We used our editorial page today to address that rumbling you hear rolling across Delaware County.
No, it is not the Carson Wentz bandwagon. We'll get to that in a minute.
It is the growing concern being raised about Sunoco Logistics' plans for the massive Mariner East 2 pipeline. A huge crowd showed up at Middletown Council recently to urge them not to take final action to give Sunoco the easements they need to put the pipeline through several township neighborhoods, including within a stone's throw of Glenwood Elementary School.
Council signed off on the deal, but a final vote is set for next Monday night.
Tomorrow, a group that is upset with another Sunoco Logistics project, the Dakota Access Pipeline, will hold a protest outside the company headquarters in Newtown Square.
It's being organized by the Sierra Club chapters from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, the Delaware Indian Lenape Indian Tribe and environmental groups across the region in opposition to the pipeline, and in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The Dakota Access Pipeline would carry 450,000 barrels of oil through North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois, including crossing under the Missouri River just upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's drinking water supply.
"We are united with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in their fight against this destructive and damaging pipeline cutting through their lands," the Sierra groups said in a statement.
We'll be there to cover it, and we'll be at the Middletown Council meeting Monday night.
Again I have to stress this is a very tough call. Not surprisingly, the Chamber of Commerce and labor unions are lined up in in support of the Mariner East 2 plan.
It has a huge economic upside.
But don't kid yourself that there aren't concerns.
Just ask anyone who lives in its path in Middletown, or who has kids in Glenwood Elementary.
Read the editorial here.
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