Tag Archives: Safety

Defibrilators from Homeland Security @ LCC 2014-04-07



The

KLVB presentation told us up to three states dump in
the Pecan Row Landfill in Lowndes County,
for which the county gets some unspecified amount of tipping fees,
which go to fund KLVB.
An appointment to
KLVB was added to the agenda,
although nobody deigned to reveal who was “that individual that has
requested to serve on that board”.
The

Homeland Security grant application turned out to be for defibrillators.

Here’s
the agenda, with a few annotations and links to the videos.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

AMENDED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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U.S. Rep. Bishop to listen to landowners about Sabal Trail pipeline

Maybe Lowndes County Commissioners can ask Rep. Austin Scott (GA-08)
to do what Dougherty County Commissioners have successfully asked
Rep. Bishop (GA-02) to do: those two Congressional districts
cover the entire Georgia part of the proposed path of that methane pipeline.
And maybe they could help Greenlaw
get the FERC scoping period extended and get the GIS data from
Sabal Trail.



Carlton Fletcher wrote for the Albany Herald yesterday,

U.S. Congressman Sanford Bishop to take part in pipeline listening session:
Metting called to address safety, other concerns surrounding controversial natural gas pipeline,

Two Dougherty County Commissioners and one of their former
colleagues who is running to rejoin them have scheduled a listening
session at 10 a.m. Thursday with U.S. House District 2 Congressman
Sanford Bishop to discuss the proposed Sabal Trail Transmission Gas
Pipeline project and a planned accompanying Continue reading →

On the behalf of the Commission and Citizens of Lowndes County –Lowndes County Chairman Bill Slaughter to FERC about the Sabal Trail methane pipeline



These are the fourteen items he promised

two weeks ago at the SpectraBusters panel at VSU:

Sabal Trail will be expected to adhere and honor all Lowndes County Ordinances –Bill E Slaughter, JR to FERC, 10 April 2014.
I thank Chairman Slaughter for making that statement to FERC.

Despite his apparent refusal to speak on behalf of all the citizens
of the county

after the 24 February 2014 Commission meeting,
he did actually say his ecomment to FERC was
“on the behalf of the Commission and Citizens of Lowndes County”,
and that he expects Sabal Trail to follow all Lowndes County ordinances,
plus Continue reading →

Videos: Garbage falling off trucks @ LCC 2014-03-25



If the County Commission hadn’t privatized garbage collection,
Frenchie could have registered his complaint about

garbage falling off trucks
through the new

turnkey government website service once it’s online.
No mention of the

annexation request by the City of Hahira from the Work Session.

Commissioner Powell
noted the three SPLOST VII projects were

“a direct reinvestment into the community of those funds”.
The

road resurfacing of four roads
is actually mostly from a GDOT LMIG grant,
but the other three,
shoulder paving on

Val Del Road
and

Boring Pond Road
and a

bridge replacement on Cat Creek Road
are all from SPLOST VII funds.
Plus

some trucks for Animal Control and

tablets for the Fire Department,
an

alcohol license, and some alphabet-soup agreements,
one of which turned out to be for

a grant for a victim advocate position in the Solicitor General’s office.

Here’s

the agenda.
See also
the previous morning’s Work Session.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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Videos: Candidates, Landowners, Methane and Solar Power @ SpectraBusters 2014-03-29


Candidates for Lowndes County Commission
went on the record (
Mark Wisenbaker
and

Tom Hochschild both running for District 3,
and

Norman Bennett
and

Gretchen Quarterman both running for District 5),
plus

a statement by County Chairman Bill Slaughter,
in addition to essential background information from
directly affected landowners in the audience and from the panelists
on why the proposed
Sabal Trail methane pipeline
is

bad for property values,
is

hazardous here and elsewhere,
and

will be obsolete in a few decades,
all at

a SpectraBusters panel on the Sabal Trail pipeline at VSU,
Saturday 29 March 2014.

The panelists were Continue reading →

Annexation and watershed monitoring @ Hahira 2014-04-03



The

rezoning
and

annexation
previously recommended by

the Planning Commission
and

discussed by the Lowndes County Commission.

And there’s a

Proposal for Long-term Watershed Monitoring from TTL,
which may or may not be related to the

flood risk management study
or

flood mapping
previously discussed by the city of Valdosta and

the Lowndes County Commission.

Curiously, both

Wikipedia
and

the Hahira City Council’s own web page
seem to think Wayne Bullard is still mayor.
I read in the VDT that Bruce Cain was sworn in as mayor in January.

Thanks to
City Manager Jonathan Sumner for
the agenda.

Hahira City Council

April 3, 2014

Agenda

7:30 pm-Hahira Courthouse

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Videos of Day 1 @ LCC-Budget 2014-03-10



It’s a good thing the county held these first-ever (as far as I know)
comprehensive budget sessions.
Here are videos of the first day.
Most of the departments are asking for more money,
due to increased population and increased demand for services
during a period of economic downturn.
Something needs to be done, and these sessions are one step in
getting to doing something.

Here’s

the agenda.

Children dying, mothers crying: Silentdisaster accuses state of hiding true health risks

Seen on

Silentdisaster.org’s facebook page.
The
EPA and GA-EPD meeting last November
and later test results did not satisfy them.
Wastewater from that Waycross contamination

was shipped to the Pecan Row Landfill in Lowndes County,
adding to

the other toxic materials in that landfill.
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PDF

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

April 1, 2014

By: Silentdisaster.org, a citizens group in Waycross, Georgia



Testing conducted by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division
(EPD) have left residents frustrated and angry. Many children are
sick and have died from being poisoned by toxic chemicals and
residents who live, week-to-week on small budgets, are spending
their own money to do testing because they don’t trust government
officials who are paid ˜to protect the people and keep them safe’.
They should be spending their money on feeding their families and
getting well. The lack of honesty in the EPD’s reports is a disgrace
to our community and our State.

Newly released environmental testing results Continue reading →

Whom do you serve? A question for local government

A question asked about big oil and Mobile is just as relevant
to every local and state government along the proposed Sabal Trail
fracked methane pipeline,
and Transco and Florida Southeast Connection, too.
A couple of local elected officials and several candidates did make
public statements Saturday (stay tuned), so maybe we’re starting to
get some answers to this question in Lowndes County, Georgia.
Some other locations have already been getting answers.

Brad Nolen wrote for New American Journal 28 March 2014,

How Big Oil Controls Local Governments:
Whom Do You Serve? Thoughts on Local Government and Dirty Industries,



Now, it should go without saying that the purpose of councils,
commissions and public office in general is to represent the varied
interests of the citizens, and hopefully through consensus- seeking
achieve some semblance of collective wisdom; and then, if we’re
really lucky to apply said wisdom in charting our course toward a
Mobile our great grandchildren will be proud to inherit.

Yet, when it came to finding a voice to protect our drinking water
from Big Oil, we heard nothing substantive from our local leaders,
even though we marched on their doorsteps in boots that are still
wet with BP oil.

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How to invite toxic industries to your county



Maybe we should stop inviting toxic industries to Lowndes County.
We’ve been doing that with coal ash, PCBs, superfund wastewater,
used diapers in recycling, and suing local businesses while not terminating
an exclusive franchise with a company that is involved in all of that.
Not to mention Sterling Chemical.



Here in Lowndes County we have

TVA coal ash and Florida coal ash
in our landfill,
and the landfill operator spreads the coal ash on roads on the site,
which is just uphill from the Withlacoochee River.

GA EPD
fined that landfill operator $27,500 in January 2013

for accepting PCBs into that same Pecan Row Landfill.
The same landfill that accepted

196,500 gallons of wastewater from the
Seven Out Superfund site in Waycross, GA.

A landfill that is

in an aquifer recharge zone. Continue reading →