{"id":7240,"date":"2013-12-19T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2013-12-19T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T08:05:00","slug":"video-of-spectra-answering-a-question-about-sabal-trail-in-madison-fl-sabal-2013-12-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/video-of-spectra-answering-a-question-about-sabal-trail-in-madison-fl-sabal-2013-12-17.html","title":{"rendered":"Video of Spectra answering a question about Sabal Trail in Madison, FL @ Sabal 2013-12-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nWhen someone took Susan Waller up on her offer\r\nto answer questions about the Sabal Trail pipeline, she seemed to find the truth as reported by her own company to a\r\nfederal pipeline oversight agency to be &#8220;disruptive&#8221;.\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/YcFg8AjccQM\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/YcFg8AjccQM\/mqdefault.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YcFg8AjccQM#t=71\">\r\nDisable Sabal &#8211; Sabal Trail (Spectra Energy) Open House Madison, FL<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\nWe are a very genuine, safe, law-abiding company.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\nSo said Spectra VP or Shareholder Outreach Susan Waller.\r\nShe then complained that &#8220;your group&#8221;\r\nwas &#8220;disruptive&#8221; and &#8220;you don&#8217;t want to hear the truth&#8221;.\r\n<p>\r\nSo Ben Vieth showed Waller\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/primis.phmsa.dot.gov\/comm\/reports\/operator\/OperatorIM_opid_19235.html#_Incidents_tab_3\">\r\nlists of incidents of corrosion<\/a> reported by Spectra to PHMSA.\r\nTo which another Sabal Trail rep. said,\r\n&#8220;We have a safe operation&#8221;.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nHere&#8217;s\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/YcFg8AjccQM\">\r\nthe video:<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YcFg8AjccQM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<br>\r\nVideo of Spectra answering a question about Sabal Trail in Madison, FL\r\n<br>\r\nSabal Trail natural gas pipeline,\r\n<br>\r\nFERC-required Open House, Sabal Trail Transmission and Spectra Energy (Sabal),\r\n<br>\r\nVideo by Blake Clark, Madison, Madison County, Florida, 17 December 2013.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nIt&#8217;s interesting that even after<!--more-->\r\nboth Spectra&#8217;s Brian Fahrenthold and Andrea Grover claimed they were &#8220;unfamiliar&#8221;\r\nwith\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spectrabusters.org\/hazards\/spectra-safety-violations\/\">\r\nSpectra&#8217;s own record of fines by PHMSA and EPA<\/a>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/spectra-reps-unfamiliar-with-spectra-fines-lcc-2013-12-09.html\">\r\n9 December 2013 after the Lowndes County Commission meeting<\/a>\r\nthat Spectra VP Susan Waller should try this tack of claiming those who\r\nwere showing her the truth as reported by her own company didn&#8217;t want\r\nto hear the truth.\r\nHm, maybe the truth is disruptive to Spectra&#8217;s plans to gouge a 100-foot\r\npath for a yard-wide methane pipeline through properties and communities\r\nfor the profit of corporate executives and investors in Houston, Texas\r\nand Juno Beach, Florida?\r\n<p>\r\nThe VDT yesterday\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/sabal-trail-meeting-leaves-questions-unanswered-vdt.html\">reported about the Sabal Trail Open House at Clyattville Elementary in Lowndes County<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\nSusan Waller, vice president of Sabal Trail&#8217;s stakeholder outreach\r\nand sustainability program, said the company has surveyed roughly 90\r\npercent of Lowndes County, and is working with the other 10 percent.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n&ldquo;I want stakeholders to talk to us. They have to ask the\r\nquestions so we can answer them,&rdquo; Waller said. &ldquo;Keep\r\ntalking. Don&#8217;t shut down.&rdquo;\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nHere&#8217;s an example of what happened when somebody tried to ask her questions.\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When someone took Susan Waller up on her offer to answer questions about the Sabal Trail pipeline, she seemed to find the truth as reported by her own company to a federal pipeline oversight agency to be &#8220;disruptive&#8221;. 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