{"id":7236,"date":"2013-12-19T02:20:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2013-12-19T02:30:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T07:30:29","slug":"sabal-trail-meeting-leaves-questions-unanswered-vdt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/sabal-trail-meeting-leaves-questions-unanswered-vdt.html","title":{"rendered":"Sabal Trail meeting leaves questions unanswered –VDT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nLooks like we have a theme here, of\r\nSpectra and Sabal Trail not answering questions,\r\noften accompanied by mentions of threatening letters,\r\non\r\nWALB<\/a> (Spectra reps not familiar\r\nwith fines against their own company),\r\nfrom\r\n\r\nShale Property Rights<\/a> (“your statement is incorrect and misleading”),\r\non\r\nWCTV<\/a>\r\n(“tonight’s meeting didn\u2019t ease everyone’s fears”),\r\nin\r\n\r\nthe Moultrie Observer<\/a> (“Sabal began sending letters to landowners”),\r\non \r\nChris Beckham’s radio show<\/a> (“veiled threats” and no response to\r\n\r\na landowner attorney’s letter of denial of access<\/a>),\r\nand spelled out in the headline of yesterday’s VDT article.\r\n

\r\nMatthew Woody \r\nwrote for the VDT yesterday,\r\n\r\nSabal Trail meeting leaves questions unanswered<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nThe formats for both the Wiregrass and Clyattville meetings were\r\nperceived by area residents as unfriendly and intimidating.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“It’s the same set up as the meeting at Wiregrass,” said\r\naffected landowner Carol Singletary. “I am\r\ndisappointed.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nBrooks County landowner, Tracy Ryder, said the hardest part about\r\nthe layout of the meeting was that residents had to come with the\r\nright questions to ask because Sabal Trail did not easily provide\r\nthe information.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“Overall, the meeting has good presentations, but not good\r\ninformation. It seems to be designed to win admiration without\r\nproviding value. Some of the representatives have been courteous,\r\nbut they aren’t straightforward with residents,” said James\r\nRyder. “After this meeting, I feel kind of let down. I didn’t\r\nget the information that I wanted.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nMany residents expressed concern about safety issues, property\r\nvalues, paying property taxes on land that cannot be developed,\r\nreselling their property, and proper compensation for the use of\r\ntheir land.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nHere’s\r\n\r\na report by the Ryders<\/a> about\r\nthe 16 October 2013<\/a>\r\nmeeting by Spectra:\r\n

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\r\nWe attended an open house meeting conducted by Sabal Trail in\r\nValdosta, GA, last October at which time people were able to view\r\ncharts and map and ask questions regarding the proposed pipeline and\r\ncorridors. Sabal Trail representatives were not releasing\r\ninformation about the corridors and specific properties that were to\r\nbe impacted because they said they were still in the planning and\r\nresearch stages. They did state they wanted to lay their pipeline\r\nnext to the SONAT line, and that they were no longer considering\r\nutilizing the corridor affecting Tifton, Georgia because “there\r\nwere too many people involved”. My reply to that was that property\r\nowners in Brooks County are people, too, and that we are already\r\nnegatively impacted by the pre-existing SONAT pipe line.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nMost importantly, we did note that there was no representation of\r\nBrooks County people at that meeting, or at any of the following\r\nmeetings in Lowndes County. Lowndes County citizens are quite\r\norganized in their resistance to this new pipe line. We are\r\ncontacting you with a questionnaire to learn what your concerns are.\r\nIf Brooks County property owners organize and form a united front,\r\nwe should be able to have our concerns addressed. By organizing we\r\nwill have greater leverage to if not to change the course of the new\r\ngas line, to demand and negotiate better compensation for our\r\nlosses. As I fear they will be significant.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nAnd according to the VDT, the Ryders remain disappointed in the pipeline\r\ncompany for not supplying information.\r\nThey’re not the only ones.\r\n

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