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The Jordan Cove Project has kind of flown under the radar but now is crunch time. We need all your comments to deny the permits needed for this project. This is a bad idea in every way. There is a huge potential impact to our native fishery watersheds in Southern Oregon if this goes through.
Below is a sample letter that can be used that covers the basics. Also listed is the three agencies that these letters should be sent to.
Thanks for all your help!
Protect Southwest Oregon’s Rivers From Fracked Gas Export
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) are currently asking for public comments regarding the impacts of a proposed gas export terminal and pipeline across the salmon watersheds of southwest Oregon. Both agencies are responsible for evaluating required Clean Water Act permits and protecting our public waterways. If these permits are denied the Jordan Cove project is dead in the water. Now is the time to let the agencies know you value clean water more than dirty energy and to deny these permits!
These permits deal with the proposed 230-mile pipeline to transport fracked gas from Malin to Coos Bay, through the watersheds of the Klamath, Rogue, Umpqua, Coquille and Coos Rivers. The project would involve a 36” pipeline crossing 400 different waterways, clearing important streamside forests and dumping sediments into clear water streams. Additionally the terminal site would require extensive new dredging in the sensitive estuary of Coos Bay. All told this would result in 5.8 million cubic yards of fill dumped into salmon strongholds throughout southwest Oregon.
TAKE ACTION: Send a letter to DEQ and the Corps describing how you consider the project not in the best interests of the public, and your concerns that the project would harm water quality and salmon habitat. Your voice matters and now is the time!
Please personalize your letter and let the agencies know how you personally value clean water and salmon, or how this project would affect you and your quality of life.
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) are currently asking for public comments regarding the impacts of a proposed gas export terminal and pipeline across the salmon watersheds of southwest Oregon. Both agencies are responsible for evaluating required Clean Water Act permits and protecting our public waterways. If these permits are denied the Jordan Cove project is dead in the water. Now is the time to let the agencies know you value clean water more than dirty energy and to deny these permits!
These permits deal with the proposed 230-mile pipeline to transport fracked gas from Malin to Coos Bay, through the watersheds of the Klamath, Rogue, Umpqua, Coquille and Coos Rivers. The project would involve a 36” pipeline crossing 400 different waterways, clearing important streamside forests and dumping sediments into clear water streams. Additionally the terminal site would require extensive new dredging in the sensitive estuary of Coos Bay. All told this would result in 5.8 million cubic yards of fill dumped into salmon strongholds throughout southwest Oregon.
TAKE ACTION: Send a letter to DEQ and the Corps describing how you consider the project not in the best interests of the public, and your concerns that the project would harm water quality and salmon habitat. Your voice matters and now is the time!
Please personalize your letter and let the agencies know how you personally value clean water and salmon, or how this project would affect you and your quality of life.
Sample letter
Letters should go to these three:
Army Corps - NWP-2012-441@usace.army.mil
DLCD - coast.permits@state.or.us
Please deny certification or permits for Jordan Cove and Pacific Connector NWP-2012-441
Dear Governor Kitzhaber, Director Pedersen, Director Rue, and Colonel Aguilar,
I
urge you to deny all permits or certifications for the proposed Jordan
Cove LNG export project and associated 230-mile pipeline
(NWP-2012-441).
Salmon
are an iconic part of the Pacific Northwest and an important part of
our regional economy. The proposed more than 5.7 million
cubic yards of fill into 400 waterways throughout southwest Oregon
would harm the habitat these fish depend on. The threatened watersheds,
including the Klamath, Rogue, Umpqua, Coquille and Coos Rivers are known
for their salmon and steelhead fishing throughout
Oregon and the US.
Salmon
depend on clean cold water, and many areas of southwest Oregon already
face problems with warming waters and sediment. In
fact, substantial money is spent by state, federal and private entities
to restore clean water and improve salmon habitat throughout the
region. Dumping fill into our streams and removing important streamside
forests to make way for a gas pipeline would not
only make conditions worse in these important watersheds, but would
squander the public investment in salmon restoration.
The
extraction, transport and eventual burning of fracked gas cannot be
considered a bridge fuel. The gas in question – methane
– is 86 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and
recent studies from Stanford to NASA point to the lifecycle of gas being
as bad for the climate as coal. Once Boardman coal plant shuts down in
2020 the Jordan Cove project would be the
single largest greenhouse gas source in the state of Oregon, if we
allow it. Exporting gas to new markets would accelerate fracking in the
Rockies and would damage the State’s efforts to halt climate change.
The
pipeline route threatens 300 Oregon landowners with eminent domain –
the condemnation and theft of their property – for the
exclusive benefit of a Canadian gas company. Not only would their land
be possessed, but lower pipeline safety standards in rural areas raise
the risk of accidents for a pipeline company that has seen three
explosions on their gas lines this year alone. Landowners
and rural emergency responders are simply not equipped for the risk of
any accident or intentional attack on a pipeline or facility involving
more than 1 billion cubic feet of gas per day.
Finally,
the U.S. Energy Information Administration tells us that exporting gas
and bringing American consumers into competition
with the world market for this gas would raise rates in Oregon and
throughout the U.S. Higher gas prices would harm ratepayers and domestic
manufacturing, shipping more jobs overseas.
This
project would harm Oregon’s clean water and the people and species that
depend on it. It is clearly not in the public interest,
and I urge you to protect the people and watersheds of Oregon from
exploitation by denying all permits and certifications that your
agencies are evaluating.
Thank you.
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