PR sent tonight to about 100 news media:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Live Oak, FL, April 18, 2016 — Local residents and half a dozen environmental organizations want applicants at Sabal Trail pipeline job fairs to know a job for a few weeks isn’t worth risking drinking water for all our families and children and grandchildren.
Opponents of the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline and supporters of solar power include the Suwannee-St Johns Sierra Club Group, St Johns Riverkeeper, WWALS Watershed Coalition, Our Santa Fe River, Earth Ethics, Gulf Restoration Network, and SpectraBusters.
Sabal Trail is holding what it calls Contractor Fairs 11AM to 2PM on two days this week, not for people to actually install the pipeline, rather for incidental jobs.
- 11AM-2PM Tuesday, 19 April 2016, Hilton Garden Inn, Saratoga Room, 3600 SW 36th Avenue, Ocala. FL 34474
- 11AM-2PM Wednesday, 20 April 2016, RiverOak Technical College, 415 Pinewood Drive SW, Live Oak, FL 32064
In Ocala, at the 9AM Marion County Board of Commissioners meeting that same morning,, Whitey Markle, Conservation Chair of the Suwannee-St Johns Sierra Club, will speak about Sabal Trail Pipeline and Proposals for Solutions.
At the contractor fairs, opponents will be distributing a flyer (attached) to remind everyone that Sabal Trail is NOT a done deal. There are six requests for re-hearing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which has not issued a construction go-head. Meanwhile, the Georgia legislature in a historic 34 aye to 128 nay vote denied river-drilling easements to Sabal Trail, and Hamilton and Suwannee Counties, Florida asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to investigate numerous springs, sinkholes, and underground caverns reported by independent Practicing Geologists that Sabal Trail didn’t mention to regulatory agencies.
The continually growing opposition says risks to our Floridan Aquifer and eminent domain taking easements from local neighbors to profit a company from somewhere else are reasons for jobs seekers to read up on the problems or go see for themselves Lime Run Spring or the other springs, sinkholes, and caverns Sabal Trail says aren’t as close as they are to its proposed pipeline path. Opponents say job seekers should not sign a contract with Sabal Trail before independent investigation of its route, and they should report any safety or environmental incidents.
Many pipelines are being delayed or cancelled: fossil fuels are a dying 20th century industry. Already there are more jobs in solar power than in all of oil and gas extraction. Solar needs no eminent domain, no drilling, no water, and produces no exhaust.
The full flyer, copiously footnoted with evidence, is attached.
Update 2016-04-19: Fixed typos and added Apalachicola Riverkeeper®.
Contacts:
Maryvonne Devensky
Suwannee-St Johns Group
Sierra Club, Florida Chapter
Ssjsierra.org
352-871-1606John S. Quarterman, President
WWALS Watershed Coalition,
the WATERKEEPER® Affiliate
for the upper Suwannee River
www.wwals.net
229-242-0102Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson
Policy Director
Our Santa Fe River
OurSantaFeRiver.org
(386) 454-7178Lisa Rinaman
St Johns Riverkeeper®
Stjohnsriverkeeper.org
904-256-7591Dan Tonsmeire
Apalachicola Riverkeeper®
Apalachicolariverkeeper.org
850.653.8936Mary Gutierrez
Executive Director
Earth Ethics, Inc.
www.earthethics.us
850.549.7472Debra Johnson
Board Member
SpectraBusters, Inc.
Spectrabusters.org
386-209-5886Johanna de Graffenreid
Coastal Campaign Organizer
Gulf Restoration Network
Healthygulf.org
336-429-9730
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