{"id":11548,"date":"2014-11-28T18:57:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T23:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=11548"},"modified":"2014-11-28T19:05:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T00:05:21","slug":"sabal-trail-uses-vdt-to-threaten-eminent-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/sabal-trail-uses-vdt-to-threaten-eminent-domain.html","title":{"rendered":"Sabal Trail uses VDT to threaten eminent domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nAndrea Grover&#8217;s response to being caught by the VDT\r\nactually knowing about Sabal Trail threats of eminent domain\r\nafter she said were &#8220;hard to believe&#8221; is&#8230;\r\nto use the VDT to threaten eminent domain!\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetlife.com\/blog\/life-insurance-myths\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:300px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetlife.com\/imagesvr_ce\/0209\/pinocchio-small.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nThe example\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\">\r\nthe VDT quoted Wednesday<\/a>\r\nof an eminent domain threatening letter from Sabal Trail&#8217;s\r\nAtlanta law firm was dated 26 November 2013.\r\nYet a year later, today, 28 November 2014, Joe Adgie in\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostadailytimes.com\/news\/local_news\/sabal-trail-to-install-taps-in-georgia\/article_abb399bc-76c0-11e4-959e-77bd7d8d8a6e.html\">Sabal Trail to install taps in Georgia<\/a>\r\nquotes Ms. Grover in the VDT:<!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\nSabal Trail Transmission will install two side taps on its proposed\r\npipeline in Georgia, company officials claimed this week.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nSabal Trail director of stakeholder outreach Andrea Grover said\r\nWednesday the decision was made as the result of ongoing discussions\r\nwith the Municipal Gas Authority of Georgia&#8230;.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nThis would supply natural gas from Sabal Trail to customers in the\r\nAlbany and Moultrie area, she said, and could also serve to counter\r\narguments from property owners that they had been illegally served\r\nwith eminent domain threats.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nSabal Trail has a time machine now?\r\nWhat else would explain how an agreement with MGAG\r\nnow would affect Sabal Trail&#8217;s Georgia eminent domain threats of a year ago.\r\n<p>\r\nAlso the VDT quoted Ms. Grover saying that Sabal Trail\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n&ldquo;&#8230;has identified Dougherty County and Colquitt County as having the greatest potential to need additional gas supplies in the future.&rdquo;\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nThat&#8217;s verbatim out of <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrabusters.org\/2014\/11\/21\/sabal-trail-formal-ferc-filing-cp15-17\/\">Sabal Trail&#8217;s 21 November 2014 filing with\r\nFERC in new docket CP15-17<\/a>.\r\nAnd it&#8217;s a really mysterious assertion when\r\nDougherty County has been losing population since the 1980s\r\nand Colquitt County is not growing.\r\nThe only large county along the proposed pipeline path that\r\nis growing rapidly is Lowndes County, and neither Valdosta\r\nnor Lowndes County are MGAG customers.\r\nMaybe that&#8217;s why\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spectrabusters.org\/2014\/11\/25\/mgag-didnt-contact-local-governments-before-agreeing-with-sabal-trail\/\">MGAG didn&#8217;t contact local\r\ngovernments before agreeing with Sabal Trail<\/a>.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/publicdata\/embed?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&amp;ctype=l&amp;strail=false&amp;bcs=d&amp;nselm=h&amp;met_y=population&amp;scale_y=lin&amp;ind_y=false&amp;rdim=country&amp;idim=county:13071:13095:13027:13075:13185:13273:13259:13275:13205:13307:13177&amp;ifdim=country&amp;hl=en_US&amp;dl=en&amp;ind=false\"><\/iframe>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nMaybe the affected local governments should complain to MGAG.\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrea Grover&#8217;s response to being caught by the VDT actually knowing about Sabal Trail threats of eminent domain after she said were &#8220;hard to believe&#8221; is&#8230; to use the VDT to threaten eminent domain! 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