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FACT CHECK: George Alexander’s Guest Column in the Delco Times Spews Unsourced and False Claims Over the weekend, the Delco Times decided to publish an OpEd by George Alexander that calls out an OpEd written by Earl Baker, spewing false and inaccurate information. Not only does Alexander attempt to combat the facts Baker provides in…
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In a recent editorial published by the Delco Times, the author follows other anti-pipeline activist rhetoric to instill fear among Pennsylvanians regarding the Mariner East pipeline while blatantly ignoring the facts. Pennsylvania has been safely operating pipelines for decades. Threatening residents with a “what if?” situation is a desperate attempt to defend a position that is unwarranted….
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Sometimes the local media can’t help themselves in adding fuel to a fire instigated by local fear mongers in Southeast Pennsylvania. Personal and community safety is always top of mind, but sometimes the local media seems to push a narrative that inflames worry in local residents. Yesterday, the Delco Times ran a story in an…
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This past Friday, pipeline opposition group, the Delaware Riverkeeper, tried to incite fear among NJ residents regarding the plans for an LNG storage facility on the Delaware River in Glouchester County. Riverkeeper, along with Sierra Club and Food & Water Watch, used fear tactics, telling residents how the facility would be bad for the environment,…
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In an opinion piece published by the Altoon Mirror this morning, Joseph Otis Minott, executive director and chief counsel of Clean Air Council, disregards the facts about Pennsylvania’s energy infrastructure and the Mariner East project. This pipeline infrastructure project is legally permitted and thoroughly regulated, period. In his article, Minott calls on the Department of…
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Recently a Southeast Pennsylvania newspaper publishing scantly factual, unrealistic, and outlandish guest columns. The latest to grace the pages of the paper come courtesy of Ken Hemphill of Concord Township. Hemphill makes his case against the state’s energy infrastructure industry, namely the Mariner East pipeline system, by conflating the dangers of pipelines with none other…
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DragonPipe Diary – an anti-pipeline Pennsylvania blogger writing about the Mariner East project – recently wrote a post taking great liberty of pipeline and legal knowledge to make the case that the Mariner East 1 pipeline has falsely used ‘public utility status’ for eminent domain claims. George Alexander, author behind the blog, largely ignores the…
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Last week the ‘Halt Mariner Now’ coalition – comprised of a number of infrastructure opposition groups – organized an online webinar hosted by two Mariner East 2 activists with a long history of opining against the project, while ignoring the facts of the project and industry at large. The webinar, which lasted over an hour,…
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50 people gathered by the Democratic-leaning group, Concerned Citizens of Twin Valley, held an anti-pipeline community meeting Tuesday night. Participants on the panel included anti-pipeline blogger George Alexander, Sen. Judy Schwank and David Anspach, of Caernarvon Township. The three discussed their worries about the hazardous materials carried by the pipeline and its proximity to the…
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This week the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled against State Senator Andy Dinniman, finding that the Senator does not have personal or legislative standing to file a complaint against Sunoco LP, the Mariner East 2 pipeline operator. Originally filed in the spring of 2018, Senator Dinniman’s complaint halted constructed of the pipeline. Though difficult to calculate,…
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