COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) — Missed deadlines for permits for the development of a major West Coast liquified natural gas pipeline and export terminal are adding to questions about whether the project will go forward.

Jefferson Public Radio reports the environmental nonprofit Rogue Climate issued a statement saying the Jordan Cove Energy Project backed by Canadian energy company Pembina has missed four land-use permit deadlines this summer, the most recent of which expired Aug. 11.

A Medford attorney who has represented pipeline opponents, Tonia Moro, said it leads them to possibly interpret that they’re moving away from this project altogether.

A spokesperson for the energy company did not respond to a request for comment.

Moro said reapplying for these permits would be a significant step back in the regulatory process.

“By giving up these permits they’re giving up quite an investment into the regulatory process itself,” she says.

In April Pembina said in a federal appeals court filing in Washington, D.C., that it was “pausing” the gas export project as well as the pipeline.

Jordan Cove would be the first such LNG overseas export terminal in the lower 48 states. The proposed 230-mile feeder pipeline would begin in Malin, in southwest Oregon, and end at the city of Coos Bay on the rural Oregon coast, crossing through four southern Oregon counties.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s Department of Land Conservation and Development says a proposed liquefied natural gas export terminal in Coos Bay would have significant adverse effects on the state’s coastal scenic and aesthetic resources, endangered species and critical habitat.

The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that in to backers of the Jordan Cove Energy Project, agency director Jim Rue said that neither the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission nor the Army Corps of Engineers “can grant a license or permit for this project unless the U.S. Secretary of Commerce overrides this objection on appeal.

The decision on one of the key state permits for the project is a rebuke that comes just before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is scheduled to issue a final environmental analysis on the project, approving or denying its primary federal license. The Trump Administration is a supporter of energy export projects in general, and Jordan Cove in particular.

The proposed natural gas terminal and a 230-mile (370-kilometer) feeder pipeline would permit shipment of natural gas from the United States and Canada to Asia and would be the West Coast’s first liquefied natural gas export terminal.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has already denied a water quality certification for the Jordan Cove natural gas export project proposed by Pembina, the Canadian energy company. Pembina withdrew its application for a different state permit and said that it awaits a final determination by the federal commission. Its three current members were all appointed by Trump.

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The yearslong battle over the Jordan Cove Energy Project is heating up as the federal agency overseeing the proposed $10 billion pipeline and terminal pushes to complete a final environmental review.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is working quickly to finish the final environmental impact statement for the project this fall. Federal agencies and other interested parties have submitted comments – some critical – to inform the impact statement.

FERC intends to issue the notice of availability for the final EIS on Oct. 11, and a final order on Jan. 9, 2020.

Meanwhile, more than 100 local residents and environmental activists last week filled a City Council meeting last week to debate a key request for land use approval needed to dredge in a Coos Bay estuary zone.

For Canadian corporation Pembina, the pipeline would provide a route to market for North America’s booming natural gas fields. The proposal has been the subject of debate for more than a decade – long enough for the planned terminal to go from an import terminal to an export terminal, as the business case shifted to sending liquefied natural gas to Asian markets.

The Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline would stretch approximately 229 miles beginning at an interconnector near Malin, in southeastern Oregon, across land owned by the Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, Bureau of Reclamation and private landowners. But the debate is perhaps most pointed in Coos Bay, where massive ships would be loaded with liquefied natural gas for export abroad.

Pembina seeks permission to dredge in the bay, which would require a zoning change. The bay is dredged regularly to provide ocean access for the area’s commercial and recreational fishing fleets, but Pembina wants to dredge in a 3.3-acre estuary that is an important nursery for the South Coast’s crabbing industry.

A consultant hired by Coos Bay, the Lane Council of Governments, has recommended the City Council deny the land use change.

“It is almost impossible to overestimate the importance of this estuary as a nursery for Dungeness crabs,” said Michael Graybill, retired manager for the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Graybill said he recently pulled up crab pots that were teeming with hundreds of juvenile crabs. “Dredging the channel margins will kill tens to hundreds of thousands of crabs,” he told the council at the Aug. 27 meeting.

Jody McCaffree, who leads a group called Citizens Against LNG, said the terminal could threaten the area’s thriving recreational fishing industry. The Coos Bay area hosted 31,560 recreational boating trips annually, mostly tied to crabbing and fishing.

“We have a thriving adventure coast here dependent on our natural resources,” she said.

Local residents whose land the pipeline would cross have also been among the opponents.

“Even though we received a decent offer for a settlement on our property, we refused to sell out to Pembina,” said Clarence Adams, a resident of Winston, south of Roseburg. “To us, it’s about quality of life.”

Trade unions have been among the project’s steadfast supporters. Union leaders, port officials and other local boosters point to the economic benefits the project would bring to the coastal community, which has struggled to replace timber jobs.

“This is a project that could be potentially huge for this whole area of Oregon,” Ken Messerle, a former state senator from the Coos Bay area, told the City Council.

According to Pembina, the project would create 6,000 construction jobs at its peak and generate property tax revenues of $60 million a year to southern Oregon counties and $50 million to the state.

The council chose not to make a decision at its Aug. 27 meeting so that it could consider oral and written testimony submitted recently. The council is scheduled to again take up the matter on Jan. 21, 2020.

A lawyer representing Pembina said the public comments were lacking in substance.

“There were a lot of heartfelt statements,” said Steve Pfeiffer, a partner and land use attorney at Perkins Coie in Portland. “There’s definitely a lot of passion. There’s a lot of conclusions. But there’s a limited amount of evidence to back them up.”

Pembina must address a complex tangle of local, state and federal regulatory approvals before any construction can begin on Jordan Cove. While federal regulators have largely welcomed the project, Pembina has encountered obstacles at state and local levels.

By all accounts, FERC is moving quickly to accelerate federal approval. The draft EIS was largely favorable, and Pembina is anticipating approval in January, a spokesman said.

In July, FERC announced it would open a new LNG division, with regulators based in Washington, D.C., and Houston, signaling the federal government is open for such business. There are also signs the Trump administration is pushing for the project. The Guardian reported emails suggested Interior Secretary David Bernhardt had met with a Jordan Cove lobbyist and expressed support for the project. Bernhardt’s former lobbying firm, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, had lobbied for Jordan Cove, the newspaper reported.

Other federal agencies are involved because it crosses their land. The Bureau of Land Management, in a July 3 letter, stated it would enforce seasonal and daily timing restrictions near marbled murrelet stands and breeding restrictions for the northern spotted owl.

The BLM recommended FERC reconsider its finding of no significant cumulative impact to cultural resources. The agency also urged FERC study the project’s impact on housing in the Coos Bay area.

At the state level, Jordan Cove has encountered roadblocks. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality in May denied the project a needed water quality certificate. Jordan Cove is working with the agency to satisfy requirements in anticipation of reapplying for the water quality certificate this fall, Pembina spokesman Paul Vogel said.

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Bob Braddock is planning what he says will be the largest capital construction project in Oregon history – with a cost exceeding even Intel’s $4 billion D1X project in Hillsboro.

The $7.5 billion project involves construction of a liquefied natural gas export facility on a mile-long spit of land in Coos Bay. The effort to secure permits and federal authorization is complex, but Braddock, vice president and project manager of Jordan Cove – a limited partnership owned primarily by Canadian energy infrastructure company Veresen Inc. – said the process to create liquefied natural gas is much simpler.

“The innards in a refrigerator are very similar to this,” he said. “You just bring it down to much colder temperatures.”

At minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, natural gas becomes a liquid and 600 times denser than compressed gas, making transport more cost efficient. Jordan Cove hopes to capitalize on the glut of natural gas created by recent advancements in shale fracking technology and send it to Asian countries where demand is surging.

The permitting process may last another year or so, but if the project were to move forward, it could produce thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars for economically depressed Coos County. Meanwhile, opponents contend that the proposed site is seismically unsuitable and poses physical and financial risks to the community.

Jody McCaffree, executive director of a group called Citizens Against LNG, said the planned site is essentially a sand bar where dredging spoils have been stockpiled for years. She said it could be inundated by a major tsunami, and that a breach of the plant or a ship spill could result in a three-mile-wide explosion.

“It would be so hot it would melt steel at 1,200 feet,” she said. “What will hurt people is not the flame but the heat-flux level would be so hot that up to a mile away people would be at risk of receiving second degree burns in 30 seconds if they didn’t get to shelter.”

Braddock said the company has done extensive seismic modeling with Oregon Health and Sciences University’s Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction. Plans call for raising the entire site 20 feet on densely compacted sand to 40 feet above sea level. Sand, he said, does not liquefy in an earthquake.

Nevertheless, McCaffree, who operates an electrical company in North Bend, would prefer that the community invest in energy like wind power, which she believes is infinitely more sustainable. Elise Hamner, communications manager for the Port of Coos Bay, said the port is working on a wind power demonstration project, but added that it hinges on Jordan Cove’s participation.

Jordan Cove’s overall project envisions construction of a 230-mile-long pipeline to transport natural gas over the Cascade Mountains; a power plant to fuel the cooling process; two 150-foot-tall concrete tanks capable of processing 6 million metric tons of LNG; and a new marina.

Hamner said that Jordan Cove would cover 85 percent of the cost for the new terminal that would serve both LNG carriers and other commodity transporters. One company hopes to use that terminal to launch five energy-producing wind platforms in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 12 miles off of the Coos Bay coastline.

At 37 feet deep, the navigational channel can’t accommodate the massive buoys that would house the wind turbines. So, Jordan Cove also will help pay for a project to widen and deepen the channel.

Hamner said Jordan Cove has agreed to buy the energy produced by the turbines, and that greenhouse gas mitigation money from the energy project would be used to pay for the transmission lines that run between the buoys and the plant.

That project, which Hamner hopes to announce officially soon, won’t happen without Jordan Cove’s LNG project. She added that more researchers are looking at LNG as a possible alternative to diesel fuel for maritime vessels and that Jordan Cove could transform Coos Bay into a regional fueling hub.

LNG is a far greener option than other fossil fuels, she said.

“The reality is green power is expensive and to do it on a large enough scale that you can produce the power that society needs, it takes big projects,” Hamner said. “And they don’t always make money without having a public infusion of cash.

“The other issue is we have huge power demands in this country. We’re not going to switch (to green power) over night.”

Braddock said the terminal construction project alone could create 2,900 jobs at its peak; the pipeline would generate another 1,000. The eventual facility would rely on between 120 and 160 permanent employees. Development also would require construction of a regional safety center for emergency responders.

“It would make a significant impact,” said Terence O’Connor, North Bend city administrator, “especially if you say those (2,900) jobs come with other people attached that don’t work but are part of the family unit. You’re talking an interesting increase in population for this whole area.”

O’Connor said that in the 1970s, approximately 12 cargo ships would sail in and out of the port every month; today, few do. The LNG plant would introduce 90 ships to the bay each year.

But McCaffree has concerns. Jordan Cove in 2004 introduced the project as an import facility, but switched its plans in the wake of advances in fracking. McCaffree thinks that change is reckless.

“We need to change our mindset about what we’re doing so that jobs are sustainable,” she said. “Otherwise you’ve just got this boom and bust that’s going to hurt us in the end.”

Braddock said Jordan Cove is in final negotiations with two commercial candidates vying to operate the LNG facility for at least 20 years. Jordan Cove is seeking approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and Braddock hopes a go-ahead will be given by the end of 2013. Construction could start by 2014.

FERC recently requested clarification from Jordan Cove concerning 17 items in its proposal, including how the export terminal would withstand a seismic event and a related tsunami. Braddock said that answering such questions is part of the process.

“One does not build this on spec,” he said. “All the pieces have to be in place. It won’t be built until the permits are in place and our customer has signed the contract for a minimum of 20 years.”

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A company trying to build a liquefied natural-gas pipeline is taking its fight against Clatsop County to the next level.

The Oregon Court of Appeals has agreed to hear arguments from Oregon Pipeline Co. (Oregon LNG) against Clatsop County commissioners for allegedly flip-flopping, illegally, on a decision to permit the pipeline.

County commissioners approved the company’s application in 2010. However, the three members who approved the application were replaced in the November election. The new members reserved the decision.

Company executives went to circuit court in the hope of compelling the new commissioners to honor the original agreement. Executives cited a state law requiring local governments to decide “completed” applications within 150 days, unless the applicant agrees to an extension.

Not getting the answer they wanted in circuit court in June 2011, executives filed with the Court of Appeals.

County officials argue the new commissioners had authority to reconsider the previous approval. They add appeals of that position should properly go through the state Land Use Board of Appeals and not the court system.

The proposed 85-mile pipeline is designed to cross the Columbia River from Washington into Columbia and Clatsop counties before it ends in the city of Warrenton. Construction of the pipeline, not counting the terminal in Warrenton, is estimated to cost $487 million between 2014 and 2018. Critics have fought the project based on concerns about safety and uprooting property owners.

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today signed labor agreements with two union trade organizations indicating a “major milestone” for its proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in Warrenton, according to CEO Peter Hansen.

After years of regulatory wrangling, the agreements with the and the give project leaders confidence that the state and federal permits will go through.

Oregon LNG aims to begin construction in 2014. Construction costs are estimated at more than $6 billion, although the company is still finalizing the project scope, which may include LNG import, export or both.

Oregon LNG has been in discussions with union trade groups for more than a year leading up to today’s signoff, according to Hansen. The agreement is similar to a project labor agreement and establishes union bargaining rights to determine the wage rates and benefits. The agreement also prevents strikes and lockouts.

“I am very pleased that we have the support of the tens of thousands of union workers represented by these two labor organizations. It also represents our commitment to ensure we will be paying family-wage jobs with benefits to skilled workers right here in Oregon and Washington,” Hansen said in a written statement sent exclusively to the 91��Ƶ.

The company also announced today that it will provide special consideration to small Warrenton-based businesses to help them compete for sub-contracts on the project.

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Plans for a new energy facility in Clatsop County are reigniting a longstanding controversy between opponents of liquefied natural gas and those seeking economic development in the coastal region.

The struggle began when a huge LNG terminal was planned for a piece of land known as Bradwood Landing, which is zoned for marine industrial use. That project was halted last year, but another is developing.

Plans for the new facility are being developed by John Dunzer, an unpaid consultant to the property owner, Ken Leahy. The proposed alternative energy farm would be smaller and more energy efficient than the previous scheme, a $650 million LNG terminal proposed by Houston-based NorthernStar Natural Gas, according to Dunzer.

“It takes a lot of guts to try to push another project through that same community,” said Robert Grott, executive director of the Northwest Environmental Business Council. “That site is well suited for economic development, but I think LNG has gotten itself a bad name because of the former project attempt, and I don’t think the concerns will go away just because this project is smaller.”

NorthernStar proposed bringing giant LNG tankers 38 miles up the Columbia River, where the liquid gas would then be unloaded into two, 11-story storage tanks before being processed, and piped throughout the Pacific Northwest. After investing $100 million and years of regulatory work, NorthernStar ultimately went bankrupt and suspended its efforts at Bradwood Landing in May 2010.

“Our plan obviously replaces the project that was driven into bankruptcy by a lot of environmentalists and state officials over the last six years,” Dunzer said. “Ours is quite different than the original facility, though, which was designed to be a regional supplier of natural gas and involved large ships and large pipelines.”

Construction of the planned 55-acre facility would cost approximately $200 million.

Dunzer used the studies conducted by NorthernStar, which are now public record, to aid his research for the new facility. For example, the proposed tanks would be one-third the size of NorthernStar’s, small enough to fit in the Columbia River without dredging, with a capacity of 87,000 cubic meters of LNG.

“I wouldn’t be able to do this if not for fact that the original sponsor dumped millions of dollars doing environmental work and studies on this site before going bankrupt,” Dunzer said. “They never even really got to first base; we’re further along than they were after spending all of that money.”

After conversion of the LNG into natural gas, most of it would be transported to the Oregon community of Mist, or Port Westward via 11 miles of pipes.

The energy farm would not operate solely as an LNG plant, however. The plant also would harvest cold energy that is a byproduct of the extremely low temperatures used for transport of LNG. The cold energy would then be used in cryogenic carbon capture, a process that would freeze carbon dioxide coming out of LNG pipes so that it could then be transported.

“There’s a lot of energy to be saved in every process we have,” Dunzer said, “whether it be lightbulbs or window design, or this source of tremendous cold energy – if you harvest it, you can recover enough energy to operate a mill.”

Dunzer hopes to work with Air Products and Chemicals Inc., an industrial gas supplier based in Pennsylvania, to develop the cryogenic technology on the site.

Although the plans for the facility are relatively detailed, a formal application has not been submitted to Clatsop County commissioners.

Dunzer and Leahy met with Clatsop County staffers in a pre-application meeting on June 21 to discuss the project and tentative site plan. Staffers presented a matrix of the permits and procedures required for the proposed project. The matrix includes two hearings and public review, but Dunzer is hoping to circumvent the process.

“Our strategy is to get everything to be absolutely permitted in a way that is not appealable by people like Columbia Riverkeepers,” he said. “We can’t afford to have them appeal everything.”

While Dunzer believes the project can be permitted in a way that requires only staff review, the county does not, Clatsop County Manager Duane Cole said.

The next steps remain unclear, but the community that united against NorthernStar is ready to oppose another facility if plans continue to move forward.

“If they actually file for something, of course we’ll be there to object,” said Dan Serres, conservation director of Columbia Riverkeeper. “The people of Clatsop County have been very clear that they don’t want to see Bradwood developed in that way – it’s incompatible with the community, the surrounding environment and the river.”

The proposed project has received a letter of support from the Port of Astoria, however, based on the job opportunities that the facility would bring.

“I hope public opinion will change,” said Jack Crider, executive director of the Port of Astoria. “It really seems to be a better fit – it’s less intrusive … and it would bring economic improvement to Astoria, which is important to us.”

Crider’s expectation is that the facility would bring 30 full-time, family-wage jobs in its initial stages, and also stimulate job creation in trucking, timber and other supporting industries.

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the Federal Energy Regulator Committee’s permits to build a liquefied natural gas facility at Bradwood Landing between Astoria and Clatskanie on the Columbia River.

The court’s invalidated permits to build the facility and a pipeline, which would have been built by NorthernStar Natural Gas.

The court cited a few reasons for pulling the licenses, not the least of which was that the company filed for bankruptcy on May 4, 2010 and NorthernStar’s FERC permits for the pipeline were not deemed transferable to other parties interested in developing it.

The company’s permits for the facility were potentially transferable, but because the facility was integrated with the pipeline, transferring them would likely raise other legal questions, the court said.

BL Credit Holdings LLC had purchased all permits and intellectual property for the Bradwood site at an auction on November 5, 2010.

The state of Oregon had argued against the permits because the company didn’t have proper state and local licensing before the FERC permits were approved.

Washington State had also denied requests to certify the site under the Clean Water Act.

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2009 U.S. natural gas market

Percentage of total U.S. consumption, imported natural gas: 12 percent

Percentage of total U.S. consumption, liquefied natural gas: less than 2 percent

Percentage decline in import and export prices between 2008 and 2009: 50 percent

Statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration

A liquefied natural gas import project proposed in Coos County is moving forward, despite opposition from environmental groups and the community.

The Oregon Department of State Lands is now accepting public comment on an application by the Port of Coos Bay for a slip dock to accommodate the proposed Jordan Cove LNG terminal. While Jordan Cove’s developers say the time has never been better for the Oregon Coast to make economic gains from the natural gas market, opponents say the market for natural gas is shrinking, not growing.

The Jordan Cove project would include construction of an LNG import and storage facility with 320,000 cubic meters of capacity at the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay. Also, the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, 36-inch-diameter piping that would extend 234 miles from Coos Bay to Malin, would be tied to the terminal project.

So far, the project has been fraught with conflicts between anti-LNG groups, developers and government officials. The state of Oregon and a coalition of opponents in December 2009 requested a rehearing of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decision to issue permits for Jordan Cove and its associated pipeline; FERC has yet to respond to that request, however, according to Monica Vaughan, an organizer with both Pacific Environment and Friends of Living Oregon Waters.

In addition, a Delaware company, Pacific Connector, announced a lawsuit against the state of Oregon in September 2010. The pipeline developer claims the state is willfully blocking pipeline construction by requiring written consent from 220 landowners along the pipeline’s route before considering whether to issue wetland permits for the project.

“The terminal is pretty much done, but the pipeline still has some permits that need approvals,” said Bob Braddock, vice president and project manager for Jordan Cove. “We’re out of the period where there is uncertainty in the outcome of whether we’ll get permits. The uncertainty now is when as opposed to whether.”

Community opposition to the Coos Bay terminal has been widespread, Vaughan said, because of environmental, energy and economic reasons. There have been drastic declines in prices, consumption and importation of natural gas in recent years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In 2009, net U.S. imports of natural gas were the fewest since 1994 and U.S. consumption declined. Plus, the U.S. is now the world’s largest producer of natural gas.

“I think it is pretty clear there is no way this project could be profitable as an importation facility,” Vaughan said. “All LNG projects in the U.S. that were sitting idle are now asking for certification to export. I can only speculate (Jordan Cove developers) have different intentions for the facility once they receive all of their certifications.”

Jordan Cove developers agree that the growing U.S. production changes the economics of the project, and that it’s highly unlikely any terminal in North America will receive new imports of liquefied natural gas daily. But Braddock said that doesn’t eliminate the potential need to provide opportunistic deliveries of gas.

“If a cargo ship carrying LNG is turned away because a tank in Japan is filled, the only place in the world with the infrastructure to take any gas you throw at it is North America,” Braddock said. “From a buyer standpoint, you can always sell it, and that will do a lot to push the price of gas down.”

Comments on the Port of Coos Bay’s Jordan Cove slip dock are being accepted through Feb. 12, and Vaughan is encouraging the community to speak out against the facility.

Meanwhile, Oregon LNG’s proposal to build a liquefied natural gas import facility near Warrenton faced a major setback earlier this month when Clatsop County commissioners opted to withdraw a prior decision approving land-use permits.

Environmental groups hope that Clatsop County will take a harder look at Oregon LNG this time around, according to Brett VandenHeuvel, executive director of Columbia Riverkeeper. A public hearing on the facility is scheduled for March.

“There is a lot of opposition for both Oregon LNG and Jordan Cove,” VandenHeuvel said. “It is prudent to consider whether these projects comply with the law, and whether they are appropriate.”

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Liquefied natural gas is natural gas that has been converted to liquid form to ease transportation and storage. It produces less pollution, and is used for electricity, as well as to power certain vehicles. The following LNG facilities are proposed in Oregon:

Bradwood Landing

Description: NorthernStar Natural Gas has proposed an LNG receiving terminal on 55 acres between Astoria and Clatskanie on the Columbia River. It is designed to have a peak send-out capacity of 1.3 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day.

Status: An Endangered Species Act consultation is taking place with the National Marine Fisheries Services and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The consultation will be completed by March 8. The project previously received its FERC certificate order in September 2008 and already received land-use approval from Clatsop County. The state of Oregon has appealed FERC’s decision to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Jordan Cove

Description: An LNG import terminal in the International Port of Coos Bay is designed to import and transport 1 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. The Pacific Connector project would connect the new facility to the Northwest Pipeline near Myrtle Creek, Avista Corp.’s distribution system near Shady Cove, as well as Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s gas transmission system, Tuscarora Gas Transmission’s system, and Gas Transmission Northwest’s system, all located near Malin.

Status: FERC in December 2009 issued a certificate order approving an application to construct and operate the pipeline and Jordan Cove terminal. The state of Oregon on Tuesday requested that FERC reconsider its decision. If FERC ignores the request, the state will appeal the decision to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Oregon LNG

Description: An LNG import facility located on the Skipanon Peninsula in Warrenton is designed to include a marine receiving terminal, three full-containment 160,000-cubic-meter LNG storage tanks and facilities to support ship berthing and cargo offloading. A 120-mile pipeline, which would connect to the regional pipeline hub in Molalla, is included.

Status: The project has completed most of the local land-use processes and is awaiting a certificate from FERC approving construction of the facility.

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