Stop Jordan Cove

Our next big fight with Trump and his fossil fuel cronies is coming to a head this week in Oregon.

Jordan Cove is a proposed gas terminal in Oregon that would be responsible for more than 36 million tons of global warming pollution. It would be fed by the Pacific Connector pipeline, which will require a 95-foot-wide clear-cut through southwest Oregon’s forests and farms.

In May the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) pipeline denied the Clean Water Act permit for this dirty and dangerous project. But that’s exactly the kind of state permit that Trump hopes to overrule with his pro-pipeline executive orders. Trump’s executive order is only triggered if a federal agency says yes after a state agency has said no, and that brings us back to, you guessed it, FERC (the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission).

FERC is reviewing Jordan Cove now, and their comment period closes this week. We’ve got a plan to deliver all the signatures on this petition at their next meeting in DC. Can you sign on now to say you oppose Jordan Cove and all fracked gas infrastructure?

It’s a showdown in the Pacific Northwest between our movement to stop fossil fuels and climate change, and the Trump team and their dirty power grab. But this isn’t event the first time – Jordan cove has been proposed two other times, in 2005 and 2013, and we’ve defeated it before. That’s how we know we can win.

And we have to win: Jordan Cove and the connected Pacific Connector Pipeline would cut through private and public lands — including traditional hunting and fishing areas important to local tribes. All to deliver fracked gas, a global warming pollutant up to 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide, for export.

But even elected officials like Governor Brown, Congressman Defazio and Senator Ron Wyden, who claim to believe in climate science and support a Green New Deal, have been slow to come out against Jordan Cove. These are the things that give us trust issues and led us to run whole campaigns critiquing the Green New Deal RESOLUTION for not saying the words “fossil fuels”, “Pipelines” or “exports”.

The IPCC and the Trump Administration’s own National Climate Assessment give us less than 12 years to make massive changes in our economy and energy sector before we face devastating and irreversible climate chaos.
Politicians at FERC and in Congress need to act now on a Green New Deal that invests in renewable energy and puts communities on the front lines of environmental destruction at the center of the solutions. There isn’t a moment to waste on Jordan Cove and other gas export terminals and pipelines, as we’ve been telling them for months.

Now, it’s time for our leaders to choose. Jordan Cove and the Pacific Connector would be a climate disaster. Sign now to tell FERC to #StopJordanCove and all LNG exports.

Trump appointees at FERC are reviewing Jordan Cove’s application now. They’ve already held public hearings across Oregon, which mostly tried to ignore the overwhelming public opposition. That same blind ignorance has led them to approve several new gas export facilities in the last few weeks and is why acting FERC chair Neal Chatterjee expressed enthusiastic support when the Trump Administration’s touted gas exports as #freedomgas.

And if FERC rules against Oregon’s communities, tribes and climate they can use eminent domain enforced by armed federal marshals to seize Oregon Tribes’ and landowners’ property.

This is a dangerous moment – and our elected officials, including our senators and members of Congress, need to stand up to Trump and his fossil fuel agenda. Sign now to make sure they get the message and say NO to Jordan Cove and the Pacific Connector Pipeline NOW.

6 Comments

  1. Barbara Nettesheim

    It is a very sad thing that in so many years of the knowledge
    about fracking that we still need to fight to get it stopped. Poor earth and poor children and grandchildren and their offspring!
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  2. Barbara Nettesheim

    No fracking ANYWHERE IN THE US!!!!!

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  4. The coal trains running through Montana to Oregon are relentless. We must say NO to the Jordan Cover export terminal if we want to reverse this horrific trend in extraction and burning of coal. Our Earth is at stake.

  5. Naomi Myrvaagnes

    A big NO to the Jordan Cove export terminal. The U.S. needs to put its money and efforts into converting to renewable energy . No more destruction of natural environment in the name of “energy.”

    • Fossil fuels must be replaced. The revenge of the dinosaurs could be the destruction of our atmosphere so every step to curtail the use of prehistoric energy is absolutely necessary. Twelve years is a short deadline.