Stop the Pipeline, Save the Animals!

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It's the largest natural gas pipeline to ever come to Florida, and most people haven't even heard of it.

If construction on the $3 billion Sabal Trail Transmission goes as planned, **456 miles of natural gas pipeline** will be laid over Texas, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. By the time gas in the pipeline reaches the terminus, south of Orlando, it will have passed near the Crystal River, and under the Suwannee, where a **high concentration of threatened and endangered animals — **including West Indian manatees** — make their homes**.

The Sabal Trail Transmission is hoped to connect to Duke Energy's proposed Crystal River natural gas power plant, which will address the energy demands previously handled by a now decommissioned nuclear plant. **The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) authorized construction of the STT in February**, giving Spectra Energy Corp., NextEra Energy, Inc., and Duke Energy the go ahead for their joint project.

As if the events still unfolding in North Dakota were simply a dream, the FERC has awaken to find the same situation about to occur in Southern Florida. **Reports of eminent domain being used to run homeowners off property in the way of the pipeline** have been trickling in. Non-compliance issues and equipment faults have already been reported from the wetland construction sites where segments of the pipeline are being prepared. And environmental advocates have criticized the projects apparent lack of engineering guidance, maintaining that **the fragile limestone in the Florida Aquifer cannot adequately support such a pipeline, let alone provide clean drinking water to Floridians were such a line driven through the massive freshwater source**.

This time, many hope, the commission has the lucidity to end the pipeline's construction. Four of Georgia's congressmen wrote the FERC in October, dismayed over the **"serious environmental justice issues”** the Sabal Trail would present.

It's _imperative_ that the advice of these Georgian congressmen is heeded, and construction of the Sabal Trail Transmission halted immediately. **Sign below to demand the FERC the action and stop the pipeline from causing irreparable harm to the Southeastern United States**.