The Suwannee River faces invasion by both Kinder Morgan’s Palmetto petroleum products pipeline and Spectra Energy’s Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline.
Plus the Savannah, Ogeechee, Altamaha, Satilla, and St. Mary’s River
are threatened by the Palmetto Project,
Chattahoochee,
Flint,
Withlacoochee,
and
Santa Fe Rivers are threatened by Sabal Trail,
plus most both projects is above the fragile Floridan Aquifer.
All for no known local benefit; just to profit corporate greed.
Curtis and Norma Beaird, Poets Love Birds, 30 April 2015,
Why Georgia Doesn’t Need the Palmetto Pipeline: Our Filing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC),
We are writing this article because we are very concerned about the proposed Palmetto Pipeline to be built in the state of Georgia. Kinder Morgan plans to build 360-mile pipeline that will run from Belton, South Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida. According to the Savannah Riverkeeper, 218 miles of the pipeline will be in Georgia and 142 miles of the pipeline will be built in South Carolina. This pipeline would move refined petroleum products, to include denatured fuel ethanol. …
According to
Push Back the Pipeline:
In the continental U.S., there are only 42 free-flowing rivers
greater than 124 miles in length. Georgia contains five of these
rivers, three of which are in the path of the proposed pipeline,
Altamaha, Ogeechee, and Satilla Rivers. The Okefenokee Swamp is also
the headwaters of the St. Marys and the Suwanee River, which flows
to the Gulf of Mexico.
Georgia also contains most of the free-flowing 205-mile Alapaha River,
which fortunately isn’t currently the target of any pipeline.
However, Spectra Energy proposes to gouge its Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline under the 115-mile Withlacoochee River in Georgia.
And Sabal Trail would cross the Suwannee River in Florida,
so the Suwannee is a target of both pipelines: Palmetto in Georgia,
and Sabal Trail in Florida.
Here’s Curtis Beaird’s FERC filing, which notes that Kinder Morgan
has not proven any need Continue reading Why Georgia Doesn’t Need the Palmetto Pipeline –Poets Love Birds →
Congratulations again to Push Back the Pipeline for convincing
GA Gov. Deal and Lt. Gov. Cagle to oppose Kinder Morgan’s Palmetto Project
and
the Georgia Dept. of Transportation to deny KMI a permit.
