Public Hearing Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline Air Quality Permit, March 17

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will hold a public hearing March 17, Malin, Oregon, to receive comment on Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline’s proposed air quality permit, known officiall as a Standard Air Containment Discharge Permit. According to a release from the DEQ, Pacific Connector proposes the construction and operation of a new natural gas compressor station which would be regulated under an air quality permit. The proposed compressor station will receive natural gas from two existing pipelines and move it through a proposed new pipeline extending to the proposed Jordon Cove Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal being developed by Jordan Cove Energy Project in Coos Bay, Oregon. This permit would only regulate the compressor station. The hearing will take place in the Malin Community Hall, Thursday, March 17, 2016, 6 p.m. About the facility – This is a new permit for Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline’s proposed compressor station to be located about 1.75 miles northeast of Malin, Oregon. The compressor station would occupy a site of approximately 31 acres. Three natural gas fired turbines equipped with low nitrogen oxide (NOx) combustion technology will be used to mechanically drive natural gas compressors. The compressor station will receive compressed natural gas at an interconnect of two existing natural gas pipelines and provide additional compression, when needed, to push the gas through a third, proposed pipeline. The proposed pipeline will extend approximately 232 miles from the compressor station near Malin (Klamath Compressor Station) to a proposed Liquified Natural Gas terminal in Coos Bay.