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Sabal Trail pipeline disruptive for what gain? –Valdosta Today

The same Monday that
the Dougherty County Commission passed a resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline,

Valdosta Today editorialized against it.

S.E. (Chip) Harp, Valdosta Today Editor, 27 October 2014,

Proposed Pipeline will Disrupt south Georgia, but for What Gain?,

SASSER — The proposed (and likely) Sabal Trail natural gas
pipeline will impact most residents in south Georgia, bringing
additional natural gas supplies to Florida “while increasing
the diversity and reliability of the region’s energy-delivery system
and positively impacting the economy in the Southeast, specifically
Alabama, Georgia and Florida”, per Sabal Trail reports.

However, as has been seen already, it will also have a negative
impact on many area businesses, landowners and residents, especially
agricultural-based businesses. One of those affected is produce and Continue reading →

Sabal Trail in GWC Dirty Dozen –VDT

Joe Adgie
wrote for the VDT today 23 October 2014,

Coalition: Sabal one of Dirty Dozen,

VALDOSTA — The Georgia Water Coalition has named the proposed
Sabal Trail pipeline as one of its Dirty Dozen for 2014, which
highlights “12 of the worst offenses to Georgia’s
waters,” according to the organization.

The pipeline is proposed to run under the Withlacoochee river, near
Valdosta.

Joe Adgie also took the first picture above, of
Logan Hulsey and Blake Clark
of
Students Against Violating the Environment (S.A.V.E.)
at
yesterday’s protest in front of the Valdosta Sabal Trail office.
The other illustrations here are from

WWALS Watershed Coalition
about that
Dirty Dozen item #9,

Sabal Trail pipeline threatens Withlacoochee River and Floridan Aquifer,

In a

press release,
the GWC cited the risk of contaminating
southwest Georgia’s well water, rivers and streams, as well
Continue reading →

Protest at Valdosta Sabal Trail office 2014-10-21

Joe Adgie wrote for the VDT 22 October 2014,

Residents protests Sabal Trail,

VALDOSTA — A group of around 40 Valdosta and Lowndes County
residents went to the Sabal Trail’s Valdosta office on Tuesday
afternoon in protest of the group’s proposed pipeline.

The group, many of which carried signs displaying their opposition
to the pipeline, discussed the impact of a pipeline on the area.

Dr. Michael Noll, president of Wiregrass Activists for Clean Energy,
discussed wanting to educate the community about the dangers of a
natural gas pipeline.

“We also want to Continue reading →

WCTV on Sabal Trail pipeline activism

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.

“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
video: Continue reading →

Protest today against Sabal Trail pipeline

It’s a bad week for Sabal Trail and its proposed fracked methane pipeline,
with three back-to-back protests today alone (March and Protest in Valdosta, GA plus Development Authority meeting, and Protest at Sabal Trail Open House in Jasper, FL, plus Hamilton and Suwannee County Commission meetings)
after one yesterday (at Albany Open House and Dougherty County Commission) and more to come. Continue reading →

The Case of the Six Missing Screams: Nydia Tisdale’s video edited by sheriff’s office?

It looks like the “public” Pumpkin Farm Republican campaign rally headlined by Gov. Nathan Deal
not only caused a citizen journalist to be roughed up and
evicted, and her camera taken, apparently the local law edited
her video recording to remove the sound of her screams.

Jim Galloway wrote 22 September 2014,

The Case of the Six Missing Screams,

You’ll remember Tisdale as the citizen-journalist from Roswell who
was arrested in August at a GOP rally at a pumpkin farm in
Dawsonville for pointing a video recorder at candidates. Which is
what she does.

In front of the top of the GOP ticket, including Gov. Nathan Deal,
Tisdale was grabbed — then roughed up. Her camera was Continue reading →

VDT Open Government Symposium: in Macon?

Yay open government symposium!
But why in Macon, why not in Valdosta,

if it’s organized by the new VDT editor?
Sure, Macon is the geographic center of the state, but it’s only
about an hour from Atlanta, and one thing most people in Atlanta don’t
understand is how big Georgia is, so asking them to drive four hours
to Valdosta would be educational for them.
And if the VDT is so interested in government transparency,
why doesn’t it investigate the county’s lawsuit against local business Deep South Sanitation
at the expense of the local taxpayers that benefits nobody but
“exclusive franchise” ADS and its investors in New York City?
Why is the VDT’s front page story that gave a platform for
Spectra’s Andrea Grover no longer online, especially now that
the Sabal Trail deadline she announced has been busted?
Let’s see the VDT lead the way.
Here’s a first test:
Gretchen is going to Macon with the LAKE video camera.
Will the VDT let her video?

Unsigned article, VDT, 11 October 2014,

VDT leading way in open government, Continue reading →

China can go 80% sun, wind, water power by 2050 –WWF

If the most populous country in the world can do it,
even the Sunshine State and the rest of the world can do it.
With no new nuclear,
depending heavily on on energy efficiency and conservation,
using China’s huge number of rooftops for solar power,
with almost as much wind power, plus a bit more hydropower,
China can go 80% renewable energy by 2050.
While reducing energy use per capita and increasing
GDP per capita.
So this path will not only improve Chinese quality of life
by getting rid of massive pollution by

reducing emissions 90% from
otherwise-projected levels; it will also give Chinese citizens
more money in their pockets.
China has no more sunshine than the U.S. or much of Canada does,
so there’s no reason the Canada, U.S., and pretty much every country can’t do this, too. Continue reading →

SolarCity in Buffalo: 1,000 megawatts capacity, 3,000 jobs

Three times as many millios of dollars invested as expected, 3,000 jobs, and
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says “they could have gone anywhere on the planet”.
They could have come here.
They went to snowy Buffalo.

David Robinson wrote for Buffalo News 23 September 2014,

‘Historic day for Buffalo,’ Zemsky says of SolarCity RiverBend plans,

SolarCity’s planned factory in South Buffalo — and the 3,000
jobs that come with it — packs a powerful economic punch.

To be built on the former Republic Steel plant site in South
Buffalo, the factory is expected to bring more new jobs to the
region than the steel maker ever had in its heyday.

With the ability to make enough solar panels to generate more than
1,000 megawatts of electricity, the factory would be Continue reading →

Suwannee County Chairman denied his Sabal Trail coments after FPL talked to him

Last month,

Phil Oxendine volunteered that he and the county attorney were
looking into passing a resoulution against the Sabal Trail pipeline
like other counties were doing.
Yet at this months meeting of the
Suwannee County Board of County Commissioners
he denied he even said that, after Florida Power and Light (FPL)
showed up.

Amber Vann wrote for the Suwannee Democrat 19 September 2014,

Gas pipeline concerns continue, Continue reading →

On the LAKE front

Citizen dialog for transparent process by the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange