The same calculations would find FPL’s “Southeast Market” pipeline not needed, including Spectra’s Sabal Trail pipeline. Mark Harrington wrote for NewsDay 31 July 2014, PSEG review finds Caithness II not needed, PSEG Long Island has found that the proposed Caithness II power plant in Yaphank “will not be needed” because the Island has enough capacity … Continue reading Long Island natural gas plant found not needed→
Imagine the fireball in 1992 in Brenham, Texas on your land or next to your children’s school or in Riviera Beach or Tampa or Jacksonville. The pipeline companies that stored too much “natural” gas in a cavern 2,000 feet below ground that leaked and exploded and killed and injured people, incinerated cattle, and destroyed houses … Continue reading Brenham, Texas, and the highly dangerous character of gas and its tendency to escape→
Tuesday May 27th Duke plans to file with FL PSC for approval to use Sabal Trail fracked methane at its former Crystal River nuclear site in Citrus County, Florida, and apparently for two other Duke plants in Suwannee County and Polk County. The Citrus County Commissioners have a Comprehensive Plan change for Duke on their … Continue reading Duke gas plants to be fueled by Sabal Trail fracked methane→
Springs before pipelines, say board members of Our Santa Fe River in central Florida, and let’s get on with clean solar power. Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson and Jim Tatum wrote for the Gainesville Sun 25 April 2014, Pipeline in springs heartland would be at risk for accidents, Is another gas highway pipeline inevitable in our Florida springs … Continue reading Pipeline accident risk in Florida springs heartland: go solar instead→
EPA isn’t buying FPL’s need for new power in Florida, or that methane is better than many alternatives (including that renewable energy sources should be considered together, not separately), or that a pipeline is the best way to get gas (specifically suggesting Port Dolphin instead), or that any of the proposed routes are appropriate, not … Continue reading Explain why the gas is needed –EPA to FERC→
Filed with FERC 21 April 2014. -jsq April 19, 2014 Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 888 First Street NE, Room 1A Washington, DC 20426 RE: Sabal Trail Project: Docket No.PF14-1-000 Florida SE Connection Project: Docket No.PF14-2-000 Hillabee Expansion Project: Docket No. PF14-6-000
Yet another LNG export scheme linked with the so-called Southeast Market Pipelines Project, in addition to at least two more. Why should anybody give up their land for export profit for a few companies somewhere else? An undersea pipeline originally for import to Florida, now being promoted for LNG export because of U.S. surplus methane … Continue reading Re: AES Ocean Express pipeline from Florida to Bahamas→
FERC’s John Peconom admitted FERC staff had never recommended denying a pipeline permit, and again admitted that the Commission had only ever denied two. He got an earful from local citizens in Marion County, Florida last night. The last FERC Scoping Meeting is tonight at the Citrus Tower in Clermont, Lake County, Florida. Bill Thompson … Continue reading FERC gets an earful in Florida→
PDF FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Valdosta, 23 March 2014 — All of south Georgia and north Florida drinks out of the Floridan Aquifer, where the FERC Scoping meetings and a SpectraBusters community panel meet this week about Sabal Trail’s attempt to take our lands to gouge a 100-foot right of way for a 36-inch methane pipeline … Continue reading No Pipeline in our Aquifer in north Florida and south Georgia→