Kira Pollock is the first to file a complaint with the FERC about Sabal Trail’s plan to gouge a second pipeline next to the one they built a decade ago.

She lives in the middle of Suwannee County, Florida. It’s Accession Number 20260824-5071 in Docket CP15-17-000 with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

That’s the old Sabal Trail docket, and nothing else has been filed in it since May 2025. The 2025 activity was just regular reports and a request and grant of extension of time for Sabal Trail Phase III. That’s an old project that was already delayed several years. It was to expand capacity of the old pipeline by a small amount.

This Sabal Trail Expansion Project would approximatly double the amount of fracked methane.

As previously mentioned, The only “economic development” I can see that would cause this is hyper-scale AI datacenters.

Denial of Survey Consent, Kira Pollock to FERC, about Sabal Trail Expansion Project 2026-08-24
Map from Suwannee County Property Appraiser.

You can send in your own comments, so nobody can say there were no objections. Just go to ferc.gov -> FERC Online -> Login -> New User and make yourself an account. Then go to FERC Online Home -> eComment and comment in Docket Number CP15-17-000.

Here’s what she wrote:

Kira Pollock, Live Oak, FL.

PARCEL ID: 34-03S-13E-08739-000290 – Denial of Survey Consent, Formal Objection & Structural Constraint Notice – Sabal Trail Expansion Project (Quail Hollow)

Dear Sabal Trail Land Acquisition Team,

I am writing to share some important neighborhood feedback and formally log my concerns regarding the proposed Sabal Trail Expansion Project study corridor as it relates to my property and our immediate neighborhood within the Quail Hollow subdivision in Suwannee County, Florida. I understand that your team is currently in the planning and information-gathering phase, so I wanted to reach out cooperatively to bring some significant physical, structural, and hydrological bottlenecks in our neighborhood to your attention so we can avoid issues down the road.

After reviewing the track of your current 36-inch mainline easement alongside our neighborhood parcel layouts, it appears the current parallel study corridor creates a severe engineering conflict that cannot be easily resolved on either side of the existing easement:

Map: M 288 P between 144th and 142nd Terrace, 2016-03-14 –Sabal Trail Transmission in compilation by Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE)

The West Side (“My Side”) faces major structural conflicts: While the existing gas pipeline does not run excessively through my 10 acres, it does run through the back corner of my property. Because of this layout, expanding your pipeline directly threatens my land as well as my neighbor directly to the east side of my property. Therefore, you cannot safely expand parallel on the west side of your current footprint without encroaching upon and potentially destroying an occupied primary residential home on the parcel adjacent to mine. Furthermore, my property features a permanent 30×50′ structural shop and a private well positioned relatively close to the current easement line. The required construction workspace physically cannot fit here without risking structural damage to my property and risking damage to my well.

The East Side Threatens Shared Neighborhood Infrastructure: Attempting to shift your entire construction zone to the east side to avoid our structures merely pushes your heavy industrial footprint toward the primary homes on the lots right behind or to the east of the corridor. This directly threatens countless additional families, their land, homes, shops, and wells.

Clarification of Access Boundaries and Denial of Survey Consent

Please be advised that while Sabal Trail Transmission holds a prior, limited permanent easement at the far rear corner of my property, this existing right-of-way does not grant sweeping access to the rest of my acreage. I do not consent to any new surveying, civil engineering mapping, soil boring, or environmental testing on any portion of my 10-acre parcel outside the exact, pre-existing legal boundaries of the existing easement. Any entry by your agents or contractors onto my unencumbered land past that corner area will be treated as civil trespass.

Formal Notice of Pre-Existing Water Infrastructure (Since 2003)

Our property relies entirely on a private domestic water well that has been in continuous, pristine operation since 2003—long predating the installation of your original pipeline footprint in 2016—2017. This vital infrastructure sits directly inside the high-consequence impact zone of your proposed expansion. Heavy rock-hammering, deep trench excavation, and massive industrial vibrations through our fragile limestone bedrock pose an unacceptable risk of well casing collapse, aquifer turbidity contamination, total dry well failure, and the creation of sinkholes.

Please consider this email formal written notice of this pre-existing infrastructure. Should Sabal Trail proceed with construction on either side of the current easement and subsequently disrupt, damage, or contaminate my water supply, structural shop foundation, home foundation, land, or otherwise cause damage to my property in any way, this document will serve as definitive legal proof in property damage and gross negligence litigation that the harm was a foreseeable result of your operations.

We are acutely aware of the severe environmental degradation that occurred in North Florida during your initial Phase I build, including the documented drilling mud “frac-out” blowouts into the Withlacoochee River and the volatile sinkholes that opened within 60 feet of your active pipe at the Suwannee River crossing.

Because this section of the Quail Hollow subdivision is so tightly constrained by permanent homes, outbuildings, and multi-decade residential water wells, I request that your project managers implement a localized Milepost Route Deviation (Bypass) to steer this expansion entirely out of our neighborhood and into vacant, unpopulated timber terrain.

I am more than happy to speak with your team or answer any questions about our neighborhood’s layout to help your engineers design a path that keeps our community and water supply safe. Please reply to confirm receipt of this notice, and please ensure these specific structural and well coordinates are immediately logged into your active routing maps.

Sincerely,

Kira Pollock & Joseph Wilson
386-209-6814
khpollock88@gmail.com
12377 144th Ter, Live Oak, FL 32060

Map: Sabal Trail, Suwannee County, FL, 2026-08-25 —WWALS map of the Suwannee River Water Trail (SRWT)

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