Update 15 February 2014: Now six board members; see Board page.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Valdosta, January 16, 2014 —
SpectraBusters, Inc. has incorporated in Georgia with board members from all three states on the path of the proposed Sabal Trail Transmission methane pipeline: Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.
The five SpectraBusters board members include directly affected landowners and members of a wide range of groups affected by the pipeline:
Beth Gordon, President,
doesn’t want a 36-inch pipeline through her horse farm
in Levy County, Florida, where she practices law with The
Gordon Law Firm. She filed
a legal protest with the
Florida Public Service Commission against the pipeline and spoke
against it at the
Levy County Commission, noting this
pipeline is much bigger than previous pipelines or
those that blew up recently in Oklahoma or Texas, plus the company
behind this pipeline has
a long list of fines for PCB
pollution by EPA and for property damage, leaks, and
negligence by PHMSA.
Larry Rodgers, Treasurer,
doesn’t want a hundred-foot right of way through his
Pine Ridge Ranch in Lowndes County, Georgia, where it would
lower property values and reduce usability of the property
while introducing hazards.
His attorney doesn’t think
Sabal Trail can use Georgia law for eminent domain. He spoke
against the pipeline at the Lowndes County Commission and on
at least two television news reports.
Garrett Kizer is President of
Environmental Awareness Organization of Auburn University
(EAOAU) of Auburn University, Alabama. Alabama has to
contend with not one but three Spectra pipelines:
Sabal Trail, which is proposed to get its gas from Williams Transco’s
Hillabee Extension Project that runs across
Alabama, and the
Renaissance Project which Spectra proposes
to run from Tennessee through northeastern Alabama and north
Georgia past Atlanta.
Danielle Jordan, Secretary, says
research shows offshore wind could provide a third of the
electricity Georgia needs and solar most of the rest, so
there’s no need for a methane pipeline that
doesn’t even serve Georgia anyway. She is President of
Students Against Violating the Environment (S.A.V.E.), which
recommends that Valdosta State University (VSU) in Valdosta,
Georgia should
divest from fossil fuels. She has filed a
comment of protest against the pipeline with the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and has protested both
fossil fuels and this pipeline at more than one Sabal Trail
event.
John S. Quarterman has 15
kilowatts of solar panels on his farm workshop roof where he
grew up in Lowndes County, Georgia. Solar energy is already
cheaper than any other power source; so cheap a judge in
Minnesota recently ruled a power company had no excuse to
use
fracked "natural" gas instead of solar for
power. That’s even more true here in the sunny south,
where he has
long promoted solar energy for energy and jobs
right here where we need them. Quarterman is also Vice
President of
WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc., which has
filed as intervenor with FERC against the Sabal Trail
pipeline.
SpectraBusters: We
ain’t afraid a no pipeline!
Landowners and others opposed to the Sabal Trail gas
pipeline through Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.
Contact:
spectrabusters@gmail.com
http://spectrabusters.org
www.facebook.com/spectrabusters
Garrett Kizer
Lee County, AL
850-420-3854
Danielle Jordan
Lowndes Co., GA
229-300-7422
Beth Gordon
Levy Co., FL
352-528-0111
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