Fracked Gas Pipeline: Tell DEQ No Way!

Join us in urging Oregon DEQ and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deny the massive fracked gas export proposal in Southern Oregon.

Oregon is in the bullseye for some of the nation’s largest fracked gas export proposals. Right now, Oregon DEQ is accepting comments about the Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline through Southern Oregon. Join us in telling DEQ to deny this project!

In 2011, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) concluded that the Bradwood LNG facility would harm salmon habitat and water quality in the Columbia River, and DEQ denied the project. More than seven years later, the same agency is reviewing the proposed Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline across Southern Oregon and Jordan Cove LNG export terminal in Coos Bay, a project that is significantly larger and potentially more destructive than Bradwood LNG. Along with the Army Corps of Engineers, DEQ will make a determination about whether the fracked gas mega-project complies with the Clean Water Act.

Fracked Gas Pipeline: Tell DEQ No Way!

Join us in urging Oregon DEQ and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deny the massive fracked gas export proposal in Southern Oregon.


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A recent Oregonian story reported that a new poll shows that most Oregonians oppose the Pacific Connector Pipeline and Jordan Cove LNG terminal. It should come as no surprise that Oregonians want DEQ to deny a project that would: 

  • Damage over 400 streams, creeks, and rivers to construct a fracked gas pipeline;
  • Use eminent domain to condemn the lands of Oregon families in rural Southern Oregon to send fracked gas overseas;
  • Wreck Oregon’s climate goals by becoming the largest greenhouse gas polluter in the state, particularly when we account for methane pollution from fracking Threaten the Coos, Rogue, Umpqua, Coquille, Klamath, and many other watersheds;
  • Dredge roughly 6 million cubic yards out of the Coos Bay Estuary, harming fishing and shellfishing in Coos Bay.

You can read some of the highlights about how the project would harm water quality here, and you can find a guide for submitting more detailed comments here.