{"id":11539,"date":"2014-11-27T07:02:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=11539"},"modified":"2014-11-27T07:11:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:11:39","slug":"sabal-trail-disappointed-in-gwc-dirty-dozen-locals-disappointed-in-sabal-trail-wctv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/sabal-trail-disappointed-in-gwc-dirty-dozen-locals-disappointed-in-sabal-trail-wctv.html","title":{"rendered":"Sabal Trail disappointed in GWC Dirty Dozen; locals disappointed in Sabal Trail &#8211;WCTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nSpectra&#8217;s Andrea Grover is &#8220;disappointed&#8221; in Sabal Trail being on the\r\nGeorgia Water Coalition Dirty Dozen;\r\ndoes she also find it &#8220;hard to believe&#8221; like Sabal Trail&#8217;s well-documented\r\neminent domain threats?\r\n<p>\r\n<a title=\"823x456 Harm --Chris Manganiello, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/?attachment_id=4464\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" alt=\"300x166 Harm --Chris Manganiello, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/wp-content\/themes\/pianoblack\/img\/\/2014\/11\/8d9c28688861bb8c733cb7d59d081ad91.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nWinnie Wright, WCTV, 26 November 2014,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/home\/headlines\/One-Year-After-Sabal-Trail-Announces-Pipeline-Plans-Activists-Begin-Monthly-Protests-279974602.html\">\r\nSabal Trail Pipeline Environmental Concerns Cited In Annual &#8216;Dirty Dozen&#8217; Report<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\nRecently, The Georgia Water Coalition put\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/2014\/10\/22\/gwc-dd9-sabal-trail-pipeline-threatens-withlacoochee-river-floridan-aquifer\/\">\r\nthe Sabal Trail Pipeline\r\non their Dirty Dozen Report for 2014<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p><a title=\"824x459 Winnie Wright of WCTV, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/?attachment_id=4496\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" alt=\"300x167 Winnie Wright of WCTV, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/wp-content\/themes\/pianoblack\/img\/\/2014\/11\/e8511fd14f824f0f71a8cc790cbba85c.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nYou can see Cherry Creek sinkhole behind her as she reported.\r\nShe was navigated there by VSU professor Can Denizman.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><iframe scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen src=\"http:\/\/up.anv.bz\/latest\/anvload.html?key=eyJtIjoiZ3JheSIsInAiOiJkZWZhdWx0IiwidiI6IjI5ODc1OTkiLCJwbHVnaW5zIjp7ImRmcCI6eyJhZFRhZ1VybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly9wdWJhZHMuZy5kb3VibGVjbGljay5uZXQvZ2FtcGFkL2Fkcz9zej02NDB4NDgwJml1PS8zMDE3MjE3MTUvV0NUViZjaXVfc3pzJmltcGw9cyZnZGZwX3JlcT0xJmFkX3J1bGU9MSZlbnY9dnAmb3V0cHV0PXhtbF92YXN0MiZ1bnZpZXdlZF9wb3NpdGlvbl9zdGFydD0xJmNvcnJlbGF0b3I9Jyt0cysnJmNtc2lkPTc1NSZ2aWQ9QU5WX0dSVFZfMjk4NzU5OSJ9LCJhbmFseXRpY3MiOnsicGRiIjo0NDQyNDE3OX19fQ\"  width =\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nShe also interviewed several locals, including me\r\nat the Withlacoochee River.\r\n<\/p><!--more-->\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\n<a title=\"813x459 Floridan Aquifer --jsq, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/?attachment_id=4476\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" alt=\"300x170 Floridan Aquifer --jsq, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/wp-content\/themes\/pianoblack\/img\/\/2014\/11\/06ebc68e650f9b3be4b895ed7d2ba1c4.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n&#8220;All of our drinking water comes from the aquifer under our feet.\r\nThis pipeline is hazardous to that aquifer. It could leak some of\r\nthese PCBs. It could leak in to it. It could cause a sink hole which\r\ncould leak into the aquifer&#8221;, says John Quarterman, President of\r\nWWALS Watershed Coalition who suggested Sabal Trail be included in\r\nthe report.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nWinnie Wright interviewed &#8220;some local scientists&#8221; who don&#8217;t agree with\r\nSpectra&#8217;s assertions that &#8220;their pipelines are safe&#8221;, \r\nincluding\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/2013\/11\/04\/videos-aquifers-sinkholes-groundscans-prof-don-thieme\/\">\r\nVSU professor Don Thieme<\/a>.\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/2014\/10\/18\/sinkhole-formation-collapse-due-drilling-withlacoochee-river\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:300px\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wwals.net\/wp-content\/themes\/pianoblack\/img\/\/2014\/09\/78183df9c080d59a740ee65454771b9e.jpg?zoom=1.5&#038;fit=848%2C1024\"><\/a>\r\n\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n&#8220;We don&#8217;t really know what the reason for it is, but to risk\r\nsomething that unique, like a globally significant aquifer for one\r\ncompany&#8217;s speculation on the price of fossil fuels is crazy&#8221;, says\r\nDon Thieme, a local Geoscientist.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n<a title=\"816x465 Stop the Sabal Trail pipeline now, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/?attachment_id=4512\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" alt=\"300x171 Stop the Sabal Trail pipeline now, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/wp-content\/themes\/pianoblack\/img\/\/2014\/11\/5ce5e5b764a532bee3ed21e6c1d6e7d0.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nAnd another local:\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\nThe report also sites the safety concerns, including deadly\r\nexplosions. One local scientist says on average, America experiences\r\n30 pipeline accidents per year.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n<a title=\"818x461 Fail --Noll, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/?attachment_id=4516\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" alt=\"300x169 Fail --Noll, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/wp-content\/themes\/pianoblack\/img\/\/2014\/11\/137034c464cba8c55a3c34aa83c076bf.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n&#8220;If the ground collapses, everything that&#8217;s on top of it, including\r\na pipeline that may be in the ground three or four feet, would also\r\nhave a collapse. A rupture of some sort developing&#8221;, says Dr.\r\nMichael Noll, a Geographer and President of Wiregrass Activists for\r\nClean Energy.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nWinnie Wright got a Spectra Energy statement from the\r\nsame Andrea Grover who was recently caught by\r\nthe Valdosta Daily Times \r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/could-contradict-a-recent-statement-by-sabal-trails-andrea-grover-vdt.html\">claiming &#8220;hard to believe&#8221;\r\neminent domain threats from her company copiously documented by\r\nlocal landowners<\/a>.\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\n<a title=\"822x463 Disappointed --Sabal Trail, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/?attachment_id=4504\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" alt=\"300x169 Disappointed --Sabal Trail, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/wp-content\/themes\/pianoblack\/img\/\/2014\/11\/c6e43809aa6304a8539f3608fc9fb3d7.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n&#8220;We were disappointed to see that reference on this list and\r\ncertainly disagree with the generalized statement. This is an\r\ninterstate pipeline project that will receive the scrutiny of\r\nfederal and state agencies. These agencies only approve projects\r\nwhich can be responsibly constructed and operated while protecting\r\nthe interests of both the human and environmental resources&#8221;, says\r\nAndrea Grover, Director of Stakeholder Outreach for Spectra Energy.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nMultiple parties keep filing evidence with the Federal Energy\r\nRegulatory Commission (FERC) and other federal, state, and local\r\nagencies and elected and appointed bodies spelling out why\r\nthere&#8217;s no need for Sabal Trail&#8217;s pipeline and no reason\r\nfor anyone to accept any risk for it, especially not to\r\nour Withlacoochee River and to our Floridan Aquifer drinking water.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<a title=\"820x459 Withlacoochee River, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/?attachment_id=4452\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" alt=\"600x336 Withlacoochee River, in GWC Dirty Dozen Sabal Trail on WCTV, by John S. Quarterman, for WWALS.net, 26 November 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/wp-content\/themes\/pianoblack\/img\/\/2014\/11\/96dbf64e8dcad69dc22e6e0dd1b4c2dc.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n<br>\r\nWithlacoochee River south of US 84, near proposed pipeline crossing\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spectra&#8217;s Andrea Grover is &#8220;disappointed&#8221; in Sabal Trail being on the Georgia Water Coalition Dirty Dozen; does she also find it &#8220;hard to believe&#8221; like Sabal Trail&#8217;s well-documented eminent domain threats? 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