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You can help stop Georgia eminent domain easements for Sabal Trail from passing the statehouse! (PDF handout)
Photo: TONY CASSADY, 31 May 2015, in Arkansas River pipeline blowout occurred on Sunday morning, cause still unknown, by Benjamin Hardy, Arkansas Blog, 3 June 2015
Sabal Trail (a project of Houston-based Spectra Energy) is a methane
frack-gas pipeline that would run from east central Alabama to
south-central Florida. Multiple route choices exist. The company has
chosen one, despite massive amounts of public objection, that
maximizes the public and private impact. The Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) has granted a permit for the particular
one the company wants, one which that places a large number of
Georgian’s private property under threat of (federal) eminent
domain, for private profit. The FERC permit process is under appeal
by property owners and advocacy groups. The pipeline still does not
have several major state and federal permits (water quality, air,
and wetlands).
Yet the Deal Administration seeks Continue reading →
After two years going to Sabal Trail open houses and FERC scoping meetings, filing e-comments, guiding them to the river crossings and a legal hearing in Jasper, FERC still tells us customers for Spectra Energy from Houston, Texas, constitute a need that outweighs local property rights, environmental destruction, and hazards to our Withlacoochee and Suwannee rivers and the Floridan Aquifer, and to taxes, life, and limb.
