From Daily"A" LTE: The Port: Learn From The Past

Letter: Pray to God the new Port of Astoria commissioners take their seats before "the incumbents" let the next batch of riff raff schemes in the back door ("Time for skepticism at Port of Astoria," The Daily Astorian, June 14).And by the way, who is it who gave Leucadia (Oregon LNG) free rein to move ahead with, of all things now, a pipeline starting in Warrenton and going through six Oregon counties to Molalla to tie into Canada's pipeline there on its way to those folks down in California? Was anybody planning to involve the citizens of Clatsop County this time around? It doesn't seem so does it?As far as I'm concerned this company should have to start out from "dead zero." This project was bought from Calpine, which still has its stink on it, and Peter Hansen is at the helm of this next "insurgent foray" of LNG profiteering in our community. It was totally bad faith. There was a failure to follow through, along with the failure of our incumbent Port commission to honor the people who elected them, to fight to withdraw the dirty lease to begin with at notification of Calpine insolvency.I hope the new Port commission will wisely learn from their predecessors' mistakes, and halt the nonsense perpetrated upon them by Peter Gearin, his posse of devoted staff and totally compliant and subservient commissioners.This should never be allowed to happen again.