Pacific Northwest- Oil & Gas

摘要

Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals Confirms Conditional Use Permit for Portion of Natural Gas Export Pipeline Deemed to Be a "Utility Facility Necessary for Public Service" McLaughlin v. Douglas County, No. 2014-049, 2014 WL 6854723 (Or. LUBA Nov. 12, 2014), involved an appeal to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) from Douglas County's approval of a conditional use permit (CUP) to construct an eight-mile portion of a 232-mile interstate natural gas pipeline. The pipeline operator initially planned to use the pipeline to import natural gas, but in light of changes in the natural gas market, the operator changed the project to an export pipeline.