Hill: Federal officials denied a permit Friday for a proposed liquefied natural gas export terminal, a rare rebuke of a gas project by the federal government.
In rejecting the Jordan Cove Energy Project on Oregons coast and the major pipeline to bring gas to it, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) said that Veresen Inc., the company behind it, did not sufficiently demonstrate that the need for the pipeline outweighs the harm to local landowners.
We find the generalized allegations of...