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
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
From Florida Bulldog to a daily with more than 140,000 circulation.
Dan Christensen, Miami Herald, 16 August 2015,
Pipeline company with tie to Gov. Scott and state backing, has history of accidents,
Spectra Energy, the company that state environmental regulators say should be allowed to construct a 267-mile-long natural gas pipeline in North Florida, has a checkered history of accidents and violations of federal safety rules in the U.S. and Canada dating back decades.
Do we want to risk Sabal Trail’s fracked methane pipeline blowing out
under the Suwannee or Withlacoochee Rivers like
Spectra’s Texas Eastern Pipeline blew out under the Arkansas River in May?
WWALS doesn’t, which is why we filed the
petition to Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection
asking them not to issue a permit for Sabal Trail.
The Little Rock blowout is one of several recent Spectra incidents Dan Christensen finds today in FloridaBulldog.org, Pipeline company with tie to Gov. Scott, and state backing, has history of accidents, Continue reading
This is the petition
(PDF)
WWALS filed Friday 7 Aug 2015 against FL-DEP’s
intent to isue a permit for Sabal Trail
to drill under the Suwannee River and otherwise destroy wetlands
and add hazards for no benefit.
Spectra Energy of Houston, Texas also wants to drill the Sabal Trail pipeline under the Santa Fe River and the Withlacoochee south River (the one that flows from the Green Swamp to the Gulf). Sabal Trail also wants to drill under WWALS’ Withlacoochee River that flows into the Suwannee, but in Georgia, so that is not a topic of this petition.
Remember there are still plenty of things you can do to help stop this pipeline invader from destroying forests, fields, and streams, adding hazards for no benefit.
And you can come see where Sabal Trail proposes to cross the Suwannee this Saturday, August 15th, as we paddle down the river!
-jsq
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
STATE OF FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
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It’s not just
the Suwannee and the Santa Fe:
Sabal Trail wants to drill into
the fragile karst limestone under Florida’s Withlacoochee south River, too,
above our Floridan Aquifer,
and FL DEP proposes to permit them to do that.
This is the other Withlacoochee River; the one from the Green Swamp to the Gulf.
Sabal Trail wants a 24″ spur to Citrus County under this river.
Watch out, Dunnelon, Marion County, and Citrus County!
(Sabal Trail does still want to drill under WWALS’ Withlacoochee River, known in Florida as the Withlacoochee north, but in Georgia, not Florida.)
Here are the Withlacoochee south River maps and related items from the Drawings Sabal Trail submitted with the FL-DEP Permit application.
Remember there are still plenty of things you can do to help stop this pipeline invader from destroying forests, fields, and streams, adding hazards for no benefit.
It’s not just
the Suwannee: Sabal Trail wants to drill into
the fragile karst limestone under the Santa Fe River, too,
above our Floridan Aquifer,
and FL DEP proposes to permit them to do that.
Watch out Branford, Suwannee County, and Gilchrist County!
Here are the Santa Fe River maps and related items from the Drawings Sabal Trail submitted with the FL-DEP Permit application.
Remember there are still plenty of things you can do to help stop this pipeline invader from destroying forests, fields, and streams, adding hazards for no benefit.
Most people are opposed to the Sabal Trail pipeline, as the Colquitt County landowner says.
Drilling in our fragile karst limestone
“could potentially carry any contamination down into our groundwater source”,
as VSU Geology Prof. Don Thieme says.
Why should we risk that for profit for companies from somewhere else and no benefit for here?
Atlanta Journal Constitution, Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline Through 9 Counties, Continue reading
Canada’s National Energy Board just ordered Spectra Energy to fix chronic
corrosion and leak problems after numerous fines, as did U.S. PHMSA before, yet
Florida’s DEP plans to trust Spectra to build the Sabal Trail pipeline
on top of our Floridan Aquifer, drilling under the Suwannee and Santa Fe
Rivers.
This in the Notice of Intent to Issue Sabal Trail Transmission of 10 July 2015 sounds good without that context: Continue reading
This letter is for today’s Monday 20 July 2015 SSRWPC meeting, at Aniston’s Restaurant, 1404 W. Baker Highway, Douglas, GA. See also the LAKE videos of last month’s SSRWPC meeting. -jsq
Dear Suwannee-Satilla Regional Water Planning Council,
WWALS Watershed Coalition is the WATERKEEPER® Affiliate
representing the watersheds of the Withlacoochee and Little Rivers,
which are in the proposed paths of the Sabal Trail natural gas pipeline
through Lowndes, Brooks, and Colquitt Counties Georgia.
WWALS has long opposed that pipeline from Alabama to Florida, which is funded by NextEra Energy of Florida and Duke Energy of North Carolina for construction by Spectra Energy of Houston, Texas. WWALS is an intervenor against it with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on docket CP15-17.