{crossposted to Mossback Farm}

It's been popping up lately in the news here, but the proponents of some of these projects have been desperately trying to keep a lid on them.  So, here's my brief take on the 2 proposed natural gas pipelines in Western Oregon (with the attendant LNG terminal).

Oregon LNGand Palomar are two energy companies that are taking advantage of a ruling by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that cuts out local input into the siting of these facilities. Welcome to democracy.

There's a host of reasons that this is a bad idea for our area....I won't go into all of them, but briefly, Oregon's natural gas consumption is declining, pipelines are an undefendable terrorist magnet, and I watched Syriana.