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Pipeline in Floridan Aquifer is total insanity –Marcellus Shale drilling veteran @ FERC Lake City 2015-10-01



“If you go through with this, you stand a very good chance
of destroying this [the Floridan Aquifer] the rest of our lifetimes.
And in many lifetimes to come.”
Said Marcellus shale drilling veteran Rocky Stewart

to FERC in Lake City, Florida, October 1st 2015.
Transcript and video:

I am a homeowner in Suwannee County,
by Boys Ranch,
I currently do not live there, I live in Corpus Christi [Texas].
I’m sure some people here regard me as the enemy,
but I am in total opposition to what you all have planned.

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Insanity: Sabal Trail pipeline in karst sinkhole Floridan Aquifer @ FERC Lake City 2015-10-01



“What you all have proposed is total insanity….
experts lie…
The companies, they don’t care.
It’s just greed and arrogance,”
said

a Marcellus Shale drilling veteran.
Karst mitigation

won’t work
according to

Sabal Trail’s own FERC filings,

children downwind of compressor, Sabal Trail

quashing evidence
of its

unwanted, unneeded, and unsafe Sinkhole Pipeline,
and

FERC is cigarette companies pushing cancer cigarettes:
on the wrong side of history.
We

aren’t your test subjects
and we can win!

Videos from previous FERC meetings:

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WCTV on Sabal Trail pipeline activism


300x151 Sabal Trail Right of Way, in One Year After Sabal Trail Announces Pipeline Plans, Activists Begin Monthly Protests, by WCTV, 21 October 2014

Going on a year after

Sabal Trail opened an office in Valdosta,
WCTV used the latest protests to do a retrospective.

Winnie Wright reported for WCTV today, 22 October 2014,

One Year After Sabal Trail Announces Pipeline Plans, Activists Begin Monthly Protests,

Time may have passed, but opinions haven’t changed much here in
Valdosta, where people..who are against the pipeline say there are
countless reasons why it doesn’t belong in their backyards.


300x154 Gretchen Quarterman, in One Year After Sabal Trail Announces Pipeline Plans, Activists Begin Monthly Protests, by WCTV, 21 October 2014
“There’s a moral obligation to leave the world as beautiful and
majestic as we found it, and the pipeline; it does not do that”,
says Gretchen Quarterman, President of the Lowndes County Democratic
Party.

LCDP statement against the pipeline.

WCTV
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Sinkhole under houses in The Villages, Florida, 20 miles from Sabal Trail pipeline path

Yet another sinkhole in Florida.
And guess what goes within 20 miles of that Florida retirement community?
The proposed Sabal Trail Transmission methane pipeline.
Does poking holes in the already-fragile karst limestone
that holds up houses and contains our drinking water,
anywhere in Florida or south Georgia,
sound like a good idea to you?

Susan Jacobson wrote for Orlando Sentinel, 19 April 2014,

Sinkhole in The Villages threatens 2 homes,



This sinkhole was growing April 19, 2014 near 2 houses in The Villages.
(Helicon Property Restoration)

A large sinkhole has opened under two houses in The Villages.

A picture provided by Helicon Property Restoration, which is working
to stabilize the hole, shows a house teetering at the edge.

Video in report by Lisa McDonald for WKMG, Orlando, 19 April 2014,

Crews fill sinkhole that threatened 2 homes in The Villages:

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Water issues under Moody Family Housing –Dr. Michael Noll @ LCC 2014-03-11

Water issues still need to be investigated and resolved under
the proposed Moody Family Housing,
said Dr. Michael Noll,
presenting a public comment by him and two other VSU professors about the recent

evironmental assessment
to the

11 March 2014 Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.

Here’s

the video:



Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC)

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 11 March 2014.

Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).

Appended is the text of the VSU professors’ letter,
and here it is in
PDF.

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Ground-penetrating radar and karst topography –Michael Noll @ LCC 2013-08-13



Yes, we can look under the ground at the Moody Family Housing site,
and it won’t take very long,
said a VSU professor
at the

13 August 2013 Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.

Dr. Michael Noll further answered

Commisioner Richard Raines’ previous question
as to what Dr. Noll was offering
regarding REZ-2013-09 Moody Family Housing
by saying


VSU does have ground-penetrating radar equipment on campus,
and a survey would take only a few weeks.
Here’s

an example of VSU work using that equipment.

Here’s

the video:



Ground-penetrating radar and karst topography –Michael Noll

Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 13 August 2013.

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Karst subsidence beneath a house in Lowndes County –Don Thieme @ LCC 2013-08-13

Received yesterday on

Florida sinkholes spreading real estate effects in same Aquifer as under Lowndes County. -jsq


Scanning
John — Thank you for pressing forward on this important issue for the
airmen and their families at Moody AFB as well as for all citizens of
Lowndes County. My colleagues and I are also concerned and hope that we
can eventually obtain the Phase I geotechnical study. Of course, we have
our own research agendas as well as a desire to see our students working
on these problems close to their own university campus. In particular,
one of my undergraduate students just completed his thesis on karst
subsidence beneath a house in Lowndes County. Here is a link to a poster
where he presented those finding to our undergraduate research conference:

GPR Investigation of Subsidence.

-Don Thieme

Ground-Penetrating Radar Investigation of Subsidence

in Covered Karst near Valdosta

Benjamin Davis, Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Geosciences

Faculty Sponsor: Donald M. Thieme

Abstract

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