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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2016
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that the company is “ceasing
development of its terminal
and pipeline projects.”
Oregon LNG could not be
reached for comment.
‘Not an act of God’
“This is not an act of God,”
Laurie Caplan, co-chair-
Zoman of Columbia 3aci¿c
Common Sense, said. “This
happened because hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds
of people refused to have this
project foisted on us.”
Brett VandenHeuvel, the
executive director of Colum-
bia Riverkeeper, a Hood Riv-
er-based environmental group
that led the opposition, called
Oregon LNG’s retreat a “huge
victory after 10 years of
incredible local activism.”
“)armers and ¿shermen
and estuary residents should be
very proud of their success,”
he said. “It’s been inspiring to
me and many others across the
Northwest.”
Asked whether local activ-
ism or ¿nancial considerations
had more to do with Oregon
LNG’s defeat, VandenHeu-
vel said both factors came into
play.
“The project would’ve been
built seven years ago without
local activists standing up,” he
said. “(Oregon LNG) had local
approvals. They were march-
ing forward, and people chal-
lenged those approvals. There
(were) lawsuits. There was a
change in the (county) com-
mission. All of those things led
to the demise.”
“Financially, it doesn’t
make sense if you can’t make
progress in 10 years,” he
continued. “But the reason
for those 10 years was local
opposition.”
Not everyone is happy.
Though fewer people
turned out to support the proj-
ect than came to oppose it at
public meetings, they were
vocal about the need to bring
industry to the county and
are disappointed that Ore-
gon LNG’s attempt came to
naught.
“I think it’s a disaster for
Clatsop County, for the city
of Warrenton, for all the tax-
ing groups that work county-
wide,” Dick Hellberg, a former
Warrenton city commissioner,
said.
The staff at Columbia Riv-
erkeeper, he said, “don’t have
any understanding of the his-
tory or the needs of the people
in Clatsop County, other than
the retired segment that didn’t
want anything to change. So
they’re the winner, but, in the
long term, the economy of
Clatsop County is the loser.
“And all those people that
are working on minimum
wages and having to be sup-
ported by the food bank —
they’re the losers, because
we don’t have that many
good-paying jobs or the tax
base to do the things that we
need to do in the county,” he
said.
Environmental and
safety concerns
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden,
D-Oregon, said he was
relieved that opponents of the
project, who had raised envi-
ronmental and safety concerns
about industrial development
at the mouth of the Columbia
River, had prevailed.
“Local of¿cials and mem-
bers of the Clatsop County
community raised valid con-
cerns about this project from
the very beginning,” Wyden
said in a statement. “I shared
the concerns that the Ore-
gon LNG project would have
had negative environmental
and economic impacts, and I
am relieved that local voices
prevailed.”
Oregon LNG had proposed
a terminal on the Skipanon
Peninsula and an 87-mile pipe-
line to link with a natural gas
connector in Washington state.
The company wanted to export
natural gas from western Can-
ada and the Rocky Mountains
to markets in Asia.
The company had argued
that the project would be an
economic boon for Warrenton
and Clatsop County, providing
jobs, as well as tax revenue to
local governments.
But a coalition of resi-
dents, environmentalists and
¿shermen attacked the project
as misguided and potentially
dangerous. Activists had pre-
viously fought an LNG proj-
ect at Bradwood Landing east
of Astoria, which collapsed in
010 after hitting ¿nancial and
political roadblocks.
A draft environmental
review of the Oregon LNG
project by the Federal Energy
Regulatory
Commission
released in August found that
environmental impacts could
be reduced if the company
took measures to minimize
harm to ¿sh and wildlife hab-
itat and water Tuality. A ¿nal
review was expected in June.
Host of obstacles
Yet the project was facing a
host of obstacles.
Last year, the state Land
Use Board of Appeals upheld
Clatsop County’s 2013 deci-
sion to deny a permit for a por-
tion of the pipeline. The coun-
ty’s Board of Commissioners
had initially approved the
pipeline in 2010, but the vote
was reversed when new com-
missioners were elected after a
political backlash.
Oregon
LNG
was
embroiled in a lawsuit with the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
over an easement the Army
Corps holds on the Skipanon
Peninsula, where the company
was leasing land from the Port
of Astoria for the terminal.
And the split decision
from the city’s hearings of¿-
cer in March raised signi¿cant
doubts about whether the ter-
minal could move forward.
The hearings of¿cer found that
the terminal would adversely
impact ¿sh habitat and ¿shing
activity in the Lower Colum-
bia River Estuary.
“Large fossil fuel export
projects on the Columbia are
doomed. They’ve repeatedly
failed, from coal to oil to gas,”
VandenHeuvel said. “People
value the river for salmon and
recreation and jobs that don’t
destroy the river. So I think
there’s a very bleak future for
these giant export terminals.”
U.S.
Rep.
Suzanne
Bonamici, D-Oregon, said the
proposed LNG terminal was
“not right for this community.”
“I join the many Clat-
sop County residents who are
relieved to learn that it will not
move forward,” Bonamici said
in a statement. “I welcome
productive conversations with
Clatsop County leaders and
residents about sustainable and
safe ways to grow the region’s
economy that capitalize on the
region’s many strengths and
create family wage jobs.”
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Oregon LNG’s withdrawal
spares the Warrenton City
Commission from having to
weigh in publicly on an issue
that has drawn bitter opposi-
tion on the North Coast. The
Astoria City Council voted in
September to oppose the proj-
ect. Public opinion was likely
more balanced in Warrenton,
where the project could have
had a more direct economic
bene¿t, but commissioners
were facing dif¿cult votes on
the company’s appeal.
Oregon LNG publicly
downplayed the importance of
local approvals for the project,
while at the same time seek-
ing local permits to help sat-
isfy multiple layers of regula-
tory requirements.
“Why would you apply to
a city and contest that the city
even had jurisdiction in the
¿rst place"” City Commis-
sioner Henry Balensifer said.
Warrenton has welcomed
big box stores and other busi-
ness development, but Balen-
sifer said the experience with
Oregon LNG might prompt
city commissioners to look
more closely at land-use
laws.
“There are things that we
need to ensure so that we
can actually plan and strate-
gize what it is exactly that our
community wants and what
exactly is appropriate for our
community to have in terms
of industrial development on
our waterfront,” he said.
Energy investors had been
pursuing two separate lique-
¿ed natural gas projects on
the Oregon Coast in a race to
seize on a potentially lucrative
export market.
The Federal Energy Regu-
latory Commission in March
denied applications for the Jor-
dan Cove terminal and pipe-
line project at Coos Bay, ¿nd-
ing that investors had not
identi¿ed markets and that the
public bene¿ts of the pipeline
did not outweigh the adverse
effects on landowners.
Veresen Inc., based in Can-
ada, and The Williams Compa-
nies in Oklahoma, are appeal-
ing the decision, citing new
commitments from buyers
in Asia. Colorado Gov. John
Hickenlooper, a Democrat, has
also urged the federal agency
to reconsider.
Jordan Cove was further
along in the regulatory process
than Oregon LNG and did not
attract the same intensity of
local opposition.
OREGON LNG — A TIMELINE
• 2004: Oregon LNG project
begins. The company leases
96-acres on the Skipanon
Peninsula from Port of
Astoria.
• 2005: Oregon LNG’s first
backer, Calpine, files for
bankruptcy.
• 2007: Oregon LNG receives
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission OK to begin
National Environmental Policy
Act prefiling.
• 2008: Oregon LNG files
formal federal application to
build an LNG import terminal.
• 2010: National Marine
Fisheries Service refuses to
initiate federal Endangered
Species Act consultation.
Clatsop County Board of
Commissioners approve a
segment of Oregon LNG’s
pipeline. Columbia River-
keeper and the Northwest
Property Rights Coalition
appeal approval to the Land
Use Board of Appeals.
• 2011: Newly elected Board
of Commissioners reconsid-
ers former board’s land use
approval and reverses.
Oregon LNG sues the county
for reconsidering pipeline
approval; Riverkeeper inter-
venes on the county’s side.
The court agrees with the
county and dismisses Oregon
LNG’s lawsuit.
• 2012: Oregon LNG notifies
federal government of plans
to modify its application to
include liquefaction capacity.
Oregon LNG amends appli-
cation to become an LNG
export terminal.
Oregon LNG loses its appeal
of Clatsop County’s right to
vote on the pipeline.
• 2013: Oregon Supreme
Court rejects Oregon LNG’s
appeal and affirms Clatsop
food and beer at Plaza Jalisco
in Astoria a few hours after the
news broke Friday.
The
partners-in-protest
swapped stories about anti-
LNG demonstrations going
back to 2004, relishing that
the story ¿nally culminated in
what they believe is a happy
ending.
“It is long overdue,” Caplan
said after learning of the com-
pany’s departure. “Oregon
LNG has drained energy,
resources, time and talent out
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of Clatsop County for way too
long.”
ReÀecting on their relent-
less effort to repel the project,
the activists wondered why
they had to spend a decade
defending their coastal com-
munity in the ¿rst place. And,
for all they knew, the ¿ght
could have continued for
years.
“I knew we would win,
because we were right,”
Caplan said. “I just didn’t
know when.”
Astonishment
and relief
Awash in astonishment and
relief, Johnson, Caplan and a
small group of Oregon LNG
opponents met for Mexican
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LISTINGS
M ONDAY E VENING
County’s right to reconsider
the pipeline decision.
Oregon LNG files its export
application.
County Board of Commis-
sioners votes to deny the
pipeline land use permits.
Oregon LNG appeals the
county’s decision to the Land
Use Board of Appeals.
• 2014: Oregon Court of
Appeals reverses Land Use
Board of Appeals and finds
that county commissioners
were not biased when they
rejected pipeline.
• 2015: Land Use Board of
Appeals upholds Board of
Commissioners 2013 vote
against the pipeline.
Draft environmental impact
statement released.
Two public hearings on Ore-
gon LNG’s land use permits
draw hundreds of opponents.
A federal magistrate judge
rules Oregon LNG did not
prove the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers abandoned an
easement on the proposed
LNG site.
• 2016: Oregon LNG pulls out
of Army Corps litigation.
Oregon LNG refiles case
against Army Corps of Engi-
neers.
Oregon LNG’s final environ-
mental review pushed back.
Warrenton denies LNG termi-
nal, OKs pipeline. Hearings
officer concludes LNG project
would impede fishing, impact
fish.
Oregon LNG, Columbia
Riverkeeper appeal Warren-
ton ruling. Hearings planned
for May.
Oregon LNG withdraws War-
renton project.
Sources: Oregon LNG, Co-
lumbia Riverkeeper and The
Daily Astorian files
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