DNR board unanimously gave away river crossings to Sabal Trail for the
Withlacoochee, Ochlockonee, Flint, and Chattahoochee Rivers.
But the legislature would also have to approve,
and the AJC just turned this obscure board meeting into an earned media
event for pipeline opponents.
VALDOSTA: Professor Don Thieme, Valdosta State University, checks the water color and clarity in a sinkhole called Shadrick’s Pond by the Withlacoochee River. The sinkhole is near the site of a proposed pipeline that would cross the Withlacoochee River. Curtis Compton / ccompton@ajc.com
See video.
Dan Chapman, AJC, 23 September 2015,
South Georgia pipeline moves forward,
The proposed Sabal Trail natural gas pipeline cleared another
regulatory hurdle Wednesday with state approval for the pipeline to
pass under five Southwest Georgia rivers and creeks.
The unanimous vote by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’
board doesn’t sanction the pipeline to run 157 miles across Georgia
while crossing the Chattahoochee, Flint, Withlacoochee and
Ochlocknee rivers. Additional state and federal reviews, and votes,
are necessary before digging begins.
Pipeline opponents, though, hoped that the board would slow Sabal
Trail’s seemingly inexorable push to deliver gas to Florida. They
cited ongoing safety, environmental and property rights concerns
held by thousands of Southwest Georgia residents.
Those opponents
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Asking our most local representatives to table or deny a motion threatening
our Withlacoochee River and Okapilco Creek isn’t “magic”:
it’s democracy.
Maybe GA-DNR should publish contact information for its board members
to make that easier.
Meanwhile, David won against Goliath and we can too.
