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America’s largest college mutual fund VA529 owns Spectra Energy, a stranded investment

Parents and grandparents buy 529 college savings plans as safe investments,
so VA529 chose poorly in Spectra Energy,


the very risky company behind the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline now plowing through the Floridan Aquifer drinking water of south Alabama, Georgia, and all of Florida and under the Withlacoochee and Suwannee Rivers against growing opposition.
Maybe you’d like to mention that to

Mary G. Morris, the Chief Executive Officer of Virginia529 College Savings Plan,
the biggest mutual fund investor in both Spectra Energy and in Enbridge, which is buying Spectra.
There’s a handy

VA529 contact form or you can call or write:

1-804-371-0766

Toll-Free: 1-888-567-0540

9001 Arboretum Parkway

North Chesterfield, VA 23236

Spectra is so risky it just sold itself so Enbridge would
take on about $22 billion of Spectra debt.
Debt especially racked up since Continue reading →

Videos: Water, VSU bonds, 3 road abandonments, 1 widening, MIDS bus, Comprehensive Plan @ LCC 2016-10-11



Two weeks ago,

County Manager Joe Pritchard announced that
Commissioner Joyce Evans is now serving as Vice Chairman,
yes, the
resolution to approve the VSU bonds
was requested by the
South Regional Joint Development Authority (SRJDA),
and

John Stevens is the new VDT reporter.

Citizen Shirley Moore said she’d like a connection to
county water and sewer.
They tabled the

Comprehensive Plan update, apparently because the Commissioners wanted to
“dig into it deeper”.

The rest was mostly approving what they
already discussed the previous morning.
They meet again Monday morning.

Below are links to each LAKE video with a few notes, followed by a video playlist.

Continue reading →

Sabal Trail new Contractor Yards, Stewart Co.. and Hog Creek, Colquitt Co. GA Variance Requests 2016-10-17

[CY2-7, Aerial, Stewart County, GA]
Here are

small, big, huge, and PDF maps from Sabal Trail’s variance request yesterday
to FERC asking for more contractor yards, to
drill under a dam in Terrell County, GA,
and to change its easement on a tributary of Hog Creek (tributary of Okapilco Crek)
in Colquitt County, GA, in
FERC

Accession Number: 20161017-5157,
“Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC Request for Notice to Proceed and Variance Request under CP15-17.”

It includes a notice of Administrative Appeal Process by the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, and it looks like the deadline has not expired. Continue reading →

Videos: Meet the Candidates –VLCoC 2016-09-27



Here are LAKE videos of
the candidates running in the November general election at

“Meet the Candidates”
by the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce September 27th 2016.
It seemed less attended than usual, but that may have been due to the larger venue
of Mathis Auditorium dwarfing the audience.
Each got a few minutes to say something, and nobody took questions.
There were tables with information before they spoke.


James Neil Harris said he was curious about the Sabal Trail pipeline,

Teresa K. Moffit said she was against it,

Clay Griner voted to sell Sabal Trail an easement through the closed Lowndes County landfill,
and

Dexter Sharper voted in the Georgia House against river-drilling easements for Sabal Trail.

Below are links to the LAKE video of each candidate speaking, followed by a video playlist.
See also Continue reading →

Videos: Art, hurricane, engineering reports, VSU bonds, 3 road abandonments, 1 widening, MIDS bus, Comprehensive Plan @ LCC 2016-10-10



The Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline and others already in the county
came up in the

Comprehensive Plan approval discussion, as you can see in these
LAKE Videos from Monday morning; they vote tonight 5:30 PM.

Stephen Spradley and Georgia Forestry
were still helping after Hurricane Matthew,
but

Ashley Tye reported on evacuees,
Chad McLeod

reported on engineering projects including the Naylor Boat Ramp at the Alapaha River,
and
Angela Crance reported on

an art district; actually Buddy Boswell did that.

They also heard about a

self storage rezoning,
three

road abandonments, a

road widening, the annual

MIDS bus service renewal,
and
a

county resolution about bonds for another private LLC by the

South Regional Joint Development Authority (SRJDA),
different from the one

with the public hearing October 21st at a private law firm.
What does the resolution say?
It’s not in the documents with
the agenda.

Below are links to each LAKE video with a few notes, followed by a video playlist. Continue reading →

Sabal Trail Alignment Maps from April 2016

Rivers, creeks, roads, and counties in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, labelled on small, big, huge, and PDF versions of each and every
one of the 527 alignment maps Sabal Trail filed with FERC in April 2016 are

on the LAKE website.

[STA. 0+00 TO STA. 53+00, PIPELINE BY STATION, PIPING PLOT PLAN ALEXANDER CITY COMPRESSOR STATION (CS-1), COMPRESSOR STATION WORKSPACE PLOT PLAN, 10+81 CL OAKTASASI ROAD, 4+70 CL STREAM (OAKTASASI CREEK), COMPRESSOR STATION, TALLAPOOSA COUNTY, ALABAMA]

STA. 0+00 TO STA. 53+00, PIPELINE BY STATION, PIPING PLOT PLAN ALEXANDER CITY COMPRESSOR STATION (CS-1), COMPRESSOR STATION WORKSPACE PLOT PLAN, 10+81 CL OAKTASASI ROAD, 4+70 CL STREAM (OAKTASASI CREEK), COMPRESSOR STATION, TALLAPOOSA COUNTY, ALABAMA

PDF

Follow

the link for details of what, and how you can help.

Investigative reporting costs money, for open records requests, copying, web hosting, gasoline, and cameras, and with sufficient funds we can pay students to do further research. You can donate to LAKE today!

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Florida state-owned uplands crossed by Sabal Trail

FDEP is fine with Sabal Trail
boring through the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway in Marion County, FL,

Marjorie Carr Cross Florida Greenway State Recreation and Conservation Area, FLORIDA NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL, Marion Co., FL

as well as
drilling under Suwannee River State Park in Hamilton and Suwannee County, FL.

For that Greenway,
see the maps shown here (click on any one of them for a larger image),
pulled from Sabal Trail’s Continue reading →

Sabal Trail path, Mitchell County, GA

Update 2016-09-25: Added google map.


3 * Raccoon Creek & 8555 GRAVEL HILL RD, Doerun, GA 31744, STA. 9277+00 TO STA. 9330+00, 31.3789230, -84.0439910
Sabal Trail must really like Raccoon Creek, the number of times they cross it
(at least eight times).
Or they really don’t like that creek, considering

the destruction bulldozing for that pipeline is causing.

See the google map and the individual alignment maps shown here (click on any one of them for a larger image),
pulled from Sabal Trail’s alignment sheets of 7 April 2016,
filed with FERC as Continue reading →

Sabal Trail protests continue –VDT 2016-09-23

Front page today in the newspaper of record in the largest city in the Suwannee River Basin:
the WWALS protest against DAPL and Sabal Trail at the US 84 Withlacoochee River bridge last Saturday, between Quitman and Valdosta, GA.


Vdt
Desiree Carver, Valdosta Daily Times, Friday, September 23, 2016, front page,

Sabal protests continue,

The WWALS Watershed Coalition stood on the bridge between Brooks and
Lowndes County Saturday to show solidarity with Dakota Access
Pipeline opponents in Dakota and to continue its battle against the
Sabal Trail natural gas pipeline.

That’s the US 84 bridge over the Withlacoochee River, on the Continue reading →

Sabal Trail destruction at Bell property, Mitchell Co., GA 2016-09-13

See for yourself what Jeb Bell was talking about to GPB, in these videos he sent
of the destruction Sabal Trail is doing on his property.


His father, James Bell, says it started immediately after a small protest Monday,
and is plowing through gopher tortoise burrows, rare pitcher plants, large pine trees bulldozed and burned, and today within 300 yards of his house.
James Bell the elder will be at the US 84 Withlacoochee River bridge 9AM this
Saturday, September 17th 2016, to join the

WWALS Watershed Coalition protest against Sabal Trail and the Dakota Access Pipeline,
which are now

owned by the same companies.
That’s between Quitman and Valdosta, GA; see you there.

Sam Whitehead, GPB News, 15 September 2016,

Sabal Trail Pipeline Plows Through Southwest Georgia, Local Opposition, Continue reading →