Post by Admin on Mar 22, 2019 3:31:14 GMT
March 21, 2019
Coos Bay Planning Commission
Re: 187018000153-PLNG-01 Jordan Cove Energy Project
Good evening to the citizens of Coos Bay. Our comments will be brief.
The Clam Diggers Association of Oregon is opposed to the building and operation of the LNG export facility at Jordan Cove for very good reasons.
The most important environmental benefit of Coos Bay is the ecological productivity of this estuary. Things like eel grass matter to a healthy bay ecology.
Construction and the day to day operation of the LNG facility will minimize the contribution that robust thriving tidal flats provide for the life cycles of the marine organisms that inhabit the bay. These include: Shellfish, Chinook, Coho, Steelhead, Dungeness and Red Rock Crab plus numerous rock and near shore fish.
Even whales and porpoises visit our bays. Numerous sea and shore birds also live in Coos Bay. Our sand and mud shrimp stocks will be harmed if construction is allowed to remove the mud flats. These shrimp are part of the food web that feeds our fisheries and other wildlife. Coos Bay sand shrimp are some of the last remaining healthy stocks in Oregon and deserve protection from habitat loss.
The scope and nature of the LNG facility requires the State to mitigate the loss of recreational opportunity. The State’s remedy falls short of achieving mitigation for loss of recreational opportunity. Exchanging the loss of recreational opportunities associated for the conversion to the public property at Kentuck Golf Course does not meet the test of Mitigation. The State cannot exchange one public property for another public property. The State forced this mitigation remedy upon us without stakeholders at the table.
Will recreational boating be allowed when LNG tankers are entering or leaving Coos Bay?
In a one year period, Pembina has paid out $150,000 dollars to our elected representatives. How can the public have faith in elected representatives that accept campaign contributions that amount to nothing more than a legalized bribe for influence by a foreign country?
The planning commission should not allow Pembina to end run our current zoning regulations that protect Coos Bay.
Thank you,
William Lackner President Clam Diggers Association of Oregon
Coos Bay Planning Commission
Re: 187018000153-PLNG-01 Jordan Cove Energy Project
Good evening to the citizens of Coos Bay. Our comments will be brief.
The Clam Diggers Association of Oregon is opposed to the building and operation of the LNG export facility at Jordan Cove for very good reasons.
The most important environmental benefit of Coos Bay is the ecological productivity of this estuary. Things like eel grass matter to a healthy bay ecology.
Construction and the day to day operation of the LNG facility will minimize the contribution that robust thriving tidal flats provide for the life cycles of the marine organisms that inhabit the bay. These include: Shellfish, Chinook, Coho, Steelhead, Dungeness and Red Rock Crab plus numerous rock and near shore fish.
Even whales and porpoises visit our bays. Numerous sea and shore birds also live in Coos Bay. Our sand and mud shrimp stocks will be harmed if construction is allowed to remove the mud flats. These shrimp are part of the food web that feeds our fisheries and other wildlife. Coos Bay sand shrimp are some of the last remaining healthy stocks in Oregon and deserve protection from habitat loss.
The scope and nature of the LNG facility requires the State to mitigate the loss of recreational opportunity. The State’s remedy falls short of achieving mitigation for loss of recreational opportunity. Exchanging the loss of recreational opportunities associated for the conversion to the public property at Kentuck Golf Course does not meet the test of Mitigation. The State cannot exchange one public property for another public property. The State forced this mitigation remedy upon us without stakeholders at the table.
Will recreational boating be allowed when LNG tankers are entering or leaving Coos Bay?
In a one year period, Pembina has paid out $150,000 dollars to our elected representatives. How can the public have faith in elected representatives that accept campaign contributions that amount to nothing more than a legalized bribe for influence by a foreign country?
The planning commission should not allow Pembina to end run our current zoning regulations that protect Coos Bay.
Thank you,
William Lackner President Clam Diggers Association of Oregon
