You’ve seen Gretchen’s pictures;
here are some more,
including on land along the pipeline path through sinkholes,
of the informal outing from Suwannee River Campsites to Suwannee River State Park
past where Sabal Trail wants to gouge its 36-inch fracked methane pipeline under the Suwannee River.
This was Sunday 15 November 2015, days before the Tuesday the
Suwannee County, FL Commissioners unanimously voted a resolution to move Sabal Trail’s compressor station.
Suwannee BOCC
filed that resolution with FERC,
and has already
decided to vote again Continue reading
Category Archives: Pipeline
Who, beside the public,is checking the data Sabal Trail is providing? –Chris Mericle to FERC
WWALS board member Chris Mericle just asked FERC:
Why the huge discrepancy….? [W]hy should we believe that the information Sabal Trail provided anywhere is correct?
Apparently unlike FERC, Chris knows what he’s talking about, from
on-the-ground observation to a local study by a geologist, to Sabal Trail’s own docuemnts.
Filed with FERC as Accession Number: 20151207-5015, “Comment of Christopher J Mericle in Docket(s)/Project(s) CP15-17-000 Submission Date: 12/6/2015”, Continue reading
To protect the aquifer and to protect the river: Suwannee County against Sabal Trail 2015-12-01
Standing on their previous resolution against the Hildreth compressor station, SBOCC decided to vote next time on a much stronger resolution to keep the pipeline completely out of Suwannee County. Will Sabal Trail show up for that meeting, 15 December 2015, like Andrea Grover told Carl McKinney of the Suwannee Democrat they would if they had advance notice? I suggest all interested parties come to tha meeting to see, not to mention to counter any “information” Sabal Trail may supply.
Here is SBOCC’s own video of that meeting, in which you can see Commissioner Larry Sessions raise the issue:
I’d like to discuss one thing. Last meeting we discussed at length the Sabal Trail issues, possibly coming through our county and crossing the river a couple times.
I’d like to propose that staff make up a letter or a proposal to restrict the pipeline or maybe have the pipeline avoid all karst areas and wetlands coming through our county. We’re trying to Continue reading
Sabal Trail pipeline route discussion, Suwannee Board of County Commissioners, 2015-12-01
Beyond asking to move the Sabal Trail compressor station, the Suwannee County Board of Commissioners (SBOCC) will consider what else it wants.
SBOCC Meeting — Sabal Trail pipeline route discussion by SBOCC tonight — I was told — 6 pm Parshley Street in Live Oak — right behind Post Office off Ohio Ave (MLK BLVD).
Please attend if able. —Debra Johnson
Will Sabal Trail continue to hide behind the federal Pipeline Safety Act even after two more whistleblowers have come forward about Spectra Energy?
Will Sabal Trail again Continue reading
Suwannee County, FL sends resolution against Sabal Trail to FERC 2015-11-30
The one county targetted by every path proposed by Spectra Energy
for its Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline, Suwannee County, Florida,
has told FERC it passed a resolution wanting the Hildreth compressor station moved.
Filed with FERC 30 November 2015, Accession Number: 20151130-0023, “A Resolution of the Board of County Commissioners of Suwannee County, Florida etc re Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC under CP15-17.” (PDF on WWALS website.)
For the text, see the previous post. Below are images. Continue reading
Industrial Wastewater Permit application for Suwannee River Plant by Duke Energy
Why does Duke Energy now want to dispose of industrial wastewater from its Suwannee River power plant in Suwannee County? Why did Duke apply for a water permit for the same plant the same day that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers asked for comments about Sabal Trail? Why does Sabal Trail want the same type of permit?
Profile Name: Suwannee Air
Permit: Water – Industrial Wastewater Facility Permit
Project Name: DUKE ENERGY – SUWANNEE RIVER
Location Id: FL0000183
Location Name: Duke Energy Florida – Suwannee River Generating Plant
County: Suwannee
Application Number: FL0000183-007For further information, please contact the Tallahassee Headquarters permitting office in Tallahassee at (850) 245-8589
Why is a wastewater permit labeled “Suwannee Air”? And more questions…. Continue reading
Suwannee County landowners v. Sabal Trail surveying 2015-12-07
Suwannee County resident Debra Johnson tells us:
Suwannee County landowners vs Sabal Trail’s right to survey at Suwannee County courthouse Dec 7 at 3:30, Live Oak, FL. Landowners have lawyers.
A bit more information on Suwannee County Says “NO” To Toxic Waste 27 November 2015: Continue reading
DEP neither acknowledged nor addressed the EPA concerns raised by WWALS –Politico
National news notes Florida doesn’t want DOAH to listen to EPA about Sabal Trail, after WWALS asked DOAH to do so.
Bruce Ritchie,
POLITICO Florida, 25 November 2015,
Scott administration helped keep scathing EPA pipeline report out of legal challenge,
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott’s top environmental agency helped block a scathing federal report outlining environmental concerns from being submitted as part of a challenge to a controversial natural gas pipeline that would run across some of Florida’s most “environmentally sensitive areas.”
The Sabal Trail pipeline, a joint venture of Spectra Energy, Duke Energy and Florida Power & Light Co.’s parent company, would extend 515 miles from central Alabama to Osceola County. The project, which covers more than 260 miles in Florida, faces a legal challenge to a state permit in Florida from an environmental group named the WWALS Watershed Coalition.
On Oct. 26, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wrote to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, saying it had “very significant concerns” about Continue reading
Draft TMDL for Suwannee River Basin
Downstream from Valdosta and Tifton on the Withlacoochee River, and downstream from Fitzgerald on the Willacoochee River: room for improvement in fecal coliform,
said the Georgia Environmental Protection Division in a draft report issued Friday.
The comment deadline is January 20th, 2016.
On a quick read, the various wastewater treatment plants do not seem to be the main source of the contamination.
Other likely culprits include leaking septic tanks, concentrated livestock operations, and landfills and land application sites, both closed and operating.
Also notice the proposed Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline would cross most if not all of these TMDL locations in Lowndes County.
Would drilling under the Withlacoochee River and open cuts in these areas help the TMDL problem?
Here’s the NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF PROPOSED TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOADS FOR WATERS AND POLLUTANTS OF CONCERN IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA November 20, 2015, which includes: Continue reading
Video of citizens and Commission against Sabal Trail in Suwannee County, FL 2015-11-17
The Commissioners
unanimously voted for that
resolution
to ask Sabal Trail to move the Hildreth compressor station,
as you can see on
Suwannee County’s own video of that meeting.
First, several people spoke against the compressor station, including:
- Dave Shields (WWALS member), who moved to Suwannee County with his family to run an organic farm, only to discover a compressor station planned for upwind,
- Joe Peurrung, President and Owner, Security Safe, who hinted his $3 million company Continue reading