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The opposition does not seem to know that only 36 miles of pipeline is in the Bradford Landing project.  It could bring in Alaaka natural gas and also gas from Asia and Africa where it goes begging and is often flared off.  Better it be used here to generate electricity, heat our homes, make fertilizer and manufacture jet engine parts.  If there was another Enron type scandal and our pipeline gas from Wyoming and Canada was cut off or was priced at an unafordable level we would sure be gratefull for an alternative source.

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The earthquake issue is adressed in the EIR, it it some 700 pages long and I read most of it when it was on the FERC web site.  The opponents have not been able to discredit the findings.

The Mist gas field is very small the fertilizer produced is used by the farmers who are against LNG.  They would be happy if the price of fertilizer went down.  A few years ago it was unafordable when natural gas went to $14.00.

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The people that oppose  LNG must have dwellings that are heated some way.  It is cold and windy right now.  My apartment is heated by gas coming by pipeline.  Other people use fuel oil delivered by truck, electricity from burning coal, maybe fire wood cut with a gasoline powered chain saw.  Pipe lines have never been an issue before and land owners are paid for right of ways.  I think they have taken in the loggers and farmers need to clean up their own acts.

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The Boardman coal burning power uses about a trainload of coal every day of the year with a large byproduct of mercury falling on the Columbia Rver watershed.  Also there are oxides of sulphur going into the air and maybe thosands of cubic yards of ash that must be put someplace.

Oregon has no fossil fuels and not even a refinery that turns out fuel.  Our gasoline and fuel oil comes by barge up the Columbia River to Portland and into Coos Bay.  Alaska exports LNG mostly to Japan  they do not like to waste things there so when the LNG is gasified it cools food storage facilities.

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These minor parties are usually single issue groups that are a long ways from a majority.  I do not see how this bill would have much effect.  Both major parties are divided.  The Democrats between those that want  the whole agenda right now and Republican light.  The Republicans between the cultural conservatives and the financial conservatives.  If there were four parties coalitions of any three could form, work out compromises and effectively govern.  I hope.

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Kroger opposes the Bradford Landing LNG terminal although the fact is that coal is burned to generate about half of the electricity used in Oregon.  I call that the most serious environmental crime.

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There are people who call themselves "green" Who oppose nuclear,  liquid narural gas, hydro, so that leaves coal and I guess corn ethanol.  I do not think that turning off the power 12 hours a day like in Bagdad would go over very well

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May I point out that Oregon has almost natural gas. LNG terminals have an almost perfect safety record. US and Canada are running out of natural gas. I think that certain land owners have hopes of selling to developers for more money. There is no use of developing if natural gas can not be supplied. A sea terminal has the flexibility of recieving gas from many places including Alaska. I was outraged about all the misinformation I heard on air. Where were all the informed people?

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What are all these people thinking? There are many high pressure pipe lines bringing natural gas into Oregon from the American and Canadian Rocky Mountains. Wind and solar energy are just fine but at this moment it is overcast and the wind is calm. Alaska has natural gas a byproduct of oil drilling that is pumped into underground resorviors. In many parts of the world natural gas is flared off or worse vented off. Much better that we use it to heat our homes and generate the electric power that we need. There are train loads of dirty burning coal coming into Oregon thermal power plants. The time when hydro power from Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams supplied plenty of cheap electric power are gone forever.

If for any reason the gas from the north and east was cut off then we be very glad to have an alternative source. Just this last week the price of natural increased.

Best would be that a power plant would be located at the terminal. The gasifacation process would help in condensing the exhaust steam to a lower temperature improving the efficency.

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