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→
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
Canada’s FERC equivalent had to escalate from specific fines to a blanket clean-up order. Do you still believe Spectra is “a very genuine, safe, law-abiding company”? Mackenzie Scrimshaw, iPolitics.ca, 15 July 2015, The Drilldown: Spectra Energy faces NEB fines, Spectra Energy Corp SE.N is feeling the heat from the National Energy Board (NEB). As Reuters … Continue reading Canadian regulator orders Spectra to clean up its safety practices→
Citing the GDOT denial of KMI’s Palmetto Pipeline and numerous specific hazards of Spectra Energy’s proposed Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline (sinkholes in karst limestone and a compressor station next to Albany’s water wells, all for no benefit to Georgia, by a company with a poor safety record), U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop (GA-02) wrote to … Continue reading Deny Sabal Trail, said U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop, and FERC ignored him→
How do they say these things with a straight face? Although the pipeline that ruptured was at least 4 decades old, company officials say pipelines don’t age — Sure and their bathrooms don’t require air vents, because they don’t stink. …and its maintained according to federal standards. As in the standards the Pipeline & Hazardous … Continue reading Pipelines don’t age, and we have no idea why Transco blew up (again) –Williams Co.→
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→
Calling their bluff at their very first “public hearing”, longtime environmental activist Steve Willis told Kinder Morgan that if they didn’t want the public to believe that their pipeline is for export, when it so conveniently runs past KM’s proposed Elba Island LNG export terminal and to Jacksonville where Jaxport is gearing up for LNG … Continue reading Post a bond if Palmetto Pipeline is not for export –Steve Willis to Kinder Morgan in Savannah→
Floridian’s Clean Water Declaration Campaign, facebook, 18 February 2015, Laura Dailey of SpectraBusters brought a strong message in favor of solar energy and against the pipeline that’s proposed to cross the springs heartland. More about Laura Dailey, Director of Community Outreach & Speaker’s Bureau. And a few more of her notes for that speech: Throughout … Continue reading Laura Dailey spoke for SpectraBusters at clean water rally in Tallahassee→
Why should we accept any risk from a pipeline company that has repeatedly claimed not to be familiar with the public record of its long list of corrosion, leaks, and explosions? A pipeline company that has claimed land values wouldn’t be affected? That it’s “hard to believe” its own law firm sent threats of eminent … Continue reading Would you buy a used car from Sabal Trail?→