Clean Air Council joins officials’ call to pull Mariner East permits

HARRISBURG, PA (October 27, 2021) On Wednesday, Pennsylvania State Senator Katie Muth (PA-44) and Representatives Dianne Herrin (PA-156) and Danielle Friel-Otten (PA-155) hosted an event in support of residents and veterans who have lost access to safe drinking water as a result of construction of the Mariner East pipeline project. Energy Transfer’s Mariner East project is a pipeline project running the length of Southern Pennsylvania to transport gas byproducts to an export terminal on the Delaware River. In the more than four years of its ongoing construction, Energy Transfer has damaged and destroyed scores of water wells and other private and public resources across the state.

Joseph Otis Minott, Esq., Clean Air Council Executive Director and Chief Counsel, issued the following statement:

“We join Senator Muth and Representatives Herrin and Friel-Otten in their call for the state to pull the Mariner East 2 pipeline permits. Pennsylvania should not allow Energy Transfer to continue its systematic destruction of residents’ access to safe and abundant water. Enough is enough!”