Monthly Archives: July 2015
Who owns Spectra?
Spectra Energy Corp. (SE) is a publicly traded stock.
Who buys it?
Institutional investors as a small chip
and mutual funds, including college investment 529E funds
that maybe don’t know the fracking boom is going bust
way before many children get to college.
According to Nasdaq, the top five institutional SE investors are: Continue reading Who owns Spectra?
Sabal Trail is proposiong an excessive number of crossings –Southern Natural Gas
Even another pipeline company can’t get critical information out of Sabal Trail.
Eight months after it requested details on proposed crossings by Sabal Trail of its existing pipelines,
Southern Natural Gas Company is tired of waiting.
And for good reason; Sabal Trail’s crossings exponentially
increase risks of corrosion, leaks, and explosions:
The operational concerns associated with the high number of crossings create the potential for significant cathodic protection system issues for both operators. Continue reading Sabal Trail is proposiong an excessive number of crossings –Southern Natural Gas
Make FERC follow its own rules and listen to people –New Hampshire Congressional delegation to DoE Inspector General
Kinder Morgan opposition has escalated to
New Hampshire’s entire Congressional delegation
demanding in polite bureaucrateze for
the Department of Energy’s Inspector General to make FERC shape up.
It will take more than that, but it’s a start.
KMI’s New England Direct (NED) pipeline
is still in FERC pre-filing.
It’s time for more Georgia, Florida, and Alabama Congress members to follow Sanford Bishop (GA-02) in calling for FERC to deny Sabal Trail a permit. Dougherty County and Albany, Georgia are organizing opposition from local through state to federal. You can comment to GA-EPD about Sabal Trail’s air quality permit for their proposed Albany compressor station. And remember to ecomment to FERC and petition Georgia Governor Deal.
PDF of the New Hampshire letter, and text below. Continue reading Make FERC follow its own rules and listen to people –New Hampshire Congressional delegation to DoE Inspector General
Comment to GA-EPD on Sabal Trail air quality permit application by 2015-08-08
An air quality permit for the proposed Albany compressor station is one of many local and state permits FERC requires Sabal Trail to get. This is a big one, because no compressor station, no pipeline.
Roger Marietta remarks:
You can email Georgia EPD prior to August 8th GA EPD: eric.cornwell@gadnr.org re: application # 23350 (Air Quality Permit Application) focus on methane and other toxic gases leaking and being blown off during pressure releases and unburnt gases and CO2 from the continuously running compressor station power turbines. Ask for a public hearing as well.
Recommend you send more than one comment and focus on a different issue each time.
Copy spectrabusters@gmail.com on your ecomment to GA-EPD and we’ll probably blog it.
And don’t forget to call GA Governor Deal and sign the petition to him.
Do it now, or you may hear that compressor sound in your sleep.
-jsq
Albany City Commission to convene a meeting with Dougherty County Commissioners, Congressional and State delegates to discuss Sabal Pipeline
Dougherty County, escalating after resolutions and letters to FERC and multiple protests, now sees its Albany City government calling for a combined meeting of local, state, and federal elected officials to stop the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline from invading southwest Georgia for profit of a company in Houston, Texas and no local benefits; only destruction and hazards.
Here’s the agenda item:
AGENDA
BOARD OF CITY COMMISSIONERS
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015
6:00 PM — EARLY BRIEFING — ROOM 120
6:30 PM — REGULAR MEETING — ROOM 100…
III. Recommendation of the Committee of the Whole to convene a meeting with Dougherty County Commissioners, Congressional and State delegates to discuss Sabal Pipeline
That city/county/state/federal meeting will be Continue reading Albany City Commission to convene a meeting with Dougherty County Commissioners, Congressional and State delegates to discuss Sabal Pipeline
This pipeline is a soft target that has inadequate security measures –Roger Marietta to FERC
FERC can’t stand the truth? Here’s what Roger Marietta wrote that you still can’t see through FERC’s elibrary, which is still broken eight hours later. Same hazard blogged here eighteen months ago.
Filed with FERC 24 July 2015 as Accession Number: 20150724-5034, “Comment of Roger B. Marietta in Docket(s)/Project(s) CP15-17-000 Submission Date: 7/24/2015”
Roger B. Marietta, Albany, GA.
A developer in our City was told by the Sabal Trail right of way acquisition people that the 36″ pipe would only be buried 3 feet deep in non agricultural areas. My concern and that of other Veterans is what happens to pipelines in Iraq where a man with a shovel can dig up the dirt above a pipeline and then either tap into it or unleash an act of terrorism. With all the ISIS attacks in America recently, this pipeline is a “soft” target that has Continue reading This pipeline is a soft target that has inadequate security measures –Roger Marietta to FERC
FERC elibrary broken?
FERC can’t take the heat of the hundreds of recent ecomments
opposing Sabal Trail?
FERC’s elibrary seems to be broken.
What are you spending all those fees and charges on, FERC?
Apparently not technical support.
Update 2015-07-24: What he wrote: This pipeline is a soft target that has inadequate security measures.
Trying to look at Roger Marietta’s FERC submission of today, I get:
IDM exception error ‘8004fec8’
Logon failed.
/IDMWS/NVcommon/FNSessionStart.asp, line 42
In case FERC gets its act together, that’s Accession Number: 20150724-5034, “Comment of Roger B. Marietta in Docket(s)/Project(s) CP15-17-000 Submission Date: 7/24/2015”.
This is not the first time FERC has had this error. Also Continue reading FERC elibrary broken?
Third Atlanta Journal-Constitution about Sabal Trail and Palmetto Project
Atlanta has heard about Sabal Trail, Palmetto Project, and several other proposed pipeline projects three times now from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It’s time to act.
Greg Bluestein, AJC, Pipeline project fuels anger in Georgia,
Their proposal comes as pipeline projects — and controversy surrounding them — pop up across Georgia. A 157-mile Sabal Trail Pipeline that would cross nine southwest Georgia counties has sparked outrage in Albany and Valdosta. And Atlanta Gas Light wants to begin pumping gas from Coweta County
to Dalton by 2017.
But Kinder Morgan’s proposal has struck a throbbing nerve, in part because of the length of the proposed pipeline — the 320-mile route stretches by Augusta, Savannah and Jacksonville — and in part because of the threat of eminent domain hanging over the landowners.
“Where do we draw the line? There are no reset buttons,” Troy Davis, a local landowner, said at one of the town hall meetings that Kinder Morgan called to calm fears about the project. “It will be a Kroger, a CVS, a Burger King that comes to this community and says, ‘Hey, we have a necessity for this.’ ”
That’s why the real solution is for the Georgia legislature to revoke eminent domain for private companies. But the legislature doesn’t meet until January, and we need to stop these pipelines before then.
About Kinder Morgan trespassing 1.7 miles into land owned by Billy Morris, who also owns the newspapers in Augusta and Savannah: Continue reading Third Atlanta Journal-Constitution about Sabal Trail and Palmetto Project
Do not allow Sabal to profit at the expense of thousands of people in our region –Winfred J. Dukes, GA House District 154
The state representative for Albany wrote to FERC today:
“It is difficult to
persuade anyone to settle in a community where billions of cubic feet
on methane gas are being released annually.”
Other elected and appointed officials can do the same.
And you can still
ecomment to FERC and ask Governor Deal to oppose Sabal Trail like he opposes the Palmetto pipeline.
You and your elected and appointed officials can write like Winfred Dukes did:
The proposed Sabal pipeline will have a devastating economic impact on our community. It will cause a decline in property values. It will halt the investment the city and others have made in that area. It will impact the health of our citizens. Do not allow Sabal to profit at the expense of thousands of people in our region.
Filed with FERC as Accession Number: 20150721-5028, “Comment of Winfred J. Dukes under CP15-17.” Continue reading Do not allow Sabal to profit at the expense of thousands of people in our region –Winfred J. Dukes, GA House District 154