Are Spectra and FPL running short on money so they have to take on a new investor?
Has the opposition cost them $225 million already?
The AP story includes two misconceptions.
After protests continuing into this year, a criminal trespass
lawsuit against Sabal Trail, and multiple parties filing amicus briefs,
this is all AP remembers:
The pipeline drew protests from southwest Georgia residents last
year, who said they do not want a pollution-emitting compression
station near their homes.
And despite Sabal Trail’s continued failure to demonstrate need,
AP repeats this old canard:
Currently there are only two major pipelines that deliver natural
gas to Florida. Both are nearing capacity.
Not if the Sunshine State gets on with solar power, like even
the most corrupt state (Georgia) is doing.
Interestingly, there’s no press release from any of Sabal Trail, Spectra,
NextEra, or FPL about this,
but there’s this obviously slanted Duke Energy PR, 5 May 2015,
Duke Energy buys 7.5% of previously announced Sabal Trail pipeline that will meet growing need for natural gas in Southeast U.S., Continue reading Duke Energy buys into Sabal Trail →
appears in Lowndes County, Georgia, in the same fragile karst limestone
Valdosta limesink terrain Sabal Trail proposes to gouge through
What if a sinkhole drops under that pipeline, and, like FGT in 2013,
Sabal Trail declares force majeure and doesn’t pay?
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