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Valdosta, 8 March 2014 —
SpectraBusters invites everyone to tackle the pipeline at
its root this coming week in Seale, Alexander City, or
Butler, at your only chances in Alabama to testify in front
of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about the
fracked methane pipelines proposed by Williams Transco,
Spectra Energy, and FPL. Plus later a SpectraBusters panel
on the issues.
FERC Scoping Meetings:
This week’s calendar:
SpectraBusters Panel:
In Conjunction with:
FERC Scoping Meetings:
| 5PM Sabal
Trail discussion
|
Pipeline
representatives will be present. |
| 6PM FERC
presentation
about the process
and the pipelines
|
Docket number
PF14-6: Hillabee Expansion Project
Docket number PF14-1: Sabal Trail Transmission
Docket number PF14-2: Florida Southeast Connection |
| Then citizens
can speak
at the podium
|
Have what you
say transcribed by a court recorder
for the Commission’s administrative record. |
This week’s calendar:
Monday, March 10, 2014
Russell County
PF14-1 Sabal Trail
West Georgians can cross
the Chattahoochee River
|
Russell County
High School
4716 Old Seale Highway
Seale, AL 36875
(334) 855-4378 |
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Tallapoosa County
Where PF14-6 and PF14-1 connect
plus a compressor station
| 
Central Alabama
Community College
Betty Carol Graham Technology Center
1675 Cherokee Road
Alexander City, AL 35010
(256) 234-6346 |
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Choctaw County
PF14-6 Hillabee Expansion Project
begins at Transco Station 85
plus a compressor station
|
Butler Civic
Center
108 North Academy Avenue
Butler, AL 36904
(205) 459-3795
next to Mississippi
|
Or e-mail to
efiling@ferc.gov or file online with FERC:
https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx
Or call 202-502-8258, or mail written comments to:
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary;
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission;
888 First St. N.E. Room 1A;
Washington, D.C. 20426.
Use Docket number PF14-1 for Sabal Trail
Transmission,
or PF14-6 for Hillabee Expansion
Project.
See calendar for Georgia
last week and Florida the following two weeks:
http://spectrabusters.org/calendar/
SpectraBusters Panel:
There’s more to be
done so there’s another meeting later…
3PM Saturday 29 March 2014
Lowndes County, GA | SpectraBusters
Panel
Pipeline? No! |
Elected officials and candidates for public
office are invited to a SpectraBusters panel discussion in
Lowndes County, Georgia. Topics will include potential
pipeline routes, property rights (eminent domain, property
values), water issues (aquifer, sinkholes, springs), whether
Florida even needs more power, better power sources (solar,
wind, conservation, and efficiency), noise, health, and
hazards. SpectraBusters and allies
from all states are
invited, and are encouraged to hold panels elsewhere.
Sabal Trail, Spectra, FPL, Williams, and Duke: we
don’t come to your internal company meetings, and
you’ll hear from us at the Scoping
Meetings.
Why: Spectra
Energy, which had compressor station leaks in Maine in
January and in Pennsylvania last year, plus multiple fines
by Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA) for corrosion and leaks, and a record $15 million
EPA fine for PCB contamination, proposes a hundred-foot-wide
gash through our lands for their huge 36 inch Sabal
Trail gas pipeline from Alabama through Georgia to feed
Florida Power and Light (FPL) and Duke Energy for no benefit
to local citizens and rate hikes for FPL customers. A
one-time payment is not enough for decreased property
values, permanent destruction, and hazards of leaks and
explosions, when FPL and Spectra and Duke would profit
forever. The gas comes from fracking in Pennsylvania and
Texas, destroying watersheds, farmlands, and drinking water.
Conservation, efficiency, and solar power are cheaper and
bring jobs and energy here where we need them.
In Conjunction with:
Environmental
Awareness Organization of Auburn University (EAOAU).
https://auburn.collegiatelink.net/organization/eao
Greenlaw protects
clean air and water.
http://greenlaw.org/
New York Climate
Action Group (NYCAG) the Spectra struggle (and Williams
Transco Rockaway Lateral Pipeline in the Rockaways of
Queens, NY and the LNG port resistance in Long
Beach, NY).
Occupy the Pipeline, who
fought the NYC extension on the Spectra Pipeline.
http://occupythepipeline.blogspot.com
Our Santa Fe River,
protecting our most vital and vulnerable natural
resource…water.
http://www.oursantaferiver.org/wp/
Sane Energy Project: to
fight fossil fuel and nuclear infrastructure, and encourage
renewable infrastructure.
http://www.SaneEnergyProject.org
Shale Property Rights,
formerly Spectra Energy Watch.
http://www.shalepropertyrights.com/blog/
Sierra Club,
America’s largest and oldest grassroots environmental
group, exploring, enjoying, and protecting the environment
since 1892.
http://www.sierraclub.org
Stop the Pipeline: No
eminent domain, preserve local character and environment,
and pipelines == fracking.
http://www.StopThePipeline.org
Students Against Violating
the Environment (S.A.V.E.) Valdosta State U.
http://ww2.valdosta.edu/vsu/stuorg/save/
Wiregrass Activists for Clean
Energy (WACE): clean and sustainable energy sources.
http://www.wiregrass-ace.org/
WWALS Watershed
Coalition, Willacoochee, Withlacoochee, Alapaha, and
Little River Systems in south Georgia and north Florida.
http://www.wwals.net/
SpectraBusters: We
ain’t afraid a no pipeline!
Landowners and others opposed to the Sabal Trail gas
pipeline through Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.
Contact:
spectrabusters@gmail.com
http://spectrabusters.org
www.facebook.com/spectrabusters
Garrett Kizer
Lee County, AL
850-420-3854
Danielle Jordan
Lowndes Co., GA
229-300-7422
Beth Gordon
Levy Co., FL
352-528-0111
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See also these presentation materials.
And see also these previous meetings:
Williams Co.’s excuse: “an insufficient level of firm customer commitment”
for its Marcellus shale to Gulf of Mexico gas pipe.
That’s corporate-ese for it got to be too expensive; it’s the same thing
a company that wanted to put a biomass plant in Lowndes County said.
Couldn’t have had anything to do with massive public resistance, oh no.
This is the same Williams Co. that owns Transco, first in the chain
of the Transco -> Sabal Trail -> Florida Southeast Connection
pipeline through Alabama and Georgia to Florida’s Atlantic
and Gulf coasts, where there are already several companies
authorized for LNG export.
That one could get too expensive, too.
