Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia
Anti-pipeline activists from across the country met in Atlanta this week to talk strategy. The summit brought together two groups that are often on opposite sides: environmentalists and property-rights advocates.
Those strange bedfellows joined forces this year to fight two pipelines in Georgia. The Palmetto Pipeline would have carried petroleum down the coast, but that project is now off the table. The Sabal Trail Pipeline, which would carry natural gas across southwest Georgia, could still happen.
“This unusual alliance, there has been a lot of talk about that,” said Tonya Bonitatibus, the executive director of the environmental group Savannah Riverkeeper. “I would say that it wasn't that unusual. It was the right alliance.”
This week’s summit was organized by national foundations including the Rockefeller Family Fund. Bonitatibus, who attended, said there are a few other examples around the country of environmentalists teaming up with more conservative-leaning property-rights advocates, but she’d like to see more...