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Comments from SpectraBusters, Inc. against small LNG

October 18, 2017Cecile Scofield, DOE, FE, Hazards, Law, LNG, SafetyBomb Trains, Bomb Trucks, Cecile Scofield, Debra Johnson, Department of Energy, DoE, Duke Energy, Enbridge, environment, Ethics, explosion, export, Federal Register Comment, FERC, FL PSC, Florida, Florida Southeast Connection, FPL, Fracking, Georgia, Gov. Rick Scott, Hazard, Hazards, Health, John Quarterman, John S. Quarterman, Law, leak, LNG, NextEra Energy, No Regulations, petition, Sabal Trail Pipeline, Sabal Trail Transmission, Safety, Small Scale LNG, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, Suwannee County, Transportation, Trump, USA, Water Protectorsspectrabusters

Submitted in Public Comment Concerning Unregulated Small Scale LNG Processing Facilities:

Duke nuke and gas plant down Power Line Road, Crystal River, FL, from new Strom location (the blue box).

From: Spectra Busters <spectrabusters@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:03 PM
Subject: RIN 1901-AB43 and FE Docket No. 17-86-R
To: fergas@hq.doe.gov
Cc: Spectra Busters <spectrabusters@gmail.com>
Comments from SpectraBusters, Inc. against small LNG
ISSUES AND CONCERNS ASSOCIATED WITH “SMALL-SCALE” INLAND LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS (LNG) PRODUCTION, STORAGE AND TRANSPORT FACILITIES:

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has abdicated Congressional authority under Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) for the siting, construction, operation and maintenance of small-scale inland LNG export facilities.
How is an LNG export facility that must obtain an export license from the U. S. Department of Energy not, from FERC’s perspective, an “export” facility within the meaning of the NGA and thus not subject to FERC’s jurisdiction (see Pivotal LNG, Inc., FERC Docket No. RP15-259-000 Issued April 2, 2015, Norman Bay, Commissioner, Dissenting Opinion).
How is an LNG “export” facility that trucks LNG 440 yards to a dock not Continue reading Comments from SpectraBusters, Inc. against small LNG →

Report violations and Events to stop Sabal Trail

December 21, 2016Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Law, Water#stopsabaltrail, #waterislife, @protectFAST, Activism, Alabama, conservation, Florida, Georgia, Law, Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, north Florida, Protect Florida Against Sabal Trail, river, Sierra Club, south Georgia, Water, watershed, WWALS, WWALS Watershed CoalitionJohn S. Quarterman

Events you can go to, report violations and other things you can do where you are, and why we all oppose the unnecessary, destructive, and hazardous Sabal “Sinkhole” Trail fracked methane pipeline.

If you want to go somewhere to do something, Continue reading Report violations and Events to stop Sabal Trail →

Citrus County FL passes ordinance banning fracking 2016-06-14

June 15, 2016Citrus County, Florida, Fracking, LawCitrus County, Florida, Fracking, John S. Quarterman, Law, ordinance, Our Santa Fe River, Sierra Club, SpectraBustersJohn S. Quarterman

Not just a resolution, an ordinance, which is a law: no fracking in Citrus County, Florida.

Jim Tatum, Our Santa Fe River, 14 June 2016, Citrus County Approves Fracking Ban,

Commissioners Dennis Damato, Ronald Kitchen, Joe Meek, Scott Adams, and Scott Carnahan unanimously passed a ban-fracking ordinance. The ordinance was amended to include all the county, both incorporated and non-incorporated areas, skillfully inserted by the able and prepared county attorney Denise A. Dymond Lyn.

The text of the ordinance is Continue reading Citrus County FL passes ordinance banning fracking 2016-06-14 →

Waiting for Ted Yoho FL-03 to ask the Corps for a SEIS like he said he would

June 6, 2016Economy, FERC, Florida, Hamilton County, Law, Politics, Suwannee CountyDebra Johnson, Economy, EPA, FERC, Florida, Hamilton County, John S. Quarterman, Law, NEPA, Politics, Sabal Trail Transmission, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, Suwannee County, Ted Yoho, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE, WWALSDebra Johnson

Video of Congressman Ted Yoho addressing concerns and agreeing that a Supplemental Environmental Study must be done before Sabal Trail

is allowed to proceed after he hiked the proposed Sabal Trail route at which the company claimed the nearest sinkhole was 750′ away of pipeline route. This “omission” which claimed there were no sinkholes within 750′ of the boring of ST’s pipeline could and most probably will cause damage to Suwannee River, nearby springs, AND millions of people’s sole source of water from the Floridan Aquifer. The original environmental study was Continue reading →

Spectra, Duke, NextEra, Williams, all members of ALEC super-lobby group

May 23, 2016Alabama, Florida, Georgia, History, LawAlabama, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange, corruption, Duke Energy, Florida, Florida Power and Light, Florida Southeast Connection, FPL, Georgia, Hillabee Expansion Project, History, John S. Quarterman, Law, legislators, media, NextEra, Sabal Trail, Savannah, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, Transco, Williams Company, WXIA-TVJohn S. Quarterman

All the companies behind the Southeast Market Pipelines Project have representatives sitting in those back rooms voting on draft bills on an equal basis with state legislators, according to the latest information publicly availlable. Back in the news a year after an Atlanta TV station reported on an ALEC meeting in Savannah, ALEC is not just for Georgia, every state has legislators in that super-lobbying group, including Florida and Albama, taking those draft bills back to their legislatures and often getting them passed. Now you know why the same bad bills to ban home rule on fracking, to block renwable energy portfolios, to impose a solar tax, and of course to promote fracked methane pipelines, show up at the same times in states all across the country.

Brendan Keefe and Michael King, WXIA-TV, 22 May 2015, Legislators and corporate lobbyists meet in secret at Georgia resort. They found out quite a bit before ALEC had off-duty deputies throw them out of their hotel. Continue reading Spectra, Duke, NextEra, Williams, all members of ALEC super-lobby group →

Sabal Trail sues Georgia landowners for federal eminent domain –Atlanta Journal Constitution

May 2, 2016Colquitt County, Dougherty County, Georgia, History, Law, TexasAlbany, Bob Graham, Colquitt County, Columbus, Dougherty County, Florida, Georgia, Greenlaw, History, John S. Quarterman, Law, Moultrie, Pennsylvania, Sabal Trail Transmission, Sandra Jones, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, Steve Caley, Ted Turner, Texas, Westmoreland CountyJohn S. Quarterman

Which Houston, Texas pipeline company has sued Ted Turner, Bob Graham, and dozens of other Georgia landowners, including a Georgia Centennial Farm? That’s right, Spectra Energy, as in the Sabal Trail fracked methane boondoggle.

Dan Chapman, AJC, 1 May 2016, South Georgia pipeline fight turns into battle over eminent domain,

A Texas company wants to condemn private property in Georgia for a pipeline to deliver energy to Florida.

Continue reading →

SpectraBusters leaflets Sabal Trail in Live Oak 2016-04-20

April 21, 2016Compressor, Economy, Environment, Ethics, FERC, Florida, Georgia, Law, Suwannee County, USACEApalachicola Riverkeeper, compressor, Dan Tonsmeire, Earth Ethics, Economy, environment, Ethics, FERC, Florida, Georgia, Gulf Restoration Network, John S. Quarterman, Law, Marion County, Ocala, Our Santa Fe River, Sabal Trail Transmission, Sierra Club, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, St. Johns Riverkeeper, Suwannee County, Suwannee-St Johns Group, USACE, Whitey Markle, WWALS Watershed CoalitionJohn S. Quarterman

“No fracking!” said the students, as nine people protested outside Sabal Trail’s Contractor Fair at RiverOak Technical College, Live Oak, Suwannee County, Florida yesterday, 20 April 2016. SpectraBusters, Suwannee-St Johns Group of Sierra Club Florida, and WWALS were among the groups with members on the ground, with the other groups listed on the flyer we were passing out there in spirit to say Shortterm jobs are not worth longterm Sabal Trail risk. Here’s the press release, which was picked up by Valdosta Today.

Many thanks to Continue reading SpectraBusters leaflets Sabal Trail in Live Oak 2016-04-20 →

Ask GAO to investigate why FERC Doesn’t Work

April 9, 2016Ethics, FERC, Law, Politicsabuses of power, Congress, conservation, corruption, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Ethics, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, GAO, Government Accountability Office, independent investigation, interstate natural gas pipelines, John S. Quarterman, Law, LNG export, north Florida, pipeline, Politics, regulatory capture, river, south Georgia, SpectraBusters, watershed, WWALS, WWALS Watershed CoalitionJohn S. Quarterman

You can support hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals who have already asked Congress to:

Help secure an independent investigation by the Government Accountability Office into the abuses of power, process and law by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) when it comes to interstate natural gas pipelines and LNG export facilities. Write your congressional representative now to urge their help in securing this necessary independent review.

Here’s a handy web form by Delaware Riverkeeper Network.

If you want something local to say, try reading Continue reading Ask GAO to investigate why FERC Doesn’t Work →

The Empire Strikes Back: Spectra sues FL,GA,AL landowners

March 23, 2016Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Law, Osceola CountyAIM, Alabama, Algonquin, BK Ranches, Brenda Dykgraaf, California, Duke Energy, eminent domain, Florida, Four Corners, FPL, Georgia, Gerald McGratty, Greenpointe Communities, I-4, Intercession City, John S. Quarterman, Law, lawsuit, Osceola County, Porter Ranch, Reunion, Reunion Resort Golf Course, Sabal Trail Transmission, Southern California Gas Co., Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, Walt Disney WorldJohn S. Quarterman

Reciting from the standard pipeline playbook, Spectra has started suing landowners. This while doughty rebels defeated 34 aye to 128 nay easements to drill under Georgia rivers, which could put a crimp in the Sabal “Sinkhole” Trail fracked methane boondoggle. Can we the people beat the Mickey Mouse fossil fuel empire?

Paul Brinkmann, Orlando Sentinel, 22 March 2016, Sabal Pipeline project files 160 eminent domain lawsuits,

The pipeline company insists that it already has federal and court authority to seize the property under the Natural Gas Act. Sabal claims its project must be under construction by June 21 and in service, by May 1, 2017.

Sabal Trail pipeline

According to maps provided by the utilities, the Sabal pipeline would come through the Four Corners area of northwestern Osceola County, dip south of Walt Disney World property, cross Interstate 4 near Celebration and connect with a hub of pipelines just west of Reunion Resort Golf Course.

The Greenpointe property is one of the biggest Continue reading The Empire Strikes Back: Spectra sues FL,GA,AL landowners →

Please call your GA state rep. today to keep Sabal Trail out

March 22, 2016Georgia, Law, Solaraquifer, Chattahoochee River, conservation, FERC, Flint River, Floridan Aquifer, Georgia, House of Representatives, John S. Quarterman, Law, Okapilco Creek, pipeline, river, Sabal Trail, Santa Fe River, solar, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, SR 954, Suwannee River, watershed, Withlacoochee River, WWALS, WWALS Watershed CoalitionJohn S. Quarterman

They’re voting today. Here’s who to call to ask to vote No on SR 954. And below is why. If you don’t live in Georgia, you probably know somebody who does: please ask them to call their GA state rep.

John S. Quarterman, Valdosta Daily Times, today, 22 March 2016, Still possible to keep Sabal Trail out,

After two years going to Sabal Trail open houses and FERC scoping meetings, filing e-comments, guiding them to the river crossings and a legal hearing in Jasper, FERC still tells us customers for Spectra Energy from Houston, Texas, constitute a need that outweighs local property rights, environmental destruction, and hazards to our Withlacoochee and Suwannee rivers and the Floridan Aquifer, and to taxes, life, and limb.

Yet Georgia is the fastest-growing U.S. solar market, while solar Continue reading Please call your GA state rep. today to keep Sabal Trail out →