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Pipeline resolution, Trash report, Tourism + KLVB appointments @ LCC 2014-12-08

The Resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline

they already sent to FERC is

on
the agenda for voting.
Congratulations in advance for doing that!

Advanced Disposal is back
to report on their trash disposal.
Did they turn in their required written report this time?
How about that

recycling?
ADS’ Steve Edwards scheduled to report is the same who
couldn’t forsee any further acquisitions
before they
bought three more companies.
And a bunch of appointments, contracts, calendars, etc.
in a very full agenda.

Shortly after the previous Commission meeting, almost a month ago,
I filed an open records request for the board packet.
Today at 4:35PM I got a call saying it’s ready.
It takes me 30 minutes to get there.
They close at 5PM.

Here’s

the agenda.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2^nd Floor

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Rezoning and Budget @ Lake Park 2014-12-02

I wonder what they’re amending in the
2014 budget
and what’s in the
2015 budget?
Rezoning
LP-2014-10-20
was previously heard at the

Planning Commission 24 November 2014,
which unanimously recommended approval.
Plus this is local elected body that hears citizens’ concerns
not

once
but

twice.

Thanks to Tabatha Fowler for
the agenda.

120
North Essa Street, Lake

Park, Georgia 31636

A
G E N D A

LAKE
PARK CITY COUNCIL

DECEMBER
2, 2014

7:30
PM

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Bloomberg notices solar now cheaper than all other forms of energy

What Jon Wellinghoff predicted a year ago is starting to filter

into the news media: solar is going to win, and very quickly.
Welcome to a sunny world!

Tom Randall, Bloomberg, 29 October 2014,

While You Were Getting Worked Up Over Oil Prices, This Just Happened to Solar,

After years of struggling against cheap natural gas prices and
variable subsidies, solar electricity is on track Continue reading →

OPEC v. fracking: Russia to win, U.S. LNG export to lose

OPEC just pushed down oil and gas prices,
and the main beneficiary will be Russia.

U.S. and other sanctions to punish Russia for invading Ukraine
already pushed the ruble down, which makes Russian fracking
less exposed to this price drop.
Natural gas prices are falling with oil prices.
So a big winner could be Siberian natural gas fracking for China.
Which could nip U.S. LNG exports at their budding export terminals.
Since LNG export is the most profitable market for fracked methane,
the pipeline craze could go bust.
And that could help the U.S. get on with cheaper, faster, safer, and far
cleaner solar power.

Will Kennedy and Jillian Ward, Bloomberg, 27 November 2014,

OPEC Policy Ensures U.S. Shale Crash, Russian Tycoon Says, Continue reading →

Sabal Trail uses VDT to threaten eminent domain

Andrea Grover’s response to being caught by the VDT
actually knowing about Sabal Trail threats of eminent domain
after she said were “hard to believe” is…
to use the VDT to threaten eminent domain!

The example

the VDT quoted Wednesday
of an eminent domain threatening letter from Sabal Trail’s
Atlanta law firm was dated 26 November 2013.
Yet a year later, today, 28 November 2014, Joe Adgie in
Sabal Trail to install taps in Georgia
quotes Ms. Grover in the VDT: Continue reading →

Videos: Lost Maps, New Vice, Lake Park R-P, Lowndes County C-G, Valdosta R-M @ GLPC 2014-11-24

Complete agenda? Maps? Election process? Calendar? But few people were there to notice these things missing.

At the Work Session we had all maps and things to show you,
but between then and now the digital copies have vanished
off of both laptops.
And we are sort of
at a loss as to where they went but they’re gone.
So if you’ll use the
maps that are in your packet and perhaps some memory from the Work Session discussion….

That’s right, staff lost the digital copies of an agenda item,

CU-2014-11 Normal Life of Georgia.
Board packets on the county’s website would serve as a backup
for copies on planners’ laptops.

Gretchen, who was there, reports further below, including
a note about that charming young white man recently appointed
to the Planning Commission. -jsq

At a brief and poorly attended GLPC meeting, Continue reading →

Could contradict a recent statement by Sabal Trail’s Andrea Grover –VDT

Who exactly is “hard to believe”?

Joe Adgie, VDT, today, 26 November 2014,

Residents share eminent domain letters,

Letters submitted to the Valdosta Daily Times and to the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission could contradict a recent statement by
Sabal Trail’s Andrea Grover.

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Opposes Sabal Trail pipeline in any portion of Lowndes County –Lowndes County Commission

Escalating from

the Chairman’s letter of 11 April 2014,
perhaps after listening to

requests from citizens,
the Lowndes County Commission passed a resolution
wanting no part of Sabal Trail in the county or in the state of Georgia.

Update 2014-11-25: Well, according to

Joe Adgie in the Valdosta Daily Times today,
“Even though the missive has already been mailed [to FERC], the resolution will not be formally voted on until the county commission’s next meeting in December [9th].”

Filed with FERC in docket CP15-17 on 21 November 2014 as

Accession Number: 20141121-5242, but that was a Friday and FERC doesn’t work on weekends, so it actually appeared Monday 24 November 2014.

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, Spectra Energy of Houston, Texas has proposed to build a $3.7 Billion, 460mile natural gas line known as Sabal Trail, and;

WHEREAS, The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners has concerns regarding
personal property rights Continue reading →

Lake Park R-P, Lowndes County C-G, Valdosta R-M @ GLPC 2014-11-24

Thanks to the City of Valdosta for the
agenda for tonight’s Planning Commission meeting.
It’s all small cases, but how would you know whether one of them
might affect you, since Lowndes County still doesn’t post Planning Commission
agendas or minutes or board packets?
And is there a second page?
If the county did post these agendas regularly on their own website,
this sort of omission would be less likely to occur.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue

Monday, November 24, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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Sabal Trail’s eminent domain argument applied to FPL headquarters

The alleged “Project Need” in

Sabal Trail’s Friday FERC docket CP15-17 permit application
to get eminent domain for its 100-foot-wide gouge for a yard-wide hazardous fracked methane pipeline is: Sabal Trail claims it has contracts to sell the gas.
Let’s apply that logic to Sabal Trail co-owner FPL’s headquarters.

This is FPL headquarters at 700 Universe Blvd., Juno Beach, Florida,
in the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s map: Continue reading →

On the LAKE front

Citizen dialog for transparent process by the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange