Jordan Cove no longer intends to import LNG, the Commission is vacating that authorization. Jordan Cove may submit a new application to construct and/or operate facilities to import natural gas if it determines there is a market need for import service in the future.
The port maintains that costs to increase capacity beyond the 10 MPH limit now set by the condition of the line will be paid by eager customers anxiously awaiting the golden opportunity to ship to and from the Port of Coos Bay rather than, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Oakland, Long Beach….
Sigh
This is where I get to say “I told you so” but a new question arises and that is when was the decision made to cancel the study and who made that decision?
Tuesday marks the deadline for filing to run for local office and as we have learned some of our commissioner candidates are looking to run on a “jobs” platform. Prepare yourself for the upcoming forums and debates by refreshing your memory and theirs about past promises and expensive taxpayer funded boondoggles by reading Wim de Vriend’s well documented and often hilarious, (if it weren’t so sad), account of the failed economic development schemes promoted by the Port of Coos Bay, SCDC, the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce and supported by all the usual suspects, some of whom are now running for commissioner.
The Sierra Club’s appeal came after the Port of Coos Bay assessed a nearly $20,000 fee to access 2,500 pages of important information regarding these plans. The decision waives a large majority of the fee imposed by the Port for the Sierra Club to access information regarding their development plans. Under Oregon law, such fees are ordinarily waived when the public interest will be served by the release of the information.
Wim de Vriend will be taking questions and signing books this Wednesday evening at 7PM at the North Bend Library. The book is detailed look sprinkled with hilarity and the long history of expensive economic development projects promoted by the Port of Coos Bay. Many familiar names spring up in its pages, Messerle, Whitty, Slater and more and it is entertaining, if not also a little sad, to hear the same voices still singing the same songs.
Messerle is brother to commissioner Fred Messerle and brother-in-law to SCDC director, Sandy Messerle.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the Port of Coos Bay, SCDC, and other pro-development interests realized they are their own worst enemies when it comes to inviting outside “well-funded conservation groups” to become involved in our area?
The citizen groups at least ASK their members for the money to fight the good fight, and apparently are spending it wisely if we count results. I would call the citizen groups the “Davids” and the publicly funded corporate hacks “Goliath”, and it’s nice to see David win one, once in a while.
Coalition Appeals Massive Dredging Permit for Coos Bay that Paves the Way for Export of Liquefied Natural Gas and Coal Permit opens the door to dirty and dangerous fossil fuel exports in Oregon Coos Bay, OR – A coalition of citizen groups today filed an appeal of the Oregon Department of State Lands’ decision to [...]
Books-on-the-Bay this Saturday January 14 at 1 PM. Join the author Wim de Vriend for a question and answer session about the history of the Port of Coos Bay and The JOB Messiahs who have squandered millions of dollars in the name of job creation.
Because the Port is an expert in both port facilities and economic development, its determination of need should be relied upon by DSL. In fact, the Removal/Fill Statute specifically authorizes DSL to rely on the Port’s determination of need and benefit. The statute provides that “when the applicant for a permit is a public body, [DSL] may accept and rely upon the public body’s findings as to local public need and local public benefit.”
As 2012 begins lets hope for a healthy collection of new candidates running for local office and for a growing coalition of labor and environmentalists to put together a sustainable jobs plan for Coos County that doesn’t require federal permitting or eminent domain or tearing up the countryside. This will happen… keep watching.
just received my copy yesterday I have barely scratched the surface but I can attest it is well written, beautifully illustrated and engaging and belies the local myth that “if you build it, they will come”, so commonly employed by the economic development crowd. De Vriend’s effort is a vivid reminder of the past promotional schemes, eerily similar to those we see today, like a coal export terminal in the eighties promising JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, and proudly trumpeted by the local press.
Coos County can do better than to try to mire itself in a finite and dirty 19th century industry while the rest of the planet moves into a sustainable and renewable future.
According to Richard Haynes, a consulting natural resource economist formerly with the US Forest Service, as a rule of thumb, there are about five milling jobs for every million board feet of logs manufactured domestically, while there is only one job exporting those same logs.
As the global revolution continues to gain momentum, it seems that Japanese Doro-Chiba railway workers are throwing their hats into the mix.
Wow, the Port and local economic development blow through $300 million since 2003 in the name of job creation and unemployment still increases by 50% and they want to investigate the local food bank.
The World reported that departing Port of Coos Bay CEO, Jeff Bishop, was taking a job with Blanchard, Oklahoma for family reasons and that his annual salary had been $151K+ with no mention of benefits. According to the City of Blanchard…
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