>>> Hands Across Our Land rally meeting on the Monongahela River Bridge in Pt. Marion, PA at 12:30 PM (during the noon hour) and again at 6:30 PM. Private citizens and members of other organizations from northern West Virginia will join those from Greene, Fayette, Washington and Westmoreland Counties in Pennsylvania. We will walk across the Bridge, thus connecting “Hands Across Our Land.” Come on out if you can or send a representative. >>> Tuesday, August 18th.

NOTE: This is a peaceful event to involve walking across the Bridge in the designated walkway and back. Signs are welcome but certainly not necessary. We are showing our concerns about "hydraulic fracking" and large diameter pipeline construction thru our National Forests and over private land taken without owner approval. There will be an opportunity to sign a Petition for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as well as information on the protection of our region. Please come out for a few minutes at 12:30 pm or 6:30 pm. We will meet in the Post Office parking lot and adjacent spaces.

Duane Nichols, duane330@aol.com, MonValley Clean Air Coalition, www.FrackCheckWV.net

For more detail, see the following:

Sunoco launches eminent domain proceedings against residents

The planned Mariner East 2 trans-Pennsylvania pipeline is running into resistance from landowners.

As Sunoco Logistics steps up efforts to create a pathway for its Mariner East 2 natural gas liquids pipeline across southern Pennsylvania, some landowners are resisting the company’s moves to build the pipeline across their properties.

Residents in at least eight counties are rejecting the company’s offers of cash compensation as too low or unacceptable at any level, and say they will go to court to challenge any assertion of eminent domain that the company makes in an attempt to force its way across private land.

Landowners contacted by StateImpact Pennsylvania accuse Sunoco of making low-ball compensation offers; proposing to locate the $2.5 billion pipeline in places where it could endanger water sources or buildings in the event of a leak or explosion, and of failing to state its plans clearly. Some who have rejected cash compensation have been served with documents that initiate an eminent domain action in court.

The confrontations may represent just the beginning of a process that will pit local communities against energy companies that are sharply expanding Pennsylvania’s pipeline infrastructure in order to ship the abundant resources of the Marcellus Shale to domestic and international markets.

The state could see as many as 30,000 additional miles of new pipeline built in the next 20 years, PA Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Quigley said at the first meeting of a statewide task force on pipelines in July.

See the following for a listing of "Hands Across Our Land" rallies in West Union, WV,

in the Greenbrier River valley and many other locations .....

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