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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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What Sabal Trail wants to do to our rivers

February 5, 2015Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Hazard, Hazards, History, Noise, Safety, Wateraquifer, Black Warrior River, Cahaba River, Chattahoochee River, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Coosa River, Dirty Dozen, drilling, Flint River, Flint Riverkeeper, Floridan Aquifer, frac-out, Georgia Water Coalition, Hazards, HDD, Horizontal Directional Drilling, John S. Quarterman, Ochlockonee River, Our Santa Fe River, Sabal Trail Transmission, Santa Fe River, sinkhole, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, Suwannee River, Tallapoosa River, Tombigbee River, Withlacoochee River, WWALS, WWALS Watershed CoalitionJohn S. Quarterman

After a long string of safety incidents and later-contradicted assertions in the media, would you trust Sabal Trail to drill under your rivers in your aquifers and near your farms, schools, homes, and springs?

Here’s stage two of Sabal Trail’s three-stage horizontal directional drilling (HDD) method, according to its document How We Cross Rivers and Streams,

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Extend the FERC scoping period and obtain critical information from Sabal Trail Transmission –Greenlaw

April 14, 2014Alabama, Dougherty County, Economy, Environment, FERC, Florida, Georgia, Law, WaterAlabama, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Dougherty County, FERC, Flint Riverkeeper, Florida, Georgia, GIS, Greenlaw, John Peconom, John S. Quarterman, Kiokee-Flint Group, Law, Lisa A. Connolly, maps, Sabal Trail Transmission, SpectraBusters, Steve CaleyJohn S. Quarterman

Two of the most organized Riverkeepers in Georgia, plus the Georgia Sierra Club and a group of landowners in Dougherty County, Georgia, have retained environmental law firm Greenlaw to address the Sabal Trail Pipeline. The task is difficult because of lack of information from Sabal Trail and from FERC. Here Steve Caley of Greenlaw spells out what his clients have asked for and how it’s been refused. You can help by also asking FERC or your elected officials to ask FERC to provide the missing information and to extend the Scoping Period. The PDF of the letter includes the attached documents. -jsq

April 7, 2014
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