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Spectra Energy fined $15 million for PCB spills at 89 pipeline sites –EPA



Those

PHMSA fines weren’t the half of Spectra Energy’s leaks and environmental
violations.
Do we want a record-EPA-fined pipeline company running PCBs through our counties?
Don’t we have enough
PCBs in the ADS landfill in Lowndes County
that’s

in a recharge zone for the aquifer we all drink out of?
Haven’t we already

imported enough hazardous wastes from the Seven Out Superfund site in Waycross?
Maybe the Lowndes County Commission should hear about these things tonight.

L.A. Times, 21 October 1989,

Pipeline Firm to Pay Record EPA Fine, Continue reading →

Path of proposed pipeline through Lowndes County

That pipeline that starts in
PCB-polluted Anniston, Alabama, where would it cross Lowndes County?

Two routes, one north to south, another from Brooks County southeast
to the Florida line.


Pipeline points with streets
Pipeline points with imagery

On

this google map,
A is the land mentioned in

Massive pipeline project may cross Lowndes, by Jason Schaeffer, VDT, 30 June 2013,
B, C, and D several of the parcels listed in the

letters Sabal Trail Transmission LLC sent Lowndes County
(another is very near D).
They all form pretty much a straight line north to south.
The actual route probably Continue reading →