Last August we told you about the politically-motivated prosecution (by the Chester County, PA District Attorney's office) of two men connected to a security firm providing off-duty constables to protect Mariner East 2 (ME2) pipeline construction sites (see Chester DA Persecution of Off-Duty Constables Guarding ME2 Pipe). A Chester County judge has just completely tossed the case against one of those men, exonerating and restoring his good name. Last June a Chester County Magisterial District Judge dismissed the entire case against the local head of security for Energy Transfer (builder of ME2) in what the Chester DA’s office lyingly calls a “buy a badge scheme” (see Chester DA Charges Against ME Pipe Security Chief Tossed by Judge). Since they couldn't hurt Energy Transfer, the DA's office decided to go after the security firm hired by Energy Transfer instead. Talk about low. The DA's office accused the two men Richard Lester and James Murphy of operating a
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PHILADELPHIA – Sunoco argues that a nuisance lawsuit filed by a Chester County couple due to the construction of the Mariner East pipeline for oil and gas products through their neighborhood should be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
Thomas Wineburg and Kate Wineburg of West Chester first filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Oct. 28 versus Sunoco Pipeline, L.P. (also known as “Energy Transfer Partners L.P.”) of Dallas.
The suit explained that over the past eight years, Sunoco conceived and constructed two separate Mariner East pipelines to transport natural gas liquids, such as ethane, propane and butane, which are byproducts of fracking, from shale fields in Ohio, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania, across the state to terminals situated in both Pennsylvania and Delaware.