Update 2023-09-12: Videos: Grant match for Dark Sky and resolution against mine too near Okefenokee Swamp @ Clinch County Commission 2023-09-11

Update 2023-08-10: Chainsaw cleanup, Outings, Boat Ramps, Okefenokee Swamp –Suwannee Riverkeeper @ Clinch County Commission 2023-08-07.

It was a brief agenda at the Clinch County Commission, with roads and taxes, plus boat ramps and a proposed resolution against the strip mine too near the Okefenokee Swamp.

Collage @ Clinch County Commission 2023-08-07

Below are pictures, LAKE videos of each agenda item, and links to documents, followed by a LAKE video playlist.

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Agenda, Clinch County Commission, 2023-08-07
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Stills

Chairman Henry Moylan, Vice-Chairman Chad Brown D2, Debra Thomas D4, Bob Johnson D1, Roger Metts D3, Clinch County Commission

Videos

• Review and Adoption of the Agenda
  

  Video.

• Approval of Minutes
  

  Video.

1. Fargo Boat Ramps and Resolution Against Strip Mine in the Okefenokee Swamp – Mr. John S. Quarterman, Suwannee Riverkeeper

• Chainsaw outing –John S. Quarterman, Suwannee Riverkeeper
  

  Video.

Suwannee River Chainsaw Outing 2023-06-10

WWALS

Upcoming WWALS outings in Tannin Times membership newsletter
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1.a. Boat Ramps Above Fargo

• 1.a. Boat Ramps Above Fargo –Suwannee Riverkeeper
  

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Drawdy Mill Road –Andrew Schock, The Conservation Fund
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Landing Miles

Above Fargo Suwannee River Boat Ramps
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Griffis Fish Camp Landing

Allen Camp Landing

Sport Camp Landing

Long Camp Landing

Drawdy Mill Landing

Three Steps Landing

Fargo Ramp

1.b. Resolution Against Strip Mine near the Okefenokee Swamp

• 1.b. Resolution Against Strip Mine near the Okefenokee Swamp
  

  Video.

Suwannee Riverkeeper

WHEREAS, Clinch County prides itself on timber, blueberries, and honeybees; and
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WHEREAS, the main mined mineral from such mines is titanium dioxide, whose main use is for white paint, which is not worth risking the Okefenokee Swamp, the Suwannee River, or the Floridan Aquifer, and;

WHEREAS, the current TPM permit applications are for a demonstration site, yet they own hundreds more acres they plan to mine ever-closer to the Okefenokee Swamp

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Clinch County Board of Commissioners: 1. Oppose the Twin Pines Minerals LLC (TPM) strip mine near the Okefenokee Swamp, as well as

2. LMIG 2024

• 2. LMIG 2024, Jaclyn James, Clinch County Administrator
  

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Jaclyn James, Clinch County Administrator

3. Tax Levy 2023

• 3. Schedule Called Meeting to Adopt Tax Levy 2023
  

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• Into Executive Session
  

  Video.

Here’s a LAKE video playlist:

Videos: Boat Ramps, Okefenokee Swamp, LMIG, Taxes @ Clinch County Commission 2023-08-07
Homerville, Clinch County, Georgia.
Video by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).

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