FERC Approves Oregon LNG Project – McLeod Paints Dire Picture for Inuvik –

1.  Last Thursday, the FERC approved the Jordan Cove Energy Project, L.P. Oregon LNG project.

2.  Slave River Journal by Shawn Bell.  In the shadow of the Joint Review Panel’s imminent decision on the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline, the GNWT Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment presented a dire picture of the Mackenzie Valley without a pipeline to proponents in Calgary last week.  "I want to provide you with a mental picture of this small town[Inuvik]," Bob McLeod (NGP Photo) said in a Calgary speech on Dec. 13. "It is a town where equipment is idle and silent. It is a town where hotel rooms are empty and coffee shops are closing. It is a town where too many men and women sit idle, too, waiting for something to happen, waiting for the boom to come. That boom was supposed to come with the construction of the Mackenzie Gas Project. But now, on the eve of a New Year, optimism in the MGP has waned."  Other links: