LWV DelCo Environmental Clearinghouse
Delaware County Environmental Clearinghouse
The Brookhaven Borough Council Monday night unanimously passed a resolution declaring its opposition to the construction of an LNG export terminal anywhere along the Delaware River waterfront in Delaware County.
Five years after a grand jury report on the environmental harms caused by fracking, progress on its recommendations has been minimal, according to five environmental nonprofits.
The PECO Reliability Station on Sproul Rd. in Broomall is well under construction as an appeal pends in PA Supreme Court. The station consists of two buildings at the intersection of Sproul Road and Cedar Grove Road that would receive natural gas from a new 11.5-mile gas pipeline, step down the pressure and convey it directly to end-users in the immediate area.
The U.S. Department of Energy has ordered another power plant, this time an oil and gas plant in Delaware County, to keep its turbines running through the hottest summer months as a precaution against electric shortfalls in the 13-state mid-Atlantic grid.
Pennsylvania is the nation’s second-largest natural gas producer, yet the commonwealth does not provide sufficient resources to its Department of Environmental Protection to properly regulate this industry.
Gas wells are routinely abandoned, many drillers fail to report their drilling activity as required by law and drilling wastewater is illegally dumped on roadways. In the upcoming state budget, Gov. Josh Shapiro and Pennsylvania’s General Assembly must provide additional staffing for the DEP’s Oil and Gas Program to address these problems.
Marple Township and the two Marple residents who have challenged the construction of a PECO Reliability Station on Sproul Road are back in the Commonwealth Court with a new appeal asking it again to overturn the Pennsylvania Utility Commission’s approval of the project on environmental grounds.
