Palmetto Pipeline: Cue Enviro Freakout …
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Any risk to the environment is clearly worth the 30 jobs this project is slated to create. How long are the jobs supposed to last?
yeah! tree-huggers and socialists have dominated this state too long! its time for conservatives to stop cowering in the shadows! also jesus. and fetuses. feti? fetae?
Jesus and fetuses are cowering in the corner?
The same corner with conservatives?
Crowded-ass corner!
Fourth declension my friend.
You could simplify it with a small change and avoid the problem by declaring “Jesus fetus” or “The baby Jesus”.
My favorite tee-shirt slogan from the sixties:
MAY THE SWEET BABY JESUS SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND OPEN YOUR MIND
My favorite from the 80s, To Open Pull Up
If that was true, then how did we get the mega trash dumps with out of state garbage trucked in?
Jacksonville is a shithole. Maybe they feel the need to export the shit-holeness.
30 jobs! Wow! That 3 X 10 jobs.
Did Haley do that? Will she cut the ribbon?
Yeah, and Will done and warned ’em. Better don’t be no eminent domain. Coz he hates that shit. Always opposes it.
Um. As long as it isn’t for the Trans-Canada Pipeline.
“30 jobs! Wow! That 3 X 10 jobs.
Did Haley do that? Will she cut the ribbon?”
Blowjobs for 30 at the ceremony!
“Coz he hates that shit. Always opposes it.
Um. As long as it isn’t for the Trans-Canada Pipeline.”
LMAO! +1
Cue up the “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” defense. Which also explains Emerson’s bi-sexuality.
Well I dunno about a craphole, they do have higher incomes and great golf courses, and only 4 hour drive to Miami – La Vida Bonita. But yeah, their football team blows.
Jacksonville’s main AM radio station used to broadcast as “The Voice of Redneck America.” You could get it on coastal SC.
“Anyway, the proposed pipeline would run for approximately 100 miles in South Carolina through Aiken, Edgefield, McCormack, Abbeville and Anderson counties.”
They should go ahead and run it through the Savannah River Site. Less complaints that way.
:)
Nuclear waste + Moving flammable liquid = Happy 4th of July
“Ohhhhh…look at the pretty colors!”
“because we are hard core opponents of eminent domain, which basically the taking of property by the government for “public use.”
You do realize the XL Pipeline would be impossible without the use of eminent domain.
He doesn’t answer that. Yet he does support the XL Pipeline.
So I guess he isn’t all that “hard core” an opponent after all …?
eminent domain should only be used to clean up the few holdouts that always seem to want to screw the company or entity building whatever. It should not be used when good faith negotiation can do the job.
“The job” does not have to be done with their land if the land-owner does not want to sell.
I remember back in the 60’s when they were building I40 in NC, there was one farmer above Charlotte that held up the entire system for years . That is what I am talking about. That one hold out trying to squeeze a few more dollars out of whoever. I am a property owner myself and would resent someone taking my land by imminent domain. But at the same time I would b reasonable about it. Who was the supreme court judge that voted to take the property of someone for an increase in the tax base ? That was totally wrong.
Taking easements is one thing. Taking whole tracts of land is another. Not everyone is a hold-out to extort money. Some people just dammit do not want to sell. Now, I have traversed the full length of I-40 far too many times to say the road should never have been built. But I don’t see how one property owner could have held up the entire system. They build entire major components of infrastructure systems in the middle of nowhere on speculation that there will be growth in that area, or just to get some big muckitty-mucks name of the damned project. Don’t tell me they could not find away around that dude’s land.
It was probably a combination of bad planning and stubbornness but at Mocksville there was a dairy that I40 was going to cut in two. Rather than either side giving an inch they fought over it. Looks to me like they could have gone down the side of his property rather than cut it in two. Or made a tunnel for him. But it ended with the road going through. I was driving that route regularly then. Naturally, when they got the road finished I was doing other things. A little thinking and cooperation could have saved a lot of time if nothing else.
So you support the use of eminent domain to build the XL Pipeline, even though it does not benefit any of the people whose land was taken in any way?
You will never get an answer to that question. Repugnuts like Rogue go silent when you point out they are hypocrites, and that the Republican Party will always choose the needs of their rich donors over the needs of the average guy.
So this is the Republican position? Really? From the party that gave eminent domain rights to the railroad barons so they go all across the nation stealing the land of ranchers and farmers.
So let me understand your logic. It is bad for a city to condemn a run down abandoned part of the city to sell to a developer to rehab, which will benefit almost everyone in the city. But it is ok for Republican moneymen to use the power of eminent domain to build a pipeline through the middle of the country that will not benefit anyone except them. That sounds like GOP logic.
10 years ago, you could not find a single conservative who was for using eminent domain in any form. Not just Libertarians, but conservatives across the board said it was overreach from liberal collectivists, bent on forcing everyone to submit to their will. Now you guys love it.
“You do realize the XL Pipeline would be impossible without the use of eminent domain.”
He doesn’t realize shit.
There’s never been any leaks from Colonial Pipeline into the Reedy River, or from the Plantation Pipeline in the Belton area. Eminent domain’s no big deal for the property owners. They should be happy for the Kinder Morgan money.
Wrong.
Company eyes new pipeline for Belton while still cleaning its gas spill there
http://www.independentmail.com/business/company-eyes-new-pipeline-for-belton-while-still-cleaning-its-gas-spill-there_61479794
[Excerpt]
BELTON — Kinder Morgan wants to build a new pipeline from South Carolina to Florida, but it still has a 250,000-gallon gasoline leak to clean up that has saturated farmland around Belton in the path of its existing Plantation Pipe Line.
Fuel spill cleanup
http://www.independentmail.com/news/fuel-spill-cleanup
Correct, the comment above was not meant to be serious. It was meant to mock Kinder Morgan who are going to use eminent domain to put a pipeline across people’s property. Like Alfred E Newman said, what me worry? Wouldn’t want it across my land.
“Correct, the comment above was not meant to be serious”
Don’t you hate it when folks miss the boat on these threads . . .
Who missed the boat, really? It gave the opportunity for the truth to be presented, here, in comments. That’s better than having one or two gloat about how much smarter they supposedly are than everyone else. Hell, “they” are gonna do that anyway, but if “they” think that’s what is important, it is “them” who are missing the boat.
The important thing is, the notion that the company and its projects don’t pollute is a busted myth — as it the idea that they don’t use eminent domain. So I thank “them” very much, for this, and for other instances of this kind of thing.
“That’s better than having one or two gloat about how much smarter they supposedly are than everyone else”
Did YOU of all people really post that on here? And for the record, YOU missed the boat. Really.
Missed the boat? By not recognizing immediately that a comment was sarcastic, rather than sincere? How, exactly, was I supposed to do that? Perhaps by remembering every screen name used, what their political party or ideological polarity is, etc. I also know that “being smart” is a relative term, which depends of myriad factors.
I know how smart I am and how smart I’m not. I also know my memory is faulty, even on a bad day. So what? What does it matter?
Apparently the three of us, if that is not you using another name, are in agreement about pipelines and the environment. So why quibble about this petty shit?
Repeating an earlier comment:
“Problem is, the things some people say sarcastically on here are, all too often, less absurd that what others say in dead earnest. Or equally so. Shit, who could muster up any effective sarcasm that is more outrageous than GT’s daily output of what he — apparently — believes to be the truth?”
Deeply sorry (NOT!) that I don’t toe a party line on every aspect of every issue. You may see that as a flaw, while I see it as the only way to maintain a free mind, and some degree of objectivity.
Uh-huh.
I actually agree with you most of the time. Jeez my frickin’ knees!
haha! People talk about having somebodys ass being handed to them on here a lot.
Yours got handed to you by Centrist View. Your comment was a bald faced lie.
Colonial dumped a million gallons in the Reedy River. Groundwater in certain areas in Belton are dangerous due to Plantation. I’ll use a sarcasm font next time.
Some of us got it! I’ll use a sarcasm font next time. ”
Some of us got it!
Problem is, the things some people say sarcastically on here are, all too often, less absurd that what others say in dead earnest. Or equally so. Shit, who could muster up any effective sarcasm that is more outrageous than GT’s daily output of what he — apparently — believes to be the truth?
Just wondering why the pipeline goes from Jacksonville to upstate, creating 30 jobs in SC, and Jacksonville gets the 90 port jobs. Why not run it from Charleston to upstate, and keep all 120.
Looks like they might be getting infrastructure in place for offshore drilling. Interesting how it takes a turn south a Savannah, about 15 miles from the coast. Not a long distance to tie into the pipe from the port.
No, it’s designed to tie into the existing oil transfer facility in Jacksonville. There isn’t one in Savannah that I’m aware of, and don’t know the status of the one here in North Charleston anymore.
Wow! Thirty new jobs? Is that over 10 years? Has Nikki announced her latest job creation yet?
Easy and inexpensive access to gasoline is one of the primary reasons that fuel is cheaper here than almost anywhere else in the US. Pipelines are by far the safest means of transport. The number of jobs is not the point.
Keystone pipeline firm files for eminent domain against Nebraska landowners
“TransCanada Corp., the Canadian company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, filed eminent domain proceedings against an estimated 90 Nebraska landowners Tuesday to secure the right to build the controversial project across their property.”
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-keystone-land-2015-0120-story.html
“Assuming Kinder Morgan is paying for the project itself – and the permissions it needs from local landowners”
What a naif. What a rube.
You have a fuckin bunny rabbit as your profile pic. Even, if you are correct no one gives a shit.
Me? You have a default avatar with no neck and nothing meaningful to say.
Don’t be hatin’ on thick dot heads.
After all, people in the Low Country don’t deserve cheaper oil and gas. Ask any environmentalist.. or Dora the Explora.
Cheaper oil and gas??? LOL You guzzle the Kool-Aid.
WOW…just look at this article and the comments. We highly wager that most would agree that cell phones have changed a LOT in the last two decades. Dare to wonder how many realize how battery technology has changed in the last two decades that people are NOT aware of or allowed to purchase …yet !?
The death of this pipeline is the actual battery technology that is not reported along with this article.
The death of the Keystone pipeline is the actual ENERGY magma sitting in Yellowstone National park…..but does any investors realize it….or consumers that have CHOICE..?
LOL…….Wil Folks, we love ya, ……….but you need to put a blue dress on this pipeline and think a while….
If you ride from North Augusta to Edgefield you can see this has already started happening. They are installing the pipeline aleady.