FERC just directed Sabal Trail to actually address problems raised
by citizens and local government agencies, plus numerous discrepencies
FERC itself detected.
Opposition to this unnecessary and hazardous fracked methane
pipeline is having effects, even with rubberstamping FERC.
But watch out Tifton, Valdosta, Thomasville, and The Villages!
You’re now on possible routes.
Sabal Trail is to provide details for
Greenlaw’s route-around-Albany proposals on behalf of Sierra Club and others
Valdosta, you’re back in two proposed routes,
the the one you saw last summer, plus
one down I-75 that would go right past Lowndes High School
and also past The Villages in sinkhole-prone Sumter County, Florida.
Tifton, you’re not safe; look at that Hillabee route.
Thomasville watch out: you’re on a new proposed route.
Sabal Trail is to provide alternatives to minimize effects on or
completely avoid the
Withlacoochee River,
and this is even before the Hamilton County Commission’s resolution
against the pipeline gets to FERC.
FERC’s letter is peppered with requirements
to cooperate with
federal, state, and local agencies
especially including about
land use and environmental requirements
and
land approvals.
It explicitly says that
all surveys Continue reading Explain karst, sinkholes, discrepencies, and routes around Albany and the Withlacoochee River –FERC to Sabal Trail →
A resident who lives next to the proposed compressor station site,
and Gordon Rogers, Flint Riverkeeper, were among those seen in
this meeting and not in
previous Dougherty County
meetings.
About a year ago is when the county first learned Sabal Trail’s interest in bringing a natural gas pipeline to the county. There have been several meetings since then to get the community involved.
