West Whiteland Residents for Pipeline Safety

A bipartisan group of citizens working to educate and engage our community in the effort to ensure pipeline safety.

[Ginny Kerslake @Ginny4PA]

Video obtained from a vehicle parked across the street from the Energy Transfer valve station in Texas on Monday shows an SUV speeding toward a chain link fence surrounding the valve station crashing and the explosion immediately afterward: https://t.co/Ke5eOD2kh5

[Ginny Kerslake @Ginny4PA]

“By leaving valve stations vulnerable to accidental or intentional damage by vehicles resulting in leaks, or ruptures, Energy Transfer deliberately and consistently exposes our communities to unnecessary risks just to maximize profit……

[Ginny Kerslake @Ginny4PA]

“This week’s explosion in Texas confirms yet again that pipeline accidents happen often – and the harm can be catastrophic.”

[Ginny Kerslake @Ginny4PA]

The scene of a 2018 single vehicle accident on Route 352 in Phila suburbs, across the road from a Mariner East valve site - the car came to rest about 200 feet from the unprotected valve site. What happened in Texas on Monday could happen in Pennsylvania. https://t.co/uOoQWDjkAD

[Ginny Kerslake @Ginny4PA]

“Government regulators cannot continue to pretend this harm doesn’t exist. Decades of harm from the fossil fuel industry is well-documented and failure to face these truths is simply a failure of government.”Well said ⁦@SenatorMuth⁩. https://t.co/tBE2RlxNx6

[Ginny Kerslake @Ginny4PA]

New regs from @pa_puc will do NOTHING to stop what happened in Texas from happening here on Mariner East where valve stations are situated in dense communities & close to schools. That’s because the requirements for vehicle barriers are NOT retroactive.

https://t.co/MLNa86NAOY

[Ginny Kerslake @Ginny4PA]

A pipeline of same size, product and operator as Mariner East exploded this morning after a vehicle reportedly struck a valve station. A horrifying scene for those in Texas … and to communities across PA living with Energy Transfer’s dangerous pipelines

https://t.co/UHnUIZ4cxE

[Ginny Kerslake @Ginny4PA]

More on how the Energy Transfer pipeline exploded yesterday. As bad as this was, it could’ve been so much worse. It appears that the NGLs immediately ignited. Had it spread before meeting an ignition source the blast zone could have been 1/2 mile or more https://t.co/kUqiKEML61

[West Whiteland Residents for Pipeline Safety @WWRPS1]

@ConservationPA Pro-polluter SB831 is missing in your House tally @ConservationPA

[West Whiteland Residents for Pipeline Safety @WWRPS1]

Houses in West Whiteland PA where Mariner East construction resulted in subsurface instability and massive amounts of grout pumped underground were demolished by ⁦@EnergyTransfer⁩ ⁦@ETNortheast⁩ this week. Places 5 families called home, gone. https://t.co/9XGuRKE6KW

[Ginny Kerslake @Ginny4PA]

82% of voters in PA want stricter regs for fracking waste. I’m betting that would be 100% strongly support if they knew just how toxic and radioactive this massive volume of waste that’s injected underground, dumped in rivers and spread on roads is. https://t.co/JnyVbApAZ3

[West Whiteland Residents for Pipeline Safety @WWRPS1]

Nothing to see here, folks. Just @ETNortheast tearing down 2 of 5 homes scheduled for demolition in @WestWhitelandPA . These properties were destroyed by ET during the poorly planned and executed Mariner East construction. @PennsylvaniaDEP @PA_PUC allowed this destruction.

[West Whiteland Residents for Pipeline Safety @WWRPS1]

A series of sinkholes lead to massive amounts of grout being injected underground to stabilize these properties. The @PennsylvaniaDEP allowed all of this to happen, despite deficiencies in permit applications, and reevaluations and the all too real concerns of community members

[West Whiteland Residents for Pipeline Safety @WWRPS1]

The first of 5 homes slated for demolition by @ETNortheast on Lisa Dr in @WestWhitelandPA is now rubble. This destruction of a neighborhood is the result of poor planning, commenting permitting and execution of the Mariner East pipeline project.

[West Whiteland Residents for Pipeline Safety @WWRPS1]

The latest in the sad saga of how Energy Transfer destroyed a neighborhood on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township for their own profit building the dangerous Mariner East pipelines

[Ginny Kerslake @Ginny4PA]

🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡 Energy Transfer has notified @WestWhitelandPA & nearby residents that they are tearing down 5 homes on property ET destroyed with Mariner East construction. Homes where families lived, raised their children together, had neighborhood parties, created memories 🧵

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

.@KamalaHarris, Please read the letter from PA residents and grassroots groups to you and @KamalaHQ campaign about why @GovernorShapiro is a bad VP pick. He exploited fracking-harmed victims of Dimock, PA and has not kept his promise to get them clean water. #NoShapiro

[West Whiteland Residents for Pipeline Safety @WWRPS1]

Carbon capture and storage is reckless, dangerous greenwashing. And the industry knows it.

[Ginny Kerslake @Ginny4PA]

“the vast majority of carbon that US taxpayers are paying oil companies to capture will either be going toward generating more oil, or would have greater emissions reductions benefits had the companies opted not to drill for gas in the first place” https://t.co/BNiLLRlPvh

[Ginny Kerslake @Ginny4PA]

A disastrous bill, with huge consequences that will bring harm to people and environment, take away property rights and transfer long-term liability to the state instead of the corporation was rushed through both state chambers last night without so much as a hearing

[Senator Katie Muth @SenatorMuth]

Last night at 9:30pm, SB831 was rushed out of committee and voted on by the House and Senate in a negotiated sweetheart deal to the oil and gas industry and corporate polluters.

[Ginny Kerslake @Ginny4PA]

In the near future when landowners watch CO2 pumped underground without their consent or stand powerless while dangerous CO2 pipelines get built, or when these untested, poorly regulated things go horribly wrong & people ask who the hell allowed this?? This is who & how;