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
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.
Here are videos of last month’s event organized by
VDT editor Jim Zachary, director of the Transparency Project of Georgia,
and Holly Manheimer, director of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation,
adding to
the still picture we already posted.
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.
RESOLUTIONWHEREAS, 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
First time ever the VDT mentioned LAKE, so far as I can recall.
And we’ll see if the new VDT editor’s honeyed approach works this
time with the Lowndes County Commission.
Joe Adgie, VDT, 23 November 2014,
Watchdogs use open government laws to the fullest,
Not everyone at the
Open Government Symposium on Friday were
affiliated with a government.
Some of them, like John and Gretchen Quarterman, serve as watchdogs
for the government. These watchdogs attend the open, public meetings
held by governing bodies, acquire the documents and records of these
meetings and other governmental affairs, and serve to make sure our
local governments behave like they should.The Quartermans run the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), a
repository of Continue reading
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
Here is the
board packet for the
11 November 2014 Regular Session
and
10 November 2014 Work Session of the Lowndes County Commission.
Although the County Clerk once again provided this packet only on paper
and only in black and white, we got via CD-ROM color maps for
REZ-2014-17 Grand Bay Estates
and
REZ-2014-18 White
from County Planner Jason Davenport in response to a separate Open Records Request.
The request to the County Clerk also asked for
electronic copy, but once again she chose not to honor that part of the request.
But who can say?
Perhaps things will be different after
the Open Government Symposium this Friday, 21 November 2014.
Meanwhile, I have already filed an Open Records Request for the board packet
for the next County Commission meeting, which is in December.
-jsq
Repeat speaker Dr. Michael Noll asked the Commissioners
to do what Dougherty County has done and pass a resolution
against the unnecessary and hazardous Sabal Trail pipeline,
in
the 11 November 2014 Lowndes County Commission Regular Session.
Video.
Like the previous speaker,
Dr. Noll asked everyone there about this topic to stand up,
and about 30 people did. Continue reading
A first-time speaker against the Sabal Trail pipeline
demonstrated there was opposition and reminded us all we have
a voice, and asked the Lowndes County Commission to speak up as well,
in
the 11 November 2014 Lowndes County Commission Regular Session.
Video.
Robbie Dixon
said he had been approached by their contractors asking to reroute
the pipeline onto his property, which would take about half his property.
He asked anybody in the audience who was there about Sabal Trail
to stand up. About 30 people did.
He said he did that because
there are a lot of rumors that only a few people were concerned.
He said there was no local benefit to landowners,
and any potential tax benefit to the county shouldn’t
be considered without consideration of the ill effects to landowners. Continue reading
“Why do we have to kneel before their wishes? How is it that a single foreign corporation can have greater power and say than the hundreds of property owners and their supporters?” asked Jim Parker
in
the 11 November 2014 Lowndes County Commission Regular Session. Continue reading
