{"id":6311,"date":"2013-10-24T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=6311"},"modified":"2013-10-23T22:57:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T02:57:59","slug":"florida-opposition-to-spectra-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/florida-opposition-to-spectra-pipeline.html","title":{"rendered":"Florida opposition to Spectra pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nThe Sabal Trail roadshow rolled on to Florida, but hasn&#8217;t\r\nbowled over at least one landowner.\r\n<p>\r\nDave D&#8217;Marko wrote for mynews13.com yesterday,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynews13.com\/content\/news\/cfnews13\/news\/article.html\/content\/news\/articles\/cfn\/2013\/10\/22\/pipeline_bringing_ga.html\">\r\nPipeline bringing gas, concerns to Floridians<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynews13.com\/content\/news\/cfnews13\/news\/article.html\/content\/news\/articles\/cfn\/2013\/10\/22\/pipeline_bringing_ga.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:342px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynews13.com\/content\/news\/articles\/cfn\/2013\/10\/22\/pipeline_bringing_ga\/_jcr_content\/contentpar\/articleBody\/image.img.jpg\/1382562824942.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nA new gas pipeline is coming to Florida that will pump up to a\r\nbillion cubic feet a day to Florida Power and Light customers.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nBut some property owners aren&#8217;t happy. The company plans to take\r\nthe pipeline right through their land. Sabal Trail Transmission met\r\nwith landowners in Kissimmee Tuesday night. Another meeting is\r\nplanned at South Lake High School in Groveland Wednesday.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nGertrude Dickinson, 82, got her first letter in June, warning her a\r\ncompany was bidding to bring a gas pipeline to Florida and her\r\nproperty was being considered. She didn&#8217;t wait for the project to\r\ngain approval, which it did later in the summer, and started\r\nfighting it immediately.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n&ldquo;I said I want a map of exactly where you are putting that pipe on\r\nmy land and how much you are going to use,&rdquo; Dickinson said.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabaltrailtransmission.com\/map\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2850\/10450551693_ea94c7c3db_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sabal Trail Route Map\"><\/a>\r\n<p>\r\nShe said what she got in return was this map showing all three\r\nstates the 465 mile pipeline would go through, and a dot showing the\r\ngeneral area she lived in Sumter County. What it didn&#8217;t explain is\r\nwhy they wanted to go through her land, and not the state-owned\r\nprairie across the street.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nWell, that all sounds familiar.\r\nAnd look who&#8217;s down there speaking for Spectra:\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nAndrea Grover, a spokesperson for Sabal Trail Transmission, is part\r\nof the &#8220;Right of Way&#8221; team meeting with 3,000 landowners along the\r\ncorridor. She said so far 80 percent have given permission for land\r\nsurveying.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nBut Dickinson posted no trespassing signs, refusing to let surveyors\r\non her land. Signs on her property point out she suffers from a\r\ncondition known as auditory recruitment, which means noise from\r\nconstruction would be greatly amplified in her ears. She says\r\nprevious episodes have led to heart attacks.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nThe company said it will reimburse owners fair value for their\r\nproperty, but Dickinson doubts that would be much in this economy.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n&ldquo;I can buy a few bags of groceries with the money and that&#8217;s it,\r\nand for what? They&#8217;ve taken my property, and my entrance, and my\r\nlife possibly who knows,&rdquo; she said.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sabal Trail roadshow rolled on to Florida, but hasn&#8217;t bowled over at least one landowner. Dave D&#8217;Marko wrote for mynews13.com yesterday, Pipeline bringing gas, concerns to Floridians, A new gas pipeline is coming to Florida that will pump up to a billion cubic feet a day to Florida Power and Light customers. 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