WEST GOSHEN >> A group of private citizens is about halfway toward a $50,000 fundraising goal in a bid to fund a risk assessment study concerning pipeline safety.
The Risk Assessment Committee of Del-Chesco United for Pipeline Safety wants to determine the possible consequences and probabilities of shipping highly volatile liquids through Chester and Delaware county pipelines.
Plans call for the now-under-construction Sunoco Mariner East 2 pipeline to ship ethane, butane and propane 350 miles from Marcellus Shale deposits in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania to the former Marcus Hook refinery in Delaware County for export. The existing 1930s-era Mariner East 1 pipeline was recently temporarily shut down due to safety…
