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Sabal Trail opposition at Thomas County Commission @ TCC 2014-12-09



Thomas County citizen Alton Burns, who already

wrote to FERC,
is

on the agenda
to speak against the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline
at the

Thomas County Commission tomorrow morning, 9AM Monday 9 December 2014 in Thomasville.

Remember,

Sabal Trail’s route Alternative 3
would run through Thomasville,
and FERC could pick any route, no matter which one Sabal Trail prefers.
Plus, with Lowndes County about to
vote on
the resolution wanting Sabal Trail out of Lowndes County
it already sent to FERC
and with
Valdosta scheduled to vote Thursday night on a resolution of support for Lowndes County’s opposition,
the only proposed Sabal Trail route through Georgia
that doesn’t go through Lowndes County
is that

Alternative 3 through Thomasville.
Thomas County could do what Dougherty County and Albany already did,
and Lowndes County and Valdosta are about to do:
pass an ordinance saying no pipeline in this county, and no pipeline
in the state of Georgia.

Also note


the agenda
lists names of potential appointees
to

seven different boards.
Other county commissions could list such names on their agendas.


300x300 Logo, in Thomas County, Georgia, by Board of Commissioners, 6 December 2014

Board of Commissioners

Agenda

3rd Floor Historic Courthouse

225 N. Broad Street

December 9, 2014, 9:00 a.m.

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Anti-pipeline ordinance resolution + 3 more ordinances @ VCC 2014-12-09

As

promised,
item 5.c) on the agenda for Thursday’s Regular Meeting and Tuesday’s
Work Session of the Valdosta City Council:

300x352 Page 1, in Agenda, Valdosta City Council, by John S. Quarterman, 9 December 2014


Consideration of a Resolution in support of the Lowndes County Board of
Commissioners regarding the Sabal Trail Project.

Has staff found the digital copies of the maps for

CU-2014-11 Normal Life of Georgia?
If the county put agenda packets for the Planning Commission online,
staff wouldn’t have to worry about that.

Here’s the agenda, thanks to images from

Council Member Tim Carroll.

3:26 PM

120514 Agenda Packet.pdf

AGENDA

REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL

5:30 PM Thursday, December 11, 2014

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Valdosta proposes resolution against Sabal Trail pipeline @ VCC 2014-12-09



A draft resolution in support of

Lowndes County’s resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline
will be discussed by the Valdosta City Council at their
Work Session Tuesday 9 December and very likely voted on at their
Regular Session Thursday 11 December.
This is according to

Valdosta City Council Tim Carroll, who has
seen the draft resolution.

This would be a very good idea, not just since Valdosta is the county
seat of Lowndes County,
but also because three alternative routes would go

right down I-75 through Valdosta.

Both Valdosta City Council meetings are at 5:30 PM at Valdosta City Hall, 216 E Central Ave, Valdosta, GA 31601.
Yes, that means the City’s Work Session is at the same time as
the County’s Regular Session when the county proposes to vote on their own resolution Tuesday 9 December 2014.

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Pipeline resolution, Trash report, Tourism + KLVB appointments @ LCC 2014-12-08

The Resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline

they already sent to FERC is

on
the agenda for voting.
Congratulations in advance for doing that!



Advanced Disposal is back
to report on their trash disposal.
Did they turn in their required written report this time?
How about that

recycling?
ADS’ Steve Edwards scheduled to report is the same who
couldn’t forsee any further acquisitions
before they
bought three more companies.
And a bunch of appointments, contracts, calendars, etc.
in a very full agenda.

Shortly after the previous Commission meeting, almost a month ago,
I filed an open records request for the board packet.
Today at 4:35PM I got a call saying it’s ready.
It takes me 30 minutes to get there.
They close at 5PM.

Here’s

the agenda.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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Moultrie wasn’t asked about MGAG gas from Sabal Trail –WCTV

Spectra starts trying to walk back its previous eminent domain statements,
as WCTV reveals
MGAG didn’t ask Moultrie before saying Colquitt County needed gas
from Sabal Trail,
and even MGAG says that deal wouldn’t (yet) affect eminent domain.


300x172 Winnie Wright with eminent domain letter, in Spectra backtracks about MGAG on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, 2 December 2014
Picking up where
the VDT left the MGAG Sabal Trail gas eminent domain story,
Winnie Wright waved the bloody letter on WCTV yesterday 2 December 2014,
New Sabal Trail Project Has Many South Georgia Residents Worried About Eminent Domain,
and after quoting the eminent domain threat from that Sabal Trail attorney letter, said: Continue reading →

OPEC v. fracking: Russia to win, U.S. LNG export to lose

OPEC just pushed down oil and gas prices,
and the main beneficiary will be Russia.

300x166 NYSE ARCA OIL & GAS INDEX (INDEXNYSEGIS:XOI), in OPEC drops oil and gas prices, by John S. Quarterman, 28 November 2014
U.S. and other sanctions to punish Russia for invading Ukraine
already pushed the ruble down, which makes Russian fracking
less exposed to this price drop.
Natural gas prices are falling with oil prices.
So a big winner could be Siberian natural gas fracking for China.
Which could nip U.S. LNG exports at their budding export terminals.
Since LNG export is the most profitable market for fracked methane,
the pipeline craze could go bust.
And that could help the U.S. get on with cheaper, faster, safer, and far
cleaner solar power.

Will Kennedy and Jillian Ward, Bloomberg, 27 November 2014,

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Sabal Trail uses VDT to threaten eminent domain

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 →

Sabal Trail disappointed in GWC Dirty Dozen; locals disappointed in Sabal Trail –WCTV

Spectra’s Andrea Grover is “disappointed” in Sabal Trail being on the
Georgia Water Coalition Dirty Dozen;
does she also find it “hard to believe” like Sabal Trail’s well-documented
eminent domain threats?


300x166 Harm --Chris Manganiello, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014
Winnie Wright, WCTV, 26 November 2014,

Sabal Trail Pipeline Environmental Concerns Cited In Annual ‘Dirty Dozen’ Report,

Recently, The Georgia Water Coalition put

the Sabal Trail Pipeline
on their Dirty Dozen Report for 2014.


300x167 Winnie Wright of WCTV, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014
You can see Cherry Creek sinkhole behind her as she reported.
She was navigated there by VSU professor Can Denizman.

She also interviewed several locals, including me
at the Withlacoochee River.

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Could contradict a recent statement by Sabal Trail’s Andrea Grover –VDT



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.

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Sabal Trail newspaper assertions contradicted by Spectra corporate documents and FERC filings –John S. Quarterman to FERC



“I ask you and FERC to stop Sabal
Trail from telling newspapers things that Spectra
Energy’s own corporate documents refute, and to start
paying attention to multiple requests by county commissions
and other affected parties.”

Back in December, Spectra’s Andrea Grover and Brian Fahrenthold were
“not familiar” with Spectra’s lengthy safety rap sheet (see above picture).
Yesterday’s VDT had
Sabal Trail: Eminent domain accusation ‘hard to believe’
by Joe Adgie. Meanwhile, the Moultrie Observer has picked up
the VDT story.
Maybe some newspapers will also publish better information
than what trained pipeline PR people seem not to remember or believe, despite
copious evidence of the actual facts.

Filed with FERC

19 November 2014 accession Number: 20141119-5232. The attachments are in the PDF, and they’re all in the links in the HTML version below. -jsq Continue reading →