Here are WWALS videos of Chris Mericle (WWALS board member) explaining
the sinkholes in the path of the proposed Sabal Trail fracked methane
crossing of the Suwannee River under Suwannee River State Park.
Commissioners and staff from Suwannee and Hamilton Counties attended,
along with many other interested parties.
Both Commissions have regular meetings tomorrow, Tuesday March 1st,
Hamilton County at 9AM, and Suwannee County at 6PM.
See
previous post for locations, pictures, and more names of participants in the hike.
Sabal Trail declined to send anyone to this well-announced hike,
although Spectra has been holding one-on-one meetings with individual county commissioners, or, rather six to one, just like they did
in their “Open Houses” where they surrounded each landowner with six pipeline blueshirts.
Here are links to each of the WWALS videos, followed by a video playlist.
Can you spot the Sabal Trail marker stakes, and the sinkholes? Continue reading →
In response to Jason Bashaw’s, Chairman of the Suwannee County Commission, article in the Suwannee Valley Times, I have this to say. Why is it that if people are concerned about the environment they live in, they are automatically placed into this environmental left category? Like many, many people in our surrounding counties, I hunt, fish, hike and paddle our local rivers. I use the environment as do we all.
So, for working and paying taxes all my life — as a Vietnam Veteran, as a person who chose to live in this rural part of Florida and raise his kid, as a person who is not now nor ever will be wealthy — I count our public lands, our woods and rivers as a reward for doing the right thing. I do not mind my tax dollars going towards public lands. Mr. Bashaw uses the environmental left in a derogatory manner as a means of denigrating them, and he is including me in it and I resent it. I resent it for my friend’s in WWALS and others who show concern for the pipeline route. I have not met an environmental lefty among them.
