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on Controlling LNG

Greetings;
Chris Andreae here.  Recently on my program, 'Air Cascadia', (And many years back and beyond) I have been reporting on the liquefied natural gas purgatorio in which the state seems to be stranded.  There is no question that LNG is an ecological disaster for rivers and coasts.  Ours just happen to be especially sensitive habitat.  And there is no doubt that property owners whose land is threatened by concomitant pipelines would suffer irreparable loss. A whole interdependent network of local employment would also be jeopardized. Beyond these issues, the profits will flow straight out of Oregon as will the gas.  Let's not forget the clean-up costs, should the whole thing explode somewhere down the line.  LNG terminals have a rerehensible "safety" record.   Leaving all this aside, let's look at the job picture.  It is, in a word, ugly.  There will be a year or two of construction work up for grabs and then once the proposed terminal is up and running, a handful of management-level positions will be divvied up amongst developers' in-house (and out-of-state) technocrats.  So we arrive at two words:  No jobs.  Oregon cannot afford this 'pipe dream'.
Chris Andreae
971-645-5232
tranche3564@yahoo.com

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