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Last week’s the PUC halting construction of a valve station for the Mariner East 2 pipeline in West Goshen Township.  As a result, several groups opposed to infrastructure development have been celebrating. While just about all of these individuals’ and groups’ opposition to Mariner East 2 is based on fringe ideological environmental activism, they have…
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Over the last three weeks, the anti-infrastructure development group Food & Water Watch has taken up arms in the Philadelphia suburbs, setting out to convince the Mainline that anti-progress, anti-infrastructure stances are actually viable paths forward for Pennsylvania. They consistently ignore the ways that natural gas production and natural gas infrastructure have helped Pennsylvanians over…
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A new report put out by the University of Pennsylvania’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy details the good economics of Pennsylvania shale reserves. The report, “Pennsylvania’s Gas Decade”, details “how the shale revolution has impacted natural gas pricing to Pennsylvania consumers” who historically paid more for natural gas than the rest of the country. The…
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Energy Builders unveiled a new database this week “dedicated to tracking and exposing attacks on critical energy infrastructure. Incidents of eco-terrorism, sabotage, arson, vandalism and violence are on the rise as severe actions have become a regular feature of pipeline protests, endangering public safety, the environment, jobs, and leaving taxpayers on the hook for millions…
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On Tuesday, a number of environmental activists and legislators descended upon Harrisburg to tout the dangers of the Mariner East projects. This political maneuver not only missed the basic facts regarding the safety features woven through its infrastructure development, it also totally overlooked the immediate and long-term benefits brought on the county and state level…
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Senator Dinniman and Rafferty are convening a press conference tomorrow highlighting the dangers of the Mariner East 2 pipeline to Governor Wolf — this is nothing more than a political maneuver – and a poor one at that. According to the press release sent out by Senator Dinniman’s office, the press conference will introduce a…
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When you pass by a construction site, you expect a messy scene. However, when you pass a pipeline construction site, the knee-jerk response always appears to be to forget the basic logic that construction methods are employed to ensure safety to workers and the environment. One particular issue here is the recurrent stopping-and-starting of drilling…
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Pipeline development has mitigated its impact on the environment through new methods and technologies. It is no longer required for construction crews to dig huge trenches into the ground, disrupting existing infrastructure like roadways or through rivers and lakes, to lay down pipe. With Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD), crews are able to more safely install…
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On Monday, nearly two dozen cars formed a blockade stopping construction for the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline for four hours. No matter how petty the act, the underlying strategy employed has become a theme across pipeline resistance efforts. In this particular instance, Lancaster Online reported that “about 35 people participated in an 18-vehicle blockade of an…
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When people speak of pipelines, they often do so without clear understanding of the variance between pipelines. The U.S. natural gas pipeline network is composed of an integrated web made up of roughly 3 million miles of mainline pipe. One category within this web are the local gas distribution pipelines. According to the U.S. Department…
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