Florida Gas Transmission intervenes in Sabal Trail CP15-17

December 10, 2014Alabama, Compressor, FERC, Florida, Georgia, LawAlabama, compressor, CP14-554, CP15-16, CP15-17, FERC, FGT Southeast Market Pipeline Project, Florida, Florida Gas Transmission, Florida Southeast Connection, FSC, Georgia, Hillabee Expansion Project, John S. Quarterman, Law, Sabal Trail Transmission, SMP, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, TranscoJohn S. Quarterman

How simple a motion to intevene can be: organization name, contacts, and Basis for Intervening. Filing to intervene gets your foot in the door for any further filings or legal actions or participation in hearings. It does not require filing major legal documents at the outset (or ever). It does require filing your motion to … Continue reading →

Pipeline subsidence is Force Majeure –Florida Gas Transmission

December 31, 2013Environment, FERC, Florida, Georgia, Hazards, LouisianaAct of God, aquifer, Assumption Parish, Energy Transfer, environment, FERC, Florida, Florida Gas Transmission, Force Majeure, Hazards, limestone, Louisiana, SpectraBusters, subsidenceJohn S. Quarterman

Force Majeure, or an act of God, in other words “not our fault”, that’s what a methane pipeline company calls the 25-acre sinkhole in Assumption Parish, Louisiana. The same thing could happen in the soft limestone underlying all of Florida and south Georgia that contains our Floridan Aquifer, the source of our drinking water. Found … Continue reading →

LNG – Liquefied Natural Gas & Small Scale Processing Facilities-Action Needed

September 24, 2017Bomb Trains, Bomb Trains, Bomb Trucks, Cecile Scofield, Debra Johnson, DOE, Explosion, FERC, FL PSC, Florida, Fracking, Georgia, Hazard, Hazards, Health, John Quarterman, Leak, LNG, Safety, Suwannee County, Transportation, USA, Water ProtectorsDoE, Duke Energy, environment, Ethics, export, Federal Register Comment, FERC, Florida, Florida Southeast Connection, FPL, Gov. Rick Scott, LNG, NextEra Energy, No Regulations, petition, Sabal Trail Pipeline, Small Scale LNG, Trump, USA, Water ProtectorsDebra Johnson

The Plan We Must Stop This is the beginning of a series of blogs to educate the public about the dangers of LNG as well as to convince as many people that we can to object to this dangerous precedent by providing information about what LNG is and what you can do. Liquefied Natural Gas … Continue reading LNG – Liquefied Natural Gas & Small Scale Processing Facilities-Action Needed →

Emera, Inc – A Natural Gas Exporter Acquires TECO – Tampa Electric

August 31, 2016Duval County, FE, FERC, Florida, LNG, LNG, Suwannee CountyCanada, Duval County, Emera, FERC, FGT, Florida, Florida Gas Transmission, Jacksonville, Jacksonville Expansion Project, Jaxport, JEP, Kinder Morgan, KMI, LNG export, Sabal Trail Transmission, TECODebra Johnson

Canadian based, Emera Inc., has acquired TECO – Tampa Electric Company. “The acquisition of TECO Energy advances a number of important strategic objectives for Emera,” said Chris Huskilson, president and CEO of Emera Inc. “We expect it to be

Sabal Trail Transmission Memorandum of Understanding in Suwannee County – Board meeting July 5, 2016

July 1, 2016UncategorizedDebra Johnson

On SBOCC agenda for Suwannee County July 15 5,2016 — Sabal Trail Transmission and Suwannee County Libraries: The meeting starts at 6:00 PM {update} Judicial Annex 218 Parshley St. SW Live Oak, FL 32064 Item # 15 on the SBOCC agenda. “The Suwannee River Regional Library requests Board approval to apply for a community grant … Continue reading Sabal Trail Transmission Memorandum of Understanding in Suwannee County – Board meeting July 5, 2016 →

Sabal Trail is proposiong an excessive number of crossings –Southern Natural Gas

July 27, 2015FERC, SafetyCompany, FERC, John S. Quarterman, Sabal Trail Transmission, Safety, SONAT, Southern Natural Gas, Spectra Energy, SpectraBustersJohn S. Quarterman

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 … Continue reading →

FERC Connection with Spectra Energy & The Plan To Export Fracked Gas Via Sabal Trail Pipeline

June 8, 2015FERC, LNGDebra Johnson

Susan Waller is vice president of stakeholder outreach and sustainability for Spectra Energy Corp. Spectra Energy is the Houston based company that is installing and planning various fracked gas pipelines across the USA for export to other countries. This includes the regional Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC owned by Spectra Energy, NextEra (FPL), and Duke Energy. … Continue reading FERC Connection with Spectra Energy & The Plan To Export Fracked Gas Via Sabal Trail Pipeline →

Why accepting a natural gas easement is a bad deal

November 16, 2014Environment, Ethics, FE, FERC, Fracking, Hazards, History, Law, LNG, Solareasement, environment, Ethics, FE, FERC, Fracking, Government, Hazards, History, John S. Quarterman, Jon Wellinghoff, Kinder Morgan, KMI, Law, LNG, LNG export, national security, solar, SONAT, Southern Natural Gas, SpectraBustersJohn S. Quarterman

Here are a few things you get with a pipeline easement: no right to grow trees on it, limited right to put up fences, and if you do, you have to have gates in them that the pipeline company can put their own lock on. But you do get to continue to pay taxes on … Continue reading →

Spectra Energy and gas pipeline campaign contributions to GA Gov. Nathan Deal

September 19, 2014Alabama, Ethics, FE, FERC, Florida, Georgia, LNG, Louisiana, Tennessee, TexasAECOM, Alabama, Bill Haslam, California, Colorado, Consolidated Pipe & Supply Company, Ernst & Young, Ethics, FE, FERC, Florida, Georgia, Jason Carter, John S. Quarterman, LNG, Louisiana, Mark Udall, Mary Landrieu, Mexico, Nathan Deal, NextEra, Rick Scott, Robert J. Bentley, Sempra, SpectraBusters, Tennessee, TexasJohn S. Quarterman

Tied for number 3 and receiving $10,000 in 2014 Top Vendors/Recipients from Spectra Energy according to OpenSecrets.org: Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia, where Spectra wants to gouge a 100-foot right of way for its 36-inch fracked methane Sabal Trail pipeline. Actually, Nathan Deal’s campaign committee has accepted at least $21,300 from natural gas pipeline companies, … Continue reading →

A fourth Florida LNG export request: Strom, Inc. from Starke, FL

August 12, 2014FE, FERC, Florida, LNGAlligator Creek, Atlantic Ocean, Bradford County, Carib Energy, Crowley Maritime, FE, FERC, Florida, Gainesville, Gulf of Mexico, Jacksonville, Jaxport, John S. Quarterman, LNG, Lower St. Johns River Watershed, New River, Our Santa Fe River, Santa Fe River, Scoping Meetings, SpectraBusters, St. Johns Riverkeeper, Starke, Suwannee RiverJohn S. Quarterman

Still time to object to this fourth company filing to export Sabal Trail fracked methane, adding to the three already authorized. FERC knew about this Strom LNG export request before the last three FERC Scoping Meetings, and never told us. This fourth LNG export operation will affect both the Santa Fe River watershed and the … Continue reading →

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