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Originally published on January 20, 2021 6:46 am
For well over a decade, successive owners have tried to build a 229 mile-long natural gas pipeline and coastal shipping facility in southwest Oregon.
Pembina, the Calgary-based energy company behind the current iteration of the Jordan Cove project, got overall approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last year. But the state has withheld several key permissions, saying the company couldn’t show the project would meet water quality and other environmental standards.
In May, 2019, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality denied the Jordan Cove project a permit under the Clean Water Act. Last year, Jordan Cove asked federal energy regulators to rule that the state lacked the authority to do that.
MEDFORD, Ore. A proposal to build a natural gas pipeline and export facility in Southern Oregon was dealt another blow Tuesday when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decided not to overturn the state’s denial of a key permit for the project.
by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association/The Gazette) … Renewable liquid fuels and renewable electricity are highly complementary ways to reduce America’s carbon footprint. We can have clean renewable energy from solar and wind, as the authors want, and still take advantage of the greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions that come from using more ethanol in our transportation fuels.
Leading federal and state government agencies like the U.S. Department of Energy, California Air Resources Board, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have all recognized the environmental benefits of ethanol in reducing both tailpipe pollution and GHG emissions.