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Sunoco fined $319,461 for Mariner East 2 construction violations in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania regulators ordered Sunoco Pipeline LP to pay $319,461 in fines for violations resulting from construction work on its Mariner East 2 NGL pipeline, adding to the slew of environmental and regulatory issues dogging the 350-mile project.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued a civil penalty of $240,840 for violations of the Clean Streams Law and Dam Safety and Encroachment Act, comprising drilling fluid spills due to horizontal drilling activities in 10 counties in 2018, according to an Aug. 29 news release. The department, or DEP, also assessed a penalty of $78,621 for Clean Streams Law and permit violations in 2017, which resulted in accelerated erosion and sedimentation at a number of sites in Cumberland County, Pa.

For the Cumberland County violations, the DEP said the Energy Transfer LP subsidiary did not implement effective practices that would have mitigated erosion and sedimentation, failed to temporarily stabilize all areas of the sites when it finished with earth disturbance activities, and carried out work that violated its erosion and sediment control permit, among other breaches.

Sunoco agreed to pay the fines, which will go to the state and to the conservation districts of the affected counties. State agencies have so far issued over $13 million in penalties and over 80 violations to Sunoco for the Mariner East projects, the DEP said in the release.

Mariner East 2, which started up in December 2018, is designed to deliver Appalachian NGLs to the Marcus Hook terminal in Pennsylvania. It crosses about 17 counties in southern Pennsylvania and is part of the Mariner East family of NGL pipelines that also include the existing Mariner East 1 and the planned Mariner East 2X pipelines.