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<p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">2 XO by trump allows override of local and STATE regs?! FERC assist?</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">ok. there's a legit org and a corp</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://yyy.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/20/david-bernhardt-interior-secretary-ethics-jordan-cove</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx many</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Revealed: emails raise ethical questions over Trump official's role in gas project</b></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;This article is more than 5 months old</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Documents obtained by the Guardian suggest interior secretary is promoting effort tied to his former firm</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Will Parrish</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;@willparrishca</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wed 21 <b>Aug 2019&nbsp;</b></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Bernhardt, seen in January, formerly worked for the lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt, which has promoted the project.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;David Bernhardt, seen in January, formerly worked for the lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt, which has promoted the project. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The US interior secretary, David Bernhardt, is promoting a fossil fuel project for which his former employer, a lobbying firm, is a paid advocate, e-mails obtained by the Guardian suggest.</b></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Experts say Bernhardt is probably violating ethics guidelines issued by the Trump administration with the stated goal of “draining the swamp”. Based on these rules, Bernhardt should be recused from specific issues involving a former client for at least two years.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Jordan Cove Energy Project was proposed by the Canadian energy giant Pembina to transport fracked natural gas through Oregon to the international port at Coos Bay in the state. It would include a new 232-mile pipeline that passes through several dozen miles of interior department land.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Several county commissioners from Colorado, where much of the gas is fracked, met with Bernhardt in Washington DC to boost the project in March. They included Mike Samson, Bernhardt’s former high school teacher.</b></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Awesome time in DC he is totally behind the project and has people working on it towards completion,” Samson wrote concerning Bernhardt in a 7 March email to Ray Bucheger, a <b>Jordan Cove lobbyist with the firm FBB Federal Relations</b>. “He recognizes that time is of the essence and that meaningful progress needs to [be] made this year.”</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A screenshot from the email.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A separate text message also shows that Bucheger had hosted the county commissioners at a dinner the night before the meeting and had asked Samson to report to him what Bernhardt said about Jordan Cove.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Bernhardt represented oil companies and agribusiness interests at the Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck</b> lobbying firm before joining the Trump administration in August 2017. Brownstein Hyatt has worked to promote the Jordan Cove project since December 2018, federal records show.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[New records put Trump's interior chief under fresh scrutiny over casino row</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Read more]</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Delaney Marsco, legal council at the non-partisan Campaign Legal Center, says that if Samson’s e-mailed description of the meeting is accurate, Berhnardt probably violated the ethics commitment.</b></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“The ethics pledge barred Bernhardt from participating in a particular matter where his former employer represents a party to the matter,”</b> Marsco said. “Bernhardt therefore should not have participated in activities surrounding approvals or permits for this project, and he should have taken care to not even appear as though he was personally involved.”</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an emailed statement to the Guardian, an interior department spokesperson, Nick Goodwin, wrote: “Secretary Bernhardt is and always has been committed to upholding his ethical responsibilities. He takes his ethics pledge very seriously. He seeks advice from career ethics officials before taking any meeting involving external parties and strictly follows their advice and guidance. The meeting with officials from Garfield and Moffat Counties was approved by the Departmental Ethics Office.”</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Samson, the Garfield county commissioner, did not immediately return requests for comment.</b></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Bernhardt is already under fire for possible ethics violations during his prior stint as assistant interior secretary under Ryan Zinke</b>. The interior department’s inspector general is conducting an ethics investigation of him, which focuses on his role in weakening protections for California’s delta smelt – a policy change that would directly benefit one of his former clients, Westlands Water District.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During his interior department tenure, Bernhardt has been an architect of some of the agency’s most controversial and consequential decisions, including stripping wildlife protections and leasing large swaths of public lands to oil and gas companies.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jordan Cove is a major priority of western oil and gas interests, since it would probably lead to expanded drilling in three major gas fields: the Jonah Field in Wyoming, the Piceance Basin in Colorado, and the Uintah Basin in northern Utah. It has faced strident opposition from indigenous people, environmentalists, and landowners concerned about climate change, impacts on waterways, and the use of eminent domain to seize land.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">An entry in a federal official’s calendar shows that Brownstein Hyatt has specifically lobbied the interior department in regard to the Jordan Cove project.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In a telltale sign that industry pressure on the Bureau of Land Management may be working, a BLM web page touts the benefits of the pipeline, even though the agency has not officially ruled on it.</span></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Spokespeople for the US House natural resources committee, which helps oversee the interior department, did not respond to requests for comment.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">omfg</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/02/12/jordan-cove-oregon-pembina-pipeline/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://theintercept.com/2020/02/12/jordan-cove-oregon-pembina-pipeline/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">at a&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">CASINO</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">&nbsp;</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">in the small coastal town of North Bend, Oregon, dozens of law enforcement officers and corporate security personnel gathered for a two-day training on how to wage propaganda battles against protesters. The November 2018 event was organized by the&nbsp;<b>National Sheriffs’ Association,</b>&nbsp;one of the country’s largest law enforcement organizations, and hosted by the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, which</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/08/fbi-oregon-anti-pipeline-jordan-cove-activists" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box;">has spent years</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">&nbsp;</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">monitoring opposition to the Jordan Cove Energy Project — a proposed liquid natural gas pipeline and export terminal that the Trump administration has named one of its highest-priority infrastructure projects.</span></font></div><div style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></font><div data-reactid="238" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The cost of the event, however — totaling $26,250 — was paid by Pembina Pipeline Corp., the Canadian fossil fuel company that owns the Jordan Cove project.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, for nearly four years, Pembina was the sole funding source of a unit in the sheriff’s office dedicated to handling security concerns related to Jordan Cove — despite the fact that there is not yet any physical infrastructure in place to keep secure.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;The pipeline and terminal cannot begin construction without approval from the<b>Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,&nbsp;</b>which is scheduled to vote on whether to license the project in February. Yet between 2016 and 2020,&nbsp;the department’s liquid natural gas division, known as a “combined services unit,” spent at least&nbsp;<b>$2 million of Pembina’s money.</b>&nbsp;The energy company put the funding on hold in April 2019 but left open the possibility that the arrangement could be revived in the future. Pembina and the sheriff’s department are currently discussing how they may continue to work together, and Coos County Sheriff Craig Zanni said he expects the partnership to be renewed.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In addition to hosting the law enforcement training, the unit used Pembina’s funds to purchase riot control equipment, monitor the activities of Jordan Cove opponents, and coordinate intelligence-gathering operations with private security companies that also worked for Pembina.&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Local residents, environmental activists, and tribal members have staged rallies and sit-ins and participated in public hearings in opposition to the project, which they say would&nbsp;<b>exacerbate the global climate crisis, damage vital waterways, and violate Indigenous sovereignty. Dozens of property owners could see their land seized via eminent domain.</b></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Law enforcement agencies often receive funding for equipment via corporate-backed professional associations and private foundations — a practice that civil liberties groups have criticized as enabling private influence with little oversight.</b>&nbsp;The arrangement between Pembina and the Coos County Sheriff’s Office was unusual, however, given the department’s scrutiny of activists engaged in First Amendment-protected speech in opposition to its corporate benefactor.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s stunning. It’s the complete opposite of how the police have presented themselves in recent history — that they are neutral parties positioned above the political fray,” said Jeff Monaghan, a criminology professor at Canada’s Carleton University who studies police surveillance. “This is a public police force that has essentially opened up a private, corporately funded wing and, in doing so, is entrenching itself on one side of a very complicated political debate."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em"><b>The Coos County partnership is an extreme example of a trend in policing that has gained momentum across the United States — particularly since thousands of protesters from around the world gathered at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota in 2016 and 2017&nbsp;</b>in an effort to halt construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. Corporations are developing</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/04/15/twin-metals-minnesota-shield616-police/" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">creative</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">means to</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/05/23/pipeline-protest-laws-louisiana-south-dakota/" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">funnel</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">millions of dollars to local law enforcement groups, and this funding has often been paired with increasingly elaborate private security and propaganda operations.</span></font></p></div><div data-reactid="249" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>An investigation by The Intercept and Type Investigations</b>, based on more than 15,000 pages of documents obtained via open records requests from the Coos County Sheriff’s Office and the city of Portland, sheds light on the fusion of public and private interests working to monitor and stymie opposition to the Jordan Cove Energy Project</span>. The documents also reveal new details about a network of private actors profiting off the suppression of protest movements nationwide, among them veterans of the Dakota Access pipeline campaign who have since contributed to the policing efforts around Jordan Cove.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The global consulting firm Teneo led Jordan Cove-related communications and intelligence operations on behalf of Pembina,&nbsp;</b>producing regular reports on the activities of opponents and helping coordinate the efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement, including the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and county sheriff’s offices, the records show.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>At the November 2018 training paid for by Pembina, one workshop was led by employees of Delve, a Washington, D.C.-based opposition research firm affiliated with the national Republican Party that worked alongside police during the Dakota Access pipeline protests.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Another was led by former consultants for TigerSwan,</b>&nbsp;the defense firm hired to oversee security of the Dakota Access pipeline that came under fire for its&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">militaristic approach</a>&nbsp;to protesters. The two former consultants enlisted to train Oregon law enforcement had previously attempted to organize pro-pipeline counterprotests, according to leaked audio recordings, encouraging dangerous tactics and at one point dangling the prospect of anonymous donations from oil companies.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Pembina and other corporations are trying to build out the infrastructure now to lock us, as a planet, into using big reserves of fossil fuel,” said Brendan McQuade, assistant professor of criminology at the University of Southern Maine and author of a recently released book on police fusion centers. “The most distressing element of these documents is that they show the police both locally and nationally lining up, in a rigid way, behind corporations carrying out fossil fuel extraction.”</font></p><h3 kern="kern" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 1em 0px; font-kerning: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Purchasing Police Power</font></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">First proposed in 2005, the Jordan Cove Energy Project has become one of the longest-running battles in the country between the fossil fuel industry and opponents of new hydrocarbon energy infrastructure</span>.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">If built, the project would transport 438 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year from the Jonah Field in Wyoming, the Piceance Basin in Colorado, and the Uinta Basin in northern Utah. The 233-mile Pacific Connector gas pipeline would snake beneath five major rivers as it pumps natural gas to a new export terminal at Coos Bay, where the gas would be chilled and liquefied before being carried to Asian markets on massive tankers.</span></font></p></div><div class="img-wrap align-center width-fixed" data-reactid="250" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px 2.25em; line-height: 1; max-width: none; width: 1024px;"><div data-reactid="251" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[map]</font></div></div><div data-reactid="252" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 2016, landowners in the pipeline’s proposed path successfully lobbied the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which provides permits for the construction of natural gas infrastructure, to deny an application to build the project. The agency asserted that developers had not proven the need for it. Pembina reapplied a year later, in the wake of Donald Trump’s election.</b></font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;" /><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Since then, Trump has appointed individuals to the five-member commission who are more in favor of fossil fuel projects than their predecessors, including&nbsp;<b>Neil Chatterjee,</b>&nbsp;who previously served as energy policy adviser to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. A decision by the FERC is expected on February 13.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the meantime, grassroots environmental groups have helped rally tens of thousands of people to submit comments opposing Jordan Cove to state and federal permitting agencies. The Karuk, Yurok, Klamath, Tolowa Dee-ni’, Siletz, and Round Valley tribes have all passed resolutions opposing the project.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On a misty morning in August, Larry Mangan, a retired Bureau of Land Management biologist, stood on the shores of Coos Bay overlooking the proposed site of the Jordan Cove export terminal. The land on which he and his wife, Sylvia, have lived for more than 30 years is in one of the proposed paths of the Pacific Connector pipeline, and a portion of it is threatened with eminent domain.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“This project would be a disaster not just for us, but for our entire area,” Maghan said. “It’s almost unthinkable that our local police force would be so invested in it.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The LNG division of the Coos County Sheriff’s Office was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774829-Contract-for-Reimbursement.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">established</a>&nbsp;in December 2015.&nbsp;</span>At the time, the Jordan Cove project was owned by the energy infrastructure company Veresen, which Pembina acquired in 2017. Coos County Sheriff Zanni said the department expected Jordan Cove to create an array of security needs. Coos Bay is popular with anglers, crabbers, and recreational boaters who would share the space with giant LNG carriers, and he believed the terminal could become a target for terrorism.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>According to county expenditure records, the Pembina-funded sheriff’s unit spent at least $1.2 million on salaries, benefits, and overtime between 2016 and 2020.</b>&nbsp;The sheriff’s office also used money from Pembina to acquire equipment and technology that would allow deputies to monitor environmental activists and respond forcefully to potential protests.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Last year, the department&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774827-Budget-Combined-Services-Unit.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">spent</a>&nbsp;$48,250 of Pembina funds on an acoustic sound cannon and paid for repairs to a Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected tactical vehicle — a type of armored vehicle first developed for the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan that police have also used in the streets of Ferguson and at Standing Rock. The department also purchased social media archiving software and a drone.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The sound cannon</b>&nbsp;was a response to what happened at Standing Rock, according to Zanni, who said he wanted a “more humane way” to deal with protesters that would avoid physical confrontation. As for the MRAP, the armored vehicle the department had obtained via the federal government’s surplus military property program was in a state of disrepair. Zanni said the vehicle had “technically nothing” to do with Jordan Cove. “It’s called leveraging for the better of the community,” he added.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Zanni described the sheriff’s office as “severely underfunded.” The department used to rely on proceeds from timber harvests on federal land to pay its bills, but that funding dropped dramatically in recent decades.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When Pembina discontinued funding in April, the sheriff’s office had enough remaining money for the unit to finish out the year. In December, the department was forced to absorb four deputies whose salaries had been paid for by the company (a fifth deputy retired). Pembina did not respond to requests for comment, but a spokesperson for the company told&nbsp;<a href="https://theworldlink.com/ccso-and-jordan-cove-look-to-reevalute-security-partnership-after/article_6266c378-f624-556f-b73b-55ddf7d38721.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">local press</a>&nbsp;that it had adjusted its spending while awaiting permits to build.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The sheriff’s department met with the company in January to review the unit’s expenses and discuss a future agreement. A follow-up meeting has been scheduled for the coming weeks. “We’re going to move forward, basically,” Zanni said.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He pointed to the 2005 Energy Policy Act as justification for the unit.&nbsp;</b>The federal law requires fossil fuel companies to come up with a cost-sharing plan with public agencies that have “responsibility for security and safety” at LNG export terminal sites. Zanni shrugged off the fact that the export terminal has not been approved or built yet. “As businesspeople, they’re pretty confident they’re going to get permission to do that,” he said of Pembina. “My argument is I need the resources before it’s going to be built.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But, if the agreement is renewed, it may be invalid under Oregon law. In 1998, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a similar arrangement in Klamath County, Oregon, where the sheriff’s department had entered into an agreement with the timber corporation Weyerhaeuser to provide security services on the company’s land.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Providing specialized law enforcement services to Weyerhaeuser has no logical relationship to a sheriff’s statutory responsibility to ‘Defend the county against those who, by riot or otherwise, endanger the public peace or safety</b>,’” the court&nbsp;<a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/151/996/497782/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">ruled</a>. “We are persuaded that a sheriff lacks the express or implied authority under Oregon law to enter into an agreement to provide security services for private entities.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The court was pretty clear in saying that Oregon law sets out the general authority for governing bodies, and these types of contracts between corporations and police agencies don’t fit into that general authority,” said Kelly Simon, a staff attorney at the Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. “Contracts like this that are biased and create special-interest groups in government bodies — they are not authorized because the police’s authority is to protect the public fairly and equally.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Zanni said the Coos County Sheriff’s Office has had contracts with federal agencies like the Bureau of Land Management as well as private timberland owners that occupy areas that the office otherwise wouldn’t have the resources to patrol</b>. “Our contracts specifically say if there’s a law enforcement public safety need for that officer, we don’t care what you’re paying us for, he’s going to go handle that,” Zanni said.</font></p><h3 kern="kern" color="color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 1em 0px; font-kerning: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Public-Private Surveillance</font></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Given that the Jordan Cove pipeline and export terminal haven’t been approved or built yet, the Pembina-funded unit of the Coos County Sheriff’s Office spent a considerable portion of its time and resources monitoring opponents of the energy project, according to email exchanges between law enforcement officers and Pembina employees.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Coos County Sheriff’s Deputy Bryan Valencia, whose work was funded by Pembina, operated the email list of the Southwestern Oregon Joint Task Force, an intelligence-sharing group that included officers from the FBI and Bureau of Land Management, as well as state and local law enforcement.</span>&nbsp;The task force, which was set up to monitor “the extremist agenda in southern Oregon,” according to Zanni, circulated posts from activists’ social media accounts and campaign emails sent by grassroots environmental groups such as Southern Oregon Rising Tide, Rogue Climate, and 350 Eugene.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In January 2019, Valencia&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774833-No-Criminal-Nexus-Email.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">distributed</a>&nbsp;information to the email list about pipeline opponents who had indicated on Facebook</b>&nbsp;that they would attend a demonstration and permitting hearing in North Bend.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As of this afternoon there are 98 people RSVP’d to attend the rally and Department of State Lands Meeting,” Valencia wrote. “There are another 384 showing ‘interested.’ Most of the names are recognized as residents spread across the other three pipeline counties. There are a few recognized local names associated with previous rallies.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“There is no criminal nexus at this time,” Valencia acknowledged.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indeed, the heightened law enforcement scrutiny occurred even though project opponents have mostly refrained from disruptive protests in favor of lobbying, public comment hearings, and peaceful demonstrations.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The most dramatic action came on November 21, when&nbsp;<b>dozens of people&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opb.org/news/article/jordan-cove-sit-in-kate-brown-office/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">occupied Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s office</a>&nbsp;in Salem</b>, demanding that she make a statement opposing Jordan Cove. Brown spoke to the protesters but declined to issue a statement. “I’m not putting my finger on the scale one way or another,” Brown said. After more than nine hours,&nbsp;<b>state police arrested 21 people, but the district attorney&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/da-won-t-file-charges-against-pipeline-protesters/article_bd326792-d34e-51a4-955d-031fe5a5aa88.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">declined</a>&nbsp;to file any charges.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jordan Cove opponents said the surveillance was disturbing but unsurprising. “This should clarify for anyone who still doubts which side the cops are really on and who they are invested in serving,” said Holly Mills of Southern Oregon Rising Tide.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“We want to know what’s going on, what’s being planned, and if there’s potential for someone to jump in and create a problem,” Zanni responded. “There are radicals on the protest side;<b>&nbsp;there are also radicals on the other side. Extremists of any sort are dangerous.</b>” As an example, he pointed to protests and counterprotests 200 miles away in Portland involving left-wing anti-fascists and the right-wing hate&nbsp;group the Proud Boys.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Overall, however, he acknowledged that extremists are “not a big element of Jordan Cove’s opposition” and underlined that he is not for or against the project.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But whether or not Zanni took a side, the Pembina funding supported surveillance of pipeline opponents. Valencia spent about 10 percent of his time monitoring social media while he was part of the LNG unit, Zanni said.&nbsp;<b>After the Pembina funds ran dry, the deputy was transferred to the corrections division and his intelligence-gathering ceased along with the department’s work with the extremism task force.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Throughout its collaboration with Pembina, the Coos County Sheriff’s Office was also receiving a steady stream of intelligence from Teneo.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;The security and public relations firm founded by former aides to Bill and Hillary Clinton helped orchestrate public relations for Pembina while also employing its “risk advisory” division — led by former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton — to keep tabs on Jordan Cove opponents, according to emails, intelligence reports, and notes from agency planning meetings.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Teneo personnel provided daily and weekly reports to Pembina on pipeline opponents’ activities, which the energy company’s in-house security officer routinely shared with the sheriff’s office. A January 2019&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774835-Teneo-Intelligene-Report.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">intelligence report</a>, for example, featured screenshots of activists’ social media feeds and cited a “flood” of letters to the editor and op-eds opposing the project. “These compelling storylines will facilitate local groups’ fundraising and outreach efforts to national groups, bolstering the resources at their disposal while also risking the inclusion of national groups willing to pursue more dangerous tactics that would threaten JCP and Pembina,” the memo stated, encouraging “active communication efforts to counter their narrative.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Teneo representatives also met directly with members of the sheriff’s office “<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774828-Compare-Notes-on-Activists-Email.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">to compare notes on monitoring activists</a>” and informed the department that they would begin having “<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774832-Eyes-on-the-Ground-Email.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">eyes on the ground</a>” at local events pertaining to Jordan Cove.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The company appears to have become integrated into law enforcement operations.&nbsp;</b>In February 2019, Teneo helped organize a meeting featuring representatives of the<b>&nbsp;National Sheriffs’ Association</b>, the&nbsp;<b>Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association</b>, and local sheriffs from counties the pipeline would pass through to coordinate their operations. The next month, at a multiagency planning meeting regarding Jordan Cove organized by the FBI’s Portland division, Teneo delivered an intelligence briefing to the officers and agents in the audience.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“It’s become very normal for private corporations to be on the same team as law enforcement entities and feeding information,” Carleton University’s Jeff Monaghan said. “But in this case, the private entity is actually the one coordinating the fusion of different law enforcement entities. I’ve never seen anything like it.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">In one instance, Teneo Managing Director Jonathan Wackrow&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774830-Critical-Infrastructure-Information-Email.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">asked</a>&nbsp;Coos County Staff Sgt. Doug Strain to classify information the sheriff’s office gathered related to&nbsp;<b>Jordan Cove as “protected critical infrastructure information</b>” by<b>&nbsp;sharing it with the Department of Homeland Security and the Oregon TITAN Fusion Center</b>&nbsp;— part of a national counterterrorism intelligence-sharing network.&nbsp;<b>Doing so would prevent public disclosure of the sheriff’s intelligence-gathering activities based on the 2002 Homeland Security Act,&nbsp;</b>Wackrow wrote.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“We need to formalize this information and ensure that all of the information is labeled as [protected information],” wrote Wackrow, who is also a<b>&nbsp;frequent law enforcement commentator on CNN.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Monaghan expressed alarm that a statute passed in the wake of September 11, ostensibly to protect U.S. infrastructure against attacks by groups like Al Qaeda, would be repurposed this way. “The utilization of that statute is being directed by a<b>&nbsp;private corporation working for a resource company,&nbsp;</b>which is actively directing surveillance activities of a public police agency,” he said. “Clearly, this is not about terrorism, it’s not about national security — it’s about domestic policing.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>According to Zanni, Teneo overstepped its role, and the sheriff’s office eventually stopped working with the security firm. He said Teneo attempted to direct the department’s activities. “They wanted us to be subservient to them and they were going to show us how to do security for them,” he said. “Not in my county.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Teneo did not respond to requests for comment.</font></p><h3 kern="kern" color="color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 1em 0px; font-kerning: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Paid Protesters” and Propagandists</font></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In setting up the November 2018 training for Oregon law enforcement, Strain, the Coos County staff sergeant,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774831-Extreme-Protest-Email.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">reached out</a>&nbsp;to the National Sheriffs’ Association for help.&nbsp;</span>“It is quite likely that we’re going to have Extreme protest here in Coos County and I am hoping to get ahead of the game on the educational media that we could put out,” he wrote. “I would appreciate contact information so we could discuss Options.”</font></p></div><div class="img-wrap align-bleed full-bleed width-auto" data-reactid="253" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; transition: opacity 300ms linear 200ms; opacity: 1; width: auto;"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The association’s executive director put Strain in touch with&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mark Pfeifle,&nbsp;</span>a former national security official in the George W. Bush administration who worked closely with law enforcement on a campaign to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/07/20/emails-bush-iraq-war-pr-delve-off-the-record-strategies-dakota-access-pipeline" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">discredit</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/01/30/enbridge-line-3-pipeline-minnesota/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">activists</a>&nbsp;during the Standing Rock uprising</b>. Pfeifle introduced Strain to&nbsp;<b>Nate Johnson (who also goes by the name Nick Johnson)</b>, one of the former&nbsp;<b>TigerSwan consultants</b>. “We worked with his team to produce videos — documentaries and vignettes — highlighting the challenges at DAPL,” Pfeifle wrote.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The National Sheriffs’ Association enlisted Johnson and<b>&nbsp;Robert Rice, another former TigerSwan consultant,</b>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774837-Training-Schedule.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">lead</a>&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774858-Training-Proposal.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">workshop</a>&nbsp;on “how to engage with the public, track protest leaders and groups, and what to not do on social media to take charge of the message early on,” according to a training proposal.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">During the Dakota Access pipeline fight, Johnson and Rice&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">had</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/08/26/dapl-security-firm-tigerswan-responded-to-pipeline-vandalism-by-launching-multistate-dragnet/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">created</a>&nbsp;Facebook pages, videos, and websites aimed at inciting local anger against demonstrators — all without revealing their ties to TigerSwan, the security firm working for Dakota Access parent company Energy Transfer. But newly obtained audio recordings show that the consultants’ work on behalf of energy interests went beyond online agitating — t<b>hey also encouraged community members to take action against pipeline opponents on the ground.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It’s a tactic that would raise serious questions of constitutionality if police were to deploy it, according to the ACLU’s Simon</b>, since organizing a countercampaign to suppress a political protest would undermine free speech rights. But private companies typically don’t have the same obligation to uphold First Amendment protections.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In August 2017, Rice and Johnson met with a group of North Dakota residents who had spoken out against protesters in support of local police. Audio of the meeting was provided to The Intercept and Type Investigations under the condition that the names of attendees not be disclosed.<b>&nbsp;The Standing Rock camps had been forcibly evicted more than five months earlier, but Rice sought to convince the group that there was still more work to be done.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“It is not outside the realm of possibility to, like, start a nonprofit.</b>&nbsp;We came up with an acronym a couple weeks ago — it was Moms Against Violent Activists,” Rice said. “I’m sure a lot of companies would throw money at this.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He had an idea of who might fund such an endeavor. “I’m completely speculating, but you could probably, if you did it right, you could probably get anonymous donations from interested parties. Cough — oil — cough,” Rice said. “You’d be famous, and you’d be like, ‘Wow, we started the Moms Against Angry Violent Activists and Fuck Antifa.’ And Fox News will be like, ‘Oh, we want to talk to you!’”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At one point during Rice’s presentation, one of the attendees interjected. “Can I ask: Do you have a vested interest?”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“I don’t have a vested interest other than enjoying the shenanigans,” Rice replied.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The attendee asked more explicitly. “Do y’all work for TigerSwan?”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“That’s a fair question, to which my answer will be, as it was from day one, I am not employed by TigerSwan. I have not ever been employed by TigerSwan,” Rice said. However, he added, “I do have a relationship with TigerSwan.</span>” Rice explained that he had acted as a technology and social media adviser to TigerSwan and had a company email address. “If you were to call TigerSwan and ask whoever answers the phone, ‘Does Robert work there?’ They’d probably say no, but they’ll know who I am, because I do go over there.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The community members came away unimpressed. “It was almost like he wanted us to go agitate the protesters,” one person who attended, who declined to be named because they did not want to be associated with Rice, told The Intercept and Type Investigations.<b>&nbsp;The attendee said Rice spent a few hundred dollars on beer and pizza for the group, which only made the encounter feel more “sketchy.” “All of us that met with him were really confused and just didn’t want any part of it.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>An internal TigerSwan document from September 2016 states that Rice was developing an “<a href="https://theintercept.com/document/2017/05/27/internal-tigerswan-situation-report-2016-09-22/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">information operation</a>” to confront pipeline opponents, and three former&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">TigerSwan contractors confirmed that Rice had worked for the security firm&nbsp;</span>during their time there.</b>&nbsp;Rice had his own office in TigerSwan’s building and was there several days a week, according to two of the sources. “He had a significant presence at TigerSwan for a guy that didn’t work for TigerSwan,” one of the contractors said, adding that Rice routinely attended meetings with senior staff. One of the contractors said Johnson worked with Rice in the TigerSwan office at times. Johnson is also credited as “camera and editor” on a documentary criticizing the Standing Rock movement, which was produced by a pro-Dakota Access pipeline organization Rice founded.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Neither Rice nor Johnson responded to requests for comment. TigerSwan and Energy Transfer also declined to respond.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The same month that Johnson and Rice gave their presentation in North Dakota, a Facebook page called PA Progress began&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/08/26/dapl-security-firm-tigerswan-responded-to-pipeline-vandalism-by-launching-multistate-dragnet/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">posting</a>&nbsp;about opponents of Energy Transfer’s Mariner East 2 pipeline in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, portraying them as cynical profiteers with a penchant for violence</span>. In particular, the page sought to “expose” the Gerhart family, who had invited activists to camp out in trees on their property in the pipeline’s path to slow down construction. A video posted by PA Progress spliced together chaotic footage of unrelated riots, while an actor posing as a local community member noted that the Gerharts were “actively recruiting other anarchists to the area.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[<span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em; word-spacing: -0.25em;">video posted on the PA Progress Facebook page on August 8, 2017, featured an individual&nbsp;identified as “Josh Baker” criticizing anti-pipeline organizers in Pennsylvania.&nbsp;</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em; word-spacing: -0.25em; box-sizing: border-box;">Video: PA Progress]</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bothered by the tenor of the Facebook posts, Grant Stewart, a local resident, arranged a phone call with the page’s administrator, “<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Nate</span>.” Stewart had seen online conversations about disrupting the tree-sit, and someone had posted a photo from the Gerharts’ driveway. He wondered what kinds of actions PA Progress was promoting. Stewart took careful notes on the exchange, which he shared with The Intercept and Type Investigations.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Nate encouraged Stewart to drive past the Gerharts’ home and capture video footage, which he promised to post on the Facebook page. Anything that could be reported to police, he assured, could help bring an end to the tree-sit</b>.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to Stewart, when he asked what Nate thought about shining headlights on the protesters to intimidate them, Nate replied that a more effective tactic would be to make noise by setting off fireworks or M-80s — or firing gunshots.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A week later, Paste magazine published an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/09/the-fake-news-pipeline-how-two-small-time-clickbai.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">article</a>&nbsp;linking Nate Johnson to the PA Progress page. Nate “fell off the face of the earth,” as Stewart put it, and the Facebook page came down soon after.&nbsp;<b>But the posts on PA Progress had already prompted threats of gun violence against Elise Gerhart and her family.</b>&nbsp;“<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It’s outrageous that police themselves would hire someone who is responsible for the kinds of dangerous online hit pieces that targeted me and my family, simply because we stood up for ourselves and our land against a dangerous pipeline,” Gerhart said in an interview.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Law enforcement officers from across Oregon attended the November 2018 training that Johnson and Rice conducted in North Bend, a roster acquired via open records request shows</b>.&nbsp;<b>Security personnel for Pembina and the Oregon-based timber corporation Roseburg Forest Products</b>&nbsp;were also on hand. The new details about Rice’s and Johnson’s previous operations raise questions about the kinds of tactics that public safety officers consider appropriate and are learning to deploy.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;The National Sheriffs’ Association, which organized the event, didn’t respond to requests for comment.</span></font></p><h3 kern="kern" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 1em 0px; font-kerning: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Opposing Jordan Cove</font></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>If the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approves the project, Pembina could begin preliminary construction — including tree felling along the pipeline route — this spring. To complete construction of the pipeline, however, the company will have to obtain a number of permits from Oregon state agencies.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In May, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality ruled against granting Jordan Cove a Clean Water Act permit, dealing the project a major setback. Last month, Pembina abruptly withdrew an application to remove sediment from Coos Bay to make way for the terminal after the Oregon Department of State Lands denied its request for a deadline extension. Although some project opponents celebrated,<b>&nbsp;other analysts have&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ijpr.org/post/where-does-jordan-cove-energy-project-go-here#stream/0" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">speculated</a>&nbsp;that the company may be hoping federal approvals will provide leverage to convince the state to get on board.</b></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The Trump administration is already seeking changes that would allow the federal government to override state permits.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;In April, Trump signed two executive orders designed to speed up oil and gas pipeline projects. One of the orders instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to review a section of the Clean Water Act that requires corporations to obtain the approval of state governments for pipeline construction. In effect, the order could eliminate the authority of state environmental agencies to decide the fate of projects like Jordan Cove.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Too often badly needed energy infrastructure is being held back by special-interest groups, entrenched bureaucracies, and radical activists,” Trump stated in announcing the order. The EPA’s review is still pending.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meanwhile, Jordan Cove opponents will likely step up their efforts to pressure Brown and other members of her administration to use their authority to force the project’s cancelation. Owen Walker, a member of Southern Oregon Rising Tide, said the occupation of the governor’s office grew out of mounting frustration with her unwillingness to live up to her rhetoric on the urgency of the climate crisis.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If Governor Brown cares about climate change as much as she claims to, there’s no reason she shouldn’t oppose Jordan Cove LNG today. Governors in New York and Washington have come out publicly against similar fracked gas projects,” Walker said. “It’s time for Governor Brown to be a climate leader by opposing this project.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another participant in the demonstration at Brown’s office, Thomas Joseph II of the Hoopa Valley Tribe, was among those who protested the Dakota Access pipeline. He and others from the Klamath River basin in California and Oregon camped near Standing Rock for six months, running a free kitchen and participating in direct actions. “Part of our stand was to learn by firsthand experience how to defend your community against a pipeline,” he said. The Pacific Connecter pipeline is slated to&nbsp;<b>pass under the Klamath River, the lifeline of a number of West Coast Indigenous nations, including the Hoopa.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joseph said the alignment of public and private security forces against Jordan Cove opponents does not intimidate him. “We know their tactics. We know their thought process,” he said. Fossil fuel companies and law enforcement agencies may be sharing resources and information gleaned from past protests. But he suggested that, at the end of the day, protesters are learning from their previous struggles as well. “If they think we’re going to do the same thing we did at Standing Rock,” Joseph said, “that is their fault.”</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/11/feds-issue-final-environmental-analysis-of-jordan-cove-natural-gas-export-project-in-coos-bay.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/11/feds-issue-final-environmental-analysis-of-jordan-cove-natural-gas-export-project-in-coos-bay.html</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[a&nbsp;<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">rendering of the proposed Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Coos Bay. (Courtesy of Jordan Cove) LC- Jordan Cove Energy Project</span><span class="articlemm-image-credit" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.4px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 2.2rem; vertical-align: baseline;">LC- Jordan Cove Energy Project]</span></font></div><div class="byline" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.07em;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By&nbsp;<a class="bylineauthorLink" href="http://connect.oregonlive.com/staff/tsicking/posts.html" title="Ted Sickinger| The Oregonian/OregonLive" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">Ted Sickinger| The Oregonian/OregonLive</a></font></div></div><div class="articlestory" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="FQ6PWQDKXFHJZNX4IWGFMIIREE" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>The proposed Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas terminal and its 230-mile feeder pipeline in southern Oregon would have some adverse and significant impacts on both Coos Bay and on 18 threatened and endangered species, according to staff at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.</b></font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="YPRB5BVFHFARHBF5CIBHMWMB6A" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">The agency’s staff issued their final environmental analysis of the controversial natural gas export project Friday, concluding it would result in “temporary, long-term and permanent impacts on the environment.” Many of those impacts would not be significant or could be reduced to less than significant levels with mitigation measures, the analysis said, but staff concluded that </span><b>some would be adverse and significant.</b></font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="7UQPRX4VPFHOLMXRK6KJBEXZLM" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The staff analysis is neither an approval nor denial of the project; that’s up to a vote of the agency’s presidentially appointed commissioners after the analysis goes through a public comment period and incorporates any subsequent revisions. A final order is expected from commissioners on February 13. Even if Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline Corp., wins FERC’s approval,</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> construction of the project would be contingent on the project obtaining a host of other state, federal and local approvals.</span></font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="37VB75GYHFBYVHECGEJUYZNCSQ" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among the impacts noted in the analysis:</font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="TBUTH7EBIBAOBM2WWDCDQFX6G4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Construction and operation of the liquefied natural gas terminal and shipping berths would permanently impact about 200 acres of land, and construction would temporarily increase turbidity and sedimentation in the Coos Bay estuary. Coupled with noise and light, wildlife in the vicinity would experience increased rates of stress and injury, and would likely relocate, the analysis said.</font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="LRCW34Z4ZJHONNPHWPWXGO3GP4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The U.S. Coast Guard determined that the shipping channel is suitable for LNG tankers, but said those ships would cause delays for other recreational and commercial marine traffic in the waterway. Likewise, the terminal and tankers would also exceed federal obstruction standards for the regional airport and could significantly impact airport operations.</font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="LG37RVKEUFECFJ4QMGDDXDSHRE" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Workers needed to build the terminal would put major demands on the local housing market, and the analysis found, the project also would permanently impact the visual character of Coos Bay.</font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="IUEHCKKGTBCCXGOL7C7ASBQQXY" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Building the Pacific Connector pipeline would require the temporary use of more than 4,900 acres of land and permanently impact 1,400 acres of land. It would traverse steep terrain through the Cascade range, though there are plans in place to minimize landslides and erosion, the analysis said.</font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="2L7FMPNPP5G6NLXWWP5J3QUMA4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The pipeline would also cross over 300 waterbodies including the Coos, Rogue and Klamath Rivers and impact more than 2,000 acres of forest, including more than 750 acres of late stage old-growth forest that provides habitat for the marbled murrelet, the northern spotted owl, and other federally-listed threatened and endangered species. The analysis said several federally-listed threatened the and endangered species are likely to be adversely affected. Following construction, the analysis said the primary impact of the pipe would be the easement’s visual impact, with effects similar to other utilities and roadways.</font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="LABNMN54V5CEJJRV3HWWP6I2C4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>Jordan Cove spokesman Paul Vogel pointed to the jobs and tax benefits</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> the project would deliver and said backers had committed to undertake extensive mitigation to preserve old growth forests, wetlands and riparian habitat.</span></font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="QM46VFG5OVHNXPXOFPMRVWDCAI" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He said the staff analysis represented a significant step necessary before regulators can approve the project. That approval, he said, would be proof that the project is environmentally compliant and in the public interest.</font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="XFEQNHB3RNAQBJ524VKZLCSJGE" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the same time, he said uncertainty remained regarding timing and ultimate approval of state permits.</font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="PILGVZVTEZAVHLJ32AVSBQYWGI" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“State permits remain a critical component of the regulatory process for this project and will enable critical investment in Oregon through this project to move forward," Vogel said.</font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="HIWJPMJ2SRAOXNHTF63GDFHLDA" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Opponents emphasized in a news release that the project was previously rejected by FERC in 2016 because backers couldn’t demonstrate a public need for the project that outweighed its impacts on landowners affected by the proposed pipeline stretching across much of Southern Oregon.</font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="PEYCAQ4A2RHUPCLXX376Z5IMWQ" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They also pointed to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s decision to deny the project’s water quality permit because it did not have “assurance that the construction and authorization of the project will comply with applicable Oregon water quality standards.” That rejection was somewhat procedural, as the agency faced a deadline to make a decision and did not want to waive its regulatory authority. It did leave the door open for Jordan Cove to reapply for the certification, however.</font></p><p class="articleparagraph articleparagraph--left" id="35QK6CU66BBTTFCWL5PLSWROZE" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Opponents are hoping the agency and the state will stick to their guns.</font></p><p class="articleparagraph article__paragraph--left" id="CTEJNWG44ZHK5LZKARSPAJKMPI" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“FERC continues to gloss over Oregon’s findings that this project will harm the streams and rivers that our communities rely upon for drinking water and fishing. This project can’t proceed without approval from the state,” said Stacey Detwiler of Rogue Riverkeeper. “Oregon must stay strong to its values of protecting clean water and a stable climate so Jordan Cove LNG never sees the light of day.”</font></p></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GUK</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></a><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/01/24/pembina-withdraws-its-state-permit-application-for-jordan-cove-pipeline-and-lng-export-terminal/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/01/24/pembina-withdraws-its-state-permit-application-for-jordan-cove-pipeline-and-lng-export-terminal/&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFjACegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Pembina Withdraws its State Permit Application for Jordan Cove</font></a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 bc tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.wweek.com › news › 2020/01/24 › pembina-withdraws-its-state...</font></cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; 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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Missing:&nbsp;<s>bernhardt</s>&nbsp;‎| Must include:&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=pembina+coos+LNG+%22bernhardt%22&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQ5t4CMAJ6BAgGEAk" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">bernhardt</a></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAQQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFSgAMAN6BAgEEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><a href="https://theworldlink.com/news/local/defazio-questions-secretary-of-interior-on-lng-meetings/article_b80f1fb9-cca8-5adf-9e22-959046630381.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://theworldlink.com/news/local/defazio-questions-secretary-of-interior-on-lng-meetings/article_b80f1fb9-cca8-5adf-9e22-959046630381.html&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFjADegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; 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</font></a><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="https://theworldlink.com/news/local/defazio-questions-secretary-of-interior-on-lng-meetings/article_b80f1fb9-cca8-5adf-9e22-959046630381.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://theworldlink.com/news/local/defazio-questions-secretary-of-interior-on-lng-meetings/article_b80f1fb9-cca8-5adf-9e22-959046630381.html&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFjADegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">DeFazio questions Secretary of Interior on LNG meetings ...</font></a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 bc tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">theworldlink.com › news › local › defazio-questions-secretary-of-interio...</font></cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30 bc tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.3;" /></font></font></font></font></div><div class="yWc32e" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 2px; visibility: visible;"><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.57;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.57; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.57;">Sep 18, 2019 -&nbsp;</span>“Secretary&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bernhardt's</span>&nbsp;questionable actions with regard to JCEP are numerous, ... Hyatt Farber Schreck was hired by&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pembina</span>, which is currently in the ... What you missed this week in notable&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Coos</span>&nbsp;County crimes and court&nbsp;...</font></span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAcQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFSgAMAR6BAgHEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2020/01/facing-denial-jordan-cove-lng-project-withdraws-application-for-key-state-permit.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2020/01/facing-denial-jordan-cove-lng-project-withdraws-application-for-key-state-permit.html&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFjAEegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2020/01/facing-denial-jordan-cove-lng-project-withdraws-application-for-key-state-permit.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2020/01/facing-denial-jordan-cove-lng-project-withdraws-application-for-key-state-permit.html&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFjAEegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Facing denial, Jordan Cove LNG project withdraws ...</font></a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 bc tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.oregonlive.com › environment › 2020/01 › facing-denial-jorda...</font></cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; 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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></li></ol></div></div></div></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.57;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:yw3W8T7emwMJ:https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2020/01/facing-denial-jordan-cove-lng-project-withdraws-application-for-key-state-permit.html+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:yw3W8T7emwMJ:https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2020/01/facing-denial-jordan-cove-lng-project-withdraws-application-for-key-state-permit.html%2B%26cd%3D5%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQIDAEegQIBxAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.57; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.57;">Jan 24, 2020 -&nbsp;</span>A rendering of the proposed Jordan Cove&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">LNG</span>&nbsp;terminal in&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Coos</span>&nbsp;Bay. ... The Jordan Cove Energy Project, owned by Calgary-based&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pembina</span>&nbsp;...</font></span></a><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:yw3W8T7emwMJ:https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2020/01/facing-denial-jordan-cove-lng-project-withdraws-application-for-key-state-permit.html+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:yw3W8T7emwMJ:https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2020/01/facing-denial-jordan-cove-lng-project-withdraws-application-for-key-state-permit.html%2B%26cd%3D5%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQIDAEegQIBxAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Missing:&nbsp;<s>bernhardt</s>&nbsp;‎| Must include:&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=pembina+coos+LNG+%22bernhardt%22&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQ5t4CMAR6BAgHEAk" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">bernhardt</a></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAoQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFSgAMAV6BAgKEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/11/feds-issue-final-environmental-analysis-of-jordan-cove-natural-gas-export-project-in-coos-bay.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/11/feds-issue-final-environmental-analysis-of-jordan-cove-natural-gas-export-project-in-coos-bay.html&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFjAFegQIChAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/11/feds-issue-final-environmental-analysis-of-jordan-cove-natural-gas-export-project-in-coos-bay.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/11/feds-issue-final-environmental-analysis-of-jordan-cove-natural-gas-export-project-in-coos-bay.html&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFjAFegQIChAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Feds issue final environmental analysis of Jordan Cove ...</font></a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 bc tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.oregonlive.com › politics › 2019/11 › feds-issue-final-environm...</font></cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; 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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></li></ol></div></div></div></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.57;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0VnPH4hH_HIJ:https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/11/feds-issue-final-environmental-analysis-of-jordan-cove-natural-gas-export-project-in-coos-bay.html+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:0VnPH4hH_HIJ:https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/11/feds-issue-final-environmental-analysis-of-jordan-cove-natural-gas-export-project-in-coos-bay.html%2B%26cd%3D6%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQIDAFegQIChAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.57; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.57;">Nov 15, 2019 -&nbsp;</span>A rendering of the proposed Jordan Cove&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">LNG</span>&nbsp;terminal in&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Coos</span>&nbsp;Bay. ... Even if Calgary-based&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pembina</span>&nbsp;Pipeline Corp., wins FERC's approval,&nbsp;...</font></span></a><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0VnPH4hH_HIJ:https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/11/feds-issue-final-environmental-analysis-of-jordan-cove-natural-gas-export-project-in-coos-bay.html+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:0VnPH4hH_HIJ:https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/11/feds-issue-final-environmental-analysis-of-jordan-cove-natural-gas-export-project-in-coos-bay.html%2B%26cd%3D6%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQIDAFegQIChAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Missing:&nbsp;<s>bernhardt</s>&nbsp;‎| Must include:&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=pembina+coos+LNG+%22bernhardt%22&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQ5t4CMAV6BAgKEAk" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">bernhardt</a></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAkQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFSgAMAZ6BAgJEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/02/12/jordan-cove-oregon-pembina-pipeline/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://theintercept.com/2020/02/12/jordan-cove-oregon-pembina-pipeline/&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFjAGegQICRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/02/12/jordan-cove-oregon-pembina-pipeline/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://theintercept.com/2020/02/12/jordan-cove-oregon-pembina-pipeline/&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFjAGegQICRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">A Canadian Energy Company Bought an Oregon Sheriff's Unit</font></a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 bc tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">theintercept.com › 2020/02/12 › jordan-cove-oregon-pembina-pipeline</font></cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; 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line-height: 1.57;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-yrzjOAZbigJ:https://theintercept.com/2020/02/12/jordan-cove-oregon-pembina-pipeline/+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:-yrzjOAZbigJ:https://theintercept.com/2020/02/12/jordan-cove-oregon-pembina-pipeline/%2B%26cd%3D7%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQIDAGegQICRAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.57; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.57;">5 days ago -&nbsp;</span>Yet between 2016 and 2020, the department's liquid&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">natural gas</span>&nbsp;division, ... The arrangement between&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pembina</span>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Coos</span>&nbsp;County Sheriff's&nbsp;...</font></span></a><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-yrzjOAZbigJ:https://theintercept.com/2020/02/12/jordan-cove-oregon-pembina-pipeline/+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:-yrzjOAZbigJ:https://theintercept.com/2020/02/12/jordan-cove-oregon-pembina-pipeline/%2B%26cd%3D7%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQIDAGegQICRAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Missing:&nbsp;<s>bernhardt</s>&nbsp;‎| Must include:&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=pembina+coos+LNG+%22bernhardt%22&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQ5t4CMAZ6BAgJEAk" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">bernhardt</a></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px;"><div data-hveid="CAgQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFSgAMAd6BAgIEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.57;"><a href="https://thebusinesstimes.com/jordan-cove-project-enters-crucial-permitting-phase/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://thebusinesstimes.com/jordan-cove-project-enters-crucial-permitting-phase/&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQFjAHegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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Hinrichs, stakeholder communications and coordinator with&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pembina</span>&nbsp;Pipeline. ...&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">natural gas</span>&nbsp;terminal has been proposed for a location near&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Coos</span>&nbsp;Bay, ... 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Project will feature a liquefied&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">natural gas</span>&nbsp;(<span style="font-weight: bold;">LNG</span>) export terminal in&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Coos</span>&nbsp;Bay, ...&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pembina</span>, the parent company of the Jordan Cove Project, is a 60-year-old&nbsp;...</font></span></a><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OK6NyeIqODYJ:https://www.jordancovelng.com/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:OK6NyeIqODYJ:https://www.jordancovelng.com/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQIDAJegQIBRAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Missing:&nbsp;<s>bernhardt</s>&nbsp;‎| Must include:&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=pembina+coos+LNG+%22bernhardt%22&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikr6Opp9nnAhUDca0KHd1cDZgQ5t4CMAl6BAgFEAY" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">bernhardt</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/02/12/jordan-cove-oregon-pembina-pipeline/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://theintercept.com/2020/02/12/jordan-cove-oregon-pembina-pipeline/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">at a&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">CASINO</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">&nbsp;</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">in the small coastal town of North Bend, Oregon, dozens of law enforcement officers and corporate security personnel gathered for a two-day training on how to wage propaganda battles against protesters. The November 2018 event was organized by the&nbsp;<b>National Sheriffs’ Association,</b>&nbsp;one of the country’s largest law enforcement organizations, and hosted by the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, which</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/08/fbi-oregon-anti-pipeline-jordan-cove-activists" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box;">has spent years</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">&nbsp;</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">monitoring opposition to the Jordan Cove Energy Project — a proposed liquid natural gas pipeline and export terminal that the Trump administration has named one of its highest-priority infrastructure projects.</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></font><div data-reactid="238" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The cost of the event, however — totaling $26,250 — was paid by Pembina Pipeline Corp., the Canadian fossil fuel company that owns the Jordan Cove project.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, for nearly four years, Pembina was the sole funding source of a unit in the sheriff’s office dedicated to handling security concerns related to Jordan Cove — despite the fact that there is not yet any physical infrastructure in place to keep secure.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;The pipeline and terminal cannot begin construction without approval from the<b>Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,&nbsp;</b>which is scheduled to vote on whether to license the project in February. Yet between 2016 and 2020,&nbsp;the department’s liquid natural gas division, known as a “combined services unit,” spent at least&nbsp;<b>$2 million of Pembina’s money.</b>&nbsp;The energy company put the funding on hold in April 2019 but left open the possibility that the arrangement could be revived in the future. Pembina and the sheriff’s department are currently discussing how they may continue to work together, and Coos County Sheriff Craig Zanni said he expects the partnership to be renewed.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In addition to hosting the law enforcement training, the unit used Pembina’s funds to purchase riot control equipment, monitor the activities of Jordan Cove opponents, and coordinate intelligence-gathering operations with private security companies that also worked for Pembina.&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Local residents, environmental activists, and tribal members have staged rallies and sit-ins and participated in public hearings in opposition to the project, which they say would&nbsp;<b>exacerbate the global climate crisis, damage vital waterways, and violate Indigenous sovereignty. Dozens of property owners could see their land seized via eminent domain.</b></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Law enforcement agencies often receive funding for equipment via corporate-backed professional associations and private foundations — a practice that civil liberties groups have criticized as enabling private influence with little oversight.</b>&nbsp;The arrangement between Pembina and the Coos County Sheriff’s Office was unusual, however, given the department’s scrutiny of activists engaged in First Amendment-protected speech in opposition to its corporate benefactor.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s stunning. It’s the complete opposite of how the police have presented themselves in recent history — that they are neutral parties positioned above the political fray,” said Jeff Monaghan, a criminology professor at Canada’s Carleton University who studies police surveillance. “This is a public police force that has essentially opened up a private, corporately funded wing and, in doing so, is entrenching itself on one side of a very complicated political debate."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em"><b>The Coos County partnership is an extreme example of a trend in policing that has gained momentum across the United States — particularly since thousands of protesters from around the world gathered at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota in 2016 and 2017&nbsp;</b>in an effort to halt construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. Corporations are developing</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/04/15/twin-metals-minnesota-shield616-police/" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">creative</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">means to</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/05/23/pipeline-protest-laws-louisiana-south-dakota/" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">funnel</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em">millions of dollars to local law enforcement groups, and this funding has often been paired with increasingly elaborate private security and propaganda operations.</span></font></p></div><div data-reactid="249" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>An investigation by The Intercept and Type Investigations</b>, based on more than 15,000 pages of documents obtained via open records requests from the Coos County Sheriff’s Office and the city of Portland, sheds light on the fusion of public and private interests working to monitor and stymie opposition to the Jordan Cove Energy Project</span>. The documents also reveal new details about a network of private actors profiting off the suppression of protest movements nationwide, among them veterans of the Dakota Access pipeline campaign who have since contributed to the policing efforts around Jordan Cove.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The global consulting firm Teneo led Jordan Cove-related communications and intelligence operations on behalf of Pembina,&nbsp;</b>producing regular reports on the activities of opponents and helping coordinate the efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement, including the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and county sheriff’s offices, the records show.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>At the November 2018 training paid for by Pembina, one workshop was led by employees of Delve, a Washington, D.C.-based opposition research firm affiliated with the national Republican Party that worked alongside police during the Dakota Access pipeline protests.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Another was led by former consultants for TigerSwan,</b>&nbsp;the defense firm hired to oversee security of the Dakota Access pipeline that came under fire for its&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">militaristic approach</a>&nbsp;to protesters. The two former consultants enlisted to train Oregon law enforcement had previously attempted to organize pro-pipeline counterprotests, according to leaked audio recordings, encouraging dangerous tactics and at one point dangling the prospect of anonymous donations from oil companies.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Pembina and other corporations are trying to build out the infrastructure now to lock us, as a planet, into using big reserves of fossil fuel,” said Brendan McQuade, assistant professor of criminology at the University of Southern Maine and author of a recently released book on police fusion centers. “The most distressing element of these documents is that they show the police both locally and nationally lining up, in a rigid way, behind corporations carrying out fossil fuel extraction.”</font></p><h3 kern="kern" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 1em 0px; font-kerning: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Purchasing Police Power</font></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">First proposed in 2005, the Jordan Cove Energy Project has become one of the longest-running battles in the country between the fossil fuel industry and opponents of new hydrocarbon energy infrastructure</span>.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">If built, the project would transport 438 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year from the Jonah Field in Wyoming, the Piceance Basin in Colorado, and the Uinta Basin in northern Utah. The 233-mile Pacific Connector gas pipeline would snake beneath five major rivers as it pumps natural gas to a new export terminal at Coos Bay, where the gas would be chilled and liquefied before being carried to Asian markets on massive tankers.</span></font></p></div><div class="img-wrap align-center width-fixed" data-reactid="250" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px 2.25em; line-height: 1; max-width: none; width: 1024px;"><div data-reactid="251" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[map]</font></div></div><div data-reactid="252" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 2016, landowners in the pipeline’s proposed path successfully lobbied the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which provides permits for the construction of natural gas infrastructure, to deny an application to build the project. The agency asserted that developers had not proven the need for it. Pembina reapplied a year later, in the wake of Donald Trump’s election.</b></font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;" /><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Since then, Trump has appointed individuals to the five-member commission who are more in favor of fossil fuel projects than their predecessors, including&nbsp;<b>Neil Chatterjee,</b>&nbsp;who previously served as energy policy adviser to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. A decision by the FERC is expected on February 13.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the meantime, grassroots environmental groups have helped rally tens of thousands of people to submit comments opposing Jordan Cove to state and federal permitting agencies. The Karuk, Yurok, Klamath, Tolowa Dee-ni’, Siletz, and Round Valley tribes have all passed resolutions opposing the project.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On a misty morning in August, Larry Mangan, a retired Bureau of Land Management biologist, stood on the shores of Coos Bay overlooking the proposed site of the Jordan Cove export terminal. The land on which he and his wife, Sylvia, have lived for more than 30 years is in one of the proposed paths of the Pacific Connector pipeline, and a portion of it is threatened with eminent domain.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“This project would be a disaster not just for us, but for our entire area,” Maghan said. “It’s almost unthinkable that our local police force would be so invested in it.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The LNG division of the Coos County Sheriff’s Office was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774829-Contract-for-Reimbursement.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">established</a>&nbsp;in December 2015.&nbsp;</span>At the time, the Jordan Cove project was owned by the energy infrastructure company Veresen, which Pembina acquired in 2017. Coos County Sheriff Zanni said the department expected Jordan Cove to create an array of security needs. Coos Bay is popular with anglers, crabbers, and recreational boaters who would share the space with giant LNG carriers, and he believed the terminal could become a target for terrorism.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>According to county expenditure records, the Pembina-funded sheriff’s unit spent at least $1.2 million on salaries, benefits, and overtime between 2016 and 2020.</b>&nbsp;The sheriff’s office also used money from Pembina to acquire equipment and technology that would allow deputies to monitor environmental activists and respond forcefully to potential protests.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Last year, the department&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6774827-Budget-Combined-Services-Unit.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">spent</a>&nbsp;$48,250 of Pembina funds on an acoustic sound cannon and paid for repairs to a Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected tactical vehicle — a type of armored vehicle first developed for the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan that police have also used in the streets of Ferguson and at Standing Rock. The department also purchased social media archiving software and a drone.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The sound cannon</b>&nbsp;was a response to what happened at Standing Rock, according to Zanni, who said he wanted a “more humane way” to deal with protesters that would avoid physical confrontation. As for the MRAP, the armored vehicle the department had obtained via the federal government’s surplus military property program was in a state of disrepair. Zanni said the vehicle had “technically nothing” to do with Jordan Cove. “It’s called leveraging for the better of the community,” he added.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Zanni described the sheriff’s office as “severely underfunded.” The department used to rely on proceeds from timber harvests on federal land to pay its bills, but that funding dropped dramatically in recent decades.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When Pembina discontinued funding in April, the sheriff’s office had enough remaining money for the unit to finish out the year. In December, the department was forced to absorb four deputies whose salaries had been paid for by the company (a fifth deputy retired). Pembina did not respond to requests for comment, but a spokesperson for the company told&nbsp;<a href="https://theworldlink.com/ccso-and-jordan-cove-look-to-reevalute-security-partnership-after/article_6266c378-f624-556f-b73b-55ddf7d38721.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">local press</a>&nbsp;that it had adjusted its spending while awaiting permits to build.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The sheriff’s department met with the company in January to review the unit’s expenses and discuss a future agreement. A follow-up meeting has been scheduled for the coming weeks. “We’re going to move forward, basically,” Zanni said.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He pointed to the 2005 Energy Policy Act as justification for the unit.&nbsp;</b>The federal law requires fossil fuel companies to come up with a cost-sharing plan with public agencies that have “responsibility for security and safety” at LNG export terminal sites. Zanni shrugged off the fact that the export terminal has not been approved or built yet. “As businesspeople, they’re pretty confident they’re going to get permission to do that,” he said of Pembina. “My argument is I need the resources before it’s going to be built.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But, if the agreement is renewed, it may be invalid under Oregon law. In 1998, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a similar arrangement in Klamath County, Oregon, where the sheriff’s department had entered into an agreement with the timber corporation Weyerhaeuser to provide security services on the company’s land.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Providing specialized law enforcement services to Weyerhaeuser has no logical relationship to a sheriff’s statutory responsibility to ‘Defend the county against those who, by riot or otherwise, endanger the public peace or safety</b>,’” the court&nbsp;<a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/151/996/497782/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">ruled</a>. “We are persuaded that a sheriff lacks the express or implied authority under Oregon law to enter into an agreement to provide security services for private entities.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The court was pretty clear in saying that Oregon law sets out the general authority for governing bodies, and these types of contracts between corporations and police agencies don’t fit into that general authority,” said Kelly Simon, a staff attorney at the Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. “Contracts like this that are biased and create special-interest groups in government bodies — they are not authorized because the police’s authority is to protect the public fairly and equally.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Zanni said the Coos County Sheriff’s Office has had contracts with federal agencies like the Bureau of Land Management as well as private timberland owners that occupy areas that the office otherwise wouldn’t have the resources to patrol</b>. “Our contracts specifically say if there’s a law enforcement public safety need for that officer, we don’t care what you’re paying us for, he’s going to go handle that,” Zanni said.</font></p></div><div class="img-wrap align-bleed full-bleed width-auto" data-reactid="253" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; transition: opacity 300ms linear 200ms; opacity: 1; width: auto;"><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/02/06/emails-melissa-cribbins-coos-county-commission-jordan-cove-lng"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/02/06/emails-melissa-cribbins-coos-county-commission-jordan-cove-lng</font></a></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>Last month, the proposed Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (<span class="caps" style="">LNG</span>) project — which, if built, would become the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opb.org/news/article/jordan-cove-oregon-lng-carbon-pollution/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">largest source</a>&nbsp;of climate pollution in Oregon — suffered a major setback as Pembina&nbsp;abruptly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2020/01/facing-denial-jordan-cove-lng-project-withdraws-application-for-key-state-permit.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">withdrew</a>&nbsp;its&nbsp;application for a key state&nbsp;permit.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The company&nbsp;<a href="https://www.registerguard.com/news/20200124/is-jordan-cove-lng-pipeline-project-stalled-energy-firm-withdraws-permit-application" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">has said</a>&nbsp;it is continuing to seek federal approval for the project from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (<span class="caps" style="">FERC</span>), and environmental advocates&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ijpr.org/post/where-does-jordan-cove-energy-project-go-here#stream/0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">say</a>&nbsp;they suspect Pembina may plan to move forward with the project regardless. Pembina had&nbsp;<a href="http://citizensagainstlng.com/wp/permits/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">successfully obtained</a>&nbsp;numerous county-level permits related to Jordan Cove over the past several months, though some of those permits are already under&nbsp;appeal.</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'Dedicated&nbsp;Time'</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The emails, sent by and to Coos County Commissioner Melissa Cribbins, show a number of back-and-forth exchanges between Coos County officials and Pembina representatives, often centered on the Jordan Cove&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">LNG</span>&nbsp;export terminal and related natural gas&nbsp;pipeline&nbsp;project.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They also show Commissioner Cribbins, vice president of the<b> Association of Oregon Counties (<span class="caps" style="">AOC</span>), </b>along with other&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">AOC</span>&nbsp;officials, solicited sponsorships from Jordan Cove backers, including a request for funding for a reception during the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">AOC</span>’s 2019 annual conference in November and for a catered event for county commissioners and state lawmakers in February 2019.&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">AOC</span>&nbsp;is a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eastoregonian.com/news/jackson-county-withdraws-from-association-of-oregon-counties/article_80c6b30f-e782-5b70-af8e-b85aa79ad8a7.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lobbying</a>&nbsp;organization that&nbsp;<a href="http://oregoncounties.org/about/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">represents</a>&nbsp;and advocates for Oregon's 36&nbsp;counties.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asked by DeSmog if she considered it proper for a commissioner to make such a request, Cribbins said she had no “fiscal interest” in the Association of Oregon Counties. “I have no fiscal interest in&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">AOC</span>, nor does any member of my family,” she&nbsp;wrote.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the time when Commissioner Cribbins made those requests, the company had applications for key permits necessary for their&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">LNG</span>&nbsp;project pending before the Coos County commission, several people familiar with the permit process told&nbsp;DeSmog.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In one instance, emails show Cribbins participated in discussions where Pembina was offered time to speak to county commissioners and lawmakers in exchange for funding a catered&nbsp;event.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Do you think you can confirm Jordan Cove is able to sponsor our commissioner/legislator reception next Monday evening?” Mike Eliason of the Association of Oregon Counties emailed to Pembina representative Charles Deister in the early morning hours of February 5, 2019, copying Coos County Commissioner Melissa Cribbins and Mckenzie Farrell, also an&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">AOC</span>&nbsp;representative. “We would be more than happy to give you dedicated time to address the gathering as well as of course work the crowd&nbsp;individually.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>We need to confirm the Mission Mill site and caterer&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">ASAP</span>&nbsp;so if you are able to confirm by noon, that would be awesome,” Eliason continued. “Also let me know if you don't think you can get approval, in that case we will likely have to cancel the reception plans.&nbsp;Thanks!”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two hours later, Pembina’s Deister replied to the group, writing, “I am pushing for a&nbsp;decision.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roughly two hours after that, Commissioner Cribbins replied, “Thanks, Chuck. Anything I can do to&nbsp;help?"</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[docs]</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;records do not show any direct reply to that question. They do show that less than 15 minutes later, Deister wrote back to the group, “Sorry for the delay. We are confirmed as the&nbsp;sponsor.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Thank you, Chuck!” Commissioner Cribbins&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6749501-Melissa-Cribbins-Emails-FOI.html#document/p751/a548997" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">responded</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>We scored a last minute sponsor (Jordan Cove) for a Monday night reception at the Mission,” Eliason&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6749501-Melissa-Cribbins-Emails-FOI.html#document/p747/a549018" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">announced</a>&nbsp;in a group email the next day, indicating that the sponsored event would be on February&nbsp;11, 2019. “We will be sending out an invitation to Commissioners and Legislators&nbsp;today.”</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ethical Questions&nbsp;Arise</font></h3><div style=""><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When a company that's applied for a land use permit offers a gift to a public official, that can create a significant ethics issue, said Craig Holman, an attorney with the watchdog group Public&nbsp;Citizen.</font></p></div><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“What they’re doing is essentially trying to buy favor when it comes to a basic financial reward from government officials,” Holman said, speaking generally and not about the details of this&nbsp;case.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s not clear to what extent any of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6749501-Melissa-Cribbins-Emails-FOI.html#document/p576/a548557" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">discussions</a>&nbsp;shown in the emails would actually cross lines under Oregon’s public ethics&nbsp;rules.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most public officials in Oregon can usually accept gifts like anyone else — but sometimes there are limits to what they can accept. When the official has decision-making power over an issue involving the person or business that paid the tab for the gift, special rules&nbsp;apply.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Generally, food and drink at events aren't counted as “gifts” to public officials,&nbsp;but Oregon’s ethics rules do draw a line in the sand when it comes to accepting certain kinds of free meals. A seat at the table during “organized, planned events” isn't the kind of meal that involves a gift, the rules say — but food and drink can be gifts when they're a part of “private meals where the participants engage in discussion.” The rules detail how to tell the difference between the two kinds of events,&nbsp;<a href="https://oregon.public.law/rules/oar_199-005-0015" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">listing factors</a>&nbsp;like who was invited, whether there were printed programs for the event, and whether the event was&nbsp;publicized.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The day after the February&nbsp;11 catered event, Commissioner Colleen Roberts of Jackson County emailed Commissioner Cribbins and Klamath County Commissioner Derrick DeGroot. “Thank you for your time yesterday to speak to the Pembina pipeline project,” Roberts wrote, sparking a short back and forth about how to view Pembina and its plans to export natural gas at Jordan&nbsp;Cove.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The documents show that Cribbins&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6749501-Melissa-Cribbins-Emails-FOI.html#document/p740/a548707" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">forwarded</a>&nbsp;the exchange between the commissioners to&nbsp;Deister at&nbsp;Pembina.</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another Pembina Sponsorship Request and a Request From Jordan&nbsp;Cove</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Several months later, on June 19, 2019, Melissa Cribbins&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6749501-Melissa-Cribbins-Emails-FOI.html#document/p3/a548654" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">emailed</a>&nbsp;Tasha Cadotte, another Pembina representative, to solicit a $7,500 sponsorship from Pembina for the Association of Oregon Counties 2019 annual&nbsp;conference.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Based on your involvement last year, we are hopeful you will return at the same sponsorship level of $7,500, which included a reception hosted by Jordan Cove on Tuesday evening,” Cribbins wrote, above&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6749501-Melissa-Cribbins-Emails-FOI.html#document/p4/a548656" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a signature</a>&nbsp;listing her titles as an Association of Oregon Counties official and as a Coos County&nbsp;commissioner....</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://yyy.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/20/david-bernhardt-interior-secretary-ethics-jordan-cove</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">revealed: emails raise ethical questions over Trump official's role in gas project</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;This article is more than 3 months old</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Documents obtained by the Guardian suggest interior secretary is promoting effort tied to his former firm</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Supported by</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">About this content</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Will Parrish</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;@willparrishca</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wed 21 Aug 2019 01.00 EDTLast modified on Fri 1 Nov 2019 12.47 EDT</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Bernhardt, seen in January, formerly worked for the lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt, which has promoted the project.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The US interior secretary, David Bernhardt, is promoting a fossil fuel project for which his former employer, a lobbying firm, is a paid advocate, e-mails obtained by the Guardian suggest.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Experts say Bernhardt is probably violating ethics guidelines issued by the Trump administration with the stated goal of “draining the swamp”. Based on these rules, Bernhardt should be recused from specific issues involving a former client for at least two years.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Jordan Cove Energy Project was proposed by the Canadian energy giant Pembina </b>to transport fracked natural gas through Oregon to the international port at Coos Bay in the state. It would include a new 232-mile pipeline that passes through several dozen miles of interior department land.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Several county commissioners from Colorado, where much of the gas is fracked, met with Bernhardt in Washington DC to boost the project in March. They included Mike Samson, Bernhardt’s former high school teacher.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Awesome time in DC he is totally behind the project and has people working on it towards completion,” Samson wrote concerning Bernhardt in a 7 March email to Ray Bucheger, a Jordan Cove lobbyist with the firm FBB Federal Relations. “He recognizes that time is of the essence and that meaningful progress needs to [be] made this year.”</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A screenshot from the email.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;A screenshot from the email.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A separate text message also shows that Bucheger had hosted the county commissioners at a dinner the night before the meeting and had asked Samson to report to him what Bernhardt said about Jordan Cove.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bernhardt represented oil companies and agribusiness interests at the Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck lobbying firm before joining the Trump administration in August 2017. Brownstein Hyatt has worked to promote the Jordan Cove project since December 2018, federal records show.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New records put Trump's interior chief under fresh scrutiny over casino row</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Read more</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Delaney Marsco, legal council at the non-partisan Campaign Legal Center, says that if Samson’s e-mailed description of the meeting is accurate, Berhnardt probably violated the ethics commitment.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The ethics pledge barred Bernhardt from participating in a particular matter where his former employer represents a party to the matter,” Marsco said. “Bernhardt therefore should not have participated in activities surrounding approvals or permits for this project, and he should have taken care to not even appear as though he was personally involved.”</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an emailed statement to the Guardian, an interior department spokesperson, Nick Goodwin, wrote: “Secretary Bernhardt is and always has been committed to upholding his ethical responsibilities. He takes his ethics pledge very seriously. He seeks advice from career ethics officials before taking any meeting involving external parties and strictly follows their advice and guidance. The meeting with officials from Garfield and Moffat Counties was approved by the Departmental Ethics Office.”</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Samson, the Garfield county commissioner, did not immediately return requests for comment.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bernhardt is already under fire for possible ethics violations during his prior stint as assistant interior secretary under Ryan Zinke. The interior department’s inspector general is conducting an ethics investigation of him, which focuses on his role in weakening protections for California’s delta smelt – a policy change that would directly benefit one of his former clients, Westlands Water District.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During his interior department tenure, Bernhardt has been an architect of some of the agency’s most controversial and consequential decisions, including stripping wildlife protections and leasing large swaths of public lands to oil and gas companies.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jordan Cove is a major priority of western oil and gas interests, since it would probably lead to expanded drilling in three major gas fields: the Jonah Field in Wyoming, the Piceance Basin in Colorado, and the Uintah Basin in northern Utah. It has faced strident opposition from indigenous people, environmentalists, and landowners concerned about climate change, impacts on waterways, and the use of eminent domain to seize land.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>An entry in a federal official’s calendar shows that Brownstein Hyatt has specifically lobbied the interior department in regard to the Jordan Cove project. </b>In a telltale sign that industry pressure on the Bureau of Land Management may be working, a BLM web page touts the benefits of the pipeline, even though the agency has not officially ruled on it.</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><b>US interior secretary David Bernhardt is pushing a fossil fuel project that the lobbying firm he used to work for is getting paid from, these e-mails in a Guardian report today suggest.</b></div><div>
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</div><div>Bernhardt worked at the Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck before he quit to join the Trump administration in August 2017.</div><div>
</div><div>At the lobbying firm, Bernhardt represented oil companies.</div><div>
</div><div>Here's an excerpt from one of the leaked emails.</div><div>
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</div><div>Excerpt:</div><div>
</div><div>Experts say Bernhardt is probably violating ethics guidelines issued by the Trump administration with the stated goal of “draining the swamp”. Based on these rules, Bernhardt should be recused from specific issues involving a former client for at least two years.</div><div>
</div><div><b>The Jordan Cove Energy Project was proposed by the Canadian energy giant Pembina</b>&nbsp;to transport fracked natural gas through Oregon to the international port at Coos Bay in the state. It would include a new 232-mile pipeline that passes through several dozen miles of interior department land.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Several county commissioners from Colorado, where much of the gas is fracked, met with Bernhardt in Washington DC to boost the project in March. They included Mike Samson, Bernhardt’s former high school teacher.</span></div><div>
</div><div>“Awesome time in DC he is totally behind the project and has people working on it towards completion,” Samson wrote concerning Bernhardt in a 7 March email to Ray Bucheger, a Jordan Cove lobbyist with the firm FBB Federal Relations. “He recognizes that time is of the essence and that meaningful progress needs to [be] made this year.”</div><div>
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</font></a></font></font></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwihjJGvjffjAhUGKawKHSR-CA0QIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">What's strange, Hartmann points out, is that the justices hadn't ruled that way at all. Even fishier, the court reporter was a former railroad president [source: Hartmann]. Ultimately, since it was a headnote (a commentary prefix to the court record) written by the reporter, it didn't constitute law. But it did set precedent. Two years later, this idea was upheld in another case: Pembina Consolidated Mining and Milling Co. v. Pennsylvania [source: Aljalian]....404 waybck</font></a></font></font></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwihjJGvjffjAhUGKawKHSR-CA0QIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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</font></a></font></font></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwihjJGvjffjAhUGKawKHSR-CA0QIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" color="#000000">Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite 3 stated: The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to... corporations. We are ... of [the] opinion that it does.4&nbsp;</font></a></font></font></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwihjJGvjffjAhUGKawKHSR-CA0QIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" color="#000000">
</font></a></font></font></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwihjJGvjffjAhUGKawKHSR-CA0QIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="" color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Two years later, in <b style="">Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining & Milling Co. v. Pennsylvania</b>,45 the Court reaffirmed corporate personhood under both the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.46 Did the members of the Court exercise legal reasoning, understanding the purpose and conforming to the spirit of the Fourteenth Amendment? Chief Justice Waite was the very justice who stated that to deny women the right to vote was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment,47 and authored opinions which limited the protection of newly-emancipated slaves.48</span></font></a></font></font></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwihjJGvjffjAhUGKawKHSR-CA0QIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></font></font></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwihjJGvjffjAhUGKawKHSR-CA0QIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">...48?&nbsp; See United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875) (refusing to allow federal intervention into various state actions that allegedly breached Fourteenth Amendment protection); United States v. Reese, 92 U.S. 214 (1875) (upholding the dismissal of one of two indictments against Kentucky election inspectors for violating...the Fifteenth Amendment by not allowing an otherwise qualified citizen of African descent to vote); see also OXFORD, supra note 43, at 906. }</font></a></font></font></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwihjJGvjffjAhUGKawKHSR-CA0QIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1478&context=lawreview</font></a></font></font></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwihjJGvjffjAhUGKawKHSR-CA0QIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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</font></a></font></font></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwihjJGvjffjAhUGKawKHSR-CA0QIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Fourteenth Amendment personhood: Fact or fiction?</font></a></font></font></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwihjJGvjffjAhUGKawKHSR-CA0QIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">St. John's Law Review,&nbsp; Spring 1999&nbsp; by Aljalian, Natasha N</font></a></font></font></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwihjJGvjffjAhUGKawKHSR-CA0QIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">===</font></a></font></font></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:uHXBdu2WfecJ:https://www.lngworldnews.com/pembina-moving-forward-with-us-jordan-cove-lng-project/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwihjJGvjffjAhUGKawKHSR-CA0QIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Feb 12, 2013) -As Alberta faces a growing debt<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/02/05/kelly-mcparland-the-stars-align-behind-alberta-carbon-tax/" data-rapid_p="8" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1428" style="text-decoration: none;">reporters are hinting</a>&nbsp;about<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2012/05/25/mit-high-carbon-tax-can-avert-climate-change/" data-rapid_p="9" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1464" style="text-decoration: none;">larger carbon taxes</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>or a sales tax.&nbsp;The Calgary based climate science review group Friends of Science are calling on Premier Redford to reject carbon taxes and to stand up for science.</font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

</font></font><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1407" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></font></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The UN Climate Panel -<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100194166/man-made-global-warming-even-the-ipcc-admits-the-jig-is-up/" data-rapid_p="10" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1458" style="text-decoration: none;">IPCC</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>in recent leaked drafts confirms its catastrophic predictions were wrong. Alberta has based climate change policies on the IPCC forecasts," says Len Maier, P. Eng. and President of the Friends of Science. "The UK Met Weather Office revealed last October there had been no warming in 16 years despite a rise in carbon dioxide (CO2)."IPCC-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ken Gregory, P. Eng. and a director of Friends of Science says, "Albertans should not be held hostage to faulty science or cult thinking. Declining upper atmosphere<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100128_watervapor.html" data-rapid_p="11" style="text-decoration: none;">water vapour</a>, the most important greenhouse gas, counteracts the effect of CO2. The sun is the main driver of climate change. Not CO2."</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Friends of Science reject the<b> Pembina Institute''s</b> on-line anti-<a href="http://www.transcanada.com/keystone.html" data-rapid_p="12" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Keystone</a><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: normal;">&nbsp;</span>rhetoric which proposes extreme carbon taxes on oil sands.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"<a href="http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/11/is-washington-ready-for-a-carb.php#2268748" data-rapid_p="13" style="text-decoration: none;">Industry carbon taxes</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>will automatically trickle down to all taxpayers," says Maier.&nbsp;"Reject carbon taxes. Save the planet from faulty science; save our economy and jobs."&nbsp;</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A group of mostly retired earth and atmospheric scientists, professional engineers and geologists, Friends of Science has been reviewing peer-reviewed science on climate change for over a decade and their conclusion is that the sun is the main driver of climate change cycles, not you or CO<sub style="line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: text-bottom; bottom: -0.25em;">2</sub>.</font>

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</font><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:18pt 0pt 4pt 0pt;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">U.S. Supreme Court</span></font></h2><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:10pt 0pt 4pt 0pt;"><span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania, 125 U.S. 181 (1888)</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining and Milling Company v. Pennsylvania</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">No. 189</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Argued February 16, 1888</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Decided March 19, 1888</span></p><div><span style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" transparent="transparent" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">
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</font><div class="comment" style="max-width: 1215px; overflow: auto;"><span class="commtext c00" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not really; this area of case law is pretty well-established, going back long before the Citizens United decision.</font></span><div class="reply" /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1484" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="background-color: rgb(246, 246, 239);" /><br style="background-color: rgb(246, 246, 239);" /></font></p><table border="0" class="comment-tree" style="background-color: rgb(246, 246, 239);"><tbody><tr class="athing comtr " id="16208520"><td style=""><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="ind" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img src="https://news.ycombinator.com/s.gif" height="1" width="0" /></font></td><td valign="top" class="votelinks" style=""><center><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="up_16208520" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=16208520&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D16208045" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /></font><div class="votearrow" title="upvote" style="width: 10px; height: 10px; border: 0px; margin: 3px 2px 6px; background: url(" grayarrow.gif="grayarrow.gif" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font color="#000000"><a id="up_16208520" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=16208520&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D16208045" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="up_16208520" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=16208520&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D16208045" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /><a id="up_16208520" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=16208520&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D16208045" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /><a id="up_16208520" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=16208520&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D16208045" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /><a id="up_16208520" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=16208520&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D16208045" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /><a id="up_16208520" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=16208520&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D16208045" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /><a id="up_16208520" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=16208520&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D16208045" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /><a id="up_16208520" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=16208520&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D16208045" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /><a id="up_16208520" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=16208520&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D16208045" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /><a id="up_16208520" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=16208520&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D16208045" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /><a id="up_16208520" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=16208520&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D16208045" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /><a id="up_16208520" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=16208520&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D16208045" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /><a id="up_16208520" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=16208520&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D16208045" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></font></div></center></td><td class="default" style=""><div style="margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: -10px;"><span class="comhead" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lotharbot" class="hnuser" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lotharbot</a>&nbsp;<span class="age"><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16208520" style="text-decoration-line: none;">on Jan 22, 2018</a></span>&nbsp;<span id="unv_16208520"><span class="par"><a class="togg" n="1">[-]</a><span class="storyon" /></span></span></font></span></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div class="comment" style="max-width: 1215px; overflow: auto;"><span class="commtext c00" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The great object of an incorporation is to bestow the character and properties of individuality on a collective and changing body of men." - chief justice Marshall</font><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a few of these decisions to be aware of:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px;">The Rev John Bracken v. The Visitors of Wm & Mary College (7 Va. 573 -- 1790 Supreme Court of Virginia) established that a corporation had the right to reorganize itself, ie, that the people working together for a common cause could hire+fire just like they would if there was a single owner</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (17 U.S. 518 -- 1819) established that groups of people could enter into contracts and that they'd be enforceable just as contracts with a "natural person".</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886) established that the 14th amendment (due process) applied to groups of people organized under a common cause, and not just to individuals. This is followed up in Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania – 125 U.S. 181 (1888) which rather explicitly states "corporations are merely associations of individuals united for a special purpose and permitted to do business under a particular name and have a succession of members without dissolution".</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px;">United States v. Auto Workers, 352 U.S. 567 (1957) upheld the ban on corporate campaign funding, but as is so eloquently noted in the dissent, "associations of manufacturers, retail and wholesale trade groups, consumers' leagues, farmers' unions, religious groups, and every other association representing a segment of American life and taking an active part in our political campaigns and discussions" should have "all channels of communication be open to them during every election, that no point of view be restrained or barred, and that the people have access to the views of every group in the community."</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce (1990) and McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003) extended the restriction on campaign funding to also cover advocacy, limiting the speech that could be undertaken by groups of people pooling funds together.</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 844 (2010) overturned the Austin and McConnell decisions. Justice Kennedy: "wealthy individuals and unincorporated associations can spend unlimited amounts .... Yet [under the Austin decision] certain disfavored associations of citizens — those that have taken on the corporate form — are penalized for engaging in the same political speech .... When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful."</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p id="yui_3_16_0_1_1407260974226_1484" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">===</font></p>

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