8:30 AM Monday 9 December 2013,
Lowndes County Commission Chambers
327 North Ashley Street, 2nd Floor
Valdosta, Georgia 31601
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Tag Archives: Sabal Trail Transmission
Brooks County Commission Monday 1 2 Dec 2013
5PM tomorrow the Brooks County Commission will meet, and at 5:30 PM they have invited Sandra Y. Jones to speak to them about the Sabal Trail Pipeline. It’s an open public meeting, so the public can attend.
They meet at 610 South Highland Road, Quitman, Georgia. That’s the old National Guard Armory building. Here’s a map:
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Sabal Trail has not met their commitments –Carol Singletary to FERC
Filed with FERC 20 November 2013; I added a few links to this web version. -jsq
Carol Singletary, Valdosta, GA.
I am strongly contesting the information provided in the RR1 Sabal-Trail-Project initial Draft PF — final PDF, Accession number 20131115-5084, docket number PF14-1. Sabal Trail has not met their commitments to provide information to me, the property owner. Their filing exaggerated their efforts to contact and respond to property owners concerns.
My impression is the landowner consultations are motivated to extract an agreement from the landowner for the survey. I have submitted questions to Sabal Trail representatives at the October 16th Open House held in Valdosta, Georgia and I am still waiting for a response. I have more information Continue reading Sabal Trail has not met their commitments –Carol Singletary to FERC
Georgia pipeline safety record worse than in Florida
Should we add to Georgia’s string of serious pipeline accidents (worse than Florida’s) by letting a pipeline company with fines for corrosion and leaks from PHMSA and a record fine for PCB spills from EPA gash an even bigger pipeline through our farms and past our towns, churches, and schools?
The data on Florida pipeline accidents
in
Ichetucknee Alliance’s position paper against the pipeline
(the position that got Spectra’s Andrea Grover to say the
“preferred” route had moved and “currently” there was no threat
to the Ichetucknee River or Columbia County, Florida);
that pipeline accident data
came from
Pipeline Safety Tracker,
which finds an even worse pipeline safety record
for Georgia: 89 incidents, 7 fatalities, 36 injuries, and $56.3 million in property damage.
Among those Georgia incidents was
one near Albany, Georgia, 29 May 2004,
caused by “Environmental Cracking Related” which caused
$209,447 in property damage.
That could be a concern about a proposed pipeline put in by a company
whose employees told federal inspectors it
never conducted key test for corrosion.
Even worse was this one, Continue reading Georgia pipeline safety record worse than in Florida
Help us save our land and our community –Elaine Mercer to FERC
Filed with FERC 22 November 2013:
Elaine Mercer, Valdosta, GA.
My husband and I are adamantly opposed to the pipeline which is proposed to run through our property for a variety of reasons including:
Please help us save our land and our community by blocking this pipeline.
- Safety concerns-Spectra Energy has a very questionable safety record with a history of fines by the EPA for leaks and multiple explosions;
- We already have one gas pipeline on our property and believe that we should not be required to basically give up control of even more of our personal property for which we have worked hard to purchase and maintain for yet another pipeline which will further limit the use of our property;
- Our property value would be negatively affected by up 50%;
- Financial-a one time payment is nowhere near adequate for permanent damage, especially when FPL and Spectra would continue to profit forever;
- This pipeline would be of no benefit either to our local community or state.
Thank you for your consideration in this matter.
Sincerely,
Elaine and Jerry Mercer
How to comment with FERC.
Why only 36 inches deep? –J.R. Carter to FERC
Filed with FERC today:
James Rouse Carter, Valdosta, GA.
I am concerned on why the pipeline is only going to be buried 36″ deep? Should not this pipeline be required to be buried as deep as other pipelines in the area?
How to comment with FERC.
Quad maps for entire proposed pipeline path by Sabal Trail
Funston gets two maps among many for Colquitt County among the 133 maps from the General Project Description in the 15 November 2013 update to FERC by Sabal Trail Transmission, all now on the SpectraBusters website.
SABAL TRAIL PROJECT, DRAFT RESOURCE REPORT 1, General Project Description, FERC Docket No. PF14-1-000, Initial Pre-Filing Draft, November 2013
Detailed alternative route maps by Sabal Trail
Now on the SpectraBusters website:
all the
detailed quad maps from the
Alternatives document in the
15 November 2013 filing with FERC by Sabal Trail.
One map has two different locations for the Albany Compressor Station: Continue reading Detailed alternative route maps by Sabal Trail
Georgia Hillabee (Tift County, Cook County, and Valdosta) route by Sabal Trail
Watch out, Valdosta and Tifton! The Hillabee Georgia alternative route avoids Albany and Russell County, Alabama, by starting in Harris County, Georgia, passing through Muscogee, Talbot, Chattachoochee, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Lee, Worth, Turner, Tift, Cook, and Lowndes Counties before entering Florida in Hamilton County much like Spectra’s preferred route. This is the rest of the Option B that was first proposed to Lowndes County residents back in June.
Extracted from Sabal Trail’s one big PDF document, here is PDF and JPG of the Hillabee Georgia alternative route map.
SABAL TRAIL PROJECT, DRAFT RESOURCE REPORT 10, Alternatives, FERC Docket No. PF14-1-000, Initial Pre-Filing Draft, November 2013
http://spectrabusters.org/ferc/pf14-1-sabal-trail-transmission/update-2013-11-15/draft-resource-report-10-alternatives/
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Florida Panhandle route by Sabal Trail to FERC last Friday
The Florida Panhandle alternative route appears to cross several Georgia rivers by hugging the Georgia-Florida line to avoid the Apalachicola National Forest and the Lake Talquin State Forest in Florida. This looks like the route published in Florida newspapers back in June. It adds Choctaw, Clarke, Monroe, Conecuh, Covington, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, and Houston Counties in Alabama, and Jackson, Gadsden and Jefferson Counties in Florida.
Extracted from Sabal Trail’s one big PDF document, here is PDF and JPG of the Florida panhandle alternative route map.
SABAL TRAIL PROJECT, DRAFT RESOURCE REPORT 10, Alternatives, FERC Docket No. PF14-1-000, Initial Pre-Filing Draft, November 2013
http://spectrabusters.org/ferc/pf14-1-sabal-trail-transmission/update-2013-11-15/draft-resource-report-10-alternatives/
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