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Construction of Sabal Trail pipeline is not inevitable –L. Elliott Jones

March 29, 2016Dougherty County, FERC, Georgia, WaterAlbany Herald, Carlton Fletcher, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Clean Water Act, Dougherty County, environmental justice, Environmental Protection Division, FERC, Flint River, Flint Riverkeeper, GA EPD, Georgia, Greenlaw, John S. Quarterman, Kioke-Flint Group, L. Elliott Jones, landowners, National Environmental Policy Act, Natural Gas Act, NEPA, Orlando Sentinel, Sabal Trail Transmission, Sierra Club, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, Suwannee River, Water, WWALSJohn S. Quarterman

Especially preventable after Sabal Trail’s river easements went down in flames in a historic vote by the Georgia House last week. -jsq

L. Elliott Jones, Albany Herald, 28 March 2016, L. ELLIOTT JONES: Construction of Sabal Trail pipeline is not inevitable
GUEST COLUMNIST: Efforts are still under way to prevent the construction of the gas pipeline,

Carlton Fletcher’s story, “Dougherty County leaders OK inevitable agreement on pipeline” on March 21, presented only one part of the current story on the Sabal Trail pipeline. There are two schools of thought on the Sabal Trail pipeline: those who believe construction of the pipeline is inevitable, and those who believe the pipeline can and should be prevented, and are working hard to do so. No one, in either group, believes it is needed in Georgia.
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Dougherty County passed a resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline

October 28, 2014Dougherty County, Environment, FERC, Georgia, SafetyAlbany, Albany Herald, burden of proof, Dougherty County, environment, FERC, FPL, Georgia, John S. Quarterman, need, Sabal Trail Transmission, Safety, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, WALB, WFXLJohn S. Quarterman

Sabal Trail has not met its burden of proof of need, and its pipeline would be hazardous to environment and safety, resolved the Dougherty County Commission Monday. And now news media call it the “the pipeline fight” and the “controversial pipeline”. Visitors to Albany tell me people now bring up the pipeline unprompted in conversation. Last week’s very bad media week for Sabal Trail continues to get worse this week.

Franklin White, WFXL, 27 October 2014, Another step in the pipeline fight,

Officials say in the past year they’ve written four letters to Sabal Trails on behalf of Dougherty County citizens and businesses.

They say after the September meeting when Sabal Trail officials came to Dougherty County to explain why they chose SWGA to build the pipeline, County Commissioners found pipeline would do more harm than good.

Dougherty County Attorney Spencer Lee says, “they found there is no need for it and it’s likely to harm the environment and our socio-economic and culture activities.”

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News about yesterday’s Sanford Bishop pipeline listening session in Albany, GA

April 18, 2014Agriculture, Dougherty County, Georgia, Health, Law, Safety, WaterAgriculture, Albany Herald, aquifer, Dougherty County, Fox 31, Georgia, Government, Health, John S. Quarterman, Law, Sabal Trail Transmission, Safety, Sanford Bishop, sinkhole, SpectraBusters, WALB, WaterJohn S. Quarterman

Here are two news reports (oddly, WALB doesn’t seem to have filed one) on yesterday’s listening session with U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop (GA-02). These are brief extracts; there’s more in each article.

Cody Long wrote for Fox 31 yesterday, Deadline nears to hear pipeline comments,

There were about 50 people who showed up to the Government Center in downtown Albany. Some voiced their concerns to commissioners and the congressman about the Sabal Trail Transmission Gas Pipeline Project.

The pipeline would run through 24 miles of Dougherty County and would be capable of transporting up to one billion cubic feet of natural gas each day.

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SpectraBusters in Albany Herald

November 3, 2013GeorgiaAlbany Herald, Dougherty County, Gasland, Georgia, John S. Quarterman, S.A.V.E., SpectraBusters, Students Against Violating the Environment, Tim Bland, VSUJohn S. Quarterman

A bit of publicity about pipeline opposition.

Carlton Fletcher wrote for the Albany Herald Friday 1 Nov 2013, ‘Spectrabusters’ opposes 465-mile Alabama-Georgia-Florida natural gas pipeline: A proposed natural gas pipeline through Dougherty County could distribute a billion cubic feet of gas daily, noting under a pipeline map,

The proposed Sabal Trail Pipeline could potentially come through a portion of Dougherty County.

The story did not include this Spectra map of Dougherty County:

In the Albany Herald story:

But if a determined and growing list of landowners in Georgia, Florida and Alabama have a say in the matter, no Spectra Energy-financed shovelful of earth will ever be turned.

A grassroots group calling itself Spectrabusters has grown from common concern over issues surrounding the Sabal Trail Pipeline, and the group clearly states its platform on the spectrabusters.org website: “This site is dedicated to sharing information about the pipeline and working with people from across the area to make sure this unnecessary pipeline is never built.”

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