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The teams worked Monday, January 21 to stabilize a new sinkhole that opened on Lisa Drive, a suburban in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, where Sunoco operates its Mariner East pipelines. (Jon Hurdle / Impact of the State of Pennsylvania)
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Sunoco filed a lawsuit on Monday opposite the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, asking the Environmental Board to reverse a recent deP closure of a structure for the debatable Mariner East pipeline project.
The company alleged that the DEP had been “inappropriate” and “arbitrary” in issuing an order on August 20 to end operations at a drilling site in West Whiteland Township, County Chester, a domain where the geology of the fragile limestone caused repeated technical disorders for the pipeline. Array
Sunoco stated that he would be irreparably injured if forced to continue with the closure, which the DEP said was caused by a “cloud groundwater spill” at a horizontal directional drilling site on Shoen Road and on the 100th Road that officials have already closed twice in the more than 3 years because the project has an effect on residential water wells.
The DEP issued a rape report after downloading on the site, such as HDD 360, on August 8. Authorization.
Even for a pipeline allocation that has been plagued by delays since its launch in February 2017, the structure in West Whiteland has been exceptionally problematic. In July 2017, about a dozen families experienced murky water or loss of the source of their personal wells after Sunoco drilling near Shoen Road drilled an aquifer. In 2018, a series of chasms were opened in the structure of a pipeline near Lisa Drive, a suburban development, forcing state officials to order a closure there.
In the latest incident, Sunoco argued that a prolonged closure would damage the public interest as groundwater would reced, drilling would be lost, and long-term drilling would have to hint at the already covered soil.
The company also accused the DEP of contradicting its own letters on June 29 and July 2, which approved the restart of the HDD 360 after an earlier closure.
“It is of paramount importance to the entire structure of the HDD 360 temporarily in the workplace, which is vital not only to the interests of the SPLP, but also to the interests of the general public in order to structure the entire structure into a has been in place for more than 3 years,” the company said in a seven-page petition.
He suggested that the Council, a quasi-judicial framework that listens to judicial cases opposed to the DEP, consider a “replacement” order that would block the newest order.
The DEP stated that it did not comment on the problems. Last Thursday, the branch fined Sunoco $355,000 for drilling dust spills in 8 counties in 2018 and 2019. Incidents are among the more than 100 percent why the DEP has issued rape reports since the assignment began in early 2017.
Sunoco’s complaint prompted three environmental teams (Clean Air Council, Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Mountain Watershed Association) to attempt to interfere in the case.
He suggested that the Council authorize his intervention and criticized Sunoco for moving forward with HDD 360 despite repeated problems.
“Instead of locating a more suitable location for its Mariner East 2 pipelines, Sunoco has been drilling at the Shoen Road site for more than 3 years where it has not been drilling without damaging the surrounding residential area,” the petition says.
Del-Chesco United for Pipeline Safety, which represents citizens along the pipeline direction in Chester and Delaware counties, said Sunoco does not fight the DEP over regulations that the company has continually violated for more than 3 years.
The organization said she was “outraged” that the DEP was forced to protect heus in court for trying to enforce the regulations she said Sunoco had challenged.
Sunoco’s action came on the same day that more than two dozen environmental teams asked the DEP to stop “immediate and definitively” the entire structure of Mariner East’s pipelines, claiming that the company had destroyed water wells, ignored THE DEP’s orders and caused more than two Hundred drilling fluid spills.
In a letter to DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell, teams stated that fines imposed through the DEP since the start of the assignment had failed to convince Sunoco to operate more safely and were “just the charge of doing business.”
Gov. Tom Wolf has turned down calls to close the project.
Following team complaints about the recent Sunoco spill of about 8,000 gallons of drilling fluid at Marsh Creek Lake in Chester County, Wolf spokeswoman Lyndsay Kensinger said the drilling had stopped there and that the DEP planned to take “new steps.”
“We are committed to empowering licensees and will continue to provide active and strict oversight of the structure of energy movement projects,” he said. “The DEP has held the company accountable for violations throughout the scope of the law and so will the dep.
Pipelines carry herbal combustible liquids (propane, ethane, and butane) about 350 miles southwest of Pennsylvania and Ohio to an export terminal at Marcus Hook, near Philadelphia. The allocation has provoked strong community protests along the road in the western suburbs of Philadelphia, where some citizens fear massive losses if liquids explode in densely populated areas.
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