{"id":6679,"date":"2013-11-14T16:54:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2013-12-13T05:48:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T10:48:43","slug":"we-desperately-need-your-help-carol-singletary-vcc-2013-11-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/we-desperately-need-your-help-carol-singletary-vcc-2013-11-07.html","title":{"rendered":"We desperately need your help &#8211;Carol Singletary @ VCC 2013-11-07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mS6h9Ij0Gj0&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH3yGYQ90PSQKrGef8Ld6wk&#038;index=24\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/mS6h9Ij0Gj0\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nA local mom said she was one of many landowners being bullied<br \/>\nby a pipeline company and asked for help from local leaders,<br \/>\nat the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/rezonings-and-a-pipeline-vcc-2013-11-07.html\"><br \/>\n7 November 2013 Valdosta City Council Regular Session<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/10860412984\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Carol Singletary @ VCC 2013-11-07\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3796\/10860412984_c8ebc7ef0c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Carol Singletary @ VCC 2013-11-07\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mS6h9Ij0Gj0&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH3yGYQ90PSQKrGef8Ld6wk&#038;index=24\"><br \/>\nPart 1 of 2:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mS6h9Ij0Gj0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7cdGRXbWww8&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH3yGYQ90PSQKrGef8Ld6wk&#038;index=25\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/7cdGRXbWww8\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nCarol Singletary&#8217;s impassioned and reasoned plea<br \/>\ngot a response from Mayor John Gayle,<br \/>\neven if it was only<!--more--> to ask if she had spoken to the Lowndes County Commission.<br \/>\nYes,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spectrabusters.org\/2013\/10\/28\/carol-singletary-speaking-at-lowndes-county-commmission-meeting\/\"><br \/>\nshe had<\/a>,<br \/>\nand later<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/no-sabal-trail-dollar-general-3-special-tax-lighting-districts-and-mosquitos-lcc-2013-11-11.html#Sabal-Trail\"><br \/>\nshe did again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/10860415304\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Larry Hanson @ VCC 2013-11-07\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2858\/10860415304_fdeeebcefd_z.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Hanson @ VCC 2013-11-07\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/path-of-proposed-pipeline-through-lowndes-county.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5495\/9443033905_75be4c475b_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nCity Manager Larry Hanson elaborated that while there had been two or three<br \/>\npaths originally contemplated, to his knowledge none of them<br \/>\nwent through Valdosta now.<br \/>\nMs. Singletary pointed out that Spectra&#8217;s alternate route is<br \/>\nthe route through Valdosta.<br \/>\nValdosta officials seemed unimpressed.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/wctv-on-the-pipeline.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3714\/10456733445_7b9218ea1a_z.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7cdGRXbWww8&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiH3yGYQ90PSQKrGef8Ld6wk&#038;index=25\"><br \/>\nPart 2 of 2:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7cdGRXbWww8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe desperately need your help &#8211;Carol Singletary Part 2 of 2:<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRegular Session, Valdosta City Council (VCC),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideo by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 November 2013.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrabusters.org\/2013\/11\/12\/what-is-that-sabal-trail-gas-pipeline-and-how-to-stop-it-spectrabusters-information-meeting\/\"><br \/>\n10AM tomorrow (Saturday morning)<\/a> at the<br \/>\nClarion Inn Conference Center,<br \/>\n2101 W Hill Ave, Valdosta, GA 31601.<\/p>\n<p>\n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local mom said she was one of many landowners being bullied by a pipeline company and asked for help from local leaders, at the 7 November 2013 Valdosta City Council Regular Session. Here&#8217;s Part 1 of 2: Carol Singletary&#8217;s impassioned and reasoned plea got a response from Mayor John Gayle, even if it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,70,2,6124,6687,73,3,54],"tags":[7213,7076,8728,8701,8699,10,259,8702,345,12,7,6076,4,6597,8731,6966,8700,6,8726],"class_list":["post-6679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-ethics","category-government","category-natural-gas-2","category-pipeline-2","category-safety","category-transparency","category-valdosta-city-council","tag-7-november-2013","tag-carol-singletary","tag-ethics","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-john-gayle","tag-lake","tag-larry-hanson","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-pipeline","tag-regular-session","tag-sabal-trail-transmission","tag-safety","tag-spectra-energy","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679","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=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7156,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions\/7156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}