It’s been a long hard tough slog for the Mariner East 2 but it moves ahead, nonetheless, as plans are revised, stop orders are lifted and antis spin wheels.

Back in July, West Goshen Township, in the Philadelphia suburb of Chester County, won a temporary victoryin their efforts to stop Sunoco Logistics’ Mariner East 2 (ME2) NGL pipeline running through their community. West Goshen objected to Sunoco building a new valve station. West Goshen wanted the valve station built next to an existing Mariner East 1 valve station, but Sunoco wanted to build the new station across the street from that location, citing safety concerns. Things have now changed and Mariner East 2 is moving ahead again, despite a lot of fruitless anti activity.

West Goshen appealed a decision by the state Public Utility Commission (PUC) allowing Sunoco to build the valve station where they wanted to build it. In July an administrative law judge agreed with West Goshen, stopping not only construction of the valve station, but also construction of the ME2 pipeline itself through the township.

Fast forward to today. Sunoco has given up the fight to build the West Goshen valve station, so yesterday the PUC voted 3-2 to allow Sunoco to restart construction of the pipeline in West Goshen.

Of course the antis who run West Goshen like a private fiefdom are objecting because Sunoco hasn’t said what their alternative to building the valve station (a safety feature) will be. Hey, West Goshen’s “leaders” were the ones who didn’t want the valve station in the first place! West Goshen’s “leaders” are the ones who have made the pipeline through their community “less safe” because they didn’t want the valve station.

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