On Thursday the environmental non-profit Rogue Climate issued a statement citing four land-use permit deadlines for the project that the Canadian energy company Pembina has missed this summer, the most recent of which expired on August 11.
鈥淚t just spells an additional tea leaf for us to interpret that they鈥檙e moving away from this project all together,鈥� says Tonia Moro, a Medford attorney who has represented pipeline opponents.
A spokesperson for the energy company did not respond to a request for comment.
In the past, Pembina has received support for the project from Coos County and the City of North Bend. But Moro says reapplying for these permits would be a significant step back in the regulatory process.
鈥淏y giving up these permits they鈥檙e giving up quite an investment into the regulatory process itself,鈥� she says.
Last April Pembina said in a federal appeals court filing in Washington D.C. that it was 鈥減ausing鈥� the gas export project as well as the 229-mile-long pipeline.
