After nearly six months of deliberation and discussion, officials in Delaware County are just now making progress on commissioning a study of the potential impact  of the Mariner East 2 pipeline on businesses and residents.

The project has been subjected to numerous delays and forced shutdowns for a variety of reasons, most recently the sudden appearance of sinkholes in Chester County, writes Vinny Vella at philly.com.

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Progress on the study has been hampered by questions of the necessity of such analyses and of whether any firm in the energy industry is objective enough to produce a document free of bias.

“I think it’s incumbent on us to put something into the public domain that those who have the power to allow or not allow these pipelines can no longer ignore: an independently generated report that says what the risks are,” said Kevin Madden, one of the two council Democrats who first broached the idea of the study. “Right now, we’re living in the realm of the unknown. And we want to move into the realm of what is known.”

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