The recent posts about Backyard hens,
Valdosta City School Gardens,
Planting by the moon,
and Essential oils, were from sessions in yesterday’s South Georgia Growing Local 2016 Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Essential oils
Planting by the moon
Backyard hens
Valdosta City School Gardens
Withlacoochee River at GA 122
This is a panorama; click on it to see the full picture.
See also Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail and the pictures I took at Skipper Bridge a few minutes later. There’s a guage at Skipper Bridge, which read 17.66 feet, well above flood level.
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You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Noah Valenstein, SRWMD E.D. @ Columbia County, FL Commission
He answered a few questions about Falling Creek Aquifer Recharge.
See Questions to SRWMD Director for context. More detail to come.
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You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Natural gas isn’t the answer –north Florida residents to WTXL about Sabal Trail
Fireworks at last Monday’s Suwannee BOCC,
although after they had already voted to
hike to the Suwannee River soon<.
WWALS board member Chris Mericle, who will be their guide, also spoke in the meeting.
The recent issuance of certificates by FERC called out the Suwannee River and Suwannee and Hamilton Counties by name, so action by those counties is now even more important.
Paulo Salazar, WTXL, 3 February 2016, Sabal Trail Pipeline Causing Concern for Suwannee County Residents, Continue reading
Questions to SRWMD Director at Columbia County Commission –Columbia County News 2016-02-04
The Columbia County News has made it easier to ask questions, especially about a very expensive river and aquifer project.
When: 5:30 PM Thursday 4 February 2016
Where:
Columbia BOCC
372 West Duval Street
Lake City, Florida
What: Why is the SRMD board going to vote next week on sucking up Suwannee River water through a 48″ pipe to Falling Creek Park in an Aquifer Recharge scheme?
Stew Lilker, Columbia County News, 3 February 2016, Suwannee River Water Management Chief at the County 5 Thursday Night: Questions Accepted,
It has been said that fresh clean water is Continue reading
At What Cost? Pipelines, Pollution and Eminent Domain in the Rural South –Movie in Live Oak, FL 2016-02-12
Please join us for a documentary about property rights and the environment vs. pipelines (PDF; facebook event; meetup event). Yes, FERC has issued certificates for Sabal Trail, but the fight is not over.
When: 6:30 PM Friday February 12th
Where: Live Oak Womans Club,
1308 11TH St SW, Live Oak, FL 32064
What:
View the film:
“At What Cost? Pipelines, Pollution and Eminent Domain in the
Rural South”
A documentary film by Mark Albertin
Video Trailer
Thanks: to Push Back the Pipeline for getting this movie made
This film is about the Kinder Morgan petroleum products Palmetto Pipeline proposed across coastal Georgia to Jacksonville, but the issues are the same for Spectra Energy’s proposed fracked methane Sabal Trail pipeline from Continue reading