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Forest Service rejects path for Atlantic Coast Pipeline

January 27, 2016North Carolina, Virginia, West VirginiaAGL, Dominion Energy, Georgia Power, John S. Quarterman, North Carolina, Sabal Trail Transmission, Southern Company, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, Virginia, West VirginiaJohn S. Quarterman

If I’m not mistaken, this is the same pipeline Spectra Energy pulled out of bidding on back in August 2014, after numerous local resolutions against. Now it’s hit another big snag. And this also affects Southern Company and solar power: in a good way.

Aaron Isherwood and Nicholas Jimenez, Sierra Club, 6 January 2016, Forest Service Rejects Destructive Path for “Atlantic Coast Pipeline”,

A few days ago, the Forest Service rejected a destructive pathway Dominion Energy had proposed for the $5 billion “Atlantic Coast Pipeline” the company wants to build to carry natural gas from fracking in the Marcellus shale field in northern West Virginia to power plants along the coast of Virginia and North Carolina. This is great news for our National Forests, our ground water, and the climate.

Because the pipeline would have cleared a swath through two national forests (the George Washington and Monongahela), Dominion needed sign-off from the Forest Service. After reviewing the route, the Forest Service determined the environmental destruction the pipeline would cause was unacceptable and rejected the proposal in a January 19 letter

Southern Company (NYSE:SO, and parent of Georgia Power) is in the process of buying Continue reading Forest Service rejects path for Atlantic Coast Pipeline →

A flood of motions to intervene filed: still two days to go to Sabal Trail deadline

December 22, 2014Alabama, Dougherty County, FERC, Florida, Georgia, LawAlabama, Dougherty County, Duke Energy, FERC, Florida, Florida Southeast Connection, FPL, FSC, Georgia, Hillabee Expansion Project, John S. Quarterman, Law, motion to intervene, Sabal Trail Transmission, Southern Company, Southern Natural Gas Company, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, Transco, Williams CompanyJohn S. Quarterman

The trickle turns to a flood of motions to intervene being filed for the FERC dockets of Sabal Trail, Transco’s Hillabee Expansion Project, and Florida Southeast Connection. Two elected county governments have filed, one of them in all three dockets. Other counties and cities and even states can dod the same.

Be sure to file in all three dockets: CP15-17, CP15-16, and CP14-554. It’s not enough to list them in your filing documents or description: you must file them on each docket. If you don’t find your filing in FERC’s docket search for each of the three dockets, you need to go back and file again in the other dockets. Here’s how to file for multiple dockets in a single Continue reading A flood of motions to intervene filed: still two days to go to Sabal Trail deadline →

Climate Rally and EPA hearings Tuesday and Wednesday in Atlanta

July 24, 2014Environment, EPA, Fracking, Georgia, Hazards, LawAtlanta, Atlanta Climate Rally, Clean Power Plan, Climate, conservation, EPA, FPL, Georgia Power, Law, north Florida, Quality, river, Sabal Trail Transmission, Seth Gunning, Sierra Club, south Georgia, Southern Company, watershed, WWALS Watershed CoalitionJohn S. Quarterman

EPA is holding public hearings on its proposed Clean Power Plan next week, 29-30 July 2014, in Atlanta. Maybe you want to mention shifting from coal to “natural” gas (fracked methane) actually may make matters worse here, with proposed pipelines like the hazardous 36-inch monsters Sabal Trail through south Georgia and Renaissance through north Georgia, on environmentally damaging hundred-foot rights of way through our fields, forests, wetlands, and under our rivers. so EPA needs to go further. You can also comment online until 16 October 2014 on Docket ID EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0602. And you can express your opinion outside with Georgia Sierra Club at the Atlanta Climate Rally Tuesday at high noon. And remember, mercury in the Alapaha River probably comes from coal Plant Scherer, near Macon, Georgia.

While that proposed carbon rule may help clean up coal plants like Scherer, it says nothing about methane, which EPA says is Continue reading Climate Rally and EPA hearings Tuesday and Wednesday in Atlanta →