{"id":11126,"date":"2014-10-28T11:19:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T15:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=11126"},"modified":"2014-10-28T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T15:26:12","slug":"sabal-trail-pipeline-disruptive-for-what-gain-valdosta-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/sabal-trail-pipeline-disruptive-for-what-gain-valdosta-today.html","title":{"rendered":"Sabal Trail pipeline disruptive for what gain? –Valdosta Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nThe same Monday that \r\nthe Dougherty County Commission passed a resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline<\/a>,\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nValdosta Today editorialized against it.\r\n

S.E. (Chip) Harp, Valdosta Today Editor, 27 October 2014,\r\n\r\nProposed Pipeline will Disrupt south Georgia, but for What Gain?<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\nSASSER — The proposed (and likely) Sabal Trail natural gas\r\npipeline will impact most residents in south Georgia, bringing\r\nadditional natural gas supplies to Florida “while increasing\r\nthe diversity and reliability of the region’s energy-delivery system\r\nand positively impacting the economy in the Southeast, specifically\r\nAlabama, Georgia and Florida”, per Sabal Trail reports.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nHowever, as has been seen already, it will also have a negative\r\nimpact on many area businesses, landowners and residents, especially\r\nagricultural-based businesses. One of those affected is produce and\r\nag-tourism business Mark’s Melon Patch in Sasser, northwest of\r\nAlbany.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nTerrell County resident and native Mark Daniel has been operating\r\nthis produce and ag-tourism business for over 33 years. His stand\r\nand business has grown to be a fixture off busy US Highway 82 over\r\nthe decades. His business not only offers fresh local produce for\r\nsale, but other family-based activities which he says would be\r\ndisrupted by the proposed pipeline. The proposed route would be\r\nbuilt along his property, where he had hopes of expanding his\r\nbusiness.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\n“It’s something that’s very near and dear to me. And the\r\nthreat of a pipeline coming through here and messing that dream of\r\nmine up is heartbreaking to me,” Daniel told WALB in an\r\ninterview.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nThere’s much more in that editorial, which is well worth reading.\r\nAnd also this, after regurgitating Sabal Trail’s PR about natural\r\ngas being “clean” (which it isn’t: methane is a far worse greenhouse gas\r\nthan CO2) and about lower prices (which will actually go up if\r\nexports start, such as through those three already-authorized LNG\r\nexport operations<\/a> right where this pipeline would go in Florida):\r\n

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\r\nIt seems to be another case of the collective good superseding the\r\nindividual’s needs. That’s why the Federal Government has\r\noverarching authority to make these decisions through FERC.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nWell, if you consider profit for a few utilities and fossil fuel companies\r\nto be “the collective good”. And that’s the Orwellian doublespeak\r\nSpectra and FPL and Williams Co. would like to have us buy,\r\nin exchange for local hazards to our water, air, economy,\r\nenvironment, and personal safety.\r\n

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