Last night, while the Lowndes County Commission
unanimously approved
their
resolution against the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline,
the Valdosta City Council
discussed a supporting resolution at its Work Session.
Council Tim Carroll
said Valdosta had added
a clause about the Floridan Aquifer.
Council Robert Yost said he didn’t think such a resolution was something
the City of Valdosta should be doing, and he would not vote Thursday.
No other Council members expressed any reservations.
Council Sonny Vickers said he thought it was worth doing to show unity.
Mayor John Gayle remarked, “We all live in Lowndes County.” Continue reading
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Sabal Trail opposition at Thomas County Commission @ TCC 2014-12-09
Thomas County citizen Alton Burns, who already
wrote to FERC,
is
on the agenda
to speak against the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline
at the
Thomas County Commission tomorrow morning, 9AM Monday 9 December 2014 in Thomasville.
Remember, Sabal Trail’s route Alternative 3 would run through Thomasville, and FERC could pick any route, no matter which one Sabal Trail prefers. Plus, with Lowndes County about to vote on the resolution wanting Sabal Trail out of Lowndes County it already sent to FERC and with Valdosta scheduled to vote Thursday night on a resolution of support for Lowndes County’s opposition, the only proposed Sabal Trail route through Georgia that doesn’t go through Lowndes County is that Alternative 3 through Thomasville. Thomas County could do what Dougherty County and Albany already did, and Lowndes County and Valdosta are about to do: pass an ordinance saying no pipeline in this county, and no pipeline in the state of Georgia.
Also note the agenda lists names of potential appointees to seven different boards. Other county commissions could list such names on their agendas.
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Board of Commissioners
Agenda
3rd Floor Historic Courthouse
225 N. Broad Street
December 9, 2014, 9:00 a.m.
Board of Elections @ Elections 2014-12-09
They usually have Citizens Wishing To Be Heard first and they let citizens converse with them during the rest of the meeting. They meet 4:30 PM Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at the Lowndes County Elections office, 2808 N Oak St., Valdosta, GA 31602. There’s no posted agenda that I can find, and no posted list of board members. I’ve sent them an inquiry.
Agenda PDF and inline below. -jsq
Lowndes County Elections
Deb Cox
SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONSMadlyn Hightower
CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF
ELECTIONSLOWNDES COUNTY ELECTIONS
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Anti-pipeline ordinance resolution + 3 more ordinances @ VCC 2014-12-09
As
promised,
item 5.c) on the agenda for Thursday’s Regular Meeting and Tuesday’s
Work Session of the Valdosta City Council:
Consideration of a Resolution in support of the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners regarding the Sabal Trail Project.
Has staff found the digital copies of the maps for CU-2014-11 Normal Life of Georgia? If the county put agenda packets for the Planning Commission online, staff wouldn’t have to worry about that.
Here’s the agenda, thanks to images from Council Member Tim Carroll.
3:26 PMContinue reading
120514 Agenda Packet.pdf
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL
5:30 PM Thursday, December 11, 2014
Valdosta proposes resolution against Sabal Trail pipeline @ VCC 2014-12-09
A draft resolution in support of
Lowndes County’s resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline
will be discussed by the Valdosta City Council at their
Work Session Tuesday 9 December and very likely voted on at their
Regular Session Thursday 11 December.
This is according to
Valdosta City Council Tim Carroll, who has
seen the draft resolution.
This would be a very good idea, not just since Valdosta is the county seat of Lowndes County, but also because three alternative routes would go right down I-75 through Valdosta.
Both Valdosta City Council meetings are at 5:30 PM at Valdosta City Hall, 216 E Central Ave, Valdosta, GA 31601. Yes, that means the City’s Work Session is at the same time as the County’s Regular Session when the county proposes to vote on their own resolution Tuesday 9 December 2014.
Another very bad PR week for Spectra, what with Continue reading
Spectra backtracks on eminent domain in VDT
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.
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Sabal Trail disappointed in GWC Dirty Dozen; locals disappointed in Sabal Trail –WCTV
Spectra’s Andrea Grover is “disappointed” in Sabal Trail being on the Georgia Water Coalition Dirty Dozen; does she also find it “hard to believe” like Sabal Trail’s well-documented eminent domain threats?
Winnie Wright, WCTV, 26 November 2014,
Sabal Trail Pipeline Environmental Concerns Cited In Annual ‘Dirty Dozen’ Report,
Recently, The Georgia Water Coalition put the Sabal Trail Pipeline on their Dirty Dozen Report for 2014.
You can see Cherry Creek sinkhole behind her as she reported.
She was navigated there by VSU professor Can Denizman.
She also interviewed several locals, including me at the Withlacoochee River.
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Videos: 9 consideration, 6 tax lighting, 4 appointments, 2 rezonings, 1 proclamation @ LCC 2014-10-27 LCC 2014-11-10
They vote tonight on what they discussed yesterday morning in these videos. A
subdivision rezoning
gets no objections
while a
rezoning for agricultural use
gets massive objections.
Also few if any of those objectors have said anything about
the Sabal Trail pipeline.
Do priorities around here seem odd?
The emergency security monitor replacement is, you guessed it, a no-bid contract with the same company that originally installed them. Which fits with the no-bid Alapaha Water Plant Expansion, back this time for property acquisition after twice failing to get a setback variance at ZBOA.
The state changed the qualifications Continue reading
Videos: Existing Industry Spotlight @ VLCIA 2014-10-21
They’re hiring an Existing Industry Coordinator to start in October or November. They granted an easement on Madison Highway to Valdosta for a rechlorination booster station.
No citizens spoke at the 21 October 2014 Valdosta-Lowndes County Development Authority meeting. Nobody there but Greg Justice of Regal Marine (presented a framed copy of the VDT article about his company), VDT reporter Stuart Taylor (here’s his report), and Gretchen (who took these videos). Roy Copeland wanted to know about numbers of new jobs and reporting to the community.
Here’s the agenda, and below are the videos of events as they transpired.
Continue readingVideos: Update on Economic Development meeting @ VLCIA 2014-09-16
Here’s the
agenda,
and here are videos of the meeting as it proceeded.
They meet again tonight at 5:30 PM.
