Fund Risk Assessment: Mariner East
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Del-Chesco United for Pipeline Safety, in coordination with East Goshen Safety and Environmental Advocates, asks for your support in raising funds to procure an independent unbiased assessment of the risk to public safety posed by the Mariner East pipeline project. This “Citizens' Risk Assessment” is backed by Senator Andy Dinniman, Senator John Rafferty, and a number of bipartisan state and municipal leaders .
What is the Mariner Pipeline Project
The Mariner East pipeline project consists of a currently operational 8” natural gas liquids pipeline transporting ethane, propane, and butane, and a 350 mile pair of 20” and 16” pipelines currently under construction and planned to carry the same highly volatile materials. These pipelines do not serve to meet domestic energy needs, despite their controversial “public utility” status. Rather, these highly volatile materials are being transported through Pennsylvania's wetlands, forests, farmlands, and densely populated "high consequence" communities to be exported for overseas plastics manufacturing .
Who we are
Del-Chesco United for Pipeline Safety is a nonpartisan, fact-based, grassroots coalition of locally-based safety groups up and down the pipeline route in Delaware and Chester counties. We are committed to ensuring that residents and public officials understand the risks presented by these highly volatile high pressure natural gas liquids pipelines, and that those risks are properly mitigated to protect vulnerable populations, including our neighborhoods, our families, and our children.
Why we need to assess the risk.
To date, no government agency at the federal, state, or local level has conducted an independent risk assessment of Mariner East, and Sunoco has refused to make their own internal hazards analysis public. In 2015 a 20 inch ethane pipeline in Follansbee, West Virginia exploded just 13 months after installation producing a fireball with thermal impacts up to 2,000 feet. Throughout the Commonwealth, and particularly in densely populated Southeastern, Pennsylvania the Mariner pipelines have been recklessly sited close to homes, schools, day cares, nursing facilities, community centers, and many other vulnerable sites within 2,000 feet of the pipeline. The currently operational Mariner One has leaked three times within a 12 month period.
We deserve to know the real risks of Sunoco’s export pipelines to our communities.
Over the past year thousands of Pennsylvanians have written, emailed, petitioned, visited, and even met with Governor Wolf, asking for a risk assessment for the Mariner East project (including currently operational Mariner One). Our calls to assess the risk have been echoed by a group of legislators and the state and federal level, but our voices have fallen on deaf ears. An independent, comprehensive, publicly-available risk analysis has not been completed. Our state government has failed to properly protect us.
We are taking our safety into our own hands.
Del-Chesco United for Pipeline Safety and East Goshen Safety and Environmental Advocates, with the support of Senator Andy Dinniman, will ensure that the study will be commissioned from a reputable pipeline consultant firm without conflicts of interest or ties to ETP/ Sunoco. The results of this study- funded by the People and for the People- will be made public and transparent in every way. Any funds that exceed those needed to assess the risk to public safety will be used to assess the risk to private property and the environment.
Del-Chesco United for Pipeline Safety, in coordination with East Goshen Safety and Environmental Advocates, asks for your support in raising funds to procure an independent unbiased assessment of the risk to public safety posed by the Mariner East pipeline project. This “Citizens' Risk Assessment” is backed by Senator Andy Dinniman, Senator John Rafferty, and a number of bipartisan state and municipal leaders .
What is the Mariner Pipeline Project
The Mariner East pipeline project consists of a currently operational 8” natural gas liquids pipeline transporting ethane, propane, and butane, and a 350 mile pair of 20” and 16” pipelines currently under construction and planned to carry the same highly volatile materials. These pipelines do not serve to meet domestic energy needs, despite their controversial “public utility” status. Rather, these highly volatile materials are being transported through Pennsylvania's wetlands, forests, farmlands, and densely populated "high consequence" communities to be exported for overseas plastics manufacturing .
Who we are
Del-Chesco United for Pipeline Safety is a nonpartisan, fact-based, grassroots coalition of locally-based safety groups up and down the pipeline route in Delaware and Chester counties. We are committed to ensuring that residents and public officials understand the risks presented by these highly volatile high pressure natural gas liquids pipelines, and that those risks are properly mitigated to protect vulnerable populations, including our neighborhoods, our families, and our children.
Why we need to assess the risk.
To date, no government agency at the federal, state, or local level has conducted an independent risk assessment of Mariner East, and Sunoco has refused to make their own internal hazards analysis public. In 2015 a 20 inch ethane pipeline in Follansbee, West Virginia exploded just 13 months after installation producing a fireball with thermal impacts up to 2,000 feet. Throughout the Commonwealth, and particularly in densely populated Southeastern, Pennsylvania the Mariner pipelines have been recklessly sited close to homes, schools, day cares, nursing facilities, community centers, and many other vulnerable sites within 2,000 feet of the pipeline. The currently operational Mariner One has leaked three times within a 12 month period.
We deserve to know the real risks of Sunoco’s export pipelines to our communities.
Over the past year thousands of Pennsylvanians have written, emailed, petitioned, visited, and even met with Governor Wolf, asking for a risk assessment for the Mariner East project (including currently operational Mariner One). Our calls to assess the risk have been echoed by a group of legislators and the state and federal level, but our voices have fallen on deaf ears. An independent, comprehensive, publicly-available risk analysis has not been completed. Our state government has failed to properly protect us.
We are taking our safety into our own hands.
Del-Chesco United for Pipeline Safety and East Goshen Safety and Environmental Advocates, with the support of Senator Andy Dinniman, will ensure that the study will be commissioned from a reputable pipeline consultant firm without conflicts of interest or ties to ETP/ Sunoco. The results of this study- funded by the People and for the People- will be made public and transparent in every way. Any funds that exceed those needed to assess the risk to public safety will be used to assess the risk to private property and the environment.
Organizer
Safety Seven
Organizer
West Chester, PA