Received today. Note this says Georgia EPD does have authority
over an air permit for the Albany compressor station. State agencies do have
direct as well as indirect roles. -jsq
Press Release
For Immediate Release
July 14, 2014
Sabal Trail Natural Gas Pipeline Threatens Air Quality in Southwest Georgia
GreenLaw files comments objecting to proposed natural gas pipeline
What company prints its sustainability report on wind-powered paper,
yet pipes a greenhouse gas
20 times worse than CO2?
Yep, it’s Spectra Energy, also bragging about how
respectful they are to Sabal Trail “stakeholders”.
Selling fracked methane through a 36-inch pipe in a hundred-foot gash
through forests and wetlands with a thousand-foot explosive radius
is like selling cigarettes and claiming you’re for good health.
Tobacco companies can’t get away with that any more,
and why should fossil fuel companies?
Florida’s other Senator just intervened with FERC on behalf of
a landowner who has been trying to get reasonable solutions out
of Spectra Energy since at least December.
Sabal Trail is trying to force their unnecessary pipeline through
this Brooks County, Georgia property among others that already have a gas pipeline:
this one also already has an FPL power line.
Why should FPL get to deface anybody’s property for both a power line
and a pipeline while destroying wetlands and trees?
Why do we think this will be the last pipeline if it is allowed to go in?
As the Ryders ask,
“If this was your farm, how would you like it divided?”
How about not at all?
The Colquitt County newspaper noticed the
EPA questions to FERC about the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline,
and even got sort of a response out of Sabal Trail.
One issue raised by EPA is whether laying a new, 36-inch pipeline in
proximity to a 10-inch pipeline built in the 1950s would present a
danger to the public.
The alternate route that would take the pipeline through the heart
of Colquitt County would for some of its path run parallel to the
old iron pipeline.
If the route for the proposed Sabal Trail Pipeline comes through any
part of Lowndes County as Chairman of the Lowndes County Commission
and on the behalf of the Commission and Citizens of Lowndes County I
would like to address several concerns we have with the Sabal Trail
Pipeline Docket # P14-1-000.
All road crossings must obtain a Lowndes County R/W Encroachment
Permit for each crossing which will include all information required by
the Lowndes County Engineer.
All road crossings shall be perpendicular to the R/W.
Seems like everyone wants to build a pipeline these days. I’m sure
almost everyone has heard about the Keystone XL pipeline, and our
Mobile Group has done a good job of publicizing their opposition to
the oil pipeline to be constructed through a major water supply area
for the city of Mobile. But there are several other pipelines being
proposed for Alabama. One of these is the so-called Sabal Trail
Pipeline that would carry natural gas extracted through hydraulic
fracturing from Pennsylvania and Texas through Alabama, Georgia, and
Florida. The new pipeline would begin in Alexander City, where it Continue reading Alabama Sierra Club against the Sabal Trail methane pipeline→
Another new ally added to
the Allies page; today it’s
No Fracked Gas in Mass., who bring us excellent
tips on getting a resolution your local elected government’s agenda.
“Fighting Kinder Morgan/TGP’s Northeast
Expansion across the Berkshires and Northern Massachusetts. Our mission
is to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and to create a comprehensive
renewable energy infrastructure.”
If you are thinking about bringing a non-binding resolution before
your town meeting, time is running out. Each town has its own deadline
for adding items to town meeting’s agenda and its own requirements for
resolutions — in Cummington, we needed to gather just fifteen
signatures and submit them to our town clerk for verification. Ask your
select board members or your town clerk what the deadline is, and what
the requirements are, for your town.
You can download
the Cummington resolution to use as a model (here is a .txt
version); if you are wondering what the
point of a non-binding resolution is, please read
this.
In Massachusetts select board members are what many other places
call city council members.
And many towns in Mass. make it easy for citizens to get resolutions
on their agendas.
Why should it be more difficult anywhere else?
You can contact your Continue reading No Fracked Gas in Mass. allies with SpectraBusters→
Thomas D. Lovett
250 Monument Church Road
Quitman, GA 31643
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
888 First Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20426
Re: FERC Docket No. PF-14-1
Dear FERC,
As a Brooks County, Georgia landowner who would be directly affected
by Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC’s proposed pipeline, I adamantly
oppose this proposed pipeline, for the reasons stated below.
The 36-inch pipeline/easement would cut a path approximately 5,480
feet long and 100 feet wide across our family farm, located at 250
Monument Church Road, Quitman, Georgia, 31643. Our family farm has
been continuously owned by my family for more than 100 years. I live
on the farm with my wife and two boys.
Colquitt County landowner Irvin Allegood came to
the do-over Sabal Trail Open House in Moultrie 27 January 2014
so he could tell FERC he wasn’t going to allow another pipeline.
He wasn’t the only one, but he especially wanted video,
so here he is, talking to John Peconom of FERC.
…the existing pipeline comes through the front corner.
I just don’t think that they should be allowed to, basically, to deface
my property.
…losing that road, if they put two pipelines on my property.
Their first suggestion, was they would destroy…
as far as my property was concerned.
all of the wooded area.
There’s old growth pines in there, the run of a creek.
We’re just not going to allow that to happen.
If they put it on the other side of the existing pipeline.
I’ve been planning to put my shop out there when I retire in a couple of years.
I just don’t think they should be allowed to deface my property –Irvin Allegood to FERC
Video by John S. Quarterman for SpectraBusters.org,
Moultrie, Colquitt County GA, 27 January 2014.
FERC rep. John Peconom then wanted to be sure to get the spelling
of Irvin Allegood’s name, and where his property was.
It wasn’t on the map hanging right there, so they looked at the
maps on Peconom’s laptop.
Peconom had no direct response to the basic point of the pipeline
defacing property, or tearing down trees.
Press Release
natural gas pipeline that threatens to cut across large swaths of Southwest Georgia, including longleaf pine tracts. GreenLaw, on behalf of a number of conservation groups, filed comments with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (GA EPD) that raised objections about air quality along the pipeline, including a proposed compressor station outside Albany, Georgia. Continue reading Greenlaw files Air Quality objections to Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline
