[Occupymendocino] Fw: [mendonodaplsolidarity] Fw: Pacific Connector Pipeline Overview

[Ann Rennacker]

I signed a petition against this pipeline online, but cannot remember what org put up the link.  This is the dirty bitumen tar sands oil, which is really difficult to clean up and burns much dirtier than any other source of oil/gas. It is the type of oil that Richmond, Ca refineries are opposing due to the diseases it causes in residents near refineries.  Ann


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In a fight with some striking parallels to the Dakota Access pipeline struggle, a coalition of indigenous and non-indigenous activists in Southern Oregon and Northern California are campaigning to stop a 232-mile pipeline that would transport fracked natural gas from Wyoming/Colorado to a Coos Bay, OR terminal, where it would be cooled into a liquid form and exported on giant tanker ships to Asia.

The pipeline would pass under five major rivers, including the Klamath River, which of course is one of California's largest waterways and the home of this state's largest remaining wild Chinook salmon and Green sturgeon populations and several indigenous nations.  The terrain is rugged and mountainous, and people fear harmful leaks and spills.

PG&E is a former partner in the pipeline and terminal (known as the Jordan Cove terminal), although they divested from it a few years ago. However the Pacific Connector Pipeline would basically be an extension of a 680-mile pipeline that is the second biggest source of natural gas to Northern California power plants.  PG&E co-owns this pipeline, known as the Ruby Pipeline, which was completed in 2011 and brings fracked gas from Wyoming to Malin, OR (located on the CA border).

The Pacific Connector Pipeline would connect with the Ruby Pipeline at Malin, completing what I am fairly sure is the first-ever fossil fuel pipeline from the Rocky Mountains to the US Pacific Coast.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission denied the Houston- and Calgary-based companies trying to build the pipeline a permit in Dec. 2016, but they gained authorization to re-submit the permit on Feb. 15th, and with the Trump administration in power, it could be approved this time. Several groups in Southern Oregon and Northern California, including many indigenous people, are rallying against this.
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