Published: Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 9:00 AM
By Ted Sickinger - The Oregonian
Opposition by landowners to LNG import terminals was effective. Now, it remains to be seen if equal opposition will arise against export terminals on the Oregon coast.
A proposal to build a liquefied natural gas terminal near the mouth of the Columbia River in Warrenton is re-entering the regulatory running, resuscitated by burgeoning North American gas supplies after being left for dead by opponents.
Backers of the controversial Oregon LNG terminal, which would sit just across Youngs Bay from Astoria, have briefed regulators and politicians on their $6 billion plan and say they plan to file an initial application by next week with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
4 comments:
With the overall economy getting worse, job claims rising, house sales falling, manufacturing stalling, it is refreshing to see the re-emergence of capitalizing on our energy reserves. Jobs are needed.
And don't you think Canada is fully capable of exporting its own NG Glenn....through its own pipeline, likley through Alaska if the U.S. OK's it or through its own facilities if the U.S. doesn't?
Depends where in Canada the gas is coming from. As in any exporting business, proximity to gas is one of the leading economic factors.
Yes, Canada is fully capable of exporting it's own gas. It again comes down to who the market is and who is paying and how much.
I really don't see the difference between exporting logs and exporting gas. It's a commodity and generally, companies profit from selling the commodity and hire people.
For some obscure reason, liberals, leftists, and wrongists don't understand capitalism.
Would you rather Canada export their own gas and US companies not get a chance to profit and hire people? Similar to the Keystone pipeline that Obummer and his liberal leftist wrongists want to shut down.
Job creation needs to happen outside of government. Liberal leftist wrongists don't understand this concept.
It starts with embracing our natural resources and trading with other countries. Like Canada for instance.
Capitalism is a philosophy of economic systems that is generally considered to favor private ownership of the means of production, creation of goods or services for profit or income by individuals or corporations, competitive markets, voluntary exchange, wage labor, capital accumulation, and personal finance.
Capitalism is variously defined by sources and there is not complete consensus among scholars on the definition nor which economies can historically be properly considered capitalist.
The designation is applied to a variety of historical cases, varying in time, geography, politics, and culture.
There is, however, agreement that capitalism became dominant in the Western world following the demise of feudalism.......So says Wikipedia
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