Statement: Judge Allows Restart of ME2 Construction in ChesCo
The state Environmental Hearing Board has overturned a recent decision by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to shut down Mariner East construction at Shoen Road and Route 100 in West Whiteland Township, Chester County. Construction is permitted to resume… Read More ►
Geologist to SEPA: Marsh Creek Lake Incident Doesn’t Meet the Hysteria Pushed by Some
With ongoing protests related to the Mariner East pipeline, it is refreshing to have insights offered by real experts, not anti-pipeline zealots. Anti-pipeliners have spent the past two weeks pushing unfounded theories, including reckless attempts to scare local residents about… Read More ►
Baseless Anti-Pipeline Rhetoric Undermines Pennsylvania’s Energy Progress
A recent op-ed by former State Senator and Chester County Commissioner, Earl Baker, was published in the Daily Local News detailing the recent backlash by anti-pipeliners and even Chester County Commissioners surrounding the inadvertent return caused by horizontal directional drilling… Read More ►
Disillusioned Anti-Pipeline Protesters Create Disturbance at DEP Secretary McDonnell’s Home, Crossing the Line Yet Again
Members of anti-pipeline organizations, including Mama Bear Brigade and Sunrise Movement Berks, decided to protest outside of the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Secretary Patrick McDonnell’s own home this morning. These organizations claim that “…corporations pay to pollute our drinking… Read More ►
Easy to Be Against Everything, Hard Part is Solving Problems
A group of Attorneys General filed suit earlier this week against a new rule that was finalized this year to allow the transport of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) by rail. Everyone wants the light to come on when you flip… Read More ►
Deep Pocketed National Groups Front and Center
A day after proclaiming the environmental catastrophe caused to Marsh Creek Lake, pipeline activists seemed unconcerned……and took their kids paddling in at the site of the cleanup. Even they don’t believe their own rhetoric. There is no doubt that the… Read More ►
Mariner East Inadvertent Returns Simply Political Soapboxes for Pipeline Opponents
By now much of SEPA is probably aware of a recent inadvertent return related to the Mariner East pipeline system. In short, Sunoco experienced an inadvertent return related to horizontal drilling activities (HDD) in Upper Uwchlan Township that leaked into… Read More ►
RGGI Tax Will Not Benefit Pennsylvania as Governor Wolf Claims
The recent push for Pennsylvania to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) will not benefit Pennsylvania as some have claimed. In short, such a move by the Wolf Administration would impose a $2.36 billion tax over the next 10… Read More ►