{"id":7990,"date":"2014-03-04T06:18:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T11:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=7990"},"modified":"2014-03-04T06:22:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T11:22:08","slug":"ferc-pipeline-scoping-meeting-tonight-in-valdosta-testify-for-your-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/ferc-pipeline-scoping-meeting-tonight-in-valdosta-testify-for-your-community.html","title":{"rendered":"FERC pipeline Scoping Meeting tonight in Valdosta: testify for your community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nA local affected landowner and the chair of a local political party\r\nask you to come tonight at 6PM at the Holiday Inn on West Hill Avenue\r\nto testify to the federal agency that decides on a permit\r\nfor the proposed yard-wide hundred-foot right of way\r\nmethane pipeline that a company from Houston wants to gash through here.\r\nFirst a presentation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC),\r\nthen citizens can stand up and be recorded by a court reporter.\r\n<p>\r\nAs directly affected local landowner Carol Singletary\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spectrabusters.org\/2014\/03\/03\/no-sense-of-security-with-pipeline-next-to-your-home-carol-singletary\/\">\r\npointed out on WALB Sunday<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spectrabusters.org\/2014\/03\/03\/no-sense-of-security-with-pipeline-next-to-your-home-carol-singletary\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:150px\" src=\"http:\/\/walb.images.worldnow.com\/images\/24864987_BG2.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n&ldquo;When you have it within 100 feet of your home, you cannot\r\nhave any sense of security there. There are alternate routes that\r\naren&#8217;t being considered. So I want to get those on the table and\r\nsome strong considerations given to those.&rdquo;\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nAs Gretchen Quarterman pointed out for the Lowndes County Democratic Party\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spectrabusters.org\/2014\/03\/03\/lowndes-county-democratic-party-against-sabal-trail-on-wctv\/\">\r\non WCTV yesterday<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\n&ldquo;The Georgia Democrats feel that there&#8217;s a moral obligation to\r\nleave the world as beautiful and majestic as we found it and the\r\npipeline, it does not do that&rdquo;, says Gretchen Quarterman,\r\nChairman of the Lowndes County Democratic Committee.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nMore from the LCDP\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowndesdems.org\/2014\/03\/03\/lowndes-county-democratic-committee-opposes-sabal-trail-methane-pipeline\/\">Press Release yesterday<\/a>, plus more meetings and more ways to testify,<!--more-->\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowndesdems.org\/2014\/03\/03\/lowndes-county-democratic-committee-opposes-sabal-trail-methane-pipeline\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowndesdems.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cropped-lcdp.bug_-150x150.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nThe Lowndes County Democratic Committee voted Saturday to oppose the\r\nSabal Trail Methane Pipeline slated to run through Lowndes County.\r\n<p>\r\nGeorgia Democrats believe in and uphold every citizen&#8217;s right to\r\nequal and impartial justice under the law.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nThe taking of privately owned property by a private company is a\r\nproperty rights issue. Putting corporations above citizens is not\r\nequal, nor is it impartial. Lowndes County property owners have a\r\nright to say who can and cannot use their property and a LNG\r\npipeline that benefits no Georgians is a property rights violation.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nSpectraBusters PR 2 March 2014,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spectrabusters.org\/2014\/03\/02\/take-the-pipeline-bull-by-the-horns-georgia-ferc-scoping-meetings\/\">\r\nTake the Pipeline Bull by the Horns: Georgia FERC Scoping Meetings<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\nSpectraBusters invites everyone to take the pipeline bull by the\r\nhorns this week in Albany, Valdosta, or Moultrie, at your only\r\nchances in Georgia to testify in front of the Federal Energy\r\nRegulatory Commission about Spectra Energy&#8217;s proposed Sabal Trail\r\nTransmission fracked methane pipeline. Plus SpectraBusters will hold\r\na panel on the issues afterwards.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\r\nMonday, March 3 (last night) Albany\r\n<li>\r\nTuesday, March 4 (tonight) Valdosta\r\n<li>\r\nWednesday, March 5 (tomorrow) Moultrie\r\n<li>\r\nNext week, Alabama\r\n<li>\r\nThe following two weeks, Florida\r\n<li>\r\n3PM Saturday 29 March 2014, Lowndes County, SpectraBusters Panel\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrabusters.org\/calendar\/\">http:\/\/spectrabusters.org\/calendar\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>You can be heard online\r\ninstead by filing an e-comment with FERC:<\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ferconline.ferc.gov\/FERCOnline.aspx\">https:\/\/ferconline.ferc.gov\/FERCOnline.aspx<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Use Docket number\r\n<b>PF14-1<\/b> for Sabal Trail Transmission.<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nWCTV noted you can also send comments to FERC on PF14-1 by paper mail to:\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\nKimberly D. Bose, Secretary \r\n<br>\r\nFederal Energy Regulatory Commission \r\n<br>\r\n888 First Street NE, Room 1A \r\n<br>\r\nWashington, DC 20426\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nEven if you aren&#8217;t directly affected (I&#8217;m not),\r\nit&#8217;s your local and state taxes that would end up paying\r\nto deal with leaks or explosions,\r\nand being known as a pipeline corridor would not be good for business.\r\nSolar power is cheaper, faster, safer, and would lower electric bills and\r\nbring jobs right here where we need them.\r\nSo here are several ways you can speak up for yourself and for your community.\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local affected landowner and the chair of a local political party ask you to come tonight at 6PM at the Holiday Inn on West Hill Avenue to testify to the federal agency that decides on a permit for the proposed yard-wide hundred-foot right of way methane pipeline that a company from Houston wants to [&hellip;]","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":[14,2,20,322,6124,6687,32,73],"tags":[7076,8704,785,8701,8699,10,7486,8702,8710,8762,12,7,562,6076,8715,8731,7122,6],"class_list":["post-7990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-government","category-law","category-lcdp","category-natural-gas-2","category-pipeline-2","category-pollution","category-safety","tag-carol-singletary","tag-economy","tag-ferc","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-holiday-inn","tag-lake","tag-law","tag-lcdp","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-natural-gas","tag-pipeline","tag-pollution","tag-safety","tag-spectrabusters","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-24S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990","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=7990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7994,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions\/7994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}