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Coos County Will Hold Hearing on Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline Developers of the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline have completed a land-use application for the project, to be built in conjunction with the proposed Jordan Cove LNG terminal, and county planners say a hearing will likely be scheduled for the end of May.
FERC approved the LNG terminal project in December, but county commissioners hired a hearings officer who will make a recommendation regarding whether the pipeline project meets the county’s land-use criteria. Developers are paying for the costs of the hearing, according to TheWorld.com.
In 2007, when Jordan Cove Energy Project applied for a permit to construct the associated LNG terminal, the state Land Use Board of Appeals remanded several issues back to the county. Those issues were resolved in September of 2009, and the FERC approved the terminal and pipeline in December.
Commissioners in neighboring Douglas County approved a land-use application for the pipeline in December and that approval has been appealed to LUBA. Two other counties that don’t include lands in Coastal Zone Management Areas will not hold public hearings because they are permitted to accept FERC’s decision without doing so.
Developers are concurrently seeking contracts with energy companies while pursuing various state and federal permits for the project. The pipeline would cross approximately 45 miles of Coos County. Developers will need signatures from as many property owners as possible to support their application to the Division of State Lands for a permit to begin pipeline excavation and have been contacting landowners around the proposed route over the last several weeks. |
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