A fine time on a hot sunny day on VSU’s front lawn at The Happening yesterday. Thanks to Scotti Jay and Sara Squires for helping!
Traffic at the WWALS booth
Picture by John S. Quarterman for WWALS.
Category Archives: Education
WWALS at VSU Happening Information Festival 2017-08-24
Tomorrow, with a few tens of thousands of our closest student friends, on the front lawn of Valdosta State University, it’s The Happening:
When: 12PM to 4PM, Thursday, August 24, 2017
Where: Front lawn, VSU, 1500 N Patterson St., Valdosta, Georgia 31698
What: According to VSU, The HAPPENING 2017: CELEBRATING 26 YEARS!, Continue reading
The Three Stooges Do Pipeline: Sabal Trail at Dunnellon 2017-07-16
Sabal Fail wrapped it in towels, sprayed a deodorant, and waited until morning.
“Houston, we have a problem,” a Marion County resident remarked.
“Will be getting someone to respond,” Sabal Trail told Marion County 22 minutes after the call. When the county arrived (half an hour after the 911 call, mostly due to road distance), Sabal Trail personnel didn’t have the situation under control and hadn’t even communicated with Houston yet.
Marion County’s Narrative says: Continue reading
Videos: Coal Ash meeting in Valdosta @ WWALS 2017-03-01
The Georgia legislature
did nothing but appoint a study committee,
but you can see why they should do more, in these
WWALS videos of the coal ash meeting in Valdosta
that was organized by Rev. Deacon Leeann Culbreath of Georgia Interfaith Power & Light (GIPL).
Thanks to Rev. Floyd Rose for the venue at Academy of Excellence on Lee Street.
The Valdosta Daily Times covered this meeting, but did not mention the local landfill, which was a major topic of my presentation, as you can see in my slides. The Mayor of Valdosta disclaims any control over that landfill and the Lowndes County Commission expressed no interest. Nevermind both city and county governments have Continue reading
South Georgia meetings against coal ash in Tifton and Valdosta
Come learn about coal ash and
bills in the Georgia legislature right now.
Rev. Deacon Leeann Culbreath
of
Georgia Interfaith Power & Light (GIPL)
has organized two meetings,
in Tifton and Valdosta.
WWALS will be speaking at each of these meetings.
When, Where, and Who
Continue readingAerials: Sabal Trail half mile from Dunnellon High School
Sabal Trail runs half a mile from Dunnellon High School and Elementary School, and even closer to a golf club to the north. In 2009 Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) blew up a much smaller 18-inch pipeline, flying a 104-foot piece of 18-inch pipe through the air, shutting down both I-95 and the Florida Turnpike, and fortunately missing a high school. You can help stop this $3.2 billion boondoggle and get on with solar power now for the Sunshine State.
And to the north, it’s even closer to Julliette Falls Golf Club and Community. Continue reading
It’s that most wonderful time of the year — Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Yuletide Greetings!
Are you looking for a non-profit for your year end giving, or a gift
for that hard to buy for person? WWALS is a 501(c)(3) and your
donations are tax deductible as allowable by law. I invite you to become a member
today or make an additional year end gift. Your gift helps us
achieve our mission:
/donations/
PO Box 88, Hahira, GA 31632
Organizations can donate to WWALS, too, as many have.
In this very busy year of 2016 WWALS has: Continue reading
WWALS at Suwannee River Roots Revival 2016-10-15
Music and advocacy on the banks of the iconic Suwannee River!
WWALS outings, rivers, Valdosta wastewater, agricultural runoff, and
the issue
half the people wanted
to talk about was the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline: nobody wants it.
Thanks to Leeann Drabenstott Culbreath for the great picture of WWALS Treasurer Gretchen Quarterman and Ambassador Dave Hetzel, who engages everybody who walks past. Thanks to WWALS member Bret Huntley for camping overnight last night and setting up this morning. Gretchen took the other pictures of Dave and Bret. WWALS president John S. Quarterman took the one of the Shook Twins on the Amphitheater Stage in Spirit of Suwannee Music Park at Suwannee River Roots Revival on the banks of the Suwannee River.
Come on down to these upcoming WWALS events and outings: Continue reading
Sabal Trail begins at Hillabee Power Plant
Where Sabal Trail connects to Transco: the head of the black snake,
at Hillabee Power Plant, owned by Exelon Corp., near Alexander City, Alabama.
We were driving by, so we took some pictures.
Here are
Sabal Trail’s Alignment Maps
for this area,
the
photographs I took yesterday,
and
a google map with links to the pictures,
plus
what you can do to stop this unnecessary, destructive, and hazardous fracked methane pipeline boondoggle.
Update 2016-10-10: All 527 of Sabal Trail’s April 2016 alignment maps are now available in small, big, huge, and PDF formats, courtesy of Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).
What you can do
Continue readingPipeline Panel #NoDAPL #NoSabalTrail @ VSU 2016-09-28
Come hear how the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota are protecting their water from the same fossil industry and the same companies that want to drill the Sabal Trail pipeline under our Withlacoochee and Suwannee Rivers in south Georgia and north Florida.
When: 7PM Wednesday September 28th 2016
What: The Pipeline Controversy
Where: Cypress Room
University Center
Valdosta State University Continue reading