NMFS Clarifies Comments on Bradwood Landing LNG Proposal
The Daily Astorian [subscription required] reports that last week the National Marine Fisheries Service sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to clarify its previous comments on the proposed Bradwood Landing LNG terminal. Robert Lohn, regional administrator for NMFS, stated in the letter that the agency’s recommendation “that the permit pending…be denied was a procedural step and should not, in any way, be understood as a final determination by [NMFS] regarding the possible effects of the project or what our view might be after additional, updated information is added to the application.” A spokesperson for NMFS said that the clarification was issued in response to media reports that “seemed to imply we were somehow going to kill the project.”