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Pipeline opposition meeting planned this weekend –VDT

In the

Valdosta Daily Times yesterday.



VALDOSTA — A group of citizens opposed to the Sabal Trail
pipeline will meet at the Valdosta City Hall Annex, 300 N. Lee St.,
Valdosta, GA 31601, Saturday, Nov. 23, from 10 a.m. to noon.

The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the 36-inch natural gas
pipeline that is proposed to run through Colquitt, Brooks and
Lowndes counties.

Contact: Gretchen Quarterman (229) 834-1945, or Beth Gordon (352)
528-0111.

The VDT piece drew from this PR of 19 Nov 2013,

More about the Sabal Trail gas pipeline and how to stop it: SpectraBusters Information Meeting #2.

-jsq

We desperately need your help –Carol Singletary @ VCC 2013-11-07



A local mom said she was one of many landowners being bullied
by a pipeline company and asked for help from local leaders,
at the

7 November 2013 Valdosta City Council Regular Session.


Carol Singletary @ VCC 2013-11-07

Here’s

Part 1 of 2:



Carol Singletary’s impassioned and reasoned plea
got a response from Mayor John Gayle,
even if it was only Continue reading →

Check our work, esp. about the pipeline –Gretchen Quarterman @ LCC 2013-11-12



Fan of local government Gretchen suggested it
“check our work” before whipsawing citizens in for items
that didn’t happen or failing to schedule a public hearing
even after the Chairman asked for it, plus failing do deliver
what was promised in open records requests,
at the

12 November 2013 Lowndes County Commission Regular Session.
Today she’s checking their work at
their secretive Retreat Work Session.

At the Regular Session she noted that the

Sabal Trail item
that was misscheduled for the previous morning
caused several citizens to take off work to come
in for something that didn’t happen.
(You can find out more about that pipeline
Saturday morning at 10AM at the
SpectraBusters Informational Meeting.

She mentioned the

Green Lane item that the Chairman had asked Continue reading →

No Sabal Trail, Dollar General, 3 special tax lighting districts, and mosquitos @ LCC 2013-11-11



“We apologize for any inconvenience.”

No Sabal Trail pipeline presentation this time;
yes it really is December 9th like
the front page of the VDT said.
So the online agenda was incorrect, and

it’s still incorrect
about

Green Lane
which is still listed as “For consideration” when it should be listed
as a Public Hearing.
And another item was listed so obscurely on the
agenda that a Commissioner had to ask “exactly where is this?”
A report turned into an agenda item for the
Alapaha Water Treatment Plant,
and an item for
“Consideration of Back Pay for 911 Employees”
has appeared on

the amended agenda with no public discussion.
How are citizens to know what their elected officials are going to
vote on tonight at 5:30 PM if the agenda changes all the time
yet is still incorrect?

Plus they could take up Nottinghill even though

the Planning Commission recommended tabling,
there’s yet another Dollar General proposed
(see

Planning Commission video,
three decorative special tax lighting districts,
mosquito control, pump replacement, the annual MIDS bus service
contract, a beer license,
the return of Green Lane (why isn’t that one

a pubic hearing as promised last time?)
something about NOAA, and an agreement with the Lowndes County
Board of Elections:
will they stop

changing the precincts every year?

Here’s

the agenda.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

AMENDED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

Sabal Trail, Dollar General, 3 special tax lighting districts, and mosquitos @ LCC 2013-11-11



Nevermind what the front page of the VDT said
about December 9th:
the Sabal Trail pipeline presentation is on the agenda for Monday morning, 8:30 AM.
Or maybe Tuesday evening, 5:30 PM; it doesn’t say, but if they’re sticking
to at least the Work Session part of the request from Demarcus Marshall,
it’s tomorrow morning.

Plus they could take up Nottinghill even though

the Planning Commission recommended tabling,
there’s yet another Dollar General proposed
(see

Planning Commission video,
three decorative special tax lighting districts,
mosquito control, pump replacement, the annual MIDS bus service
contract, a beer license,
the return of Green Lane (why isn’t that one

a pubic hearing as promised last time?)
something about NOAA, and an agreement with the Lowndes County
Board of Elections:
will they stop

changing the precincts every year?

Here’s
the agenda.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

AMENDED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

Commissioners listened about the pipeline @ LCC 2013-10-22

Commissioners at least listened about the proposed Sabal Trail Transmission
pipeline,
at the

Lowndes County Commission Regular Session 2013-10-22.
Now what will they do?



Video.
The Chairman started out reiterating his disclaimer of county responsibility from back in June,
but
at least this time said they’d take a look at it and they understood
what people were going through.
Carol Singletary started to respond, and Slaughter said they would
talk to her in a few minutes.
And they did.

Here’s

Part 1 of 2:



Commissioners listened about the pipeline Part 1 of 2:

Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 October 2013.



Video of after adjournment. See

previous post about how unusual Continue reading →

It was an outright threat –Ronald Kicklighter on Sabal Trail pipeline @ LCC 2013-10-22

A citizen didn’t appreciate a pipeline company’s bullying,
especially when a second pipeline would make his land mostly
useless and hard to sell,
at the

Lowndes County Commission Regular Session 2013-10-22.



Video.
He said he had an existing pipeline less than fifty feet from his back yard,
and this one would be less than sixty feet on the other side,
wiping out the use of much of his property,
including planting trees.
He said he probably couldn’t even sell his property with two pipelines on it.
He asked for help from the Commission.

Commissioner Crawford Powell asked for the name of the road Kicklighter lived on.

Here’s

the video: Continue reading →

This company is awful –Phillip Singletary on Sabal Trail pipeline @ LCC 2013-10-22

A citizen brought up the sordid health and safety record Spectra Energy,
at the

Lowndes County Commission Regular Session 2013-10-22.



Video.
He thanked Commissioner Marshall for coming to the
Spectra pipeline meeting at Wiregrass Tech 16 Oct 2013,
and said that meeting wasn’t very informative.
He asked Commissioners to put themselves in the landowner’s place.

Also to consider that there’s nothing in Georgia that needs a 36″ gas
pipeline, which is actually going to to a power plant in Florida,
coming out of Alabama.
He wondered why it couldn’t run down highway rights of way instead.

He remarked on catastrophic failures, and noted the pipline company,
Spectra, had been fined

a record $15 million for PCB cleanup along another pipeline.


“This company is awful,”

he said.
He noted

a gas explosion of that size pipe could take out two football fields.
He wondered if the pipeline would go through the county’s closed landfill.

He recommended they, as Commissioners or as individuals,

contact FERC.
He asked for them to set up a meeting with Spectra.
They did later

schedule Spectra to speak at their 9 December 2013 Work Session.

Here’s

the video: Continue reading →

Help the citizens of Lowndes County –Carol Singletary on Sabal Trail pipeline @ LCC 2013-10-22

A plea for help was at least partially heard by the Lowndes County Commission
at their

Regular Session 2013-10-22.



Video.
A landowner in the path of the proposed Sabal Trail Transmission pipeline
reminded the Commissioners of their own

mission statement,
mentioned the
Spectra pipeline meeting at Wiregrass Tech 16 Oct 2013,
said the letter the pipeline company sent her cited

Georgia law about eminent domain,
and urged Commissioners to

contact FERC.
She said:

You have a way to help the citizens of Lowndes County. … If you go
on record saying you don’t have any impact, where does that leave
us?

Commissioner John Page

asked her to remain after the meeting so he could “gather some more information from her”.
See

separate post.

Here’s

the video: Continue reading →

Florida PSC terminates Levy County 1 & 2 nukes, charges Duke customers, settles Crystal River 3



Remember, Georgia,

Georgia Power can continue to charge you for
Plant Vogtle 3 and 4 even after they’re canceled,
just like Duke is doing for Levy County in Florida.
Beware: Duke’s idea of a replacement is

a natural gas plant powered by a 36″ pipeline on a 100′ right of way
gashed through Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.



And while Duke customers will get refunds for permanently-closed Crystal River 3,
FL PSC also slid in a new tax:
“promotes community growth through economic development tariffs.”
A tariff is, according to Investopedia:

A tax imposed on imported goods and services. Tariffs are used to
restrict trade, as they increase the price of imported goods and
services, making them more expensive to consumers. They are one of
several tools available to shape trade policy.

Curious how FL PSC redefines restraints on trade as promoting growth.

FL PSC PR of 17 October 2013,

PSC Decides Revised Settlement Agreement for Duke Energy Florida, Inc., Continue reading →