FPL admits Florida needs no new electricity, so why should Sabal Trail get eminent domain?
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Hahira, GA, September 6th 2016 — Two Georgia brothers are stuck with
paying almost ten times as much in Sabal Trail’s legal fees as they spent
defending their property against that invading fracked methane pipeline,
even though FPL apparently admitted this year that all three of its 2013
excuses for that pipeline are no longer valid. Two federal agencies and
numerous state agencies issued permits based on those excuses. Sabal
Trail used those permits to get eminent domain, including to drill under
rivers in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama and through the fragile limestone
containing our drinking water in the Floridan Aquifer. It is time for
this unnecessary, destructive, and hazardous boondoggle to be shut down
and its $3 billion in FPL ratepayer money to be used for solar power in
the Sunshine State.
James Bell,
one of the brothers stuck with having to pay Sabal Trail attorney fees, says:
"First and foremost, this is a multi-billion dollar company that is
for profit. In my personal opinion I don’t see how a private for-profit
company should be allowed eminent domain. I don’t understand that. That
makes no sense to me. I might could understand it if it was for the
greater good of the country but this is not. And it is certainly not
the federal government or the state government building some road or
highway."
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Sabal Trail and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection assured us there would be no problems drilling a 36-inch natural gas pipeline through the fragile karst limestone under the Suwannee River in Florida, yet already Sabal Trail’s pilot hole under the Withlacoochee River in Georgia caused a frac-out of drilling mud into the river and a sinkhole.
