Coos Bay - It's safe to say that the Jordan Cove LNG Project possibly coming to the area has raised a number of questions from the community, and the South Coast Development Council is taking steps to help find some answers.

SCDC has hired EcoNorthwest, an independent research company to analyze and develop a white paper that will measure the economic impact of the Jordan Cove Project being in the area.

Ron Opitz, Executive Director of SCDC, says there already are statistics about LNG's economic impacts, but this study will be tailored to the bay area and very reliable.

"LNG coming to the area we know will have some positive impacts, we don't know to what degree and that's what we want to measure and what we want to make available to the public," said Opitz.

"It's independent, they do their own research, they do their own paper. SCDC has commissioned them to do that, and we felt it was important to answer those questions."

Opitz says that SCDC has taken a real leadership role for the economic development of the south coast which is why the study needs to be done.

"It will be available to the public to look at and to look through, and to digest, and it will give them an idea of what this means to the area or what it doesn't mean. So, we really want to find out and measure what the economic impact is in our area."

This isn't the first time EcoNorthwest has done research in the area, they also conducted a similar study the led to the new airport terminal.