Even Spectra workers sometimes develop a conscience. These whistleblowers are not the first, and thirty years of Spectra’s sordid safety record agrees with them. Tonight you can help stop Spectra from drilling under the Suwannee River in Florida, and that will help stop Spectra in Burrillville, Rhode Island. Steve Ahlquist, RI Future.org, 30 November 2015, … Continue reading We were told to shut up or quit –Spectra Energy whistleblowers→
A Spectra compressor station in Pennsylvania blew oil over local crops in 2009, and Pennsylvania fined Spectra $22,000 for that in 2010. Spectra’s Andrea Grover told me in 2013 that everybody there was happy. Mike Benard explained actually that wasn’t the case. Benard later wrote sage words: Spectra Energy: Trust Facts Not Promises. Better to … Continue reading Spectra was fined for Steckman Ridge compressor blowout→
Get your comments in ASAP to GA-EDP about the proposed Sabal Trail Albany compressor station air quality permit: the deadline is Friday August 7th. As Roger Marietta suggested, you can ask for a public hearing, as well. That’s the same date WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc. will be sending a petition for a hearing to the … Continue reading August 7th deadline to comment to GA-EPD about Sabal Trail Albany compressor station→
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 Sabal Trail is proposiong an excessive number of crossings –Southern Natural Gas→
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 … Continue reading Comment to GA-EPD on Sabal Trail air quality permit application by 2015-08-08→
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. … Continue reading This pipeline is a soft target that has inadequate security measures –Roger Marietta to FERC→
Call the Georgia Governor, ecomment to FERC, and boycott Florida Tourism, Albany and Dougherty County leaders ask. Call Georgia Governor Nathan Deal today! (404) 656-1776 Remember to sign the petition
Polite complaints to FERC, even demands, aren’t working, not even from elected officials at every level, city (Albany), county (Dougherty), state (Georgia), and federal. Now they are escalating to demonstrations and flooding FERC with comments while getting in the news. Tracey Smith, WFXL, 9 July 2015, Top leaders meet to stop the Sabal Trail, For … Continue reading Albany and Dougherty County, GA leaders meet to stop Sabal Trail→