A very brief paddle (or walk, depending on water level) a few hundred
feet up the Withlacoochee River from US 84 to see where the Sabal Trail
pipeline proposes to cross. Facebook event.
When: 10AM, Friday,
August 28th 2015
Where: Meet in the parking lot at
Agri-Supply
2825 US Hwy 84W
Valdosta, GA 31601
We will carpool from there to US 84 and to where we will leave most of the vehicles.
Fallback: Continue reading
Halfway between Quitman and Valdosta, the Withlacoochee River
forms the border between
Brooks and Lowndes Counties, Georgia.
Parking on the median on the east, Lowndes County, side, you can climb down the highway rocks and down a creek bed to the river. Continue reading
For more pictures and a video, see other post.
Adding
a video from the Arkansas River pipeline geyser,
another
Miami
paper picked up
last week’s Florida Bulldog story.
Tim Elfrink, Miami New Times, 17 August 2015, Scott backs environmentally dubious pipeline from firm he invested in, Continue reading
Add that many WWALS members, some pictured here on the Suwannee River
at the proposed Sabal Trail crossing, live in Florida,
and this article from that same day is a good summary of the situation a week ago.
It was also picked up by
Bakken.com, “Powered by Shale Plays Media”.
Christopher Curry, Ocala StarBanner, 15 August 2015, Georgia-based group hopes to block natural gas pipeline, Continue reading
A big win from a Waterkeeper member in Georgia! CRK Press Release 17 August 2015:
Atlanta — US District Court Judge Orinda Evans levied a $10 million penalty on American Sealcoat Manufacturing LLC (Sealcoat) for unlawful discharge of toxic pollutants into the Chattahoochee River near Fulton Industrial Park. The Judge ruled in a Clean Water Act complaint brought by Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (CRK), which discovered and reported the dumping.
CRK filed its lawsuit against Continue reading
Federal disclosure laws require revealing some information Florida’s
blind trust law supposedly hides, and there are other cracks
in that state law that let a reporter see some of what’s in
Florida Governor Rick Scott’s blind trust, including last year
that he owned stock in Spectra Energy and its subsidiary DCP Midstream Partners LP,
as well as in Williams Co. and a flock of other pipeline and fossil fuel companies.
Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org, 19 August 2015, You don’t need X-ray vision to see through Gov. Rick Scott’s blind trust, Continue reading
Also boating, deadfalls, steam engine, and rapids. Diane Shearer presented slides about the Alapaha River of her homeland, 31 March 2012 at Georgia River Network Weekend for Rivers, and said:
Right there at Alapaha, where it’s been clearcut behind it. This is one of the main problems of the river: there used to be nothing on that shore there but huge cypress trees and tupelo trees, and that’s almost gone everywhere. And that’s one of the great dangers to this river, is agricultural runoff, the fact that people can suck all the water out of it they want to, for irrigation and those sorts of things.
The video starts Continue reading