp., the Portland-based company that will mine chromite in the county, are at a stalemate over road maintenance. The sticking point is an estimated $2.75 million Oregon Resources would have to...
4.7K - Dec. 30, 2008; scored 751.0 | 
