Thursday, March 31, 2011

Oregon LUBA Orders Coos Bay's Jordan Cove To Prove It Has Permission To Cross Proposed Pipeline Land And Show No Impact On Olympia Oysters

Published: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 5:31 PM Updated: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 5:38 PM By Ted Sickinger, The Oregonian Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals has kicked back Coos County's approval of the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, ordering the county to reconsider the project's impact on the Olympia Oyster and demonstrate that it has permission to cross all land along the 50 mile section of pipe in Coos County.....Read Full Report

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those oysters are not a native species....the ecotards are playing a ruse card. Move along with the project

Anonymous said...

Anon,if they are true Olys there native ,they may have been reintroduced because they were hunted and polluted to extinction, I have eaten the true Oly a small(2 inch) and the only native oyster,wonderfull.Find out what happened to our true native oyster, maybe you will learn something about our poor treatment of our home . in peace, a Fisherman

Anonymous said...

Oh bullshit. even if they were native how in the hell is a gas pipeline going to kill'em off anyway. They were probably farmed there in the past and what's ever there now are descendants of the farmed stock.