To cover the entire 600+ mile length of the Sabal Trail and FSC pipelines
from Alabama through Georgia and Florida to Indiantown will require probably
seven small plane flights, so we’ve started a crowdfunding campaign:
Spot Sabal Trail & FSC violations from the air
Flights will be handled by the participating Riverkeepers.
Please follow the link to learn more and to contribute.
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Is that pipe supposed to be wallowing in water?
Is that end supposed to be in the water?
What about the obvious erosion?
Remember Sabal Trail is only burying its 36-inch pipe 36-inches deep most places.
Erosion could expose it and make it even more likely to corrode.
WWALS video playlist and more pictures below. Continue reading
Op-ed Tallahassee Democrat, today, Sunday 29 January 2017:
Floridians are withdrawing money from banks backing the Sabal “Sinkhole” Trail pipeline, and demonstrating daily from Miami to Jacksonville and Tallahassee, sometimes physically blocking pipeline destruction. Fossil fuel profits do not justify eminent domain takings of local lands nor any risk to our waters. Solar power is cheaper, faster, and far safer.
Image: Electric power generation employment by technology,
U.S. Department of Energy
The solar industry provides more jobs than coal, oil, and natural gas combined. Sabal Trail’s own figures show Continue reading
A hundred and fifty people came to Dunnellon, Florida
to walk and speak for
the most important thing to Florida and south Georgia: water.
Her local school board refused to listen to Megan.
We listened. They should, too.
This event was organized by Our Santa Fe River.
These are just a few android phone pictures and videos I took. Stay tuned for WWALS video of all the speakers.
Videos of the water protectors and of the invading Sabal Trail pipeline. Continue reading
And they followed her down the road, as Sabal Trail’s hardhats usually do
when they see anybody watching their trail of destruction.
This was Wednesday 25 January 2017 on Cool Springs Road, Baconton, GA,
31.306085, -84.008770.
Pictures and video by Sherry Layton Gatewood: they didn’t scare her off, and they haven’t scared off the many other people throughout Florida, Georgia, and Alabama who are watching them like hawks, looking for violations.
Kind of hard to get to your fields to do agriculture with this in the way.
After the recent storms, water is standing on Sabal Trail’s
exotic invasive planted grasses, and sometimes on bare dirt,
some of it apparently eroded, in Colquitt County, Georgia
west of Moultrie towards Mitchell County.
Remember, that 3-foot fracked methane pipe is only 3 feet under the surface.
It wouldn’t take much erosion to expose it, increasing likelihood of corrosion,
leak, break, explosion, etc.
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After
Trump bumped LaFleur over his head today,
former FERC Chairman Norman Bay resigned from the Commission this same day.
That leaves FERC with only 2 out of five Commission slots occupied.
I would guess that means no quorum, although what does it matter?
The FERC Commissioners only ever rejected one pipeline in thirty years.
His resignation letter is a six-page pat on his own back that never once mentions solar power, eminent domain, landowners, water, river, aquifer, or environment. His biggest brag is: Continue reading
President Trump just brushed aside FERC Chairman Norman Bay,
one of the few FERC Commissioners to show any reservations about
FERC’s rubberstamping of pipelines, and put Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur
back once again as Acting Chairman.
This while FERC has only three Commissions, when it’s supposed to have five,
probably indicates FERC is going to be pushing ahead all pipeline projects.
Of course, that’s not much different from what we’ve seen for years with
Sabal Trail.
Johnathan Crawford and Jennifer A. Diouhy, Bloomberg Politics, 19 January 2017, Trump Picks LaFleur as Chairman of U.S. Energy Regulator, Sources Say, Continue reading
With speakers from the far south of Florida (Tim Canova from Miami) and north (Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman) and everywhere between, you can come to Dunnellon, Florida, and walk to Rainbow Springs to hear and speak about the destruction the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline is wreaking right now less than half a mile from Dunnellon High School before it gouges under the other Withlacoochee (south) River from Marion County into Citrus County down to Crystal River, in addition to its main path down past Orlando which with Florida Southeast Connection sends bomb trucks and trains to Miami and Jacksonville.
When: 10:30 AM, Saturday, January 28, 2017
Where: 11012 Williams St, Dunnellon, FL 34432-8319
Event:
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Just north of GA 122 in Brooks County, GA
More here.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
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