The Valdosta City Council
discussed
a
resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline
at their Work Session Tuesday, as you can see in these videos.
Come see them vote on it tonight at 5:30 PM
at City Hall.
They also heard a bomb report at the Work Session, in addition to discussing all the other business, especially the taxicab ordinance.
At the same time Tuesday, the Lowndes County Commission unanimously Continue reading
Water matters, too, said a comment yesterday on We all live in Lowndes County: Valdosta Draft Resolution Against Sabal Trail Pipeline @ VCC 2014-12-09. The Valdosta City Council votes tonight at 5:30 PM on this resolution. And don’t forget to get your comments or motions to intervene to FERC before the deadline of 24 December 2014. -jsq
Many thanks to Tim Carroll for adding the part about this important environmental issue which affects everyone in the city of Valdosta and Lowndes County as well. This is not just about the property rights of a few concerned citizens although those are important as well and demand protection from elected politicians.
–Don Thieme
The
Sabal Trail pipeline
and
probation payments were
major issues at the Thomas County Commission 9AM Tuesday 9 December 2014.
Sheriff R. Carlton Powell noted that private probation company
Sentinel, which he said serves Lowndes County, was involved in
several lawsuits.
Here’s the agenda, and below are links to the videos, followed by a video playlist.
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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
Andrea Grover’s response to being caught by the VDT actually knowing about Sabal Trail threats of eminent domain after she said were “hard to believe” is… to use the VDT to threaten eminent domain!
The example
the VDT quoted Wednesday
of an eminent domain threatening letter from Sabal Trail’s
Atlanta law firm was dated 26 November 2013.
Yet a year later, today, 28 November 2014, Joe Adgie in
Sabal Trail to install taps in Georgia
quotes Ms. Grover in the VDT: Continue reading
Who exactly is “hard to believe”?
Joe Adgie, VDT, today, 26 November 2014, Residents share eminent domain letters,
Letters submitted to the Valdosta Daily Times and to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission could contradict a recent statement by Sabal Trail’s Andrea Grover.
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Here are videos of last month’s event organized by
VDT editor Jim Zachary, director of the Transparency Project of Georgia,
and Holly Manheimer, director of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation,
adding to
the still picture we already posted.
Escalating from the Chairman’s letter of 11 April 2014, perhaps after listening to requests from citizens, the Lowndes County Commission passed a resolution wanting no part of Sabal Trail in the county or in the state of Georgia.
Update 2014-11-25: Well, according to Joe Adgie in the Valdosta Daily Times today, “Even though the missive has already been mailed [to FERC], the resolution will not be formally voted on until the county commission’s next meeting in December [9th].”
Filed with FERC in docket CP15-17 on 21 November 2014 as Accession Number: 20141121-5242, but that was a Friday and FERC doesn’t work on weekends, so it actually appeared Monday 24 November 2014.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Spectra Energy of Houston, Texas has proposed to build a $3.7 Billion, 460mile natural gas line known as Sabal Trail, and;
WHEREAS, The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners has concerns regarding personal property rights Continue reading
First time ever the VDT mentioned LAKE, so far as I can recall.
And we’ll see if the new VDT editor’s honeyed approach works this
time with the Lowndes County Commission.
Joe Adgie, VDT, 23 November 2014, Watchdogs use open government laws to the fullest,
Not everyone at the Open Government Symposium on Friday were affiliated with a government.
Some of them, like John and Gretchen Quarterman, serve as watchdogs for the government. These watchdogs attend the open, public meetings held by governing bodies, acquire the documents and records of these meetings and other governmental affairs, and serve to make sure our local governments behave like they should.
The Quartermans run the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), a repository of Continue reading
