Don't look now, but the Battle of Mariner East 2 is about to heat up again.
Sunoco has been struggling to get the massive project finished and online.
They have customers are who ready for the product, but they have a couple of gaps in the pipeline that will deliver volatile gases such as ethane, butane and propane across all of Pennsylvania to Marcus Hook. Along the way it will traverse 11 miles of western Delaware County and 25 miles in the heart of central Chester County.
But the line has been plagued with spills and sinkholes popping up in a West Whiteland neighborhood in Chester County. Work there has been halted, creating more headaches for the company, which says the project is about 98 percent complete.
So now what Sunoco wants to do is use an older, smaller, existing pipeline to sort of fill in the gaps in the meantime..
As you might expect, this is not going over especially well with pipeline opponents and some local elected officials.
You can get all the details here.
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