Adding
a video from the Arkansas River pipeline geyser,
another
Miami
paper picked up
last week’s Florida Bulldog story.
Tim Elfrink, Miami New Times, 17 August 2015, Scott backs environmentally dubious pipeline from firm he invested in, Continue reading
From Florida Bulldog to a daily with more than 140,000 circulation.
Dan Christensen, Miami Herald, 16 August 2015,
Pipeline company with tie to Gov. Scott and state backing, has history of accidents,
Spectra Energy, the company that state environmental regulators say should be allowed to construct a 267-mile-long natural gas pipeline in North Florida, has a checkered history of accidents and violations of federal safety rules in the U.S. and Canada dating back decades.
Do we want to risk Sabal Trail’s fracked methane pipeline blowing out
under the Suwannee or Withlacoochee Rivers like
Spectra’s Texas Eastern Pipeline blew out under the Arkansas River in May?
WWALS doesn’t, which is why we filed the
petition to Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection
asking them not to issue a permit for Sabal Trail.
The Little Rock blowout is one of several recent Spectra incidents Dan Christensen finds today in FloridaBulldog.org, Pipeline company with tie to Gov. Scott, and state backing, has history of accidents, Continue reading