Energy Transfer’s Rover, ME2 Pipes Rack Up 800+ Violations

Reuters has published a "hit piece" against Energy Transfer (ET) and two of its recent big pipeline projects--Rover Pipeline (in Ohio & Michigan), and Mariner East 2 Pipeline (in Ohio and Pennsylvania). Reuters is usually more balanced than, say, Bloomberg with these types of articles. Reuters usually doesn't go out of its way to denigrate the industry. The article evaluates the number of permit violations issued for both projects. Together that number exceeds 800. Is that a lot? Reuters says they've analyzed "four comparable pipeline projects" and found an average of 19 violations per project (or 38 for two projects). So yeah, 800 vs. 38 sure sounds like a lot to us.

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