Interesting questions about Gum Springs,
seen in this picture only 3,000 feet across
Marion Oaks Golf Course from Sabal Trail:
Picture: Jim Tatum for WWALS on
Southwings flight 2017-02-07.
Follow this link for the interactive google map, or it’s also embedded below. Continue reading
Good questions by Janet Barrow. Who has answers?
Janet Barrow
March 13, 2017 at 4:55 pmLook at the first photo — “Sabal Trail north from I-75 to the Withlacoochee (south) River.” This shows the hydrostatic discharge point for Spread 5 (at least the site they reported that they will use) and the withdrawal point for Spread 6. Coordinates are: 28°52’47.99″N, 82°5’39.69″W
Thanks to Mark Skogman’s long lens on the Southwings flight for WWALS, we can zoom in on that spot.
Janet Barrow
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March 13, 2017 at 5:07 pm
Suwannee Riverkeeper will be speaking at this event,
about how Georgia moved ahead in solar power,
what Florida has tried and still needs to do, and how
solar power has already won the economic race,
supplying more new solar power in 2016 than anything else (more than natural gas and more than wind), and employing more people than coal, oil, and gas combined.
When even FPL is finally building solar power, including at showplaces
such as Daytona International Speedway,
the sun is starting to rise on the Sunshine State.
There will be a WWALS table with information about all this.
Solar Rocks for the Equinox
March 7, 2017
Press Release: For Immediate ReleaseSolar Energy Expo
Save the DateWhen: 9am-5pm Saturday, September 23, 2017
Where: Sierra Club North Florida Headquarters at
Rum 138 2070 SW County Road 138, Fort White, FL 32038 Continue reading
Update again 2017-03-13:
Sabal Trail north from I-75 to the Withlacoochee (south) River.
Photo: Mark Skogman for WWALS on Southwings flight 2017-02-07
The Villages is about six miles northeast of where Sabal Trail crosses I-75 just north of FL-44.
Photo: Jim Tatum for WWALS on Southwings flight 2017-02-07
Many more pictures below, and a Google Map showing the locations.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
What’s more effective than valve turning or tower toppling? Divestment.
WWALS Watershed Coalition advocates non-violent opposition to the unnecessary, destructive, and hazardous Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline. As an organization, we do not participate in property damage, either. (Individual WWALS members may of course do whatever they like, as long as they don’t say they’re doing it on behalf of WWALS.) Among many other reasons, I think there is a more effective tactic: fossil fuel divestment. I think this because of the history of the anti-nuclear movement and because of how fast fossil fuel divestment is going compared to earlier divestment movements.
Photo:
Ken Ward, EcoWatch, 6 March 2017,
The Climate Data That Led to a Hung Jury
This reminds me of something long ago. Steve Liptay, Vimeo, 16 October 2016, SHUT IT DOWN TODAY, Continue reading
Update 2017-03-10: PDF of burning and water well drilling violation complaint sent to FERC, USACE, GA-EPD, and GFC.
Bringing materials from another site to burn is illegal in Georgia, even if they had a permit, which they didn’t, it couldn’t cover open burning of treated ties like Sabal Trail is doing at the Brooks County Industrial Park south of Quitman, Georgia. Georgia Forestry Commission is already on it, and I’m alerting FERC, USACE, GA-EPD, and Brooks County today. The entire Troy yard is right next to a wetland, with three drainage ditches crossing the site.
There’s nothing going on at the Withlacoochee River HDD site in Lowndes County, but they’re shuffling pipe on a Texas Troy truck between Gary Lane Knights Ferry Road, right past a Lowndes County School bus on McGoggle Road. Continue reading
Levy BOCC passed a resolution Tuesday much like the Suwannee BOCC resolution, but adding instructions to transmit it to a wide range of Florida and U.S. elected officials and agencies.
If you’re in Valdosta today, the City Council meets at 5:30 PM; you can join us in talking to them about this, or send them email.
Thanks to Jessica Berryhill, Administrative Assistant I, Board Administration, Levy Board of County Commissioners, for the PDF.
RESOLUTION 2017-008
A RESOLUTION BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF LEVY COUNTY, FLORIDA REQUESTING THE PROTECTION OF THE HISTORIC SUWANNEE RIVER IN NORTH FLORIDA.
WHEREAS, Levy County is located in North Central Florida and is bordered by the Historic Suwannee River on its western side; and
WHEREAS. the Historic Suwannee River is one of the most widely known and recognized river system in the world; and Continue reading
The VDT article never said “landfill” even though landfills were one of the main topics of the bills and of the discussion, including specifically the active landfill in Lowndes County, which has already received coal ash from Tennessee and Florida. Maybe you’d like to come mention that to Valdosta City Council Thursday evening.
Daniel DeMersseman, Valdosta Daily Times, 7 March 2017, Groups want coal ash regulation,
VALDOSTA — Georgia Interfaith Power & Light recently sponsored a presentation on the dangers of improperly stored coal ash.
Members of GIPL, No Ash at All, and Suwanee Riverkeeper joined together to discuss proper coal ash storage.
Picture by John S. Quarterman for WWALS Watershed Coalition, 2017-03-01.“Coal ash contains Continue reading
You can join WWALS at Azalea Festival this Saturday and Sunday. Meanwhile, here are a few pictures from last year.
