FERC sides with Sabal Trail in DEIS: Surprise!
Anybody who thought FERC would do a real Draft Environmental Impact Statement is disappointed. But they shouldn’t be surprised: FERC, 100% funded by the industries they “regulate”, is a rubberstamp...
View ArticleCall DNR board before Wednesday to stop river land giveaway to Sabal Trail
Leases and permanent easements to cross the Chattahoochee River, Flint River, Ochlockonee River, and Withlacoochee River: that’s what the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Board proposes to vote...
View ArticleLTE opposing GA-DNR giving away easements to Sabal Trail –FrK, WWALS, GA...
And you can contact other GA-DNR board members, send them comments, or go to the meeting Wednesday morning 9AM in Atlanta. -jsq Jeff Sinyard represents southwest Georgia on the Board of the Georgia...
View ArticleVideos: Citizens against Sabal “Sinkhole” Trail pipeline to FERC in Albany,...
Citizens renamed Sabal Trail the Sinkhole Pipeline because it doesn’t belong in the sinkhole-prone karst limestone of the Floridan Aquifer. FERC can’t say they weren’t told, since videographers...
View ArticleSabal Trail is a reckless proposal –GA State Senator Sims to FERC
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...
View ArticleAlbany against Sabal Sinkhole Trail at GA-EPD air quality hearing
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...
View ArticlePetition against Sabal Trail by Gulf Restoration Network
Johanna de Graffenreid, Gulf Restoration Network, 11 November 2015, EPA Warns – Sabal Trail Pipeline Threatens Gulf, Last week, thanks to the courageous efforts of community members across the nation...
View ArticleFERC rubberstamped FEIS for Sabal Trail today 2015-12-18
Just before Christmas, when the fewest people will be paying attention, FERC just issued for Sabal Trail, FSC, and Transco Hillabee the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), aiming at March to...
View ArticleThe LNG export shell game: FERC, FE, MARAD, or NEB?
If you’re a Houston fossil fuel company and you can’t get FERC approval fast enough, try FE, or MARAD! If that doesn’t work, ship it by land through Canada or Mexico! Local property rights, they laugh...
View ArticleNo Fracked Gas Florida –Harriet Heywood
Wouldn’t it be convenient for fossil fuel profits if the Sabal Trail pipeline was already in place and they started fracking? Received today as a comment on Strom LNG Processing & Export In The...
View ArticleWe will accept Sabal Trail’s answers –FERC issues certificates
Property rights, environment, or safety? 14% pipeline company profit is more important! said FERC. But this fight is not over. Without ever appearing on FERC’s public calendar, and a month in advance...
View ArticleSuwannee County Commissioners and public to hike to Sabal Trail Suwannee...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Live Oak, February 10, 2016 — The date has been set to go see where Spectra Energy of Houston Texas has been permitted by the Federal Energy Regulatory (FERC) in Washington, DC to...
View ArticleNY Gov. asks FERC to suspend license for a Spectra pipeline
Petitions to the New York Governor may have helped him send this message to FERC about Spectra’s AIM pipeline project that would go far too close to the document-forging caught-fire...
View ArticleResolution against Sabal Trail pipeline –Groveland, FL 2014-04-21
In April 2014 the Groveland, Florida City Council unanimously voted to ask FERC to move the Sabal Trail pipeline off of private property and the Green Swamp and onto Florida state lands. The vote is...
View ArticleSabal Trail wants to proceed
In a letter Sabal Trail sent to multiple Florida county commissions, the most important point is “We… are on track to place the pipeline in-service by May 1, 2017.” Important to Spectra Energy,...
View ArticleSabal Trail on agenda, Hamilton Co., FL, 6PM tomorrow, 2016-03-15
Sabal Trail is back on the agenda for the Hamilton County, Florida Commissioners tomorrow evening. Please go if you’re in the area. When: 6PM Tuesday March 15th 2016 Where: Room 112, Courthouse, 207...
View ArticleAlbany, GA caves to Sabal Trail 4-3
One vote could have stopped this. One vote could vote out one or more of the four who voted for. Thanks to Roger Marietta for fighting on. Carlton Fletcher, Albany Herald, 15 March 2016, Albany city...
View ArticleDougherty County upset over eminent domain threat from Sabal Trail
Dougherty County actually read what Sabal Trail is offering and is horrified. Carlton Fletcher, Albany Herald, 14 March 2016, Dougherty County officials upset over Sabal Trail ‘threat’: Pipeline...
View ArticleSix rehearing requests to FERC, including from Sabal Trail and Transco
The pipeline companies want rehearings, apparently because they don’t like the restrictions the FERC order put on them, so maybe we’ll actually see a rehearing. The other four rehearing requests all...
View ArticleConstruction of Sabal Trail pipeline is not inevitable –L. Elliott Jones
Especially preventable after Sabal Trail’s river easements went down in flames in a historic vote by the Georgia House last week. -jsq L. Elliott Jones, Albany Herald, 28 March 2016, L. ELLIOTT JONES:...
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