Today Oregon LNG submitted a preliminary application to export liquefied natural gas from its proposed LNG import terminal site in Warrenton. The new project plans include adding liquefaction capability to the Warrenton site to build a facility that can both import and export LNG. Continue reading →

Filed under: Energy, LNG exports, Natural gas, Oregon LNG

For years, liquefied natural gas developers in Oregon shunned the idea of flipping their proposed LNG import terminals around to export natural gas instead. Continue reading →

Filed under: Energy, Jordan Cove, Liquefied natural gas, LNG exports, Oregon LNG

While reporting on another lost court challenge for Oregon LNG today, OPB's environment reporter Rob Manning dug up this report from Leucadia National Corp., the New York holding company funding the Oregon LNG project. Continue reading →

Filed under: Energy, Leucadia National Corp., Liquefied natural gas, Oregon LNG

A Clatsop County Circuit Court judge decided on Thursday that the Clatsop County Commission can continue its process of reversing an earlier commission's land-use approval for the Oregon LNG liquefied natural gas pipeline. Continue reading →

Filed under: Energy, Liquefied natural gas, Oregon LNG

The Clatsop County Commission took a big step toward denying a key land-use application for the Oregon LNG liquefied natural gas project on Wednesday. And no one from the company showed up to defend the project. Continue reading →

Filed under: Energy, Land use, Oregon LNG, Peter Hansen

I guess Oregon LNG didn't call "no take-backs" before three new Clatsop County commissioners were sworn in this week. The new gang is already showing a less favorable leaning on liquefied natural gas than the commissioners they replaced (as promised in the May 2010 elections). Continue reading →

Filed under: Energy, Columbia Riverkeeper, Liquefied natural gas, Oregon LNG

Thanks to Columbia Riverkeeper for keeping us posted on all things LNG. Today, the National Marine Fisheries Service has sent a letter to federal energy regulators letting them know that the Oregon LNG liquefied natural gas project is not ready to enter the National Environmental Policy Act review process yet (a time-consuming requirement for LNG licensing). Continue reading →

Filed under: Energy, Bradwood Landing, Jordan Cove, Liquefied natural gas, Oregon LNG

Brett VandenHeuvel and the Columbia Riverkeeper team are at it again. Today they announced they're appealing Clatsop County's approval of the Oregon LNG liquefied natural gas pipeline – along with a group of landowners along the pipeline route. Continue reading →

Filed under: Energy, Liquefied natural gas, Oregon LNG

The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals sided with liquefied natural gas opponents in the ongoing dispute over the Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas terminal yesterday. The board ruled Clatsop County wrongly granted land-use approval to the project without considering the full size of the development and without requiring enough protection for salmon. Continue reading →

Filed under: Energy, Liquefied natural gas, Oregon LNG