November 18, 2013
4871 Gary Lane
Valdosta, GA 31601
P. Martin Teague
Associate General Counsel
Sabal Trail Transmissions, LLC
2701 North Rocky Point Dr.
Suite 1050
Tampa, FL 33607
Dear Mr. Teague,
I would like to thank you for the time you spent with me this
morning regarding my concerns about the proposed natural gas
pipeline FERC docket filing PF14-1.
The information that I am requesting is as follows:
Thomas D. Lovett
250 Monument Church Road
Quitman, GA 31643
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
888 First Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20426
Re: FERC Docket No. PF-14-1
Dear FERC,
As a Brooks County, Georgia landowner who would be directly affected
by Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC’s proposed pipeline, I adamantly
oppose this proposed pipeline, for the reasons stated below.
The 36-inch pipeline/easement would cut a path approximately 5,480
feet long and 100 feet wide across our family farm, located at 250
Monument Church Road, Quitman, Georgia, 31643. Our family farm has
been continuously owned by my family for more than 100 years. I live
on the farm with my wife and two boys.
We, the undersigned, are landowners who have received several
letters from Sabal Trail Transmission Pipeline LLC’s agents and
attorneys informing us of Sabal’s intent to enter our respective
properties to conduct surveys in connection with the FERC Docket No.
PF14-1. Originally, some of us had given consent to the company to
conduct the surveys. However, based on recent events including the
company’s refusal to provide us with details about its proposal and
its efforts to harass us with visits, letters and phone calls about
the survey, we hereby RESCIND our original permission.
I am strongly contesting the information provided in the
RR1 Sabal-Trail-Project initial Draft PF — final PDF, under
Accession number 20131115-5084, docket number PF14-1. Sabal Trail
has not met their commitments to provide information to me, the
property owner. Their filing exaggerated their efforts to contact
and respond to property owners concerns.
I am submitting my opposition to this pipeline. I own 2.09 acres of
land in
Lowndes County Ga. that was passed down from my Grandfather
to my Father who then passed it down to me. We built our home on the
north end of this lot and there is enough land left below the
existing SONAT pipeline to build another home for our grandchildren
or possibly a rental home for future supplemental income. There is
already a septic tank and water supply line there for future use.
Granting Sabal Trail/ Spectra an easement completely destroys any
further use of this property. I am not interested in receiving fair
market value for this strip of land because it will be a minimal
amount but will not allow me to put any structure on this property.
Also I am very concerned about potential safety hazards. They do not
have a good safety record. Also the first interaction that I had
with them I was misled or lied to. I received a form requesting
permission to come on my property for surveying. I called the
contact number on the form to ask if they would be using the
existing SONAT easement and was told “Absolutely”. Assuming that
this was true I signed the form and sent it back in. Later I am told
by the surveyors that they cannot share easements. On Monday
11/18/2013 I will be sending a form VIA registered mail that
they are not to enter my property again.
I just do not understand why if they cannot use the existing
easement why not go another route instead of taking property from
the same property owners twice.
Colquitt County landowner Irvin Allegood came to
the do-over Sabal Trail Open House in Moultrie 27 January 2014
so he could tell FERC he wasn’t going to allow another pipeline.
He wasn’t the only one, but he especially wanted video,
so here he is, talking to John Peconom of FERC.
…the existing pipeline comes through the front corner.
I just don’t think that they should be allowed to, basically, to deface
my property.
…losing that road, if they put two pipelines on my property.
Their first suggestion, was they would destroy…
as far as my property was concerned.
all of the wooded area.
There’s old growth pines in there, the run of a creek.
We’re just not going to allow that to happen.
If they put it on the other side of the existing pipeline.
I’ve been planning to put my shop out there when I retire in a couple of years.
I just don’t think they should be allowed to deface my property –Irvin Allegood to FERC
Video by John S. Quarterman for SpectraBusters.org,
Moultrie, Colquitt County GA, 27 January 2014.
FERC rep. John Peconom then wanted to be sure to get the spelling
of Irvin Allegood’s name, and where his property was.
It wasn’t on the map hanging right there, so they looked at the
maps on Peconom’s laptop.
Peconom had no direct response to the basic point of the pipeline
defacing property, or tearing down trees.
Its name is the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
but lately it’s been sounding more like a marketing firm for pipeline companies.
You can help fix that.
About 50 people attended an open house meeting held by Sabal Trail
Transmission LLC, the energy firm that will construct the roughly
465-mile line for two of America’s biggest energy companies. The
line will go through Alachua and Marion counties, among others….
John Peconom, project manager for the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, which will have final approval over the pipeline,
described Sabal Trails efforts at this point as “shaking the
bushes.”
The company, he said, is attempting to identify — and
mitigate, if necessary — as many issues as possible before
filing its application with the government, which should come in
about a year.
From: John S. Quarterman <jsqferc@quarterman.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:29:54 -0500
cc: John S. Quarterman <jsqferc@quarterman.org>
To: John Peconom <john.peconom@ferc.gov>
Subject: Re: Contact and the Big Picture
Howdy, and it was good to meet you in Moultrie.
I look forward to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
taking into account the whole big picture, and not just
believing assertions by applicant companies without critical review.
Thanks for sending me this boilerplate, which I see appears
in many FERC documents:
Any state or local permits issued with respect to the jurisdictional
facilities authorized herein must be consistent with the conditions of this
certificate. The Commission encourages cooperation between interstate
pipelines and local authorities. However, this does not mean that state
and local agencies, through application of state or local laws, may
prohibit or unreasonably delay the construction of facilities approved by
this Commission.
November 18, 2013
