{"id":9707,"date":"2014-07-27T16:35:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T20:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=9707"},"modified":"2014-07-27T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T20:41:00","slug":"sabal-trail-admits-no-georgia-customers-tree-destruction-to-vdt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/sabal-trail-admits-no-georgia-customers-tree-destruction-to-vdt.html","title":{"rendered":"Sabal Trail admits no Georgia customers, tree destruction, to VDT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nThe VDT’s page-long coverage wasn’t just fluff.\r\nSpectra\u2019s Andrea Grover admitted they need complete survey data,\r\nand Sabal Trail admitted they have no Georgia customers, which means\r\nthey have no Georgia eminent domain, so every landowner who refuses is\r\nindeed putting a crimp into Spectra\u2019s fracked methane pipeline.\r\nPlus Grover admitted trees don’t grow back fast, so her promise\r\n“It’s restored to what it was before” is pretty hollow.\r\nShe admitted she knows the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Fuels\r\ncan approve LNG export, but she didn’t admit that it has already done\r\nso for three companies right there Spectra’s Sabal Trail pipeline leads\r\non Florida’s Atlantic coast.\r\nShe still can’t seem to remember Spectra’s long list of safety violations.\r\nAnd she’d already forgotten exactly when her posse of seven\r\nrode into Leesburg, GA seeking an eminent domain court order,\r\nand rode away without it.\r\n

\r\nNot a word, though, about\r\nLowndes County Chairman Bill Slaughter’s fourteen points<\/a> of local laws and ordinances he wants Sabal Trail to follow.\r\nSince Sabal Trail says it doesn’t like minimum depth requirements,\r\nand that was in Slaughter’s letter, should we assume Sabal Trail\r\nintends to ignore his fourteen points, as well?\r\nWhat does the Lowndes County Commission have to say about that?\r\n

\r\nFor details, see\r\n\r\nSabal Trail admits environmental destruction to Valdosta newspaper<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nMy favorite is this:\r\n

\r\n

\r\n“We still have, in working with the landowners and the communities,\r\nsome reroutes that we\u2019re looking at, and obviously you kind of need to\r\ndraw that line in the sand and turn in something….”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nA company from Houston, Texas comes here wanting to cut down local trees,\r\ntake a hundred-foot right of way through our fields and wetlands,\r\nand dig under our Withlacoochee River, for its corporate profit,\r\nand it acts like it’s the victim and we the locals are being mean to it.\r\n

\r\nHow about we tell Spectra to get back on its high horse and ride back to Houston,\r\nwhile we put up solar panels to reflect the tails of their horses?\r\n

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