PA Dems pass pipeline safety resolution

Jul 25, 2019 | CCDC Blog, Environment & Energy

The Pennsylvania Democratic Party’s State Committee, at its June 8 meeting, passed a resolution calling for

• improved pipeline leak detection and notification, and county-wide disaster response plans

• costs of the above to be borne by pipeline operators, not local taxpayers

• enhanced safeguarding of older pipelines

• enforcement of state and federal rules protecting people and the environment

• preventing the Mariner East pipeline from operating until the above conditions are met

• PA pipeline jobs to go to PA workers

Download the pdf of the resolution at the PA State Committee site

Photo from Wikimedia Commons

"The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled..." --Frederick Douglass, in "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", his 1852 oration in Rochester NY commemorating the 76th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.