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April 18, 2016 Environmental Threats - Pipelines by Friends & Other Advocates Leave a Comment

Sabal Trail Contractor Job Fairs begin this week in Florida then Georgia. Here’s some things we need potential employees to this fossil fuel pipeline to know.

Here is information just released from Spectrabusters:

Live Oak, FL, April 18, 2016 — Local residents and half a dozen environmental organizations want applicants at Sabal Trail pipeline job fairs to know a job for a few weeks isn’t worth risking drinking water for all our families and children and grandchildren. Opponents of the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline and supporters of solar power include the Suwannee-St Johns Sierra Club Group, St Johns Riverkeeper, WWALS Watershed Coalition, Our Santa Fe River, Earth Ethics, Gulf Restoration Network, and SpectraBusters.

Sabal Trail is holding what it calls Contractor Fairs 11AM to 2PM on two days this week, not for people to actually install the pipeline, rather for incidental jobs.

Tuesday, 19 April 2016, Hilton Garden Inn, Saratoga Room, 3600 SW 36th Avenue, Ocala. FL 34474
Wednesday, 20 April 2016, RiverOak Technical College, 415 Pinewood Drive SW, Live Oak, FL 32064

In Ocala, at the 9AM Marion County Board of Commissioners meeting that same morning,, Whitey Markle, Conservation Chair of the Suwannee-St Johns Sierra Club, will speak about Sabal Trail Pipeline and Proposals for Solutions.

At the contractor fairs, opponents will be distributing a flyer (attached) to remind everyone that Sabal Trail is NOT a done deal. There are six requests for re-hearing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which has not issued a construction go-head. Meanwhile, the Georgia legislature in a historic 34 aye to 128 nay vote denied river-drilling easements to Sabal Trail, and Hamilton and Suwannee Counties, Florida asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to investigate numerous springs, sinkholes, and underground caverns reported by independent Practicing Geologists that Sabal Trail didn’t mention to regulatory agencies.

The continually growing opposition says risks to our Floridan Aquifer and eminent domain taking easements from local neighbors to profit a company from somewhere else are reasons for jobs seekers to read up on the problems or go see for themselves Lime Run Spring or the other springs, sinkholes, and caverns Sabal Trail says aren’t as close as they are to its proposed pipeline path. Opponents say job seekers should not sign a contract with Sabal Trail before independent investigation of its route, and they should report any safety or environmental incidents.

Many pipelines are being delayed or cancelled: fossil fuels are a dying 20th century industry. Already there are more jobs in solar power than in all of oil and gas extraction. Solar needs no eminent domain, no drilling, no water, and produces no exhaust.

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The following from Debra Johnson:

***Meet up Weds. at 10:30 in Publix parking lot side of building next to where old Radio Shack was located — this would be the North side off street running between Publix and Paint store — SW Pinewood Drive. Bring your signs please.

Non-violent, non-confrontational protest with signs or handout vital info to job seekers about Sabal Trail/Spectra Energy at the Sabal Trail Job Fair Weds. April 20 2016 @11am to 2 pm @ 415 SW Pinewood Drive Live Oak, FL- River Oak Technical College. Some are planning to protest and we have flyers to give to contractors explaining the fallacy of a very temporary job with Sabal Trail at a permanent threat to our water, waterways and very lives.

Those who do not wish to hold signs can give flyers to the people who show up to hire on with this threat to our lives and waterways. As well as the unlucky individuals in O’Brien that will suffer the dangers of a compressor station. More info to be coming so watch this post please or call me @ 386-209-5886

Following is the flyer:

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