Energy Transfer's Sloppy Record Draws Rebuke from PA Legislator

From Stateimpact Pennsylvania:
Few legislators are more supportive of Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry than state Sen. Gene Yaw (Bradford), who serves as the Republican chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. 
However, when he addressed oil and gas industry representatives Wednesday at the Upstream PA Conference in State College, Yaw called out Energy Transfer for being irresponsible. It’s the company behind the embattled Mariner East project– a set of export pipelines moving natural gas liquids through the southern part of the state. 
“This particular company, in my opinion, rode roughshod over people,” Yaw said in his remarks. “They haven’t explained what’s gone on. They haven’t addressed issues.” 
The Mariner East project has resulted in dozens of violations for spills of drilling mud, which has contaminated private well water. Last year, state utility regulators temporarily shut down one of the pipelines, after sinkholes opened up in a Chester County neighborhood. Energy Transfer is now under criminal investigation by the attorneys general of Chester and Delaware counties, as well as State Attorney General Josh Shapiro. 
Yaw said Energy Transfer is damaging the reputations of more responsible pipeline operators, citing Williams, which recently completed the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline, an expansion of its natural gas transmission line system.
The story of Energy Transfer racking up spills and violations is a familiar one to Ohio residents, as the company had many of the same issues while constructing the Rover pipeline, including spills, disputes over property restoration, and the demolition of a historic building.  You know their issues have gotten bad when it's enough to draw "friendly fire" from a drilling-friendly legislator like Yaw.  Read the rest of the article by clicking here. 

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