The state government of Oregon (United States) has denied permits to the Jordan Cove LNG project on the basis of environmental consideration. Only the US Secretary of Commerce can overturn this choice. In addition, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which was due to issue a final environmental analysis on the project, approving or denying its primary federal licence, has postponed its decision.
In September 2017, the LNG project developer Veresen (now Pembina Pipeline) filed two applications with the FERC for the Jordan Cove Energy Project (Jordan Cove LNG) and the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline project. The two projects entail the construction and the operation of a 7.8 Mt/year LNG export terminal in Coos Bay, Oregon, and the related Pacific Connector that will transport natural gas from the Malin Hub in southern Oregon to the LNG export terminal.
In 2016, the FERC rejected the permit application for the 10.3 bcm/year Pacific Connector gas pipeline project, considering that the adverse impacts of the proposed gas pipeline project would outweigh the public benefits of the Pacific Connector Pipeline. Consequently, Pembina Pipeline withdrew its application to build an adjacent 420 MW power plant, thus reducing the infrastructure footprint, and filed a new application for the LNG project, whose capacity was raised from 6 Mt/year to 7.8 Mt/year. It was rejected by the FERC, which asserted that Pembina Pipeline had provided no evidence of commercial demand for the facility's product.
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