A Democrat Pennsylvania state senator is telling opponents of energy to take legalities out of context to sabotage the Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline plan.
The proposed pipeline would transport natural gas liquids from the shale fields of western Pennsylvania to the Marcus Hook refinery complex on the Delaware River.
Andrew E. Dinniman, who represents the 19th District in Chester County, told members of the Chester County Sierra Club to use Section 27 of the state constitution to encourage local municipalities to harass construction of the line.
Section 27 reads “the people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment.”
Well, yes. And it has been accepted that the state Public Utility Commission is the agency to ensure that the air and water et al are protected else if left to every zoning hearing board between Marcus Hook and Houston, Pa., the project would be nickle and dimed into non-existence.
Refinery workers whose jobs and standard of living depend on the natural gas must be made to understand that it is their automatically deducted union dues that fund the campaigns of guys like Dinniman.
Andrew E. Dinneman is probably against selling the state liquor stores too. He’s obviously against term limits which is probably the only to get rid of entrenched bureaucrats.