Comment of David Daniel/The Jeanne Littlefield Daniel Trust in Docket(s)/Project(s) CP15-93-000 Submission Date: 12/3/2015
12/02/2015Jody McCaffree Individual / Executive Director Citizens Against LNG PO Box 1113 North Bend, OR 97459 December 12, 2015 Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 888 First Street NE, Room 1A Washington, DC 20426 RE: Jordan Cove Energy Project, L.P. Docket No. CP13-483-000 and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, L.P. Docket No. CP13-492-000. Dear Secretary Bose: Please accept the following comments into the record of the Jordan Cove Energy Project, L.P. (JCEP) and the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, L.P. (PCGP). The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) should carefully consider the issues raised below and also those that have been raised in previous comments before they make their final decision on the Jordan Cove LNG Export Project. LNG EXPORT AND THE INTERNATIONAL GAS MARKET The Commission has stated that it will base its Final Decision and Order on technical competence, financing, rates, market demand, gas supply, environmental impact, long-term feasibility, and other issues concerning the proposed project. Under Appendix W of the Jordan Cove Final EIS, on page W-39, FERC stated the following in response to our comments: CO39-12: This EIS analyses the application submitted to FERC to build an export terminal and associated pipeline. The project would transport natural gas from Merlin to Jordan Cove, convert it to LNG and export it on ships. See the project objectives in Chapter 1. Other projects that might be considered alternatives to this project are addressed in Chapter 3, including Canadian projects (see table 3.2.2.4-1 and section 3.2.2.4). Projects that could be considered alternatives, and that are under FERCs jurisdiction, such as the Oregon LNG project, are analyzed in a separate EIS. FERC may approve one or both project. If both are approved, FERC would let the market decide if either one or both are built. It does not pick winners and losers, it lets the market decide. (Emphasis added) CALNG/McCaffree 12-12-2015 Comment Page | 1 Currently multiple financial and gas industry reports are stating that projects like Jordan Cove are no longer viable due to a glut of LNG in the market that is predicted to be in effect for many years to come. On October 9, 2015, the Natural Gas Intelligence reported the following in an article by Richard Nemec titled, West Coast LNG Export Projects Doubtful in Current Environment, Analysts Say1: (See Exhibit 3) In the current oversupplied global energy market, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal on the U.S. ...