{"id":12767,"date":"2015-04-06T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=12767"},"modified":"2015-04-06T14:09:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:09:52","slug":"sabal-trail-front-page-atlanta-journal-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/sabal-trail-front-page-atlanta-journal-constitution.html","title":{"rendered":"Sabal Trail front page Atlanta Journal-Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nNow that Atlanta has finally taken notice there’s even more reason\r\nto repel these pipeline invaders.\r\n\r\n\"300x434<\/a>\r\nThere’s still time to submit an amicus brief for the\r\n\r\ncourt case in Leesburg, Georgia<\/a>.\r\nAnd time to file an ecomment<\/a> or an out-of-time motion to intervene<\/a> against Sabal Trail.\r\nOr against\r\n\r\nElba Island LNG<\/a>\r\nor against\r\n\r\nTransco and Atlanta Gas Light’s Dalton Expansion Project<\/a>.\r\nOr to oppose\r\n\r\nKinder Morgan’s southeast Georgia Palmetto oil pipeline<\/a>\r\nat the Georgia Department of Transportation or GA-EDP.\r\nBoth those state agencies have to provide permits for Sabal Trail\r\nto get the Georgia emininent domain it demands in Leesburg,\r\nso they are relevant to Sabal Trail, as well, as is your opinion\r\nand those of all local elected governments in Georgia.\r\n

\r\nDan Chapman, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 3 April 2015,\r\n\r\nPipeline project fuels fight on state’s future,<\/a> \r\n

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\r\nRegardless of route, Sabal Trail opponents fear pipeline\r\nconstruction could create sinkholes\r\n\r\n that drain streams or puncture\r\nsubterranean waterways. Much of the ground below southwest Georgia\r\nis limestone that allows water to flow easily between streams,\r\nsprings and wells. Leaks, they fear, could send gas into the water\r\nsupply.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“Pipelines are the safest form of transporting natural\r\ngas,” responded [Spectra Energy Director of Stakeholder Outreach Andrea] Grover, adding that Sabal Trail would\r\npiggyback on existing gas and electric transmission lines for 70\r\npercent of its journey through Georgia. “We want to operate a\r\nsafe pipeline, stay in business and be part of the communities once\r\nwe get there.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nWe don’t have to settle for the least bad anymore.\r\nFlorida doesn’t need any more natural gas, and even Ms. Grover\r\ndidn’t try to claim any customers in Georgia for this article,\r\neven though Spectra attorneys are claiming exactly that in Leesburg<\/a>.\r\n

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\r\n“Atlanta is surrounded by fossil fuel invaders with more\r\npipelines likely in the future,” said John S. Quarterman, a\r\nleader of the anti-Sabal Trail campaign in Valdosta. “But\r\nthere’s no need for any of this now that solar power is cheaper<\/a>,\r\nfar cleaner than oil or gas and doesn’t require pipelines,\r\nterminals, compressor stations, eminent domain or environmental\r\ndegradation.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nSpectra’s buying up land because it expects the usual FERC and state\r\nagency rubberstamp:\r\n

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\r\nSpectra has cobbled together 20 percent of the needed easements\r\nalong the main proposed route and cleared the land around the\r\nAlbany pump station. Opponents say they’re not giving in.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“They want to pay you money for your land, but money is not\r\njust everything,” said Rosalyn Bridges, who owns 300 acres in\r\nMitchell County. “Air and water can not be replaced. They are\r\ngifts from God, your creator. We have the Garden of Eden down\r\nhere.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nYou can help preserve our paradise.\r\nCitizen activism already got a Georgia solar financing law<\/a> that will boost Georgia even higher than fastest-growing solar market in the country. Solar growth like compound interest will win, in less than a decade<\/a>\r\nWe just need to stop these last gasps of greed by 20th century companies from destroying our paradise before the carbon bubble pops.\r\n

\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nPS: Thanks to Haley Hyatt for the front page picture.\r\nMore here<\/a> and here<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that Atlanta has finally taken notice there’s even more reason to repel these pipeline invaders. There’s still time to submit an amicus brief for the court case in Leesburg, Georgia. And time to file an ecomment or an out-of-time motion to intervene against Sabal Trail. Or against Elba Island LNG or against Transco and […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,70,8,20,6687,6114,54,55,126],"tags":[372,6707,5741,1948,931,8386,8382,8380,8385,8384,8728,8701,2106,548,8702,8710,12,7,1832,8381,8379,6076,8383,466,6597,7654,215,6966,7122,2248,237,7128,6,932,7689,58,8740,172],"class_list":["post-12767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-ethics","category-georgia","category-law","category-pipeline-2","category-sinkhole-2","category-valdosta-city-council","category-water","category-wwals","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-gas-light","tag-atlanta-journal-constitution","tag-colquitt-county","tag-conservation","tag-coweta-county","tag-dalton-expansion-project","tag-dan-chapman","tag-dan-coleman","tag-don-theime","tag-ethics","tag-georgia","tag-houston","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-law","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-north-florida","tag-palmetto-pipeline","tag-palmetto-project","tag-pipeline","tag-push-back-the-pipeline","tag-river","tag-sabal-trail-transmission","tag-savannah-riverkeeper","tag-south-georgia","tag-spectra-energy","tag-spectrabusters","tag-ted-turner","tag-texas","tag-transco","tag-valdosta","tag-watershed","tag-williams-company","tag-withlacoochee-river","tag-wwals","tag-wwals-watershed-coalition"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-3jV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12767"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12772,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions\/12772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}