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Protesters of Sunoco’s Mariner East Pipline kayaked to a clean-up site on Marsh Creek Lake in Chester County, Pa., where an estimated 8,000 gallons of drilling mud migrated into the waterways.
(Photo: Kimberly Paynter / WHYY)
- ACTION–SUBMIT A COMMENT: Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection “major permit amendment requests”
- ACTION–VIRTUAL PUBLIC HEARING: (June 16, 2021, 6pm ET) PA DEP Virtual Public Hearing on permit amendment requests
- ACTION-DONATE: Support Camp White Pine frontlines organizing
Frontline/Local & Opposition Groups
- Landowner organizing:
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An aerial shot of Marsh Creek Lake in Chester County shows muddy water where drilling mud has leaked from pipeline construction. (Photo: Chris DeGiulio / StateImpact PA)
- West Whitelands Residents for Pipeline Safety
- Camp White Pine
- Halt Mariner Now
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National Opposition Groups
Political
- Chester County, PA deputy director of emergency management, Bill Turner, testified to the PA PUC that despite attending numerous Sunoco meetings and trainings, he did not have enough information to plan for a serious accident. “
- In 2018, the superintendent of a Chester County school district wrote to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, beseeching him to conduct a risk analysis of a pipeline system called Mariner East, running volatile, natural gas liquids roughly 500 feet from some of her schools. The district, she said, did not know how to safely evacuate its 3,400 students should an accident occur. [source]
(Photo: Del-Chesco United for Pipeline Safety, 2017)
Grassroots Action
- May 2018: Rolling Stone: Pipeline Protesters Take to The Trees [Rolling Stone]
- June 2017: Tree sitters seek to prevent Sunoco from working on a pipeline in Huntingdon County [source]
- June 2017: One family’s bold stand to block construction of a new pipeline: The Gerhart family and Camp White Pine — the largest tree-sit on the East Coast — have blocked construction of Pennsylvania’s Mariner East 2 pipeline. [source]
A member of Camp White Pine ascends rope to a platform dozens of feet above ground. The tree-sit directly resists eminent domain efforts by Energy Transfer Partners resulting in delays on clear cutting. (Photo: Chris Baker Evens / Waging Nonviolence)
