Landowners plan to fight pipeline work
“Sunoco Logistics Partners LP took action in Common Pleas Court last week to force three families to give up rights of way in Hempfield, Penn and South Huntingdon townships. The Philadelphia company wants to pipe Marcellus shale gas to Europe-bound ships. To do so, it’s trying to use eminent domain to gather land for a link between a Washington County gas-processing plant and a Salem pipeline hub.
Latrobe attorney Daniel J. Hewitt — who represents Michael and Laurie Zima of Hempfield and Timothy and Jennifer Klobucar of Penn Township — said he plans to object to those claims during a motions hearing Sept. 13 before Westmoreland County Judge Richard E. McCormick Jr. The Hempfield landowners also have a lawyer. Sunoco Logistics had filed only one previous eminent domain claim — for land near a Penn Township senior home — which ended uncontested Aug. 2.”
Puko, Timothy. TribLive News 3 September 2013.