Court OKs Sunoco petition to use eminent domain in Penn Township
“A Westmoreland County judge has given Sunoco Logistics Partners LP a court order to acquire an easement from a Penn Township property through eminent domain for its Mariner East pipeline project.
In an order dated Aug. 2, Common Pleas Judge Richard E. McCormick Jr. approved the company’s petition to obtain a 1.66-acre easement from Quest Realty Partnership’s property along Mellon Road.
Though McCormick also has granted Sunoco Logistics permission to go onto three properties in Hempfield, Sewickley and South Huntingdon townships to perform environmental testing related to the pipeline path, the Quest case was the first in the county in which a judge allowed the company to use eminent domain for the project.
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Foreman, Chris. TribLive 7 August 2013.