{"id":8363,"date":"2014-04-04T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T15:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=8363"},"modified":"2014-04-04T11:23:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T15:23:51","slug":"videos-candidates-landowners-methane-and-solar-power-spectrabusters-2014-03-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/videos-candidates-landowners-methane-and-solar-power-spectrabusters-2014-03-29.html","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Candidates, Landowners, Methane and Solar Power @ SpectraBusters 2014-03-29"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a><\/p>\n

\nCandidates for Lowndes County Commission
\nwent on the record (
\nMark Wisenbaker<\/a>
\nand
\n
\nTom Hochschild<\/a> both running for District 3,
\nand
\n
\nNorman Bennett<\/a>
\nand
\n
\nGretchen Quarterman<\/a> both running for District 5),
\nplus
\n
\na statement by County Chairman Bill Slaughter<\/a>,
\nin addition to essential background information from
\ndirectly affected landowners in the audience and from the panelists
\non why the proposed
\nSabal Trail methane pipeline
\nis
\n
\nbad for property values<\/a>,
\nis
\n
\nhazardous here and elsewhere<\/a>,
\nand
\n
\nwill be obsolete in a few decades<\/a>,
\nall at
\n
\na SpectraBusters panel on the Sabal Trail pipeline at VSU<\/a>,
\nSaturday 29 March 2014.<\/p>\n

\nThe panelists were
\n
\nLarry Rodgers<\/a>, a directly affected landowner,
\n
\nDanielle Jordan<\/a>, president of Students Against Violating the Environment (S.A.V.E.),
\n
\nMichael G. Noll<\/a>, president of Wiregrass Activists for Clean Energy (WACE),
\nand an empty chair for Mrs. Susan Waller of Spectra Energy,
\nwho declined to attend.
\n
\nJohn S. Quarterman<\/a>
\nalso spoke for another allied organization, WWALS Watershed Coalition.<\/p>\n

\nSeveral other directly-affected landowners spoke from the audience,
\nincluding
\n
\nCarol Singletary<\/a> and
\n
\nRick Hastings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nThese videos by Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE)
\nmay be used without charge by all parties,
\nincluding political candidates, provided attribution to LAKE is included.\n<\/p>\n