FERC pipeline Scoping Meeting tonight in Valdosta: testify for your community

A local affected landowner and the chair of a local political party ask you to come tonight at 6PM at the Holiday Inn on West Hill Avenue to testify to the federal agency that decides on a permit for the proposed yard-wide hundred-foot right of way methane pipeline that a company from Houston wants to gash through here. First a presentation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), then citizens can stand up and be recorded by a court reporter.

As directly affected local landowner Carol Singletary pointed out on WALB Sunday,

“When you have it within 100 feet of your home, you cannot have any sense of security there. There are alternate routes that aren’t being considered. So I want to get those on the table and some strong considerations given to those.”

As Gretchen Quarterman pointed out for the Lowndes County Democratic Party on WCTV yesterday,

“The Georgia Democrats feel that there’s a moral obligation to leave the world as beautiful and majestic as we found it and the pipeline, it does not do that”, says Gretchen Quarterman, Chairman of the Lowndes County Democratic Committee.

More from the LCDP Press Release yesterday, plus more meetings and more ways to testify,

The Lowndes County Democratic Committee voted Saturday to oppose the Sabal Trail Methane Pipeline slated to run through Lowndes County.

Georgia Democrats believe in and uphold every citizen’s right to equal and impartial justice under the law.

The taking of privately owned property by a private company is a property rights issue. Putting corporations above citizens is not equal, nor is it impartial. Lowndes County property owners have a right to say who can and cannot use their property and a LNG pipeline that benefits no Georgians is a property rights violation.

SpectraBusters PR 2 March 2014, Take the Pipeline Bull by the Horns: Georgia FERC Scoping Meetings,

SpectraBusters invites everyone to take the pipeline bull by the horns this week in Albany, Valdosta, or Moultrie, at your only chances in Georgia to testify in front of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about Spectra Energy’s proposed Sabal Trail Transmission fracked methane pipeline. Plus SpectraBusters will hold a panel on the issues afterwards.

  • Monday, March 3 (last night) Albany
  • Tuesday, March 4 (tonight) Valdosta
  • Wednesday, March 5 (tomorrow) Moultrie
  • Next week, Alabama
  • The following two weeks, Florida
  • 3PM Saturday 29 March 2014, Lowndes County, SpectraBusters Panel

http://spectrabusters.org/calendar/

You can be heard online instead by filing an e-comment with FERC:

https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx

Use Docket number PF14-1 for Sabal Trail Transmission.

WCTV noted you can also send comments to FERC on PF14-1 by paper mail to:

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
888 First Street NE, Room 1A
Washington, DC 20426

Even if you aren’t directly affected (I’m not), it’s your local and state taxes that would end up paying to deal with leaks or explosions, and being known as a pipeline corridor would not be good for business. Solar power is cheaper, faster, safer, and would lower electric bills and bring jobs right here where we need them. So here are several ways you can speak up for yourself and for your community.

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