COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) — The Pacific Northwest’s only native oyster won’t stand in the way of a proposed natural-gas pipeline in Coos County after commissioners voted to move forward with a land-use permit for the pipeline.
The Coos Bay World reports (http://bit.ly/wUWixF ) the Coos County Board of Commissioners has voted to approve the permit for Pacific Connector’s 2.4-mile stretch of pipeline. The pipeline would lead to a gas terminal on the North Spit.
A group that opposes the pipeline had argued that commissioners had not given adequate consideration to the effect of construction on Olympia oysters.
But an independent adjudicator released a report in January that deemed that Olympia oysters were scarce in the inlet and so harm appeared minimal.
