This is barely a mile from Clyattville Elementary School.
Author Archives: jsq
Solar Rocks for the Equinox @ SSJSCNFWG 2017-09-23
Suwannee Riverkeeper will be speaking at this event,
about how Georgia moved ahead in solar power,
what Florida has tried and still needs to do, and how
solar power has already won the economic race,
supplying more new solar power in 2016 than anything else (more than natural gas and more than wind), and employing more people than coal, oil, and gas combined.
When even FPL is finally building solar power, including at showplaces
such as Daytona International Speedway,
the sun is starting to rise on the Sunshine State.
There will be a WWALS table with information about all this.
Solar Rocks for the Equinox
March 7, 2017
Press Release: For Immediate ReleaseSolar Energy Expo
Save the DateWhen: 9am-5pm Saturday, September 23, 2017
Where: Sierra Club North Florida Headquarters at
Rum 138 2070 SW County Road 138, Fort White, FL 32038 Continue reading
Aerials: I-75 to Withlacoochee (south) River 2017-02-07
Update again 2017-03-13:
- Gum Springs 3,000 feet from Sabal Trail and lower flow @ WWALS 2017-02-07
- Sabal Trail hydrostatic test pond at I-75 @ WWALS 2017-02-07
Sabal Trail north from I-75 to the Withlacoochee (south) River.
Photo: Mark Skogman for WWALS on Southwings flight 2017-02-07
The Villages is about six miles northeast of where Sabal Trail crosses I-75 just north of FL-44.
Photo: Jim Tatum for WWALS on Southwings flight 2017-02-07
Many more pictures below, and a Google Map showing the locations.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Pictures
Continue readingBustling booth
From across One Mile Creek
Froggie toss game
Valve Turners and fossil fuel divestment
What’s more effective than valve turning or tower toppling? Divestment.
WWALS Watershed Coalition advocates non-violent opposition to the unnecessary, destructive, and hazardous Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline. As an organization, we do not participate in property damage, either. (Individual WWALS members may of course do whatever they like, as long as they don’t say they’re doing it on behalf of WWALS.) Among many other reasons, I think there is a more effective tactic: fossil fuel divestment. I think this because of the history of the anti-nuclear movement and because of how fast fossil fuel divestment is going compared to earlier divestment movements.
Photo:
Ken Ward, EcoWatch, 6 March 2017,
The Climate Data That Led to a Hung Jury
This reminds me of something long ago. Steve Liptay, Vimeo, 16 October 2016, SHUT IT DOWN TODAY, Continue reading
Azalea Festival: what does WWALS do?
Azalea Festival
Sabal Trail burning, water, and pipe in Brooks and Lowndes Counties, GA 2017-03-08
Update 2017-03-10: PDF of burning and water well drilling violation complaint sent to FERC, USACE, GA-EPD, and GFC.
Bringing materials from another site to burn is illegal in Georgia, even if they had a permit, which they didn’t, it couldn’t cover open burning of treated ties like Sabal Trail is doing at the Brooks County Industrial Park south of Quitman, Georgia. Georgia Forestry Commission is already on it, and I’m alerting FERC, USACE, GA-EPD, and Brooks County today. The entire Troy yard is right next to a wetland, with three drainage ditches crossing the site.
There’s nothing going on at the Withlacoochee River HDD site in Lowndes County, but they’re shuffling pipe on a Texas Troy truck between Gary Lane Knights Ferry Road, right past a Lowndes County School bus on McGoggle Road. Continue reading
Requesting protection of Suwannee River from Valdosta wastewater –Levy BOCC 2017-03-07
Levy BOCC passed a resolution Tuesday much like the Suwannee BOCC resolution, but adding instructions to transmit it to a wide range of Florida and U.S. elected officials and agencies.
If you’re in Valdosta today, the City Council meets at 5:30 PM; you can join us in talking to them about this, or send them email.
Thanks to Jessica Berryhill, Administrative Assistant I, Board Administration, Levy Board of County Commissioners, for the PDF.
RESOLUTION 2017-008
A RESOLUTION BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF LEVY COUNTY, FLORIDA REQUESTING THE PROTECTION OF THE HISTORIC SUWANNEE RIVER IN NORTH FLORIDA.
WHEREAS, Levy County is located in North Central Florida and is bordered by the Historic Suwannee River on its western side; and
WHEREAS. the Historic Suwannee River is one of the most widely known and recognized river system in the world; and Continue reading