Comment on New Pipeline Rules for Pennsylvania—Deadline August 28

From Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light (http://www.paipl.org):

Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission has opened an opportunity for residents to provide input on new pipeline rules in our state. Comments are closed on Wednesday, August 28, 2019.

We urge people to engage in this civic process.  You do not need to have relevant technical expertise.  Your comments as a resident are important. You can speak to what you feel the goals of any pipeline rules should be, and ask the PUC to craft rules with those goals in mind.  You can speak as a person of faith.  You can share your own stories and those of your friends or neighbors. You can speak to your hopes for the future of our state.And you can speak for the shared lands and waters of our state, and for our public and private spaces that pipelines pass: for apartment buildings, schools, retirement homes, and houses of worship.

Your voice is important.

This opportunity exists because State Senator Tom Killion (whose district in Chester and Delaware counties includes a portion of the the Mariner East pipeline) urged the PUC to provide an opportunity for the public to engage.  Feel free to thank the PUC for responding with such an accessible, open process!  If you are in State Senator Killion’s district, please call, write, or visit his office to thank him for opening this opportunity.

Whether you submit your comments by postal service or e-file them, you should include your full name and address, and you should reference

Docket No. L-2019-3010267

For postal service delivery, mail your comments to:

Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
Attn: Secretary
400 North Street
Harrisburg, PA 17120
You will need to mail your comments so that they arrive by Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Links to use: 

This link will take you to the PUC’s e-file system.  If you haven’t used it before, you’ll be required to register.  It’s free and immediate.  It means that it’s hard for robots to submit a zillion comments, and it allows the PUC to send you a receipt letting you know that the system worked, and your comments were received.  You can submit comments you have written in your word processing program.

Use this link to find your State legislators using your address (especially if you think you might be in Sen. Killion’s district!).

This link will take you to PA IPL’s 2016 Board Resolution calling for no new fossil fuel infrastructure.

Senator Killion’s page about the public comment  opportunity includes the official Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding Hazardous Liquid Public Utility Safety Standards (which names the Commissioners, if you would like to address them directly).

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