A hundred and fifty people came to Dunnellon, Florida
to walk and speak for
the most important thing to Florida and south Georgia: water.
Her local school board refused to listen to Megan.
We listened. They should, too.
This event was organized by Our Santa Fe River.
These are just a few android phone pictures and videos I took. Stay tuned for WWALS video of all the speakers.
Videos of the water protectors and of the invading Sabal Trail pipeline. Continue reading
And they followed her down the road, as Sabal Trail’s hardhats usually do
when they see anybody watching their trail of destruction.
This was Wednesday 25 January 2017 on Cool Springs Road, Baconton, GA,
31.306085, -84.008770.
Pictures and video by Sherry Layton Gatewood: they didn’t scare her off, and they haven’t scared off the many other people throughout Florida, Georgia, and Alabama who are watching them like hawks, looking for violations.
Kind of hard to get to your fields to do agriculture with this in the way.
After the recent storms, water is standing on Sabal Trail’s
exotic invasive planted grasses, and sometimes on bare dirt,
some of it apparently eroded, in Colquitt County, Georgia
west of Moultrie towards Mitchell County.
Remember, that 3-foot fracked methane pipe is only 3 feet under the surface.
It wouldn’t take much erosion to expose it, increasing likelihood of corrosion,
leak, break, explosion, etc.
These pictures were taken Continue reading
After
Trump bumped LaFleur over his head today,
former FERC Chairman Norman Bay resigned from the Commission this same day.
That leaves FERC with only 2 out of five Commission slots occupied.
I would guess that means no quorum, although what does it matter?
The FERC Commissioners only ever rejected one pipeline in thirty years.
His resignation letter is a six-page pat on his own back that never once mentions solar power, eminent domain, landowners, water, river, aquifer, or environment. His biggest brag is: Continue reading
President Trump just brushed aside FERC Chairman Norman Bay,
one of the few FERC Commissioners to show any reservations about
FERC’s rubberstamping of pipelines, and put Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur
back once again as Acting Chairman.
This while FERC has only three Commissions, when it’s supposed to have five,
probably indicates FERC is going to be pushing ahead all pipeline projects.
Of course, that’s not much different from what we’ve seen for years with
Sabal Trail.
Johnathan Crawford and Jennifer A. Diouhy, Bloomberg Politics, 19 January 2017, Trump Picks LaFleur as Chairman of U.S. Energy Regulator, Sources Say, Continue reading
With speakers from the far south of Florida (Tim Canova from Miami) and north (Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman) and everywhere between, you can come to Dunnellon, Florida, and walk to Rainbow Springs to hear and speak about the destruction the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline is wreaking right now less than half a mile from Dunnellon High School before it gouges under the other Withlacoochee (south) River from Marion County into Citrus County down to Crystal River, in addition to its main path down past Orlando which with Florida Southeast Connection sends bomb trucks and trains to Miami and Jacksonville.
When: 10:30 AM, Saturday, January 28, 2017
Where: 11012 Williams St, Dunnellon, FL 34432-8319
Event:
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Please sign Tim Canova’s peition to Continue reading
For once a news story gives the last word to local water protectors, and it plays up our land and our water.
Richard Luscombe, The Guardian, 24 January 2017,
Why a protest camp in Florida is being called the next Standing Rock:
At first glance the quiet town of Live Oak seems an unlikely venue for a stand against Big Energy. But in recent weeks it’s become a centre of opposition,
A north Florida river that attracted the state’s first tourists a century before Walt Disney’s famous cartoon mouse is emerging at the centre of a fight against a contentious 515-mile natural gas pipeline that many are calling America’s next Standing Rock.
One section of the so-called Sabal Trail pipeline is being laid beneath the crystal waters of the Suwannee river, whose pure mineral springs were once fabled to cure anything from marital strife to gout.
The story quotes Continue reading
Just north of GA 122 in Brooks County, GA
More here.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
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It’s time to photograph and report all potential Sabal Trail violations after last night’s storm. Pipeline construction should stop until damage can be independently assessed. I-75 is shut down, and so should Sabal Trail be.
The sky was lit by lightning all night
as a tornado killed two people in Brooks County and more in Cook County, Georgia.
In between is Sabal Trail’s pipeline path across Okapilco Creek.
I-75 is closed. What did that tornado do to the unfinished pipeline?
What will all this water and wind do to all the Sabal Trail pipe exposed
on top of the ground?
What about that frac-out and sinkhole at Sabal Trail’s Withlacoochee River drilling only a short way downstream?
What about Sabal Trail’s pipe going into that now probably waterlogged ream under the Suwannee River, or the Withlacoochee River South?
What about Continue reading
It’s time to photograph and report all potential Sabal Trail violations after last night’s storm. Pipeline construction should stop until damage can be independently assessed. I-75 is shut down, and so should Sabal Trail be.
The sky was lit by lightning all night
as a tornado killed two people in Brooks County and more in Cook County, Georgia.
In between is Sabal Trail’s pipeline path across Okapilco Creek.
I-75 is closed. What did that tornado do to the unfinished pipeline?
What will all this water and wind do to all the Sabal Trail pipe exposed
on top of the ground?
What about that frac-out and sinkhole at Sabal Trail’s Withlacoochee River drilling only a short way downstream?
What about Sabal Trail’s pipe going into that now probably waterlogged ream under the Suwannee River, or the Withlacoochee River South?
What about Continue reading