Tag Archives: WACE

Videos: Rivers and Pipeline, Rehab homes, LAMP Lease, Rezonings, Alcohol, public defender, paving Stafford Wright Road @ LCC 2016-02-09



Gretchen

thanked them for putting most of the response to her open records request
on CDs, shortly after they had said at their recent planning session that
they wanted to promote interaction with the community.
Still nothing from the county attorney about the Sabal Trail documents, and it’s been well over three days.
I

invited them on behalf of WWALS to a workshop and a movie;
there’s more below.
See also the contested rezoning

5.d. REZ-2016-05 Union Rd Subdivision, E-A to R-A, ~114 acres
for more water issues.

Three citizens spoke explicitly about the pipeline,

Jim Parker,

Michael Noll,
and

Dr. Mario Bartoletti,
as also noted in
Jason Stewart, VDT, 11 February 2016,
Sabal protests continue.
As I noted

in another post,

I go to a lot of county commission meetings in Georgia and Florida. Nowhere but Lowndes County do I see Continue reading →

Valdosta Passes Resolution Against Sabal Trail Pipeline: not in this city, this county, or this state @ VCC 2014-12-11


Go away, Sabal Trail:



NOW THEREFORE,
be it resolved that the City of Valdosta supports the
Lowndes County Board of Commissioners in their opposition to the
construction of the Sabal Trail pipeline in any portion of Lowndes
County. The City’s support includes concerns with fundamental
property rights, the manner in which eminent domain might be
utilized, and the lack of demonstrated benefit to the City and
County. Furthermore, the City of Valdosta supports the Lowndes
County Commission in their formal request to the Federal Energy
Regulation Commission (FERC), and to State and Federal Legislators
in the effort to have Lowndes County and the State of Georgia
bypassed in the construction of the proposed pipeline.

Here is Continue reading →

Resolution against Sabal Trail pipeline + 3-1 ordinances @ VCC 2014-12-11



The resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline, including to be filed with FERC, was

passed 6 to 1 by the Valdosta City Council Thursday 11 December 2014,
supporting

the resolution the Lowndes County Commission passed unanimously Tuesday,
plus

a clause about protecting our drinking water in the Floridan Aquifer; see
separate post.
John Robinson

thanked the city for a VSEB contract.
The

personal care home rezoning passed.
The

taxicab ordinance was deferred (not all cab company owners had been consulted yet), while two others passed.
Also

some bids rejected
while

others

were

approved,
a reappointment of

Tom Kurrie to the Valdosta Housing Authority,
and
recognized

employee of the month Terrial Small.

Here’s

the agenda.
For background, see the

videos of the Tuesday Work Session,
including

a bomb report by Police Chief Childress.
The videos from the Thursday Regular Session are linked below,
followed by a video playlist.

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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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Videos: Pipeline, agriculture, lighting, appointments, and parks @ LCC 2014-11-11


300x111 Full house, in Lowndes County Commission Regular Session, by Gretchen Quarterman, 11 November 2014
Update 2014-11-17: board packet.

Three

citizens

spoke

against
the unnecessary and hazardous Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline.
Several Commissioners even spoke up in

Other Business,
turning it into de facto Commisioner Comments.
But none of them called for a resolution or ordinance against the pipeline.

The

subdivision rezoning
still got no objections,
while the

rezoning for agricultural use
got massive objections and a compromise solution.

The

emergency security monitor replacement
is, you guessed it, Continue reading →

Pipeline, road repair, Bailey, water, and Commercial Tax Schedules @ LCC 2014-10-28



They finally made a decision onG

the Bailey rezoning:
the one the applicant liked least.
They accepted

the Creekwood Subdivision detention ponds;
and the

Glen Laurel infrastructure;
will all that be maintained any better than the one at Hamilton Circle?
Dr. Michael Noll

spoke for WACE against the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline.

Agenda item

6.i. is changed in the county’s

online agenda from Rural to Commercial without the agenda being
marked as amended.

See
agenda,
the LAKE videos of the previous morning’s Work Session,
and

the board packet obtained via open records request by LAKE and scanned and posted on the LAKE website.
Here are videos of events as they transpired, followed by a video playlist.

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Protest at Valdosta Sabal Trail office 2014-10-21

Joe Adgie wrote for the VDT 22 October 2014,

Residents protests Sabal Trail,



VALDOSTA — A group of around 40 Valdosta and Lowndes County
residents went to the Sabal Trail’s Valdosta office on Tuesday
afternoon in protest of the group’s proposed pipeline.

The group, many of which carried signs displaying their opposition
to the pipeline, discussed the impact of a pipeline on the area.

Dr. Michael Noll, president of Wiregrass Activists for Clean Energy,
discussed wanting to educate the community about the dangers of a
natural gas pipeline.

“We also want to Continue reading →

WCTV on Sabal Trail pipeline activism


300x151 Sabal Trail Right of Way, in One Year After Sabal Trail Announces Pipeline Plans, Activists Begin Monthly Protests, by WCTV, 21 October 2014

Going on a year after

Sabal Trail opened an office in Valdosta,
WCTV used the latest protests to do a retrospective.

Winnie Wright reported for WCTV today, 22 October 2014,

One Year After Sabal Trail Announces Pipeline Plans, Activists Begin Monthly Protests,

Time may have passed, but opinions haven’t changed much here in
Valdosta, where people..who are against the pipeline say there are
countless reasons why it doesn’t belong in their backyards.


300x154 Gretchen Quarterman, in One Year After Sabal Trail Announces Pipeline Plans, Activists Begin Monthly Protests, by WCTV, 21 October 2014
“There’s a moral obligation to leave the world as beautiful and
majestic as we found it, and the pipeline; it does not do that”,
says Gretchen Quarterman, President of the Lowndes County Democratic
Party.

LCDP statement against the pipeline.

WCTV
video: Continue reading →

Protest today against Sabal Trail pipeline


It’s a bad week for Sabal Trail and its proposed fracked methane pipeline,
with three back-to-back protests today alone (March and Protest in Valdosta, GA plus Development Authority meeting, and Protest at Sabal Trail Open House in Jasper, FL, plus Hamilton and Suwannee County Commission meetings)
after one yesterday (at Albany Open House and Dougherty County Commission) and more to come. Continue reading →

Videos: GP Investments, Hahira, Pipeline, Alapaha Water Trail @ LCC 2014-09-09



Five
citizens spoke, on topics including

the “horrible wretched smell” from ADS,
the
Sabal Trail pipeline,

the proposed local charter school,
and

the board packet and the Alapaha River Water Trail.
Chairman Bill Slaughter asserted there had been nineteen applicants
for the

Planning Commission appointment and seemed to think the public
should be happy about that, having learned it presumably by telepathy.
He didn’t divulge who those applicants were, and the only one
in the board packet (charming young white guy Brad Folsom)

300x450 2014-09-09-uldc-map-001, in wndes County Zoning Map, by Lowndes County Planning and Zoning, 9 September 2014
was appointed after somebody reminded
the Chairman to at least get a motion first.
They also appointed Commissioner Joyce Evans to the

Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities.
On the

GP Investments water rezoning,
County Planner Jason Davenport didn’t know whether there had been
a dump site there or where the well would go, but they approved it anyway.

They also approved the bookkeeping

ULDC updates for Special Events, Zoning Map, Fees
and they have since put the new zoning map online!

They approved unanimously the

annual prisoner work detail contract without even mentioning the cost.
And unanimously with no discussion they approved the

Hahira extratorial request.

Here’s
the agenda with links
to the videos and some notes.
See also the

board packet, obtained for you by LAKE through an open records request,
and

the LAKE videos of the previous morning’s Work Session,
which have quite a bit more information, including applicants
for appointment speaking.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

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

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

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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