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Sabal Trail sues Georgia landowners for federal eminent domain –Atlanta Journal Constitution

May 2, 2016Colquitt County, Dougherty County, Georgia, History, Law, TexasAlbany, Bob Graham, Colquitt County, Columbus, Dougherty County, Florida, Georgia, Greenlaw, History, John S. Quarterman, Law, Moultrie, Pennsylvania, Sabal Trail Transmission, Sandra Jones, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, Steve Caley, Ted Turner, Texas, Westmoreland CountyJohn S. Quarterman

Which Houston, Texas pipeline company has sued Ted Turner, Bob Graham, and dozens of other Georgia landowners, including a Georgia Centennial Farm? That’s right, Spectra Energy, as in the Sabal Trail fracked methane boondoggle.

Dan Chapman, AJC, 1 May 2016, South Georgia pipeline fight turns into battle over eminent domain,

A Texas company wants to condemn private property in Georgia for a pipeline to deliver energy to Florida.

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Cost to KMI of Palmetto Pipeline Suspension and other pipeline opposition

April 1, 2016Alabama, Canada, Chatham County, Connecticut, Duval County, Economy, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Suwannee CountyAlabama, Chatham County, Chesapeake Energy, Colonial Group, Duval County, Economy, Florida, Georgia, Greenlaw, Jacksonville, Jacksonville Expansion Project, JEP, John S. Quarterman, Kinder Morgan, legislature, Midcontinent Express Pipeline, Moody's, moratorium, Motley Fool, Palmetto Pipeline, Ryan Chandler, Savannah Riverkeeper, SpectraBusters, Steve Caley, Suwannee County, Tonya BonitatibusJohn S. Quarterman

The financial press amusingly tries to spin Kinder Morgan’s suspension yesterday of its Palmetto petroleum products pipeline as a positive. Meanwhile, Sabal Trail still needs stopping even after the historic win in the Georgia legislature, and remember KMI is in bed with Sabal Trail on on the Jacksonville Expansion Project (JEP) from Suwannee County, FL to Jacksonville, FERC Docket No. CP15-144.

Matthew DiLallo, Motley Fool, 31 March 2016, Kinder Morgan Inc. Presses Pause on the Palmetto Pipeline Project: The Palmetto Pipeline is halted due to eminent domain dispute.,

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Judge denies KMI appeal for Palmetto Pipeline

March 1, 2016Environment, Georgia, Lawenvironment, Fulton County, Georgia, Greenlaw, John S. Quarterman, Kinder Morgan, KMI, Law, Palmetto Pipeline, petroleum products, Push Back the Pipeline, SpectraBusters, Steve CaleyJohn S. Quarterman

Yay Savannah Riverkeeper, Greenlaw, and Push Back the Pipeline! Kinder Morgan go home to Houston: you can’t even sell your Palmetto Project. And take Spectra’s Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline with you.

JoAnn Merrigan, WSAV3, 1 March 2016, Judge says NO to Kinder Morgan appeal on Palmetto Pipeline,

The Savannah Riverkeeper says score one for property rights in Georgia when it comes to the proposed Palmetto Pipeline and the possible use of eminent domain.

A Fulton County Superior Court judge today ruled against Kinder Morgan (the company planning the pipeline.)…

Now the Riverkeeper reports that “after months of deliberation however, the judge has disagreed and that Tuesday’s decision spells relief for Continue reading Judge denies KMI appeal for Palmetto Pipeline →

Albany against Sabal Sinkhole Trail at GA-EPD air quality hearing

November 20, 2015Compressor, Dougherty County, Georgia, WaterAir, compressor, Dougherty County, Enon Winkler, environmental justice, Eric Cornwell, Flint River, Flint Riverkeeper, GA EPD, Georgia, Gordon Rogers, Greenlaw, Hank Johnson David Scott, John Lewis, John S. Quarterman, Sabal Trail Transmission, Sanford Bishop, sinkhole, Sinkhole Trail, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, Steve Caley, Water, Winfred DukesJohn S. Quarterman

The people don’t want Sabal Trail, nor its compressor station. Nobody but Spectra’s paid person Andrea Grover spoke for Sabal Trail, and she only did it by email later, not at the hearing. Pretty good coverage in three local stories.

Carlton Fletcher, Albany Herald, 7 November 2015, Sabal Trail opponents voice concerns to EPD: State officials hold air-quality permitting hearing at Albany Tech,

“There’s a great deal of frustration here because the preponderance of evidence shows that this is a bad project,” [Gordon] Rogers said. “And while we Continue reading Albany against Sabal Sinkhole Trail at GA-EPD air quality hearing →

Georgia has no use for new pipelines –AJC

April 6, 2015Colquitt County, Compressor, Dougherty County, Environment, Georgia, Law, Lowndes County, WaterAtlanta, Atlanta Gas Light, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Colquitt County, compressor, conservation, Coweta County, Dalton Expansion Project, Dan Chapman, Dan Coleman, Don Theime, Dougherty County, environment, Georgia, Greenlaw, Houston, John S. Quarterman, Law, Lowndes County, Palmetto Pipeline, Palmetto Project, pipeline, Push Back the Pipeline, river, Sabal Trail Transmission, Savannah Riverkeeper, south Georgia, Spectra Energy, SpectraBusters, Steve Caley, Ted Turner, Texas, Transco, Water, watershed, Williams Company, Withlacoochee River, WWALS, WWALS Watershed CoalitionJohn S. Quarterman

Four pipeline projects surround Atlanta, and Georgia’s governor won’t comment. Spectra’s Andrea Grover did, though, saying the Albany compressor station would be no louder than “a modern-day dishwasher.”

Dan Chapman, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 3 April 2015, Pipeline project fuels fight on state’s future,

VALDOSTA — Southwest Georgia is roiling mad over a proposed gas pipeline to Florida that virtually nobody in Atlanta, except Ted Turner, has heard about.

John Carlton looks over a gopher tortoise hole a few feet away from a 1954 easement for an 8 inch natural gas line on his property at Morrison Pines Plantation in Moultrie. The planned Sabel Trail pipeline would run 50 feet over from the existing line. Carlton is undecided on the proposal.
Photograph credit: Curtis Compton, AJC

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Extend the FERC scoping period and obtain critical information from Sabal Trail Transmission –Greenlaw

April 14, 2014Alabama, Dougherty County, Economy, Environment, FERC, Florida, Georgia, Law, WaterAlabama, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Dougherty County, FERC, Flint Riverkeeper, Florida, Georgia, GIS, Greenlaw, John Peconom, John S. Quarterman, Kiokee-Flint Group, Law, Lisa A. Connolly, maps, Sabal Trail Transmission, SpectraBusters, Steve CaleyJohn S. Quarterman

Two of the most organized Riverkeepers in Georgia, plus the Georgia Sierra Club and a group of landowners in Dougherty County, Georgia, have retained environmental law firm Greenlaw to address the Sabal Trail Pipeline. The task is difficult because of lack of information from Sabal Trail and from FERC. Here Steve Caley of Greenlaw spells out what his clients have asked for and how it’s been refused. You can help by also asking FERC or your elected officials to ask FERC to provide the missing information and to extend the Scoping Period. The PDF of the letter includes the attached documents. -jsq

April 7, 2014
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