Tag Archives: Palmetto Project

Southern Company buying half of SONAT from KMI

SO is buying 50% of SONAT from KMI,
as multiple people have pointed out,
including someone from Southern Company.

SO: SONAT in the Southeast
Unfortunately SO is not just investing in existing pipelines:
this purchase is about
“specific growth opportunities”,
and yes, it’s tied to

SO’s recent purchase of AGL.
Southern Company needs to stop plugging dying 20th century fossil fuels
and get on with what it’s already started with solar power (and offshore wind).

Southern Company PR 10 July 2016,

Southern Company, Kinder Morgan enter Southern Natural Gas pipeline strategic venture, Continue reading →

Sabal Trail front page Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Now that Atlanta has finally taken notice there’s even more reason
to repel these pipeline invaders.

300x434 Page A1, in Sabal Trail front page Atlanta Journal-Constitution, by John S. Quarterman, 3 April 2015
There’s still time to submit an amicus brief for the

court case in Leesburg, Georgia.
And time to file an ecomment or an out-of-time motion to intervene against Sabal Trail.
Or against

Elba Island LNG
or against

Transco and Atlanta Gas Light’s Dalton Expansion Project.
Or to oppose

Kinder Morgan’s southeast Georgia Palmetto oil pipeline
at the Georgia Department of Transportation or GA-EDP.
Both those state agencies have to provide permits for Sabal Trail
to get the Georgia emininent domain it demands in Leesburg,
so they are relevant to Sabal Trail, as well, as is your opinion
and those of all local elected governments in Georgia.

Dan Chapman, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 3 April 2015,

Pipeline project fuels fight on state’s future,

Regardless of route, Sabal Trail opponents fear pipeline
construction could create sinkholes Continue reading →

GA Senate unanimously approved solar financing bill

Friday’s vote started at least a year and a half ago.
Organized years-long activism is paying off for everyone.



Summer before last, after statewide requests by Georgia Sierra Club, Greenlaw, and many others: Georgia PSC required Georgia Power to buy twice
as much solar power.
About a year later, Mary Landers, Savannahnow, 18 November 2014, Georgia is fastest growing solar market,

Last year the Georgia Public Service Commission approved a motion
for Georgia Power, the state’s largest utility, to add 525 MW of
solar power generation to its portfolio by 2016.

“That pushed out the growth of solar, especially projecting
forward,” Continue reading →