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Kaithleen Hernandez case in Suwannee County Courthouse 8AM Thursday 2817-07-27
While many Sabal Trail pipeline protesters’ charges have been dropped, at least one, Kaithleen Hernandez, has a court date this Thursday morning, 8AM, at Suwannee County Courthouse in Live Oak, Florida. She says, “We are not outnumbered, we are just outorganized.”
When: 8AM Thursday, July 27, 2017
Where: Suwannee County Courthouse, 200 S Ohio Ave, Live Oak, FL
Event: Probation case against Kaithleen Hernandez
Photo:
Ebyabe, Dual-licensed under the GFDL and CC-By-SA-2.5
Kaithleen Hernandez was arrested in 16 January 2017 at Continue reading
Gibson Park to CR 141, Suwannee River, 2017-08-13
A pleasant just over five mile Sunday paddle on the Suwannee River as we take a short upstream paddle to the Alapaha River Rise. Then enjoy the river’s current downstream past the Alapaha River Confluence (there may be water in the Alapaha) to County Road 141 Ramp. There are a couple of springs along the way. Those still feeling energetic can paddle a few more thousand feet down to the Sabal Trail crossing and back to CR 141.
Suwannee River beach, 2015-08-15, 30.4193954, -83.1344223
Bring the usual personal flotation device, water, snacks, first aid kit, and gloves, trash bag, and gripper because every WWALS outing is also a cleanup. If you do not have a boat, ask us, or contact one of the many outfitters.
When: 9AM, Sunday, August 13, 2017
Put-In: Gibson Park Ramp, SRWT MILE 135.4, 6844 SW CR 751, Jasper, FL 32052, From Jasper, travel southwest on SW CR 249 to SW CR 751; turn left and boat ramp is on the right in Gibson Park.
GPS: Continue reading
Sabal Trail with gas flowing needs even more watching
The fracked methane gas flowing has provided more evidence that there is no need for Sabal Trail. Now more than ever, you can watch that pipeline like a hawk, work on revoking its permits, and help stop FERC from rubberstamping any more boondoggles.
Jamie Wachter, Suwannee Democrat, 27 June 2017 (also Waterkeeper Alliance 28 June 2017, and Valdosta Daily Times page 8A 28 June 2017 but apparently not online), Gas now flowing through Sabal Trail pipeline,
Photo: Beth Gammie for WWALS, Suwannee County, Florida, 14 January 2017
Is this a good use of Florida local and state law enforcement?
Protecting an invading, unnecessary, pipeline from the unarmed public?
The pipeline’s first phase is supposed to provide service to Florida Power & Light to meet the start of its peak cooling season, Grover said.
Note Ms. Grover’s careful phrasing Continue reading
Videos: Suwannee Riverkeeper at Sparkleberry Florida Native Plant Society in Branford 2017-05-09
Here’s WWALS video of the
WWALS and Suwannee Riverkeeper presentation at the
Sparkleberry Chapter of Florida Native Plant Society
in Branford, Florida, May 9, 2017.
Acting Executive Director Gretchen Quarterman explained WWALS
and Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman led
an animated discussion about recent advocacy with the several dozen attendees,
many of whom had not heard about one or more of
humic substances
at the Suwannee River Sill,
NFRWSP,
BMAPs,
Pilgrim’s Pride, coal ash, or Bill Gates’ and other recent corporate agricultural land purchases.
While they all had heard of Sabal Trail,
we had some updates on that, too.
Here’s the video:
Continue readingSabal Trail signs at Suwannee River, 2017-05-20
Here are the signs Sabal Trail planted Friday at the Suwannee River.
Updated 2017-05-23: Clarify what the google map is about.
See the Continue reading
Suwannee County HDD, Sabal Trail, 2017-05-20
Sabal Trail has hidden the “depressions” they admitted to recently.
Updated 2017-05-23: Clarify what the google map is about.
See the Continue reading
Water low but passable, White Springs to Swift Creek, Suwannee River 2017-05-20
Update 2017-05-17: OK, the water’s gotten too low at the original location, so we’re moving downstream to Woods Ferry Tract Launch to Suwannee Springs.
Hands Across the Sand on the Suwannee Saturday! The river is quite low (48.78 feet NAVD on the White Springs gage), but it looks doable from the put-in and take-out. A ranger at Stephen Foster State Park told me paddling from White Springs to Swift Creek would be doable, perhaps with a few dry spots. I’ll also call a local outfitter or two for their opinions.
White Springs down from ramp
Meanwhile, bring bug spray (gnats) and a rope (to pull your boat over sand bars), and we’re still on for 9AM Saturday 20 May 2017. See the outing announcement for more details.
Plus: that’s the day of Hands Across the Sand, “Say NO to dirty fuels and YES to clean energy”. WWALS has been saying that for years, so somewhere on the Suwannee we will stop and do Hands Across the Sand against the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline and for solar power.
White Springs low spot
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Sabal Trail sinkholes 2015 2017-05-05
Apparently that wet area I saw March 20, 2017 at Sabal Trail’s Suwannee River HDD access in Suwannee County was a “depression” they had just logged the previous day. Two more recent ones show up in Sabal Trail’s latest bi-weekly report, along with a couple of earlier ones they still haven’t even attempted to fix. Why should we expect these sinkholes will stop happening if Sabal Trail finishes and takes all their workers back to Houston, leaving us to deal with the damage?
I also wondered what they were up to a bit southeast of that drill site,
beyond the dirt berm where I could only see their heads and hats.
Apparently that was another sinkhole from January at the
Suwannee River HDD in Suwannee County.
Or maybe it was in Hamilton County in Suwannee River State Park;
their description is so sloppy it’s hard to tell.
They also made a sinkhole a couple of thousand feet east of the Withlacoochee River in Hamilton County, and yet another sinkhole near the Santa Fe River HDD. The big winner is Continue reading
Sabal Trail to export through Jacksonville, FL
Let’s connect the dots from Sabal Trail to LNG export through Jacksonville. To cut to the chase: Crowley Maritime’s Carib Energy is already exporting LNG from Jacksonville, and is authorized to get LNG from both Floridian Natural Gas (FLiNG) in Martin County at the end of the Transco → Sabal Trail → FSC pipeline chain, and from Florida Gas Transportation (FGT)’s Jacksonville Expansion Project from Sabal Trail in Suwannee County to Jacksonville.
Working backwards, look at Jaxport’s own website, Corporate, Major Growth Projects, Liquifed Natural Gas:
EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES
Crowley-owned Carib Energy has already begun small scale exports of LNG to Puerto Rico and has plans for expansion to a number of countries in the Caribbean and Latin America.
That JAXport page links to Crowley Maritime’s LNG Overview web page, which brags: Continue reading