If you care about water and sewage and water quality in wells and rivers,
many county commission and city council decisions affect all of those.
Here are some examples this week from the Lowndes County Commission (LCC),
which represents the most populous county in the Suwannee River Basin,
upstream from Florida.
Also, WWALS board member Phil Hubbard was appointed to Continue reading
If you had any doubts that Sabal Trail is a boondoggle,
our water, land, and wildlife are more important than corporate greed, and we should go solar right now,
these speakers may help resolve them.
WWALS Videos of Hold Regulatory Agencies Accountable for Sabal Trail and FSC fracked gas pipelines on the steps of the Old Florida Capitol, Monday January 23, 2017. This event was organized by Shannon Larsen, Bobby C. Billie, and ReThink Energy Florida.
The indigenous prayers are omitted. I clarified with Bobby C. Billie, and he specifically wanted those prayers omitted, but not the rest of what he and Shawn Mulford said. Yes, the sound is low when Bobby is speaking; he doesn’t like to use a microphone.
Here are links to each WWALS video, followed by a video playlist. You may reuse these videos, provided 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
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Live Oak, FL, January 20, 2017 —
You are invited to the Historic Florida State Capitol steps Tuesday January 23rd
noon to 3:30 PM to hear principal guest speaker Karenna Gore and others
Hold Regulatory Agencies Accountable.
John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®, will talk about
how we all fought the invading Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline
and its extension Florida Southeast Connection for the past three years.
Deanna Mericle will talk about what her personal experiences
of moving Sabal Trail off the Withlacoochee River in Florida and continuing
the fight with WWALS Watershed Coalition through a legal case, WWALS vs. Sabal Trail & FDEP.
Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, Sierra Club Campaign Organizer, will present
an extensive list of complaints and violations.
The festivities will include #FLEXIT, the Florida Statewide Bank Exit, and delivery of a statement to Governor Scott.
When: 12 Noon- 3:30 pm, Monday, January 23, 2017
Where:
Florida State Historic Capital Steps
400 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, Florida
Event: facebook
Below is Continue reading
Water protectors encircle a sign saying “REVOKE SABAL TRAIL PERMITS” on 24th Street on Sabal Trail’s right of way leading to its Suwannee County horizontal directional drilling (HDD) site drilling under the Suwannee River and Suwannnee River State Park. So say we all.
Photograph taken 12:57 PM, January 14, 2017 by Beth Gammie for WWALS from Southwings flight piloted by Roy Zimmer, navigated by Can Denizman. You may reuse this picture provided you cite the source: Beth Gammie for WWALS Watershed Coalition.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Here’s a Christmas present for pipeline opponents and solar power proponents.
John S. Quarterman, Citrus County Chronicle, other voices, 25 December 2016,
Stop gas pipeline; invest in solar,
Sabal Trail and FDEP assured us there would be no problems drilling a 36-inch natural gas pipeline through the fragile karst limestone under the Suwannee River and the Withlacoochee (south) River in Florida, yet already Sabal Trail’s pilot hole under the Withlacoochee (north) River in Georgia caused a frac-out of drilling mud into the river and a sinkhole. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should halt construction and do a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement.
When I happened to fly over the Withlacoochee (north) River frac-out, I also saw Continue reading
WWALS has been tying #NoDAPL to #NoSabalTrail
for some time, because water protectors here continue to fight Sabal Trail for many of the same reasons as the Standing Rock Sioux fight the Dakota Access Pipeline, plus one of the DAPL pipeline companies, Enbridge, is buying Spectra Energy, the Sabal Trail pipeline company, and many of the same banks finance both.
Plus even FPL admits there’s no need for new electricity for Florida until 2024 at the earliest, which means there’s no need for Sabal Trail.
Waterkeeper Alliance, 3 November 2016, Waterkeeper Alliance Calls on President Obama to Halt the Dakota Access Pipeline and Uphold the Rights of Water Protectors, Continue reading
Next month, once again the upper Suwannee that drains into the Gulf gets pulled into a meeting with coastal Georgia Water Planning Councils. This is the meeting that got delayed by hurricane.
Joint Regional Water Planning Council Meeting NEW DATE: November 17, 2016
Georgia Department of Natural Resources sent this bulletin at 10/18/2016 09:18 AM EDT
NOTICE:
JOINT REGIONAL WATER PLANNING COUNCIL MEETING
Announcement Date: October 18, 2016
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS AND PARTIES:
A Joint Council Meeting will be held for the Altamaha, Coastal
Georgia, Middle Ocmulgee, Savannah-Upper Ogeechee, Suwannee-Satilla
and Upper Oconee Regional Water Planning Councils at the following
date, time, and location:
GA DNR, Bulletin, 18 October 2016,
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).
Update 2016-10-07: Postponed due to Hurricane Matthew. New date not yet known.
Next week, once again the upper Suwannee that drains into the Gulf gets pulled into a meeting with coastal Georgia Water Planning Councils.
GA DNR, Bulletin, 27 September 2016,
Statewide Water Plan – Joint Council Meeting #2 Agenda – October 6 / Dublin, GA,
Joint Council Meeting #2 — Eastern Councils
Thursday, October 6, 2016Dubose Porter Center
Oconee Fall Line Technical College
560 Pinehill Road
Dublin, GA 31021Agenda Continue reading