LAKE video taken by Gretchen at the 15 March 2016
Valdosta Parking Deck Public Comment Meeting.
Video: Downtown Parking Deck Pubic Comment Meeting 2016-03-15
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.
See also Jennifer Dandrum, VDT, 17 March 2016 City unveils parking deck designs, Continue reading
On Valdosta’s website, 9 March 2016, CVDA Hosts Public Forum for Proposed Downtown Parking Deck, Mar. 15
The City of Valdosta and Central Valdosta Development Authority will host a public forum on Tuesday, March 15 to discuss a proposed new parking deck for Downtown Valdosta. The forum will take place at 5 p.m. in the City Hall Annex Multi-Purpose Room, located at 300 N. Lee Street.
The parking deck is being suggested as one option to create additional parking opportunities in Downtown Valdosta. At the forum, conceptual plans for the parking deck will be presented. Key staff members will be present at the meeting, and the public will have the opportunity to ask questions, provide feedback and voice concerns related to the proposed project.
For more information, contact the Main Street office at 229-259-3577.
Noelani Mathews, WCTV, 14 March 2016, Local Shops React to Parking Deck in Downtown Valdosta, Continue reading
Will nearby buildings fall into this 120-foot sinkhole?
Will Shiloh Road have to be moved like Snake Nation Road was?
What about sinkhole insurance?
If there are “fault lines” causing sinkholes heading westwards in Lowndes County,
wouldn’t they cross the proposed path of the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline?
What will Lowndes County do if that thing goes in and a sinkhole opens under it?
What if Sabal Trail declares such a sinkhole force majeure and doesn’t pay?
More on the usual detour on Shiloh Road. Joe Adgie, VDT, 6 August 2015, Sinkhole threat to Shiloh Road, Continue reading
Sabal Trail asked the judge to throw out my letter to the court yesterday, but the judge said the contents were public record anyway.
Six minutes before yesterday’s eminent domain hearing in Leesburg, GA was scheduled to start
I submitted the letter you see below, noting that Sabal Trail was claiming
customers in counties and cities that had passed resolutions and otherwise
said they didn’t want Spectra’s fracked methane pipeline.
Naturally Sabal Trail’s attorneys didn’t like that, and asked the judge to
disregard and strike from the record “the Quarterman letter” because
they said I didn’t have standing, and you can’t just submit materials a few
minutes before a hearing.
The judge said he would entertain that motion, but he proceeded to leaf
through the attachments, noting resoutions by Lowndes County, by Valdosta,
a letter from Spencer Lee (Dougherty County attorney), a resolution by Terrell County, one by Albany, and one by Colquitt County.
The judge remarked that all this was public record anyway, so striking
the letter wouldn’t have much effect.
And it was pretty clear, at least to me (and remember I am not an attorney), that attorneys for both sides and the judge did Continue reading
Sabal Trail is already sending “final request” eminent domain threatening
letters to Lowndes County landowners saying it is “imperative” for that
invading company from Houston, Texas to survey local land for its fracked methane 36-inch pipeline in a hundred-foot right of way.
Tomorrow morning at 11:30 AM in Leesburg, Georgia, Sabal Trail demands
a judge provide a summary judgment for eminent domain surveying against
some Mitchell County landowners.
If they get that judgment, they will very likely claim it applies to
Lowndes County landowners.
There’s still time
to write a letter to the Clerk of Superior Court in Leesburg
against such a judgment.
And you can come to Leesburg yourself to protest.
An eminent domain survey “final request” Sabal Trail sent a Lowndes County landowner this month cited Continue reading
Not every spill is the city’s fault.
City of Valdosta PR, VDT, 18 February 2015, Sewage spilled into waterway,
VALDOSTA — An estimated 375 gallons of sewage dumped into a tributary of Dukes Bay Canal Monday, according to city officials.
A spokesperson for the city said the wastewater spill near Old Statenville Road and Arlington Ave. was the result of a manhole overflow at the 1100 Block of Old Statenville Road around 11 a.m. Monday.
The public is being cautioned Continue reading
Stop the Sabal Trail pipeline to help fossil fuel divestment. WALB got the connection at VSU Thursday 11 February 2015.
Colter Anstaett, WALB, 12 February 2015, Lowndes environmental groups march through VSU,
“We’re using so much at a rate that, within our generation or our lifetime, there’s gonna be catastrophic changes that won’t be reversed,” SAVE President Adrianna Taylor….
Taylor also said she believed that if the university ultimately did divest from fossil fuels, it would show that VSU students have the ability to critically think at the same level as students at Stanford, Harvard, and Continue reading
Sabal Trail tries to teach us how to read, plus redefining centuries
of common law.
Joe Adgie wrote for the VDT today 3 December 2014, Sabal Trail: Accusations ‘lack any substance’,
Two representatives with Sabal Trail Transmission disputed complaints from property owners in correspondence with The Valdosta Daily Times and with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Lisa Connolly, general manager of rates and certificates for Sabal Trail, said that letters sent to property owners should be read in a different light than was presented.
“A fair reading of these letters Continue reading
Spectra starts trying to walk back its previous eminent domain statements, as WCTV reveals MGAG didn’t ask Moultrie before saying Colquitt County needed gas from Sabal Trail, and even MGAG says that deal wouldn’t (yet) affect eminent domain.
Picking up where
the VDT left the MGAG Sabal Trail gas eminent domain story,
Winnie Wright waved the bloody letter on WCTV yesterday 2 December 2014,
New Sabal Trail Project Has Many South Georgia Residents Worried About Eminent Domain,
and after quoting the eminent domain threat from that Sabal Trail attorney letter, said: Continue reading
Going on a year after
Sabal Trail opened an office in Valdosta,
WCTV used the latest protests to do a retrospective.
Winnie Wright reported for WCTV today, 22 October 2014, One Year After Sabal Trail Announces Pipeline Plans, Activists Begin Monthly Protests,
LCDP statement against the pipeline.Time may have passed, but opinions haven’t changed much here in Valdosta, where people..who are against the pipeline say there are countless reasons why it doesn’t belong in their backyards.
“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, President of the Lowndes County Democratic Party.
WCTV video: Continue reading