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Make up!

March 20th, 2009

For those of you who remember The Muppet Show back in the 70’s, there was a character who would shout “Make Up!” back stage just before one of our furry muppet friends would get hit with a powder puff of pancake.

This is aprops of how Jordan Cove’s approach to their EIS process; everytime someone points out one of their misktakes, they yell “make up!” and try to hit it with a dusting of pancake makeup to try to hide the problem.

The latest example is a March 11th letter (below) they sent to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, wherein they ask the Department to stop processing the Air Containment Discharge Permit because now after its become apparent that they will exceed the 250 tons per year threshold, they want a chance to go back and cosmetically change the pollution figures.

Particularly amusing is that, once again, Jordan Cove admits that although their original application stated that they would provide shore power for LNG tankers in port, that they would be forced to turn away many potential LNG vessels that don’t have the capability to plug into it.

“Make up!” they cry. [We] will amend our application and “define facility operational porotocols and modification to burner designs that will ensure that criteria pollutants to not exceed 250TPY, thereby triggering the need for the polution permit.

This should be interesting. One paragraph after admitting they have little or no control over the pollution spewed from the tankers that would visit our port, they spin on a dime and say they’ve suddenly discovered they can lower the pollution for the stationery sources on land, something that’s been on the drawing board for several years.

You might want to buy some stock in eraser companies. I sense they are about to go up.

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