Are those two sinkholes at Sabal Trail’s Troy Access off CR 141 in Hamilton County, Florida, on the way to to under the Suwannee River? Only three Hamilton County Sheriff’s deputies was light law enforcement by Saturday’s protest day standards. What about those other sinkholes just outside the pipeline easement?
Water protectors encircle a sign saying “REVOKE SABAL TRAIL PERMITS” on 24th Street on Sabal Trail’s right of way leading to its Suwannee County horizontal directional drilling (HDD) site drilling under the Suwannee River and Suwannnee River State Park. So say we all.
Photograph taken 12:57 PM, January 14, 2017 by Beth Gammie for WWALS from Southwings flight piloted by Roy Zimmer, navigated by Can Denizman. You may reuse this picture provided you cite the source: Beth Gammie for WWALS Watershed Coalition.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
By water, land, and air hundreds gathered Saturday to protect the Suwannee River
from the invading Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline.
23 people signed in at the WWALS paddle on the Suwannee River.
You’ll see more pictures from others later, including from
the Southwings flight for WWALS, and from the protest by others on land.
Meanwhile, here are a few pictures,
a few videos,
a
google map,
plus
people stuck outside Suwannee River State Park as reporters drove in,
and a few pictures of
red pipe going into the ground in Hamilton County, plus 15 state trooper cars.
All the news stories I’ve seen thus far are also linked in,
plus pictures of the two TV reporters arriving.
Thanks to the 23 paddlers, 5 from Georgia (1 from Hahira, 1 from Valdosta, 1 from Warner Robins, 2 from Pine Mountain)
and 18 from Florida (2 from Jacksonville,
1 from Tallahassee,
2 from White Springs,
1 from Live Oak,
4 from Fort White,
4 from Alachua,
2 from Gainesville,
2 from Micanopy).
That’s a range of more than 300 miles, along most of the Sabal Trail pipeline path and elsewhere.
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Standing room only last night for
two hours of how to oppose Sabal Trail and help the sun rise on Florida and the southeast,
7 PM, Thursday, January 12, 2017
at The Woman’s Club of Live Oak,
called by Suwannee Riverkeeper.
Here are links to each of the videos, with a few notes, followed by a video playlist. Please share widely, and you can reuse any of these videos; just cite the source, WWALS Watershed Coalition. Continue reading
Reporting before
last night’s meeting,
Noelani Mathews, WCTV, 2017-01-12,
Water protectors protest pipeline,
LIVE OAK, Fla. (WCTV) — More than a dozen environmentalist groups across the region met in Live Oak tonight to discuss efforts against the Sabal Trail Pipeline.
The group Suwanee Riverkeepers is calling all water protectors to talk about their plans to protest the pipeline.
The underground natural gas pipeline is Continue reading
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SE Bridge Road and SE Dixie Hwy
If you live near A1A in Martin County, you’re in the explosion zone for LNG bomb trains on Florida East Coast Rail (FECR), supplied by Sabal Trail.
Found by Cecile Scofield of Martin County:
Martin County Fire Rescue
December 2015
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Continue readingIf you want to see sausage being made, come to the board meeting at 6PM, before the 7PM Rally.
Draft Agenda
WWALS Quarterly Board Meeting
6 PM Thursday 12 January 2017
The Woman’s Club of Live Oak, 1308 11th Street SW, Live Oak, FL 32064
All WWALS Board Members are expected to attend in person or by telephone.
The more done on the board list, the less time we’ll have to spend on them in this meeting.All WWALS members, especially committee members, are invited to attend, as is the general public.
Board Members:
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SRWMD did post responses to comments from WWALS and others on the North Florida Regional Water Supply Plan (NFRWSP). A week before the planned NFRWSP adoption, same as for the agenda for the joint SRWMD-SJRWMD meeting next Tuesday in Alachua. After OSFR and WWALS posted critical blog posts, SRWMD Executive Director Noah Valenstein sent us and others an offer to meet this Friday in Live Oak to discuss. While many (including me), thanked him for his collegial offer, nobody took him up on it. See you in Alachua Tuesday (facebook event).
Below are Noah Valenstein’s letter and my response. Continue reading
See you tonight at 7PM at the Women’s Club of Live Oak 1308 11th St. SW, Live Oak, FL (facebook event).
Terry Richards, Valdosta Daily Times, 11 January 2017, Sabal Pipeline protest meeting planned
LIVE OAK, Fla. — An environmental group opposing a natural gas pipeline project plans to host a gathering of similarly minded organizations Thursday.
WWALS Watershed Coalition will hold the meeting 7 p.m. at the Women’s Club of Live Oak 1308 11th St. SW, said John Quarterman of WWALS.
Houston-based Spectra Energy Corp. has reported the pipeline will Continue reading
Tonight at 5:30 PM the Lowndes County Commission will vote on a contract for $130,000 out of $1.734 million for sewer system improvements from a GEFA loan. This includes work at the Land Application Site (LAS), which Lowndes County uses instead of a wastewater treatment plant. The LAS is in the Withlacoochee River watershed. Here is video of discussion of this item from yesterday morning’s Work Session.
6.i. Engineering Services for Sanitary Sewer System Improvements
Video. Utilities Director said Carter & Sloope was the same firm who originally designed the Lowndes County Land Application Site. The agenda sheet says, apparently mis-spelling the name:
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