The people and state of Georgia can stop this Texas invader,
and if that takes a California paper implying Texans are Yankees, so be it.
As well as Kinder Morgan’s Palmetto petroleum products Pipeline,
why not stop Spectra’s Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline?
You can sign the
petition Georgia Governor Nathan Deal.
Jenny Jarvie, L.A. Times, 1 June 2015,
Landowners form a pipeline rebellion in the Deep South,
“I’m trying to protect something that was passed on to me,” said
Georgia resident Jimmy Helmly, who opposes the pipeline. “People
from away from here, with no ties, just want to make a dollar. I
understand. I believe in American capitalism. But why should I
sacrifice so you can make billions?”
When the letter arrived from a Texas pipeline company Continue reading Texas pipeline invasion of Georgia in Los Angeles Times →
“The public-use doctrine is being twisted and abused by many companies proposing to build these pipelines that are really not for a public purpose, but for a private profit,” said Steve Caley, the interim director of Atlanta-based GreenLaw, an environmental nonprofit. “There needs to be a change in the law to further circumscribe the use of eminent domain.”
