Send a comment to Oregon Department of State Lands to Stop Jordan Cove!

Building the Jordan Cove LNG export facility and the Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline is the wrong direction for our safety, rivers, and climate.

I strongly oppose the Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Pacific Connector Pipeline proposed project (DSL Application Number APP0060697) and request that the Oregon Department of State Lands (DSL) deny the removal-fill permit because the proposed activities would likely harm Oregon’s water resources, fishing, navigation, and public recreation as well as increase risks to public health and safety.

Construction of the LNG export terminal and the 229-mile pipeline would impact more than 485 rivers and streams, including the Klamath, Rogue, Umpqua, Coos, and Coquille Rivers. At each place where the 36-inch pipeline crosses waterways, the construction will harm habitat for fish and pollute clean water. The project would also require dredging out and fundamentally re-shaping the Coos Bay estuary.

Construction of the Jordan Cove LNG terminal and pipeline will harm clean water, fishing, navigation, and public recreation by:

--Cutting down streamside trees, resulting in warmer stream temperatures that harm fish; --Disturbing and re-suspending toxic materials in and around waterways;

--Permanently destroying wetlands;

--Potentially releasing drilling chemicals and other contaminants into rivers and streams;

--Crossing the rivers and streams that are the drinking water source for 12 public drinking water systems and more than 116,000 Oregonians;

--Fundamentally altering the Coos Bay estuary, increasing murkiness and degrading habitat for salmon and shellfish, like oysters and clams;

--Modifying the navigation channel at Coos Bay that would interfere with the ability of the public to access these areas for fishing and recreation; and

--Increasing ship traffic in the navigation channel that could increase invasive species released through ballast or engine cooling water.

Oregon DSL should deny the removal-fill permit because Jordan Cove has failed to demonstrate that the project is consistent with the protection, conservation, and best use of Oregon’s waterways.

Further, Oregon DSL should deny the removal-fill permit because Jordan Cove LNG has failed to demonstrate that the project will not interfere with public health and safety. Dredging out Coos Bay will allow more water to move more quickly in the event of a tsunami, increasing risks to local communities. The export terminal would put thousands of Coos County residents in a hazardous burn zone, while the gas pipeline would cross some of Oregon’s most fire-prone forests.

I strongly oppose this project and the Oregon Department of State Lands should deny Jordan Cove's removal-fill permit application.