New Seismic Concerns About Savannah!!

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has recently re-evaluated the potential damage from Earthquakes and Savannah was specifically pointed out a location that has underestimated the potential seismic activity damage. How will Savannah be effected? How does this apply to the LNG storage tanks on Elba that were grandfathered in under more lenient standards? Read about this and CSSS's plea to FERC to consider this critical information prior to moving forward with the LNG application. Read more here.

State urges school board to rethink LNG or face possible funding loss!!

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For Immediate Release

Date: March 30, 2012

LNG trucking

application withdrawn

The El Paso Corp. and its subsidiary, Southern LNG, announced today that it is withdrawing its application before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to re-activate a loading dock facility on Elba Island. This action halts the company’s plan to drive dozens of LNG-filled trucks daily through the heart of Savannah.

Below is a statement Mayor Edna Jackson read at a news conference today.

MAYOR EDNA JACKSON SPEECH:

We are here today to publicly thank the El Paso Corporation for withdrawing its application before the federal government to re-activate a loading dock facility on Elba Island. This move halts the company’s plan to drive dozens of trucks loaded with liquefied natural gas through the heart of Savannah.

In my years of public service, I have learned that there are almost always two sides to every story. The best that anyone can do is listen to each side, attempt to find common ground, and take positions that are in the best interest of the greatest number of people.

El Paso runs a successful company near Savannah, providing local jobs and an important energy resource for this entire country. But this proposed trucking operation posed too great a risk for the citizens of Savannah.

Mayor Otis Johnson and other members of the previous City Council saw this danger, and worked with City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney and her staff, including Fire Chief Charles Middleton and consultant Ben Johnson, to work long hours on this issue.

The City of Savannah took an in-depth, critical look at this proposal to protect our residents. And many civic-minded residents stepped forward to join us.

They are people like Kent Harrington and Pam Miller of the Citizens for a Safe and Secure Savannah. They are people like Clete Bergen, of the Citizens for Clean Air and Water; Steve Willis of the Sierra Club; and Patricia Jenkins and Daisy Harrison of the Pine Gardens neighborhood. To these citizens, we say thank you for your service to Savannah.

While this process has been long and difficult for all sides involved, we are extremely pleased that in the end the right decision was made for all of Savannah. I think all sides have learned a lot through this process, and we move forward with a better understanding of each other as a result.

Elba Island has long been a good corporate neighbor to Savannah. We look forward to a growing, positive relationship lasting well into the future. Thank you.