The site proposed for the Jordan Cove Energy Project is located on property controlled by the International Port of Coos Bay, which is zoned for industrial development.
About 675 private landowners,[11] would be compensated by the pipeline company for the use of their land, with prices set either through negotiation or via the legal process of eminent domain seizure.
[14] According to PBS Newshour the original intent was for the facility to be used to import natural gas into the US, prior to the development of the exploitation of petroleum resources through "fracking".
The current lead investor in the Jordan Cove terminal is Veresen, an energy infrastructure company based in Calgary, Alberta.
[18] In June 2015, the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, the local Native American tribe, brought their grave concerns before the Jordan Cove Board stating the project directly impacts cultural, historical and archeological resources located throughout Jordan Cove.
[20] On March 25, Veresen announced that they had found a potential buyer for the gas that would be exported, which was a consortium of Japanese utilities, but no contracts were signed.
This included purchasing riot control equipment, monitoring the activities of Jordan Cove opponents, and coordinating intelligence-gathering operations with private security companies working for Pembina.
[24] Despite no evidence of committing crimes, these investigations documented how the environmental and Indigenous groups opposing the pipeline were surveilled by the Oregon TITAN Fusion Center under the pretext of "counterterrorism."
[25][26] The Jordan Cove LNG project has been long opposed by impacted communities, including landowners, Tribes, commercial fishermen, and more across Southern Oregon for over a decade.