Dear Commissioner Raines,
Thank you for your service to Lowndes County as commissioner, and thank you for your words of support for the Sabal Trail pipeline opposition after the last commission meeting. I especially took note of your statement that, "none of the commissioners think this pipeline is a good idea." You particularly said you wanted to do something substantial.
May I ask that you do just that, something substantial? You could write an ordinance that would ban any pipelineline company from surveying property, and any construction whatsoever without the express written consent of the commission. Then you could also write an ordinance with a list of requirements that a pipeline would have to follow that would pretty much make it impossible to run through Lowndes County. One requirement could be they could not cross or tunnel under rivers, or through karst geology.
Commissioner Raines, you will leave the commission at the end of the year. I ask as this one parting gift to the citizens of Lowndes County, that you would attempt to get a majority of the commissioners to pass an ordinance, with teeth, that would effectively prevent Sabal Trail from running the pipeline through our county. I intend to write other commissioners to ask them to join with you, and to get it on the chairman's agenda for a vote. You could do this if you so chose.
Know that if you would do this, you would have my sincere gratitude from the bottom of my heart. I think doing this would be for the benefit of the citizens of Lowndes County, and it would be you whom history would point to as the one who spearheaded the effort.
Thank you,
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