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This week we hear from dozens of Douglas County residents about the Jordan Cove export terminal, and the Pacific Connector Pipeline, projects of a Canadian corporation, Pembina. Pembina is asking the state of Oregon for a removal-fill permit to dig a 3’ deep trench through 450 waterways in southern Oregon to lay their 230-mile gas-pipeline to bring fracked natural gas to Coos Bay. The state of Oregon (Department of State Lands) also has to permit (or not) the dredging of the bay of Coos Bay so massive ocean tankers can take this gas to Asia, via a liquefaction terminal Pembina wants to build in Coos Bay (yes, on top of the subduction zone earthquake fault).

On January 9, 2019, the state of Oregon held a public meeting to hear what we had to say about this. I interview people waiting to get into the meeting, and later record some of the testimony given to the state. It is a sad tail of landowners threatened with eminent domain, expensive fish-restoration projects being destroyed, endangered species harmed. One person talked about the huge, old madrone trees on her property she would loose. Another of his cattle ranch being degraded, and another talked of his tree-farm being permanently lost.

The sound quality leaves something to be desired, but turn up the volumn. One of these days KQUA radio might buy me a real microphone.

For more information, see https://www.nolngexports.org/. Then, click on http://nolngexports.good.do/DSL/DSLComments/ to submit your own comments to the state before February 3.