Sabal Trail targets those most vulnerable, the “elderly, disabled and without monetary or political means to “fight” such an environmentally intrusive plan.”
Filed with FERC 23 October 2015 as Accession Number 20151023-5278, “Comment of Senator Freddie Powell Sims under CP15-17”:
FREDDIE POWELL SIMS
District 12
110-A State Capitol
Atlanta. Georgia 30334
Phone: (404) 463-5259
Fax: (404) 463-2279
Email: Freddie.Sims@senate.ga.govCOMMITTEES:
Interstate Cooperation, Vice-Chairman
Education and Youth, Secretary
Appropriations
Finance
Natural Resources and the EnvironmentThe State Senate
Atlanta, Georgia 30334
October 20, 2015Kimberly D. Bose
Secretary
Federal Energy Regulation Commission
888 First Street, N.E.
Washingtun, DC 20426Dear Ms. Bose:
As State Senator for District 12 in the State of Georgia, I write this letter in opposition to the proposed Sabal Pipeline location in the populous area of Dougherty County / Albany, Georgia. The Sabal Pipeline proposed location is a “reckless” proposal that negates the health and safety of current and future residents of Dougherty County / Albany, Georgia. Many of the residents in this part of the United States of America live below the poverty line. When these kinds of negative environmental proposals are made, the residents, again, feel abandoned and marginalized by a government that was elected to protect “the least among us”! Officials that are charged with these decisions are also viewed as insensitive and empowered to place these kinds of projects in neighborhoods that have long since been written off as non-essential “collateral damage”!
Other reasons for my opposition to the Sabal Pipeline are:
- PEOPLE living in the proposed area of the pipeline are the most vulnerable citizens: elderly. disabled and without monetary or political means to “fight” such an environmentally intrusive plan,
- PEOPLE will be subjected to continuous loud noise and yet, unrealized unpredictable health issues.
- PEOPLE will be in constant fear of explosion(s) and deadly emissions.
- Local economic impact of such an unproven environmental danger What impact will it have on attracting business to the region?
- PEOPLE live in a known “flood area” of the State of Georgia, which the presence of any pipeline wreaks of environrmental disaster!
- The PEOPLE that live in the proposed area vehemently oppose this reckless proposal!
For additional conversation on this proposed issue, I can be reached by cell phone at 229-347-0251. Consideration ofthe health and safety of the people of Dougherty County/Albany, Georgia is the nexus of this communication.
Thank you,
[signed]
Senator Freddie Powell Sims
You can help stop Sabal Trail:
- e-comment to FERC right now about the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS); the nominal deadline is Monday 26 October 2015
- Contact the Georgia State Properties Commission and demand they revoke the easements the DNR board gave Sabal Trail to drill under the Withlacoochee River, Okapilco Creek, Ochlockonee River, Flint River, and Chattahoochee River
- comment to GA-EPD now and attend the public hearing in Albany 5 November 2015 about a draft air quality permit for that compressor station
- comment to the Army Corps of Engineers until 11 December 2015
- There’s more to do in WWALS v. Sabal Trail & FDEP.
You can pick one or more of the above and help stop this un-needed, destructive, and hazardous fracked methane boondoggle!
-jsq
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