Land use planning can make even a $60 billion market cap company
think again about a mine in our sensitive karst limestone aquifer.
details here.
Greenlaw pictures
here. -jsq
For Immediate Release: August 27, 2014
JESUP, GA-After hundreds of local residents, conservation groups, and elected officials expressed concerns Continue reading
Other Florida, Georgia, and Alabama counties could do what Hamilton County,
Florida just did in this
this resolution.
Even before it got this resolution, FERC yesterday
directed Sabal Trail to deal with what Chris Mericle had been saying,
including proposing routes to minimize crossing the Withlacoochee River
or to avoid crossing it entirely.
Chris Mericle sent a PDF copy of the resolution with its attached hydrogeological report. I’ve added links to the other referenced documents.
Chris is the local host for the
September WWALS Outing on the Withalacoochee and Suwannee Rivers,
where you can come float past that same area
Sunday 21 September,
and see many local springs, sinkholes and shoals
that need to be protected from that pipeline.
RESOLUTION NO. 14-10
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
HAMILTON COUNTY, FLORIDA Continue reading
Last Friday a resolution to FERC saying the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline
should avoid sensitive karst limeston regions affecting water resources
passed the Hamilton County, Florida Commission.
Joyce Marie Taylor has added the following to her article in the Suwannee Democrat 25 August 2014, Hamilton fights back against Sabal Trail pipeline,
A special meeting was called on Friday, Aug. 22, and the board voted to pass Resolution 14-10 that expressed their concerns about the proposed pipeline route across the Withlacoochee River that forms the western boundary of Hamilton County.
A portion of the resolution states, Continue reading
Chris Mericle, local host for the
September WWALS Outing,
spoke to the Hamilton County Commission last Tuesday
about the same section of the Withlacoochee River,
where the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline is proposed to cross.
You can come float past it yourself
Sunday 21 September,
and see many local springs, sinkholes and shoals
that need to be protected from that pipeline,
continuing on to where the pipeline would cross the Suwannee River.
Joyce Marie Taylor wrote for the Suwannee Democrat 25 August 2014, Hamilton fights back against Sabal Trail pipeline, Continue reading
A fourth Florida LNG export operation seeks approval,
this one explicitly wanting to use methane from the Sabal Trail Transmission
fracked methane pipeline.
It’s on the divide between our Suwannee River Basin and the
St Johns River Basin, where Jaxport is proposing to ship out liquid natural
gas from Jacksonville.
St Johns Riverkeeper and Our Santa Fe River beware.
The Sabal Trail pipeline itself was already proposed to cross three rivers in the Suwannee Basin: Continue reading
After
an application for an exemption for the Withlacoochee River
and the Santa Fe River, here’s Sabal Trail’s application to
drill under the Suwannee River in between.
Should we also expect an “HDD CROSSING” permit application
for the Withlacoochee and Suwannee Rivers?
And watch out, The Villages in Sumter County, Florida!
Sabal Trail has applied for a permit in your county, too. Continue reading
The same
Floridan Aquifer underlies the Flint River, and our
Withlacoochee, Alapaha, and other rivers, all of Florida, and across south Georgia all the way to the
coast, where Gordon Rogers, Flint Riverkeeper, explained it to
the Georgia Senate’s Long-Term Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR)
Study Committee,
4 August 2014 on Jekyll Island.
The ASR idea of pumping treated water into the ground for later retrieval
is a bad idea, as Gordon spelled out.
See especially this part in Flint Riverkeeper Gordon Rogers’ Comments to the Senate ASR Study Committee,
In central south GA, eastern and coastal GA, Floridan water is thousands of years old, quite pristine, and is so slow to recharge that essentially it does not recharge in comparison to human uses.
Remember,
the Flint River basin where the Georgia legislature
keeps trying to implement ASR is the next one to the west Continue reading
Bigger type than the rest of the page, and in the editorial column position:
Haley Hyatt, who took these pictures, noticed that about how the
Moultrie Observer
printed the
WWALS op-ed Friday 1 August 2014, as
“Much opposition”.
So that’s at least two newspapers so far, the other being the Ocala StarBanner. Continue reading
The Moultrie Observer printed
the WWALS op-ed Friday 1 August 2014;
that’s still not online.
But the Ocala StarBanner has it online, Sunday 3 August 2014,
Water, property rights over pipeline profits.
Several more newspapers are considering it.
-jsq
Chris Mericle’s introducation says this video:
shows some of the springs, sinkholes, and other karst features that lie in close proximity to the proposed Sabal Trail gas pipeline where it crosses the Withlacoochee River in Hamilton and Madison County, Florida.
Including active sinkholes right next to the proposed pipeline route. And a karst window a couple of hundred feet from the pipeline.
Here’s the video:
The video is about the part of the Withlacoochee River where Continue reading