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Sunoco’s Mariner East Cumberland County Public Meeting Takeaways

December 4, 2020
Tuesday night, Sunoco Pipelines hosted a virtual public meeting for Cumberland County and Pennsylvanians at large to discuss and update the public on its Mariner East pipeline project. Mariner East and Sunoco have long been neighbors to Pennsylvanians. The Mariner… Read More ►

PEIA Joins CEA for Tri-State Energy Briefing

November 12, 2020
The Consumer Energy Alliance, a longtime member of the Pennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance, invited the coalition to talk about what’s next for the state and nation in terms of energy during one of its regular tele-town hall and briefings Thursday,… Read More ►

Repurposed Mariner East 1 Pipeline to Convert to Refined Products

November 9, 2020
During Energy Transfer’s last earnings call, newly minted Co-CEO Mackie McCrea told listeners that the company, owner of Sunoco LP and the Mariner East pipeline system, expects to use the repurposed portion of the 8-inch diameter Mariner East 1 line… Read More ►

Coal to Natural Gas Infrastructure Conversion a Positive in SEPA

October 30, 2020
As the Delco Times reported today, changes are coming to the ChesCo skyline. The outlet broke news earlier that Kimberly Clark has begun the demolition process in a broader conversion project to its Industrial Highway area plant. The 1.8 million… Read More ►

Washington County Chamber of Commerce Fall Series Takeaways

October 22, 2020
The Washington County Chamber of Commerce, one of PEIA’s four original founders more than five years ago, hosted its regular “The Morning Briefing: Fall Series” today, featuring state Sens. Camera Bartolotta (R-Washington) and John Blake (D-Lackawanna), co-chairs of the Oil… Read More ►

Commonwealth Court rules against pipeline foe

October 21, 2020
A Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court panel today ruled against an opponent of the Mariner East pipeline network, finding that the information he requested is exempt from public disclosure under the state’s Public Utility Confidential Security Information Disclosure Protection Act, which was… Read More ►

Spotlight PA Emphasizes the Complexity of Pipeline Infrastructure

October 19, 2020
Spotlight PA ran a two-part series highlighting the Mariner East Pipeline that traverses 350 miles of Pennsylvania. Along Mariner East pipelines, secrecy and a patchwork of emergency plans leave many at risk and in the dark Emergency plans fail to… Read More ►

SEPA State Representative Race Spotlighted in Delaware Valley Journal

October 15, 2020
Delaware Valley Journal has undertaken a series highlighting upcoming Delaware Valley political races. An important race for Chester County is that for freshman Pennsylvania State Representative Danielle Friel Otten, who made much of her campaign a referendum on the Mariner… Read More ►