{"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>\nAndrea Grover&#8217;s response to being caught by the VDT<br \/>\nactually knowing about Sabal Trail threats of eminent domain<br \/>\nafter she said were &#8220;hard to believe&#8221; is&#8230;<br \/>\nto use the VDT to threaten eminent domain!<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetlife.com\/blog\/life-insurance-myths\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:300px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetlife.com\/imagesvr_ce\/0209\/pinocchio-small.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe example<br \/>\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\"><br \/>\nthe VDT quoted Wednesday<\/a><br \/>\nof an eminent domain threatening letter from Sabal Trail&#8217;s<br \/>\nAtlanta law firm was dated 26 November 2013.<br \/>\nYet a year later, today, 28 November 2014, Joe Adgie in<br \/>\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><br \/>\nquotes Ms. Grover in the VDT:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\n<p>\nSabal Trail Transmission will install two side taps on its proposed<br \/>\npipeline in Georgia, company officials claimed this week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSabal Trail director of stakeholder outreach Andrea Grover said<br \/>\nWednesday the decision was made as the result of ongoing discussions<br \/>\nwith the Municipal Gas Authority of Georgia&#8230;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis would supply natural gas from Sabal Trail to customers in the<br \/>\nAlbany and Moultrie area, she said, and could also serve to counter<br \/>\narguments from property owners that they had been illegally served<br \/>\nwith eminent domain threats.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSabal Trail has a time machine now?<br \/>\nWhat else would explain how an agreement with MGAG<br \/>\nnow would affect Sabal Trail&#8217;s Georgia eminent domain threats of a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso the VDT quoted Ms. Grover saying that Sabal Trail<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\"><p>\n&ldquo;&#8230;has identified Dougherty County and Colquitt County as having the greatest potential to need additional gas supplies in the future.&rdquo;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\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<br \/>\nFERC in new docket CP15-17<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s a really mysterious assertion when<br \/>\nDougherty County has been losing population since the 1980s<br \/>\nand Colquitt County is not growing.<br \/>\nThe only large county along the proposed pipeline path that<br \/>\nis growing rapidly is Lowndes County, and neither Valdosta<br \/>\nnor Lowndes County are MGAG customers.<br \/>\nMaybe that&#8217;s why<br \/>\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<br \/>\ngovernments before agreeing with Sabal Trail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\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>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMaybe the affected local governments should complain to MGAG.<\/p>\n<p>\n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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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