Oct 5, 2015 2 min read

Sunoco Pipeline LP of Pennsylvania again filed eminent domain documents in Washington County Court, seeking temporary rights of way on land in Chartiers Township to move natural gas products as a part of its Mariner East project.

The company is seeking less than two acres of Roji Lee Hoskin’s property at 560 Old Hickory Road, Chartiers Township. Hoskin purchased the property in 2002. The paperwork was filed Sept. 29.

In court documents, an attorney for Sunoco Pipeline wrote the firm has been unable to reach an agreement with Hoskin to acquire the property for its pipeline project so it has resorted to eminent domain.

Sunoco Pipeline is willing to post a $17,000 bond.

Sunoco Pipeline asserted that since 2002, it has been regulated by the state Public Utility Commission as a public utility, a status it said the PUC reaffirmed both last year and this year.

In 2012, Sunoco announced the Mariner East pipeline project for “wet” gas products such as propane, ethane and butane, designed to relieve the oversupply of natural gas liquids in the Marcellus and Utica Shale basins and to alleviate supply-side shortages of propane and related products in parts of Pennsylvania and the Northeast. The finished pipeline would stretch between Washington County and Twin Oaks, Delaware County, in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

The filings stress the difference between an intrastate project – solely within Pennsylvania – and an interstate project that would cross Pennsylvania’s boundaries.

A representative from Sunoco Logistics declined to comment.