Gas Pipeline Alert: participate in one or more of the following meetings, there is a local government meeting in Suwannee County, Live Oak, TONITE!!! 6 PM.
Please share…important gas pipeline meeting updates:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Valdosta, 16 March 2014 — Florida forms the field for the
pipeline fight this week, at a Suwannee County Commissioners
meeting and three FERC Scoping Meetings. Plus later a
SpectraBusters panel on the issues.
HTML: http://spectrabusters.org/?p=2100
PDF: http://spectrabusters.org/?p=2107
FERC Scoping Meetings*:
5PM Sabal Trail discussion
Pipeline representatives will be
present.
6PM FERC presentation
about the process
and the pipelines
Docket number PF14-6: Hillabee
Expansion Project
Docket number PF14-1: Sabal Trail
Transmission
Docket number PF14-2: Florida
Southeast Connection
Then citizens can speak
at the podium
Have what you say transcribed by a
court recorder
for the Commission's administrative
record.
This week's calendar:
6PM Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Suwannee County
"14. Discuss Sabal Trail gas line.
(David Hanna) 5 minutes"
Fill out a card to speak for 3 minutes
Suwannee County Board of County
Commissioners
Judicial Annex Building
218 Parshley Street Southwest
Live Oak, Florida 32064
(386) 364-3400
*Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Polk County
PF14-2 Florida Southeast Connection
Lake Wales Art Center
1099 East Florida 60
Lake Wales, FL 33853
(863) 676-8426
*Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Okeechobee County
PF14-2 Florida Southeast Connection
Okeechobee High School
2800 Highway 441 North
Okeechobee, FL 34972
(863) 462-5025
*Thursday, March 20, 2014
Osceola County
PF14-1 Reunion Compressor Station
Hunters Creek Pipeline
PF14-2 Florida Southeast Connection
Kissimmee Civic Center
201 East Dakin Avenue
Kissimmee, FL 34741
(407) 935-1412
Or e-mail to efiling@ferc.gov or file online with FERC:
https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx
Or call 202-502-8258, or mail written comments to:
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary;
Federal Regulatory Commission;
888 First St. N.E. Room 1A;
Washington, D.C. 20426.
Use Docket number PF14-1 for Sabal Trail Transmission, or
PF14-2 for Florida Southeast Connection.
Calendar for more Florida next week:
http://spectrabusters.org/calendar/
SpectraBusters Panel:
There's more to be done so there's another meeting later
3PM Saturday 29 March 2014
Lowndes County, GA
SpectraBusters Panel
Pipeline? No!
Elected officials and candidates for public office, are
invited to a SpectraBusters panel discussion in Lowndes
County, Georgia. Topics will include potential pipeline
routes, property rights (eminent domain, property values),
water issues (aquifer, sinkholes, springs), whether Florida
even needs more power, better power sources (solar, wind,
conservation, and efficiency), noise, health, and hazards.
A representative from the pipeline company is invited to be
on the panel to present their perspective. SpectraBusters
and allies from all states are invited to attend, and are
encouraged to hold panels elsewhere.
Why: Spectra Energy, which had compressor station leaks in
Maine in January and in Pennsylvania last year, plus
multiple fines by Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration (PHMSA) for corrosion and leaks, and a record
$15 million EPA fine for PCB contamination, proposes a
hundred-foot-wide gash through our lands for their huge
36 inch Sabal Trail gas pipeline from Alabama through
Georgia to feed Florida Power and Light (FPL) and Duke
Energy for no benefit to local citizens and rate hikes for
FPL customers. A one-time payment is not enough for
decreased property values, permanent destruction, and
hazards of leaks and explosions, when FPL and Spectra and
Duke would profit forever. The gas comes from fracking in
Pennsylvania and Texas, destroying watersheds, farmlands,
and drinking water. Conservation, efficiency, and solar
power are cheaper and bring jobs and energy here where we
need them.
In Conjunction with:
Environmental Awareness Organization of Auburn University
(EAOAU).
https://auburn.collegiatelink.net/organization/eao
Greenlaw protects clean air and water.
http://greenlaw.org/
New York Climate Action Group (NYCAG) the Spectra struggle
(and Williams Transco Rockaway Lateral Pipeline in the
Rockaways of Queens, NY and the LNG port resistance in Long
Beach, NY).
Occupy the Pipeline, who fought the NYC extension on the
Spectra Pipeline.
http://occupythepipeline.blogspot.com/
Our Santa Fe River, protecting our most vital and vulnerable
natural resource…water.
https://oursantaferiver.org/
Sane Energy Project: to fight fossil fuel and nuclear
infrastructure, and encourage renewable infrastructure.
http://www.SaneEnergyProject.org/
Shale Property Rights, formerly Spectra Energy Watch.
http://www.shalepropertyrights.com/blog/
Sierra Club, America's largest and oldest grassroots
environmental group, exploring, enjoying, and protecting the
environment since 1892.
http://www.sierraclub.org/
http://spectrabusters.org/?p=1901
Stop the Pipeline: No eminent domain, preserve local
character and environment, and pipelines == fracking.
http://www.StopThePipeline.org/
Students Against Violating the Environment (S.A.V.E.)
Valdosta State U.
http://ww2.valdosta.edu/vsu/stuorg/save/
Wiregrass Activists for Clean Energy (WACE): clean and
sustainable energy sources.
http://www.wiregrass-ace.org/
WWALS Watershed Coalition, Willacoochee, Withlacoochee,
Alapaha, and Little River Systems in south Georgia and north
Florida.
http://www.wwals.net/
SpectraBusters: We ain't afraid a no pipeline!
Landowners and others opposed to the Sabal Trail gas
pipeline through Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.
Contact:
spectrabusters@gmail.com
http://spectrabusters.org/
www.facebook.com/spectrabusters
Garrett Kizer
Lee County, AL
850-420-3854
Danielle Jordan
Lowndes Co., GA
229-300-7422
Beth Gordon
Levy Co., FL
352-528-1111
