{"id":10000,"date":"2014-09-04T08:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=10000"},"modified":"2014-09-04T10:32:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T14:32:02","slug":"nova-scotia-banned-fracking-will-southeast-u-s-ban-fracked-methane-pipelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/nova-scotia-banned-fracking-will-southeast-u-s-ban-fracked-methane-pipelines.html","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia banned fracking; will southeast U.S. ban fracked methane pipelines?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nYesterday \r\nNova Scotia announced a ban on fracking<\/a>.\r\nWill local or state governments in the southeast, now threatened\r\nby the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline,\r\nban such pipelines?\r\nEspecially since FERC has now directed Sabal Trail to examine\r\nroutes through Americus, Cordele, Ashburn, Tifton, Adel, Valdosta, and even Thomasville,\r\nin addition\r\nto the ones it already proposed through Dougherty, Colquitt, Brooks, and Lowndes Counties?\r\n

\r\nSierra Club Canada wrote about public meetings\r\nin its Media Release of 28 August 2014,\r\n\r\nGovernment of Nova Scotia Needs to Ban Fracking<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\n\r\n“Public meetings held by the panel were attended by an\r\noverwhelming majority of well-informed citizens who had deep\r\nconcerns about fracking,” according to [Gretchen] Fitzgerald,\r\n“Those concerns should be met with the type of leadership they\r\ndeserve: an immediate, legally binding ban.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nAnd the Nova Scotia government listened.\r\nBruce Erskine wrote for The Herald Business 3 September 2014,\r\n\r\nNova Scotia to ban fracking<\/a>,\r\nposting a video in which you can hear\r\nEnergy Minister Andrew Younger say:\r\n

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\r\n<\/a>\r\n“Nova Scotians have indicated that by a wide margin they are\r\nconcerned about hydraulic fracturing and they do not want it as part\r\nof onshore development of shales in Nova Scotia at this time,\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“Nova Scotians have put their trust in our government, that we\r\nwill listen to the concerns and not allow a process that most Nova\r\nScotians are just simply not comfortable with at this time.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nWe’ve seen the same thing in the Sabal Trail Open Houses\r\nand\r\n\r\nthe FERC Scoping Meetings for the Sabal Trail pipeline<\/a>:\r\noverwhelming public opposition to the pipeline.\r\nWith FERC representatives standing right there.\r\n

\r\nA few local governments have started to listen:\r\n