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Southern Company Stockholder Meeting 2019-05-22

In this year’s pilgrimage to Pine Mountain,
we will hear how part of Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning’s compensation
will be tied to meeting the company’s low-carbon goals.

When:
10AM, Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Where:
The Lodge Conference Center at Callaway Gardens,

4500 Southern Pine Drive, Pine Mountain, Georgia 31822

What:

Southern Company 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders


Microgrids and batteries, Annual Report

That Annual Report page on Microgrids and Batteries
looks good. Until you start to notice what’s missing from the documents.


Energy Mix, Annual Report
So does this comparison of energy mixes in 2007 and 2018,
at least as far as “Hydro, Wind, Solar” going from 1 to 11%.
However, quite lacking is Continue reading →

Pipelines companies don’t detect corrosion or stop explosions

A reminder of why to stop pipeline companies from burying investors’ money in the ground and get on with solar power:
the pipeline that exploded in Texas last week was
half owned by Spectra Energy,



the pipeline company behind
Sabal Trail, AIM, Penneast, and numerous other fracked methane invasions
and behind thirty years of undetected corrosion resulting in leaks, explosions, property damage, and deaths.
The pipeline company didn’t detect it and couldn’t even turn it off quickly.
Want to bet that it,
like Spectra’s Pennsylvania explosion last spring, was corrosion?

A very Texas report said “no people or cattle were injured”
and also notice: “The fire is under control and will burn itself out.” Continue reading →

FPL admits no need for new electricity until 2024: so why Sabal Trail?

17%, 13%, now 0% new electricity needed in Florida, according to FPL?


And the Sabal Trail excuse of coal plant “modernization” has already been
accomplished without Sabal Trail?
While even FPL is now deploying solar power and admits solar “is now significantly influencing FPL’s resource planning”?
So what is the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline boondoggle for, then?

Two years ago

I pointed out that FPL’s own projections in its ten-year plans
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A newspaper opposes the pipeline: the Spectator



A major big city daily?
A local newspaper of record along the proposed pipeline path?
Nope: the Valdosta State University student newspaper, The Spectator,
has done what its bigger newspaper colleagues have not dared:
oppose the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline and demand renewable
energy instead.
Where students lead, maybe their elders will follow.

Editorial in The Spectator 1 May 2014 (I added the links and images),

Pipeline a risk to Valdosta, Continue reading →

Valdosta City Council member Tim Carroll files with FERC



Tim Carroll, District 5, has filed a request based on property
rights and water issues for the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) to deny the Sabal Trail Transmission methane
pipeline that Spectra Energy wants to run through Lowndes County.
Here’s the letter:
Property rights and water: please deny the Sabal Trail methane
pipeline –Tim Carroll, Valdosta City Council,
5th District

Valdosta is the county seat of Lowndes County, Georgia, and at
least one landowner with land in the path of that proposed pipeline
lives in the City of Valdosta in Council Carroll’s district.

-jsq

I don’t want to have to fear for my children as they sleep at night –Mindy Bland on WCTV @ LCC 2013-12-10



The Commission didn’t let citizens speak after

Spectra’s sales pitch for the Sabal Trail Pipeline Monday,
but some citizens spoke up in Citizens to Be Heard Tuesday
and WCTV covered that.

Winnie Anne Wright wrote for WCTV yesterday,

Citizens Address Lowndes County Commission About Sabal Trail Pipeline,

Residents covered topics such as the lack of economic impact on
Lowndes County, the legality of the pipeline, and also the safety.

“As a mother of three, I don’t want to have to fear for my children
as they sleep at night. And you hear a lot of people say that
natural gas line explosions don’t happen, and for those that feel
that they don’t, I really encourage them to go on the internet and
google gas line explosions and then tell me that they don’t happen.
As a mother, I feel like I have to step up and do what I can to
protect my children”, says Mindy Bland, an impacted homeowner.

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