The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued a certificate of approval for Permina’s US$10bn Jordan Cove LNG terminal and 369-km Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline. The proposed LNG terminal, located in Coos Bay (Oregon) would have a liquefaction capacity of 7.8 Mt/year and would receive gas from the Malin Hub in southern Oregon through a 1 bcf/d (10.3 bcm/year) gas pipeline.
In 2016, the FERC rejected the permit application submitted by Veresen 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 Consequently, the application to build an adjacent 420 MW power plant was withdrawn, thus reducing the infrastructure footprint, and filed a new application for the LNG project, whose capacity was raised from 6 Mt/year to 7.8 Mt/year.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 the project developer had provided no evidence of commercial demand for the facility's product.
In late 2017, Veresen sold the LNG project to Pembina, which filed two applications with the FERC for the Jordan Cove Energy Project (Jordan Cove LNG) and the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline project. In February 2020, the state government of Oregon had denied permits to the Jordan Cove LNG project on the basis of environmental consideration; only the US Secretary of Commerce can overturn this choice.
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