Tag Archives: Suwannee River

Videos: Boat Ramps, Okefenokee Swamp, LMIG, Taxes @ Clinch County Commission 2023-08-07

Update 2023-09-12:
Videos: Grant match for Dark Sky and resolution against mine too near Okefenokee Swamp @ Clinch County Commission 2023-09-11

Update 2023-08-10:
Chainsaw cleanup, Outings, Boat Ramps, Okefenokee Swamp –Suwannee Riverkeeper @ Clinch County Commission 2023-08-07.

It was a brief agenda at the Clinch County Commission,
with roads and taxes, plus boat ramps and a proposed resolution against the strip mine too near the Okefenokee Swamp.


[Collage @ Clinch County Commission 2023-08-07]


Collage @ Clinch County Commission 2023-08-07

Below are pictures, LAKE videos of each agenda item, and links to documents, followed by a LAKE video playlist.

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Videos: West Mims Fire, Water Trails, Transportation, Construction Board, 3 tax lighting districts, mosquitoes, no-bid contract @ LCC 2017-08-08



“There’s nobody that can tackle something like that alone,”
said Emergency Management Director Ashley Tye in a

West Mims Fire Special Presentation

with firefighters from all over Lowndes County and its cities,
including a resolution from the Charlton County Commission.

Citizen

Gretchen Quarterman spoke about WWALS and trash and cameras at the
Naylor Boat Ramp site, and about Boy Scouts at the GA 133 Boat Ramp
.
Citizen Jim Parker

poked them about public transportation and renewable energy
.

They’re settling on
“Wiregrass Georgia Technical College Road to Success”,
but when did Commissioners decide on that between the previous morning’s
open meeting and this one?
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Video: Solar panels, heck yeah! –Tom Fanning, CEO, at SO stockholder meeting 2017-05-24

Tom Fanning, our genial CEO host,
said some things I’ve never heard him say before like
Southern Company is
“pivoting towards wind”
and SO’s board soon has to decide whether to go forward with Plant Vogtle
“or not” probably by August.
Fanning gets the

first
and

last
word in this blog post,
plus a complete transcript of what
I asked and
Tom Fanning’s response
,
along with summaries of the other questions and answers.


Well see how it develops --Tom Fanning



Please hear me!

I think renewables are exceedingly important in the future.

— Tom Fanning, CEO, Southern Company

In SO’s own

meeting video

of the

25 May 2017 Stockholder Meeting
,
you can see
much praise about solar power and wind and R&D and a smart grid,
along with stockholders wondering: Continue reading

Duke Energy solar: NC, SC, and now Florida

Duke’s new solar farms in Florida echo what Duke was already doing
three and a half years ago when
an independent study concluded more solar power in North Carolina
would save utility ratepayers tens of millions of dollars annually.





Duke solar power farm in Perry, Florida, courtesy Duke Energy

John Downey,
Charlotte Business Journal, 23 October 2013,

Study: Solar benefits outweigh costs in NC
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Videos: Sewage, Coal Ash, Historic Preservation, a dead cat, and turkeys @ VCC 2016-03-09

The Valdosta City Council heard from citizens about

coal ash
,

wastewater
,
and

toxic waste in the landfill
.
Mayor John Gayle

offered to answer later in his office Eric Howard’s
question about wastewater in his yard
.
The Mayor expressed his opinion that he and the council

couldn’t do anything about the landfill
,
and read for yourself what he said about

the Florida county resolutions about Valdosta wastewater
.
George Boston Rhynes

told a droll tale about a dead cat and turkeys
.

The

Historic Preservation appeal
was long and contentious,
with the Mayor twice breaking a tie because only four City Council members
were there: the appeal was approved.
A citizen

spoke about that afterwards
, as did

Council Tim Carroll
.

Council Robert Yost recommended

all the Hospital Authority Board should resign
.

They unanimously approved

both

of the

rezoning
items; ditto the

right of way maintenance bids
.

And

Firefighter Michael Penland
is employee of the month.

Below are links to the LAKE video of each item, with a few notes (some drawn from Valdosta’s own
SUMMARY OF ACTIONS),
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also the agenda.

Brief agenda plus Water @ VCC 2016-03-09

No water on

the agenda
,
but there’s a WWALS event
for those who want to speak about water issues.

AGENDA

REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL

5:30 PM Thursday, March 9, 2017

COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL


Valdosta City Council

  1. Opening Ceremonies Continue reading

Pipelines companies don’t detect corrosion or stop explosions

A reminder of why to stop pipeline companies from burying investors’ money in the ground and get on with solar power:
the pipeline that exploded in Texas last week was
half owned by Spectra Energy,



the pipeline company behind
Sabal Trail, AIM, Penneast, and numerous other fracked methane invasions

and behind thirty years of undetected corrosion resulting in leaks, explosions, property damage, and deaths.
The pipeline company didn’t detect it and couldn’t even turn it off quickly.
Want to bet that it,
like Spectra’s Pennsylvania explosion last spring, was corrosion?

A very Texas report said “no people or cattle were injured”
and also notice: “The fire is under control and will burn itself out.” Continue reading

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 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

Yoho hikes Sabal Trail pipeline route

Calling on Austin Scott GA-08 and Sanford Bishop GA-02 and other members of Congerss
to also ask the Corps
for a Supplementary Environmental Impact Study (SEIS) about Sabal Trail discrepancies.
Same story appeared in the Suwannee Democrat yesterday.


Page 5A

Thomas Lynn, Valdosta Daily Times, 17 May 2016,
Yoho hikes Sabal Trail pipeline route,

LIVE OAK. Fin. — US. Rep. Ted Yoho hiked with around 30 opponents
to the Sabal Trail pipeline through Suwannee River State Park’s Big
Oak Trail in north Florida to look at sinkholes near the proposed
route.

The morning hike was a result of Continue reading