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Hike With Congressman Ted Yoho & The Truth Behind What is Driving the Push to Install Sabal Trail Pipeline

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Here is the detailed story and videos of what Ted Yoho FL-03 and others,  saw,  heard and said on the hike where Sabal Trail proposes to drill under the Suwannee River as well as a new development.  Rep. Sanford Bishop GA-02,  has sent a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers asking for a SEIS without even attending this hike … Continue reading Hike With Congressman Ted Yoho & The Truth Behind What is Driving the Push to Install Sabal Trail Pipeline →

Spectra, Duke, NextEra, Williams, all members of ALEC super-lobby group

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All the companies behind the Southeast Market Pipelines Project have representatives sitting in those back rooms voting on draft bills on an equal basis with state legislators, according to the latest information publicly availlable. Back in the news a year after an Atlanta TV station reported on an ALEC meeting in Savannah, ALEC is not … Continue reading Spectra, Duke, NextEra, Williams, all members of ALEC super-lobby group →

Etowah River boring incident, Transco Dalton Expansion Project pipeline

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Transco spilled oil into the Etowah River, the same Transco of the Hillabee Expansion Project in the Southeast Market Pipelines Project with Sabal Trail. According to a local report Transco did nothing to clean up the oil or damage to the riverbed. This was part of Transco’s Dalton Expansion Project, FERC docket CP15-117, one of … Continue reading Etowah River boring incident, Transco Dalton Expansion Project pipeline →

Sabal Trail sues Georgia landowners for federal eminent domain –Atlanta Journal Constitution

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Which Houston, Texas pipeline company has sued Ted Turner, Bob Graham, and dozens of other Georgia landowners, including a Georgia Centennial Farm? That’s right, Spectra Energy, as in the Sabal Trail fracked methane boondoggle. Dan Chapman, AJC, 1 May 2016, South Georgia pipeline fight turns into battle over eminent domain, A Texas company wants to … Continue reading Sabal Trail sues Georgia landowners for federal eminent domain –Atlanta Journal Constitution →

Short-term jobs are not worth long-term Sabal Trail risk –Locals to Sabal Trail jobs-seekers at Contractor Fairs

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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. … Continue reading Short-term jobs are not worth long-term Sabal Trail risk –Locals to Sabal Trail jobs-seekers at Contractor Fairs →

Partial win at FPL Hendry County proposed power plant 2016-04-12

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Local opposition has gotten a proposed FPL fracked methane power plant away from the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, and part of FPL’s site converted to a proposed solar plant. More can be done, but this shows county commissions can fight even mighty FPL, plus Sabal Trail’s pipeline, the likely source of the gas. FPL … Continue reading Partial win at FPL Hendry County proposed power plant 2016-04-12 →

Sabal Trail Contractor Fairs: Ocala, Live Oak, Albany

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Update 10 April 2016: And Moultrie, GA April 15th. Trying to attract local support in counties where it wants compressor stations, Sabal Trail is holding Contractor Fairs, ignoring that: Suwannee County told Sabal Trail to move the Hildreth Compressor Station. Suwannee County this week followed Hamilton County in asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers … Continue reading Sabal Trail Contractor Fairs: Ocala, Live Oak, Albany →

SpectraBusters Allies cited as why Sabal Trail may fail

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SpectraBusters allies were just called out by fossil fuel industry publication OilPrice, and by notorious financial blog Zerohedge, as reasons why Sabal Trail may lose. Irina Slav, OilPrice, 31 March 2016, Gas Pipeline Uses 160 Eminent Domain Suits To Get Property In 3 States, picked up by “Tyler Durden”, Zerohedge.com, 1 April 2016, Eminent domain … Continue reading SpectraBusters Allies cited as why Sabal Trail may fail →

Cost to KMI of Palmetto Pipeline Suspension and other pipeline opposition

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The financial press amusingly tries to spin Kinder Morgan’s suspension yesterday of its Palmetto petroleum products pipeline as a positive. Meanwhile, Sabal Trail still needs stopping even after the historic win in the Georgia legislature, and remember KMI is in bed with Sabal Trail on on the Jacksonville Expansion Project (JEP) from Suwannee County, FL … Continue reading Cost to KMI of Palmetto Pipeline Suspension and other pipeline opposition →

The Empire Strikes Back: Spectra sues FL,GA,AL landowners

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Reciting from the standard pipeline playbook, Spectra has started suing landowners. This while doughty rebels defeated 34 aye to 128 nay easements to drill under Georgia rivers, which could put a crimp in the Sabal “Sinkhole” Trail fracked methane boondoggle. Can we the people beat the Mickey Mouse fossil fuel empire? Paul Brinkmann, Orlando Sentinel, … Continue reading The Empire Strikes Back: Spectra sues FL,GA,AL landowners →